Anyone Observing Ash Wednesday/Lent?

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  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    small town beck wrote:
    One day in jr high I told a girl she had something on her forehead :eek: I honestly thought she had something there.. how was I to know??? Poor little Protestant girl :p .. thank goodness I grew up to be heaten.. or well hedonistic as I like to say ;)

    OMG I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that! bahahaha! :p
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    I stopped one year when st. patrick's day fell on a friday and the arch bishop of boston said that everyone could eat corned beef. I was like "what the hell, if it's that arbitrary why I have I been doing this for so long?"

    What the arch bishop of boston does concerns me more than what the arch bishop of Boston says.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    pearljamjen wrote:
    OMG I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that! bahahaha! :p


    Haha thanks :) I know.. TOO FUNNY :p I can't even make up the trauma that was my youth.

    I was SO cool in jr high :cool: :o
  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    nfanel wrote:
    yes! i'm a quarter irish!!! and was closest to my 100% irish grandmother so i feel more irish than anything. she started us early on the irish songs and making a big deal about st. patty's day. it's my favorite day of the year! (again, when scranton celebrates on parade day....the saturday before)

    i don't know how i missed this earlier, but i'm 3/4 irish...we're a perfect fit!!! :eek: :D
    I love to turn you on
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    i don't know how i missed this earlier, but i'm 3/4 irish...we're a perfect fit!!! :eek: :D
    yep, we make a full irish person! :p:D
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    nfanel wrote:
    yep, we make a full irish breakfast! :p:D
    see... that woulda sounded better :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    see... that woulda sounded better :p

    mmmm...irish breakfast...seriously the best breakfasts on earth...
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Is that today? Some Catholic I turned out to be.
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I am from a very big Catholic family, but I don't belong to any religion now. I stopped that years ago. Most of my family observes lent and are going to church tonight. I just don't get "it" (religion) anymore.
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Born and raised Catholic here. Even raised my 2 sons Catholic but I kinda stopped going to church just this past summer...............so I guess I am not observing this year.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    I am giving up chocolate this year.

    I am currently( I say first time I ever did it) doing the fasting one big meal and two small ones .

    Christ I am starving
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    nfanel wrote:
    my grandmother used to have me convinced eating meat on a friday during lent and killing were equivalent offenses. mortal sins!! :p
    like i said...some traditions...deeply ingrained...

    I think I have memories of my grandmother calling it a mortal sin too.
    my mum on the other hand, as religious as she is, would ALWAYS forget. Or she'd try to be good and order pizza and then accidentally get pepperoni.
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    I think I have memories of my grandmother calling it a mortal sin too.
    my mum on the other hand, as religious as she is, would ALWAYS forget. Or she'd try to be good and order pizza and then accidentally get pepperoni.

    All the nuns in my grade school as well as the priests at my church and my grandparents on both sides would call it a mortal sin. Let's just say I had a lot of people pointing out everything I did wrong as a child. ;)
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    Alot of it is harmless if truth be told( eating meat that is). I remember the priest saying it would be alot better for people to be better people than giving up something
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Oops. Thank goodness I'm on here or I would have forgotten. Last year I gave up fear. I ended up running the longest run in my life, and I ended up running the most mileage within a week in my life during Lent last year. So, that was good. I'll probably do another running-less-fear goal this time.

    Thanks for reminding me!
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,927
    fada wrote:
    I remember the priest saying it would be alot better for people to be better people than giving up something
    That must be a rare priest to have such a level headed outlook on things.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    nfanel wrote:
    yep, we make a full irish person! :p:D

    that's one good lookin irish person! ;)
    I love to turn you on
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Is that today? Some Catholic I turned out to be.

    i thought the same thing.....thanks to father steve dunne for reminding us....:D
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,927
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    that's one good lookin irish person! ;)
    At least 25% of him/her. ;)
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    But, but, weren't you an extra in 'coal miner's daughter'?

    I was, until Spacek filed that damn restraining order! So maybe it was an overkill for me to ask her everday if after the shoot I could mine her coal, but I thought it was funny!
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"

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