toldailytopic: What do you think about the practice of observing Lent?
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March 5th, 2013, 08:58 AM
When I was a kid, the school always had fish on Fridays. I really liked fish sticks, so that was fine with me. I often wondered what the non-Catholic majority thought of it, though.
To each their own. I do not believe on or practice Lent. I do not judge folks who do. I understand why they do.
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March 5th, 2013, 11:48 AM
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I don't observe Lent. It is not God ordained in Scripture. I understand its significance to many and accept it as a doctrine/tradition playing out in the lives of Brothers and Sisters.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. - Martin Luther King Jr.
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March 5th, 2013, 01:18 PM
I don't see the point but I am not Catholic so I don't need to see it.
I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy,
and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole.
This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. - Martin Luther King Jr.
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March 5th, 2013, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by chrysostom
blind is okay?
Were you responding to me?
I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy,
and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole.
This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine
- Robinson Jeffers
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Overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of your testimony; and love not your life unto death.
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March 5th, 2013, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by The Barbarian
When I was a kid, the school always had fish on Fridays. I really liked fish sticks, so that was fine with me. I often wondered what the non-Catholic majority thought of it, though.
I looked forward to fish stick Fridays. It was years later that I learned that it was a Catholic tradition.
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
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March 5th, 2013, 03:45 PM
I suppose the trick is to change your daily life in some way that keeps reminding you His sacrifice for us. To me, it was never so much sacrificing something, as doing something different to remind me of Him.
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