Anyone Observing Ash Wednesday/Lent?

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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Yes, I'll be observing it....

    but only on Thursday
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    or I feel like you shouldn't give up something bad for you or something...

    but yeah I was REALLY catholic in high school. where I grew up everyone was of irish, italian, hispanic, french, or like greek orthadox decent so I had some friends who would condemn you to hell if you ate meat on a friday.

    So was I! Went to a Catholic grade school but public high school...I never did anything "unholy" in high school...and THEN I went to SDSU :cool:
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Solat13 wrote:
    Haha, I see you're going all the way for your wedding. Good for you!

    How is that coming along?

    :)

    Althought it looks otherwise, I'm not doing it for the wedding - I'm doing it for me. I won't be ready by the wedding anyway. I've always been a Christian as far as believing, but always fell short on the practicing end. I was raised Protestant (kind of), and know I don't fit in there. Catholicism teaches love and tolerance, not anger & self-righteousness. It just makes sense to me and I want to learn more.
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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Solat13 wrote:
    Maybe it's different on the left coast, but at least in South Philly on the rare times I make it to church, there are a lot more single girls there than guys.
    oh yeah...and at villanova mass was like a meat market. seriously...the 10pm sunday mass was the hip place to be! kerry kittles even used to serve communion! i kid you not!
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    If I were a man, I'd marry you. :D
    ditto, my friend. ditto. :D
  • Hartydog
    Hartydog Posts: 2,060
    I'm headed to mass in just a second
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    nfanel wrote:
    oh yeah...and at villanova mass was like a meat market. seriously...the 10pm sunday mass was the hip place to be! kerry kittles even used to serve communion! i kid you not!

    You guys had a 10 pm Mass too? I thought we were the only ones. It was funny because there were several bars across the street and after Mass half the crowd would go right for the bars.

    I used to be in usher back when I was a more practicing Catholic in college ... lol.
    - Busted down the pretext
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Solat13 wrote:
    You guys had a 10 pm Mass too? I thought we were the only ones. It was funny because there were several bars across the street and after Mass half the crowd would go right for the bars.

    I used to be in usher back when I was a more practicing Catholic in college ... lol.

    I know you're talking about Catholic college mass, but my mom's church (my church when I was practicing) has a late Sunday mass every week.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Hartydog wrote:
    I'm headed to mass in just a second

    Have fun!! :D
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I went to a Private Catholic school for all 12 years of my young years, and the only thing I remember was that I got out of class every Friday for Church. IT was not fun...I'd rather be in class...

    It sucked...the uniforms really sucked! I hated it. :(

    My mom called me during lunch and asked me" Pam, are we going to see you at Church and dinner tonight"? I'm like "yes, I will see you at dinner"...she didn't think that was funny!! :)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    I went to a Private Catholic school for all 12 years of my young years, and the only thing I remember was that I got out of class every Friday for Church. IT was not fun...I'd rather be in class...

    It sucked...the uniforms really sucked! I hated it. :(

    My mom called me during lunch and asked me" Pam, are we going to see you at Church and dinner tonight"? I'm like "yes, I will see you at dinner"...she didn't think that was funny!! :)

    I hated it too, BUT now I'm grateful because I think I got my obsessiveness about spelling from the nuns who drilled into us in school.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I hated it too, BUT now I'm grateful because I think I got my obsessiveness about spelling from the nuns who drilled into us in school.


    the nuns were really quite mean..I didn't find them sweet and comforting at all...

    I do love how they portray nuns in movies, they are not sweet!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I hated it too, BUT now I'm grateful because I think I got my obsessiveness about spelling from the nuns who drilled into us in school.

    I didn't mind Catholic school so much. My dad was a grade school teacher at a public school so he'd pull me out of school on all the public school holidays and days his school had field trips to museums and stuff that Catholic schools didn't have the budget for and then I got off on the regular Catholic school holidays so it was a good deal.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
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    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
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    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,092
    cutback wrote:
    i thought the same thing.....thanks to father steve dunne for reminding us....:D

    don't you guys have calendars??? :D Mine all have it written down and they are not even from the church!!! ;)
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Lizard wrote:
    don't you guys have calendars??? :D Mine all have it written down and they are not even from the church!!! ;)


    i have a calendar.....one day i'll look at it to....:p
  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    Anyone following the Catholic school tradition of giving something up for lent?

    ohhhhhhh not up in this family! :eek:
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I didn't start today but I'll be thinking about what I can give up.... yep.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,840
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Just a normal Wednesday for me. Except, this is the one day of the year where I'm not the only person walking around with smeared charcoal on my forehead. It's nice to fit in for a change.

    A BBQ cook, are ya?
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,013
    AmentsChick wrote:
    If I were a man, I'd marry you. :D
    Well if you both relocate here to Mass. aka The Gay State, you can get married without either of you getting addadictomy surgery.
    I'll even videotape the wedding (and of course wedding night) for free.



    (OK posting this in a thread about Lent has surely just punched my ticket to Hades. At least it'll be warm.)
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Poncier wrote:
    Well if you both relocate here to Mass. aka The Gay State, you can get married without either of you getting addadictomy surgery.
    I'll even videotape the wedding (and of course wedding night) for free.



    (OK posting this in a thread about Lent has surely just punched my ticket to Hades. At least it'll be warm.)
    lol. addadictomy (took a minute)...ticket to hades...not sure which got me more! :D god, you're funny. (oops, commandment #3 - god's name in vain...so many rules!)

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