First Friday of Lent

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It’s a good day to do the Stations of The Cross.

Eating fried fish (caught them) topped with 5 different beans (black, white, red, blackeye, Lima).

What are you eating/doing for the day?
 
Working. Will likely have some shrimp and coconut rice for supper.
 
Yeah, already cut the grass and got half of the house cleaned. Not to mention tending the garden. Plenty of work to do.
 
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I’m at work. I just had a delicious cheese and veggie sandwich.

Tonight I’ll pack for a three day get-away out in the woods.
 
My boss is a daily masser. It’s just him and I at work today, so I’m playing sacred music in the frame shop. It’s raining. It’s very pleasant. I even took in an antique print of Leonardo’s Last Supper.
 
I’ll find out what’s on the menu when my wife gets home, but in Canada, we’re not obliged to abstain from meat on Fridays, even during Lent. Our only two days of abstinence (and fast) are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. And being 59 and diabetic, I no longer am required to fast.

My penitential act today was my usual Friday penance: vacuuming the house and cleaning the bathrooms.
 
Served Mass in the morning.
Breakfast: riz national (Haitian beans and rice)
Washed the altar linen in the afternoon. Will iron it tomorrow.
Early evening Stations of the Cross at the only church in the area to have it every Friday in Lent - most only have Stations on Good Friday - then hightailed it back to my own parish to open the chapel for Adoration.
After Adoration, prepared the elements for this weekend’s Masses.
Got home after midnight, so breakfast was my only meal on Friday. It wasn’t by design; some days are just like this. It’s all part of the fun :crazy_face:
 
Since I am my mother’s caregiver, I did what I normally do. I had fish. She had tomato soup.
 
For this academic term (January-May), I do not have any scheduled classes on Friday. So for all the Fridays of Lent, aside from the voluntary fast I undertake everyday during Lent excl. Sunday (foregoing lunch and the customary afternoon snack), I abstain from meat as well.

In the morning, I attend the 7:00 am daily Mass in the Cathedral (which is usually presided by the Bishop) then pray the Via Crucis
 
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Another mess of fish this morning. what a blessing.

Looks like fried fish sandwhiches for lunch.
 
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I wish I were as pious as you when I was in school,.
 
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