Lent.....

[kbordson 8]

DAMN!!! I just got this beautiful steak ready... and now I had to remember that it's the first Friday of Lent. (but... I ruined it Wednes by having Chicken without even thinking.....)

It's hard being a recovering catholic!!!

[Thunderbow 1]

All of us Catholics are recovering from something. It's really a hardship to eat shrimp on Fridays.

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Lord, let me be the person my dog thinks I am.

[Muenkel 0]

Hey Karen,

I'm a Catholic and every Lent it always takes about two weeks for me to remember not to eat meat on Fridays. All in all, it's not the biggest sacrifice I can make.

Chris

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Chris

[SeaKev 0]

...or crab, salmon, lobster...

[PRSKY71 0]

I was craving a hamburger today but decided to be good. Although, my mom tells me that since I'm pregnant I could have eaten meat. Who knows anymore. I can't keep up with the rules.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks

[Muenkel 0]

Actually your mom is right about being exempt from the no meat rule if your pregnant. There are a lot of exceptions to the no meat rule such as health and age.

Chris

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Chris

[grue 1]

You people amaze me.

cavete terrae.

[PRSKY71 0]

Well, as you said in your earlier post, I just felt obliged as it is certainly not the biggest sacrifice I could make. I had potato wedges instead and will be having serial in a little bit. Yum!!!!!

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks

[Muenkel 0]

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...or crab, salmon, lobster...

And this is the bummer for me as I'm allergic to seafood. So I go completely vegetarian on the Fridays of Lent.

Chris

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Chris

[Muenkel 0]

It's really conscience driven. If you can do it without getting sick, then you do your best to make that sacrifice.

Chris

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Chris

[Gene03 0]

I'm recovered. And you are too.
Grill up the damn thing and enjoy it.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[ACMESkydiver 0]

I'm enjoying a FAT salmon steak right now.

Poor Joe...he's driving to Oregon City, and only has some food bars and energy drinks with him. That wouldn't be bad, but he gave up eating out for lent.

I told him there's always a grocery store!

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[skybeergodd 0]

you can always call the pope and ask for a Dispensation and let you eat your steak....for me the great thing about being catholic is I can break all the rules and as long as I go to confession I'm cleared

[MikeForsythe 0]

It's good not to be catholic

Define what you mean by YOU got the steak ready? Does that mean that you put it on the plate?

Time and pressure will always show you who a person really is!

[kbordson 8]

It was marinated and grilled on the barbie - medium rare, but more on the rare side. Sitting there on the plate. The smell.... **********sigh********

[MikeForsythe 0]

It marinated and grilled all by itself?

Time and pressure will always show you who a person really is!

[kbordson 8]

Oh.....

No, I don't often cook (and even less so with the leg in a nonweight bearing brace.... harder to hop out to the grill with the steaks on the plate). but it was still there

[BlueSkiesKel 0]

same here, the whole watch was just about to order dinner and we remembered two of us were catholic, and on top of that the first place we tried took fish off their menu, so we had to find another place
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i'm already feeling the catholic guilt bc i forgot to go to ash wednesday service

what did everyone give up for lent? i give up sweets every year.. which means no chocolate or ice cream... and for all you that know me... thats a BIG BIG deal.. i eat at least 5 chocolate bars a week and at least a half gallon of ice cream a week too, and usually a piece of chocolate cake , so these next few weeks will be hard for me!!

[tbrown 26]

There are a lot of exceptions to the no meat rule such as health and age.

[jverley 1]

I was raised that you should give things up for lent. I find it convenient to give up my New Years resolutions this time of year.

John
Arizona Hiking Trails

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I was raised that you should give things up for lent. I find it convenient to give up my New Years resolutions this time of year.

ooo... that's a good one... I might have to try that the next time I make a new years resolution...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[Shell666 0]

I became quite disillusioned with the Catholic Church in my teen years (for reasons that really don't matter here).

I gave up Lent for Lent for the last number of years.

It's not what you GO WITHOUT for a few weeks that matters. It's how you live your life that matters. Meat or no meat. Sweets or no sweets.

Just my thoughts. Sorry if this goes to SC.

'Shell

[warpedskydiver 0]

Btw I didn't say so before but I really hope your knee heals well and very soon

[fallinbear 0]

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Hey Karen,

I'm a Catholic and every Lent it always takes about two weeks for me to remember not to eat meat on Fridays. All in all, it's not the biggest sacrifice I can make.

Chris

Uhhh....it usually takes me all of lent to remember. Thanks for the reminder...lol.

I don't want to make all the decisions because if I screw up, then I can't blame it on you...

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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I'm a Catholic and every Lent it always takes about two weeks for me to remember not to eat meat on Fridays.

Huh??? When I was growing up it was no meat on any Friday and no meat at all during Lent. Every restaurant in town had fish for the special on Friday. Fortunately we weren't catholic.