How do you plan on observing Lent this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penance should involve either mortification (causing bodily discomfort) or some other type of personal suffering (giving up your time for charity work). You could sleep on the hard floor one night a week. You could put a pebble in your shoe and let it bother you. Some slightly easier stuff would be to do your private prayer with arms outstretched until they get really tired and keep holding them up or pray laying prostrate (face down on the floor). Those are a couple ideas.

Maybe you should give up trolling DCUM's religion forum. But then again, you're obviously not Christian.

Actually, these are mainstream Roman Catholic concepts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Giving up any foods with sugar, no swearing, and I like the positive ideas from above and think I will commit to a daily long walk.

These are things that even non-religious people do for pleasure. For Lent, people should give up something that they find painful to do without. Maybe foods without sugar -- but certainly not adding a long walk -- that's good for you and not painful.

Let me introduce you to my mother. She's over 200lbs and incredibly unhealthy in her lifestyle. Giving up sugar and doing daily walks would be very hard and painful to do for her. Not everyone is already making healthy choices and caring for the body that God gave us so for someone like her this would be a tremendously sacrificial Lenten commitment.

[Anonymous]

I will try to do some prayer and meditation every morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penance should involve either mortification (causing bodily discomfort) or some other type of personal suffering (giving up your time for charity work). You could sleep on the hard floor one night a week. You could put a pebble in your shoe and let it bother you. Some slightly easier stuff would be to do your private prayer with arms outstretched until they get really tired and keep holding them up or pray laying prostrate (face down on the floor). Those are a couple ideas.

Maybe you should give up trolling DCUM's religion forum. But then again, you're obviously not Christian.

Actually, these are mainstream Roman Catholic concepts.

Not at all mainstream in this day and age. Highly conservative Catholics, but not your average American or European Catholic.

[Anonymous]

I'll be giving up sweets/desserts.

Also no meat on Friday, though eating fish and seafood instead hardly seems like a sacrifice -- it's more luxurious than meat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Giving up any foods with sugar, no swearing, and I like the positive ideas from above and think I will commit to a daily long walk.

These are things that even non-religious people do for pleasure. For Lent, people should give up something that they find painful to do without. Maybe foods without sugar -- but certainly not adding a long walk -- that's good for you and not painful.

Let me introduce you to my mother. She's over 200lbs and incredibly unhealthy in her lifestyle. Giving up sugar and doing daily walks would be very hard and painful to do for her. Not everyone is already making healthy choices and caring for the body that God gave us so for someone like her this would be a tremendously sacrificial Lenten commitment.

She should do these things for health reasons, not religious reasons.

Plus, giving up sugar and doing daily walks would extend her lifespan and delay her arrival in Heaven.

[Anonymous]

I'm giving up alcohol and reading Scripture daily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penance should involve either mortification (causing bodily discomfort) or some other type of personal suffering (giving up your time for charity work). You could sleep on the hard floor one night a week. You could put a pebble in your shoe and let it bother you. Some slightly easier stuff would be to do your private prayer with arms outstretched until they get really tired and keep holding them up or pray laying prostrate (face down on the floor). Those are a couple ideas.

Maybe you should give up trolling DCUM's religion forum. But then again, you're obviously not Christian.

Actually, these are mainstream Roman Catholic concepts.

Not at all mainstream in this day and age. Highly conservative Catholics, but not your average American or European Catholic.

Your average American or European Catholic doesn't even attend Sunday mass regularly. Though missing Mass is still mortal sin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penance should involve either mortification (causing bodily discomfort) or some other type of personal suffering (giving up your time for charity work). You could sleep on the hard floor one night a week. You could put a pebble in your shoe and let it bother you. Some slightly easier stuff would be to do your private prayer with arms outstretched until they get really tired and keep holding them up or pray laying prostrate (face down on the floor). Those are a couple ideas.

[Anonymous]

I’m thinking about giving up eye rolls and snark on DCUM - it may take too much restraint though. I have in general, been trying to make points without being unkind but not always successful if posters are acting like myopic, rabble-rousing bullies.

I should probably start with not judging, and collecting the logs out of my own eyes. I may be able to collect enough firewood for the entire DMV by the end of Lent! 😀 🪵 👁️

[Anonymous]

I declutter the house during Lent. I devote at least a half hour a day to decluttering and donating, usually more.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to pray every day.

[Anonymous]

Giving up alcohol and sweets
Focused exercise
Daily prayer (am pm)
Daily kindness

[Anonymous]

I'm eliminating sugar from anything I eat. I'm also following the #Pray40 Lenten challenge on the Hallow app. Guided daily meditations and prayers based on the 600 year-old Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis. It gives more structure to my resolve for daily prayer and meditation.

[Anonymous]

Taking away: diet coke (if you know me IRL, this is going to be incredibly painful)

Adding: additional daily mass 1x week, more movement, hallow app.