What Are You Giving Up For Lent??

[-SharonA-]

It is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. What will you be giving up??

I myself am not a Catholic.

[ladyalex]

I am not at all religious and will not be giving anything up or doing anything different in Lent.
I do have a question, though. For some reason I have it in my head that Sundays 'don't count' for the Lenten Fast.....you can have whatever you've given up every Sunday in Lent.
Is this nonsense? Was whoever it was that told me this trying to pull the wool over my eyes?

[Jackdaw33]

No, there is truth in that. Especially Mothers' Day.

[tinkerbell23]

I have never been brought up to believe that i was exempt on a sunday.... Lent is lent!

Not a child or an idiot either... What an idiotic comment! X

[Answerprancer]

Lentils.

..only joking!

Nothing, as I am not a christian.

[ladyalex]

I hope you didn't think I was calling anyone a child or an idiot, Tinkerbell.
When I wrote nonsense I meant was what I'd been told about it being OK to break the Lenten Fast on Sundays nonsense.
I would not be so disrespectful to someone's beliefs.

[-SharonA-]

Answerprancer, apparently it is not a Christian thing!

[Jomlett]

I've just heard that Julian Assange is thinking of giving himself up for Lent.

[-SharonA-]

Lol Jomlett!

[tinkerbell23]

Absolutley not ladyalex!! No offence taken at all as you say we all have different beliefs!!!

It was the specific "only children & idiots give something up for a stupid custom" came from an idiot in my opinion. Xx

[Tilly2]

I was brought up in a very anti Catholic household but we still observed Lent fully.

It was an important time, starting on Ash Wednesday when one embarked on something which was difficult for a period of 40 days and 40 nights. Easter Sunday was always such a treat!

[DSJ]

I always give up chocolate during Lent because for me it really is a sacrifice.

[tinkerbell23]

Tilly.... Same as me....except very catholic!! Haha!! Funny isnt it....xx :0)

[Jackdaw33]

One calculation has been that the season of Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.[21][22] This calculation makes Lent last 46 days, if the 6 Sundays are included, but only 40, if they are excluded,[23] because there is no obligation to fast on the six Sundays in Lent.[21][22] This definition is still that of the Anglican Church,[24] Lutheran Church,[25] Methodist Church,[26] and Western Rite Orthodox Church.[27]

[ladyalex]

That's good, Tinkerbell.
I hadn't seen the previous comment.
:-))

[Answerprancer]

...ok then, nothing, as I value my vices :-)

[Tilly2]

I thought it was to do with Jesus being in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, being tempted by the devil.........?

[ladyalex]

Thanks, Jackdaw. Sounds as though the person who told me that Sundays were exempt had something.
Isn't it strange when an ancient memory pops up?
That one about the exemptions must be at least 35 years old and I cannot think that I've thought of it for most of those years.

[Tilly2]

We didn't have exemptions. No chocolate at all. The Easter Eggs were a real treat!

[tinkerbell23]

I also went to mass every day before school for lent x

[-SharonA-]

Poor you Tinkerbell. I take it you don't keep this up?