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In my part of the world, about 2 hours and 50 minutes away...I will try to give up the parts of life that I don't need...
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Giving up certain foods - everything with caffeine as well as meat (even though thats not a big issue really... I don't eat lots of meat anyways). I'm also going through "The Spiritual Excercises" by Ignatius de Loyola. I'm not sure about the concrete part of Isaiah 58 on my beahlf, but I'm definitely trying to keep that in mind as well so that Lent won't become another way of senseless thing.
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crishmael
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I have something I'm giving up and a fasting program, but my main focus will be on prayer. I'm using a Medieval Book of the Hours (kind of like the one in my avatar) translated into English to help discipline and focus my prayer.
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Don't observe Lent... I didn't even know what it was until I was 24. The denomination I grew up in says it's evil because it has catholic origins.
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So in that demonimation the word catholic also ment "evil"?
Wow sad...
The word catholic actually means "Universal Christian Church"
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I don't do Lent. Only because I don't feel the need to give up anything, unless of course I was feeling like God wanted me to give up something in particular. I kind of see it as making a resolution for New Years... I was never good at those.
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I love Lent. It's my favorite time of the liturgical calendar. A time for solemn reflection and sacrifice.
Sometimes it seems to me today that churches are all "Celebrate this. Celebrate that. Rah! Rah! Rah! Be happy all the time." That's cool sometimes but life isn't always like that. So, I like to have a time where we can be more reflective--we can celebrate on the other 325 days of the year.
That being said, I didn't have any specific thing I was going to do other than spend more time in the word and prayer and cut back on junk foods.
Sometimes it seems to me today that churches are all "Celebrate this. Celebrate that. Rah! Rah! Rah! Be happy all the time." That's cool sometimes but life isn't always like that. So, I like to have a time where we can be more reflective--we can celebrate on the other 325 days of the year.
That being said, I didn't have any specific thing I was going to do other than spend more time in the word and prayer and cut back on junk foods.
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Yep. They call themselves the "Church of Christ" and apparently they've been there all along in hiding amid all the other false churches. If you're not a member of the "Church of Christ" you're going to hell.
(Note: I don't believe that, it's what I was raised with though.)
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I grew up in a Catholic = Evil church. One of those in that church told me on FB today that he used to observe Lent until God brought him into the Truth and set him free from bondage. But he was glad for what God was doing in my life.
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I don't always do lent but this year I am. I am giving up cake, chocolate, sweets, biscuits. Anything nice really lol.
I don't believe that I HAVE to do this but I think sometimes it's nice to do it. If I gave up the above at any other time of the year I know I would give in but for some reason, doing it at Lent gives me more willpower.
I don't believe that I HAVE to do this but I think sometimes it's nice to do it. If I gave up the above at any other time of the year I know I would give in but for some reason, doing it at Lent gives me more willpower.
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Me and my friends are doing "Something Lost but Something Found Lent " You give up something but add something good .. I chose to give up fried food and added devtional reading .Im reading " The Purpose Driven Life"
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I grew up in a Catholic = Evil church. One of those in that church told me on FB today that he used to observe Lent until God brought him into the Truth and set him free from bondage. But he was glad for what God was doing in my life.
Many Lutheran churchs still confess that we belive in "one holy catholic and apostolic church"
Although apparently this even confuses a lot of Lutherans so a lot of them have changed the creed to say "one holy Christian and apostolic church."
I don't much like the new wording.
Of course I'm of the group of Lutherans known as Evangelical catholics which prefers to emphasize traditional worship, so naturally I like the traditional creeds.
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