What are you giving up for Lent this year?

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guanophore said:
God has clearly created your heart so that it can be completely absorbed by music. Since He is the creator of all the music of the universe, this should be considered a great gift.
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In the same vein, fasting from this good gift would likely bear much spiritual fruit.
 
I’m going to (try) to stay away from social media (which includes Facebook and CAF) and browsing the Internet mindlessly. And I’m going to (try) to not eat after dinner–no evening snacking or grazing through the kitchen.
 
Thank you for sharing this!
I’m new to this forum and I appreciate the generosity of all who share good things with the starving
God bless you
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ajg said:
Time. I am giving up more time out of my day to pray. I plan to pray the rosary daily. I hope that it becomes so ingrained in my daybthat I continue the practice after Lent
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I am so glad you worded this the way you did. I hear about giving up and adding to for Lent. So when talking to my son, who was going to give up a minor treat, but start reading every night (Scripture), we set a period of time to be spent. Adding some sort of spiritual exercise is also a necessary surrender of time, our most precious commodity.
 
guanophore said:
Selfishness is the natural state of human beings. We are born into the world this way. Are you suggesting an infant is sinning because the infant needs everything from others, and can’t give anything?
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Selfishness is the beginning of greed. Greed is one of the Seven Capital Sins. It is a sin against charity.

To toss in an infant is somehow an attempt to deflect, to make selfishness seem like a mere fly in the soup. Of course an infant, someone who has mental illness, emotional disabilities, those with dementia, people in comas, etc are in no way guilty of sins against charity.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Selfishness is the beginning of greed. Greed is one of the Seven Capital Sins. It is a sin against charity.
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I am not claiming it is not a problem, I am pointing out that it is our natural human condition from birth.
TheLittleLady said:
o toss in an infant is somehow an attempt to deflect, to make selfishness seem like a mere fly in the soup.
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This is absurd. If our natural human condition was only a “mere fly in the soup” then why did Jesus have to die on the cross to save us from it?
TheLittleLady said:
Of course an infant, someone who has mental illness, emotional disabilities, those with dementia, people in comas, etc are in no way guilty of sins against charity.
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Self-Centeredness is our natural human condition. Learning to love, moving away from it is the goal of sanctification. Not every act of being self centered is “one of the seven deadlies”! But it is certainly an appropriate focus for us to deepen our spirituality.

The disciples arguing about “who is the greatest” comes to mind. Jesus confronted them and upbraided them. He redirected them, he didn’t tell them they were going to hell!
 
MaryEstelle2 said:
Every year I hear the same question(s). It does aggravate me. Lent is my own private spiritual journey. It is a contract between God and I. Not God, you and I. If individuals want to share this short time of meditation, reflection and/or sacrifice or penance-fine and do so. Just don’t ask me. It feels-for me-an invasion of my inner sanctum. If you are a teenager, a new convert or a person that really needs help…don’t ask me 'cause I probably won’t say.
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Considering how many people are fine with sharing this kind of thing, both to help others decide what they want to do and out of a desire to have more accountability, it would probably suffice to say “Others say, but I’d rather not.”
 
Upandaway said:
I live near a small bakery that makes all of their pastries from scratch. My sacrifice for lent will the sugar coated jelly donut. It is light with a lot of

jelly that just oozes out as you eat it. I’m going to have the special lent Danish with only a cross of frosting on top instead.
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Onward Christian Soldiers, LOL!
 
My wife and I do a detox twice a year which involves avoiding sugar. It’s difficult to do because, as you say, it’s in nearly everything but we don’t buy canned or processed foods to begin with and we have a set menu. We’ve used stevia in the past as a substitute but I find it gross.
 
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I make my own tomato soup and add carrots which gives the soup the sweetness we like but not the artificial sweetness. I have a garden practically every year and tomatoes and carrots are a mainstay. My mother loves tomato soup. And I feel better knowing that the soup she eats comes from the produce I’ve grown rather than cans.
 
ajg said:
Time. I am giving up more time out of my day to pray. I plan to pray the rosary daily. I hope that it becomes so ingrained in my daybthat I continue the practice after Lent
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Same. I plan to pray the rosary daily for Lent. I hope I succeed.

Some give up candy or fatty foods…I worry that people do that more to lose weight and look good than doing something spiritual.
 
No alcohol. Getting up immediately after the alarm rings. The latter will be more difficult…
 
Ugh. You are a bold person.

I usually hit the snooze button at least 5 times on that sucker.
 
It is far easier than giving up tv completely! I don’t know if I can ever do what you’re doing
 
on_the_hill said:
I’m going to (try) to stay away from social media (which includes Facebook and CAF) and browsing the Internet mindlessly. And I’m going to (try) to not eat after dinner–no evening snacking or grazing through the kitchen
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Chose ONE or the Other NOT BOTH! Then STICK to it.

Pray very much

Patrick
 
I’m studying St Louis de Montfort and doing the 33-day consecration to Mary, and some other stuff.
 
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