Wishing All Christians Here a Spiritually Fulfilling Lent

[Debater Slayer]

Lent starts tomorrow, so I would like to wish all Christians here who observe it a fruitful and spiritually fulfilling period.

(This is the first time I have ever given Lent wishes, so if my message could include better-worded wishes, please let me know! The only thing I know is that Lent is not supposed to be a happy or festive religious season.)

 

[Bthoth]

Lent starts tomorrow, so I would like to wish all Christians here who observe it a fruitful and spiritually fulfilling period.

(This is the first time I have ever given Lent wishes, so if my message could include better-worded wishes, please let me know! The only thing I know is that Lent is not supposed to be a happy or festive religious season.)

The happy part is Jesus is claimed to overcome the bad of 40 days.

The sad part is the prescribed death even if it is claimed to be a sacrifice.

 

[Rival]

Thank you!

And now my obligatory...

In a recent post on his site, Dr. Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopalian priest who is now Catholic, collected the rules for [Mediaeval] Lenten penance as described by St. Thomas Aquinas:

1. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday were “black fasts.” These consisted of taking only one meal per day of bread, water, and herbs, after sunset.
2. Other days of Lent: no food until 3pm, the hour of Our Lord’s death. Water was allowed, and as was the case for the time due to sanitary concerns, watered-down beer and wine. After the advent of tea and coffee, these beverages were permitted.
3. No animal meats or fats.
4. No eggs.
5. No dairy products (lacticinia) – that is, eggs, milk, cheese, cream, butter, etc.
6. Sundays were days of less liturgical discipline, but the fasting rules above remained.

This general prohibition of eggs and milk during Lent is perpetuated in the common custom of blessing or making gifts of eggs at Easter, and in the English usage of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday – a way to use up the eggs and milk before the Lenten fast. Hence the colloquial term still used by some today of “Pancake Tuesday.”

Think Lent is Tough? Take a Look at Medieval Lenten Practices

Today’s Latin Catholics would be well-served to review the norms of early Christians as they prepared for Easter.

sspx.org

 

[Debater Slayer]

Thank you!

And now my obligatory...

In a recent post on his site, Dr. Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopalian priest who is now Catholic, collected the rules for [Mediaeval] Lenten penance as described by St. Thomas Aquinas:

1. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday were “black fasts.” These consisted of taking only one meal per day of bread, water, and herbs, after sunset.
2. Other days of Lent: no food until 3pm, the hour of Our Lord’s death. Water was allowed, and as was the case for the time due to sanitary concerns, watered-down beer and wine. After the advent of tea and coffee, these beverages were permitted.
3. No animal meats or fats.
4. No eggs.
5. No dairy products (lacticinia) – that is, eggs, milk, cheese, cream, butter, etc.
6. Sundays were days of less liturgical discipline, but the fasting rules above remained.

This general prohibition of eggs and milk during Lent is perpetuated in the common custom of blessing or making gifts of eggs at Easter, and in the English usage of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday – a way to use up the eggs and milk before the Lenten fast. Hence the colloquial term still used by some today of “Pancake Tuesday.”

Think Lent is Tough? Take a Look at Medieval Lenten Practices

Today’s Latin Catholics would be well-served to review the norms of early Christians as they prepared for Easter.

sspx.org

That's how Coptic Orthodox Christians where I live fast, too! I know some vegetarians and vegans who ask for "fasting food" (a common term here for food suitable for Christian fasting) at restaurants because it also meets their own dietary criteria.

 

[metis]

Lent starts tomorrow, so I would like to wish all Christians here who observe it a fruitful and spiritually fulfilling period.

Thankyou.

 

[Glaurung]

I had a small piece of salami with my breakfast yesterday completely forgetting that it was Ash Wednesday. It was only after I had eaten my muffin that I realized what I had done. I still feel guilty about it. I'm going to have to make up for it by being extra diligent this Lent.