It's the first day!

[Hecares]

I started to ask how your first week of Lent has been.Then I realized we started on Wednesday, so I guess that wouldn’t be appropriate. I decided to attend daily Mass this year, and I started on Monday. It has been so hard for me to go before, but I have been blessed this week It hasn’t been hard to get up. My difficulty is tearing myself away from this website to get ready and go. Maybe next week I should add,“No computer until after Mass.”

 

[crystal_waters]

I started to ask how your first week of Lent has been.Then I realized we started on Wednesday, so I guess that wouldn’t be appropriate. I decided to attend daily Mass this year, and I started on Monday. It has been so hard for me to go before, but I have been blessed this week It hasn’t been hard to get up. My difficulty is tearing myself away from this website to get ready and go. Maybe next week I should add,“No computer until after Mass.”

just remind yourself that caf and all the questions and comments will still be here when you get home from mass…so by going to mass you are gaining not missing out on anything

 

[Hecares]

Fortunately I have made it to Mass each day this week. However, I noticed that it was a little harder each day to get away from the computer. I had planned to add a penance each week, so I think I will wait until after Mass to check this site next week. Father said today that sacrifice helps us to gain self-discipline so that we can avoid becoming enslaved by our wants and desires. I realize this is a tiny sacrifice, but I am taking baby steps, hoping to succeed little by little to gain control.

How is your Lent going?

 

[mellowcalico]

I’ve already almost forgotten my Lenten sacrifice twice. Yesterday I thought about getting a chocolate shake (which is a dessert in my book) and I went to reach for some Girl Scout cookies to go with my tea.

I didn’t give in though.

Not eating meat is easy for me though–since I am not really a big meat eater anyway. Tonight’s dinner is going to be spaghetti marinara.

My daughter is kind of funny though. She’s 6-years-old and for the first time is really getting “in to” Lent. She decided she wanted to give something up too, so she gave up gum (she usually buys gum once a week at the grocery store–from the gum machines and such). But she’s come up with some funny questions.

The best was on Ash Wednesday she asked if the ashes being put on our heads were made out of “dead people.” My guess is at CCD they talked about ashes to ashes, dust to dust. When I told her no, she then asked if they were made out of dead animals. She must have asked me if I was sure they weren’t the ashes of dead people half a dozen times–even after I told her no and explained they were from burnt palms each time.