How does your Church practice Lent?

[wjp984]

I also remember a (western) priest who once said “if you’re having lobster instead of hamburger, you are missing the point.”

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But I rarely go to Red Lobster and Lent is the perefect excuse to finally get a chance to go. I haven’t gone yet but will plan on it for one of the Fridays.

I partly agree and partly disagree with this priest. If one is not doing any other devotion or scrifice for Lent and then just switching a hamburger for a more luxurious lobster, then ya, that might be missing the point.

However, if one has chosen other things to do for Lent, then eating at Red Lobster to be in complaince with the abstinence requirement while still maintaining the other private lenten devotions seems fine with me.

 

[Marina_Karlovna]

Oh yes. Lobster is acceptable. I often feel the main “price” I pay is the inconvenience, the planning, etc. If someone else were planning and preparing my meals (in conformity with Lent), it would be very easy. I’d just eat what was set before me. As a single person, I usually did not plan that much ahead and so ended up with a lot of peanut butter meals during fast periods. Now I am responsible for meal preparation for an invalid, so I have to do some planning.

The comment of lobster vs. hamburger helper was not meant to be a “rule” of any sort.

:harp: With that, I believe I’ve said my last on the subject. It’s hard for me to shut up–I keep thinking of more to say. But I will stop harping on this for now.