Tag: dry lent
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Dry Lent: 40 down, 6 to go.
First of all, at some point we collectively forgot how to count. Lent is not 40 days. It’s 46. You might be able to stretch that a bit and not count Holy Week (Palm Sunday – Easter Sunday), but nobody ends the Lenten sacrifice on Palm Sunday. It ends a week after that. Thus, here…
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Trying that whole “Lent” thing again.
I’m not exactly the most active Catholic out there, but a few weeks ago I made up my mind that I was going to give up something for Lent this year, and take it a little more seriously than I did last year when I gave up dating. This year I’m giving up alcohol. Next…