Lent is in less than 2 weeks. What are you giving up?

Lent is in less than 2 weeks. What are you giving up?

I am giving up weed. I want to stop smoking that shit and follow God. I haven't gone to church since last year but this year I'm really going to start following God now. I hope to rid weed and sin from my life. Pray for me anons.

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Amen brother! Tell you what, I'll quit the devil's cabbage with you. Tbh, I find praying the Rosary really helps fight the calling Mary Jane has on my mind.

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Wait, really??
On the Revised Julian calendar, Meatfare begins this Monday. Really? I didn't notice time creeping up on me like that.

I will retreat completely and hopefully definitively from discussion with people, except for my close relatives and my priest. Way too many people have been accusing me of the same sins over the years, but especially recently (like in this thread for instance). This is Christ speaking to me and calling me to urgent humility and repentance. Because I fall so often into the sin of dishonesty, I will retract from participating in discussions, online or in real life, so that I at least do not commit this sin as often.

I've given up carbonated surgary drinks like Soda and Energy drinks for the last two years of lent and it's really helped kill that addiction. I'm going to give that up again this year and go for breaking my nofap record of 39 days and hope that it does the same thing for that disgusting addiction. God bless you guys.

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Nothing, because I am saved by Grace/Faith and not by works. Nothing I could give up could atone for my sins, only the Blood of Christ can.

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Do you fast?

Also, nobody said anything about atonement here.

I practice intermittent fasting, but not fasting in the standard sense. I've wanted to try to fast but never had the willingness to suffer for it.


I know, but many folks seem to get a certain sense of superiority about devotion during Lent. I do approve of people wanting to give things up, but people should always be reminded that they are saved by the Blood alone and not by personal devotion. In fact, the Gospel reading in church last Sunday was Matthew 20, the parable of the workers. Give it a read… basically, there is no works merit to God and all shall be rendered equally. All have fallen short of the Kingdom of God.

That said, quit anything bad, I encourage it. I myself have been quitting pop recently.

Fasting means abstaining from food, because "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God". But fasting also means abstinence from earthly things in general, including things that are much less important to your health than food. We are not justified by fasting, but fasting helps us remain close to Christ and not be distracted by the things of the world that excite us. We must do like Paul in Galatians 2:20-24 and let Christ transform us so that we may be purified of the passions; we must obey Christ's commandment to leave eveything behind and follow Him. Christ Himself tells us to fast, if your answer to "what are you giving up" is "nothing" you're maybe not sinning but definitely avoiding a practice that is very helpful to remember the reality of your situation and to avoid sin and apostasy.


Of course, of course, Pelagianism is a heresy anyway. If works were salvific or even meriting in themselves, we wouldn't expect death bed converts to have a chance at salvation, since they can only come to the judgement seat of Christ with their faith and immediate repentance. (well, I'm not a Catholic, so Catholics may disagree with what I said on works being meriting, I'm not sure) And you are very correct to remind us to not take pride in fasting, thank you for doing so.

By the way… I have told you in another thread to not post corpses for shock value. Your post in that thread that contained this picture got removed in fact. I strongly suggest you delete this picture before you get caught and your post gets deleted here as well.

Matthew 9:14-15
14 Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.


Didache
Chapter 8. Fasting and Prayer (the Lord's Prayer). But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week. Rather, fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday). Do not pray like the hypocrites, but rather as the Lord commanded in His Gospel…


Logical Consistency and Contradiction

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Huh? I don't understand what you are trying to say. Where is the contradiction?

Oh sorry, I meant that reading for the sola fide and no works post.

I will pray for you user. I'll be giving up this stuff.

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I'm tied between giving up my smartphone for a dumbphone so I can stop losing so much time to the Internet, or giving up staring at women so I can be more chaste and look at celibacy vs marital life with a less partial eye.

Like a taco shell commercial once said: "why not both?"

I don't wholly disagree with you about the salvation part, but catholics view fasting as a way to grow closer to God, not as a way to earn salvation. We do that during lent because it is a way to remember the 40 days and 40 nights that Christ resisted temptation in the desert.

Aside from the fast prescribed by the church, I'll be giving up twitter entirely. it is an accursed website that only infuriates me.

No one here thinks that giving up stuff for Lent means they get a ticket to Heaven.

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I'm gonna give up listening to music for Lent. I have a bad habit of listening to it all the time


Last year, I just couldn't stop my soft drink addiction. But than I started putting some drops of iodine in my milk in the morning and this shit really helps. No joke, the feeling just goes away

I'll give up acting like a bitch

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I believe in you, christanon

If I stop posting here several times a day, I'll feel even more lonely in my faith and social life. I have a tough time with social relationships and even though I try to be involved in my parish, people don't talk to me and I'm afraid to talk to them.

On the other end, arguing with baptists and orthoLARPers is often less productive than more time for prayer.

Follow Jesus Christ

And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Hello fellow pharisee. We are not looking for a reward, because we have not started fasting yet. We are uplifting each other by sharing examples of how we plan to better ourselves.

Forgive me, user.
I tend to have knee-jerk reactions to certain posts, but that doesn't excuse my rashness.

No problem brother.

I'm going to stop eating junk food, playing video games and using Facebook. I cannot control myself with these and they have a very bad impact on my spiritual life

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I am going to cut all junk food, get the regular prayer and scripture again. Perhaps I will go to church early in the morning during weekdays. Cold showers, work, some workout.
Basically all things that I should be already doing but I am too weak

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Soda & desserts

Going to black fast.

The only thing that would be different from what I do every day of the year would be eating my one meal slightly later and avoiding alcohol, though I don't drink much to begin with. Also giving up cooking oils and olive oil and sugar, nicotine, and coffee during the day.

I'm not really sure. The idea is to give up a luxury or something that takes focus away from God. Well, I don't exactly live in luxury. Perhaps I'll give up internet? I haven't decided yet.

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Its gonna be a rough one boys, But its gotta be Alcohol. I'm legitimatly thinking of AA if I WtP this up. I hope to spend my nights studying for Sec+ and reading St. Thomas Aquines. Hopefully I'll be less of a brainlet when I post on here and /g/ after this.

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No meat, no wine, no snacks (except a handful of nuts around 16:00 if my stomach acid becomes too much) and doing the St. Ephrem prayer (thanks to that user who made the thread about it).
I'm also fasting on sundays, to keep the rhythm on.

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Giving up all electronic use except for work. No chans, vidya, social media, or anything like that. I want to use all the time I would spend reading books. I've got a years worth, and I want to finish reading them before I buy anything else.

I don't really know what to give up, but I'm determined to stick to the Lenten diet this year as I have failed to the last two. I might give up internet.

Im giving up my usual. No sweets or sweet drinks. I also wanted to do a proper fast every Wednesday. Anyone have any good info on fasts. I heard the orthodox were a lot more serious about fasting then Catholics are now.

I'm planning on limiting my time on imageboards, and spending at least an hour a day reading and praying.

I should determine 2 days of the week to be fasting. Like…perhaps on just milk/oatmeals for food.
Either way this should be however my every day breakfast. But again I am a weakling that tries to larp as an ascetic…failing.

What is the St. Ephrem prayer?

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Going to try to give up porn. I try every year but I fail! So please pray for me. Anyway I love Lent, I can't wait for Holy Week and Easter this year! :)

Nothing, because the act of giving up a vice should not be confined to one part of a year. You shouldn't have to wait until Lent to give up weed. Lent should be spent proving that you've been a better person and carrying that proof throughout the year.

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So what you're saying is you don't feel the need to give up any vice whatsoever, and you're free to sin because of Christ's sacrifice?

“If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the impious and sinner appear?”

Sheesh.
It's like you're the only virtuous one by fighting vice at a certain time and date instead of always.

Pleb tier m8. Not that I expected more from you.

I'm contemplating giving up politics, and going to give up the swearing that constantly comes into my dialogue.

Giving up politics as I went on a retreat this weekend and went 3 days without news, at the end of it I found I love people a lot more. I imagine following politics as much as I do causes heavy division between me and people. Or a lot less joyless in my everyday life compared to one full of the holy spirit should act

If you've read this entire thread, this is exactly how these posters think.

You can only give it up temporarily
That doesn't mean you can't give it up permanently. If you can last 30 days, why not more?

Lent is a good launching point to kick vices, or at least get them under control.

Please don't.
Just follow your church's calendar.

Huh, that isn't in the translations I find.


Fasting on sundays is allowed, just very uncommon.

I'm not aware of a single day of the year where fasting is tolerated on a Sunday (by fasting I obviously don't mean the reduced meal we have during fasting periods, or the Eucharistic fast - by fasting I mean following the full rules of fasting), in any tradition. Do you have an exemple?

I think it just means you say that phrase for a total of 12 times and after each time you say that phrase you make a prostration.

Correct. Although having a lot of prostrations isn't unusual - my prayer book's prayers before liturgy include 40 kyrie eleison with as many prostrations, at the end.

It's normally not done but it's still allowed.
I'll check again with my priest though.

Laughed way harder than I should have

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No beer and no coffee (really hard).
I still will drink tea though since i still want to go to the cafe to use internet.

Tbh brother, green tea is a great alternative to coffee. It had just as much caffeine and it has antioxidents which is good for the body. I also notice the crash is less intense when I drink green tea.

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Giving up:
- Hot showers
-Internet (except for necessary educational/ scientific purposes)
-sweets, any food that gives too much pleasure for little nutritional value
-vidya
I’m going to be creating a hard excersise regime to complement a spiritual reading one I’ve already got going
Also planning to maintain this far beyond lent to an extent

Well, if I'm being very technical, the sacrifice made during lent is intended to be viewed as a form of lesser fast. As is the whole "no meat on Fridays thing." But since prots don't practice fasts or anything of that nature, I figured it would be pointless to mention.

I'm giving up carnal thoughts to take my mind of things that are base and lift it to God. Will also try to pray the 1910 divine office everyday.

Which one is it? Which are you saved by? Grace alone or faith alone? Hmm?

Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith…"

Grace is how you are saved, but Faith is what gets you Grace. So, both! Without Grace there is no salvation. Without Faith there is no Grace.

I am going to try only eating one meal a day and abstain from meat and dairy, as well as from eating out, except on Saturdays and Sundays or when being treated with hospitality.

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One meal a day as in what size proportion? Food piled onto a plate? Or literally a plate of food with small to medium proportions?

Small to medium portions. My stomach can't handle massive meals.

I'd wager it depends on the sacrifice then.

Bumping this thread, I added another lent sacrifice.

My beard.

W-why, user?
What did your beard ever do to you?

I really liked my beard, but at the end it was also a part pride.
I'll grow it back after Easter, with shaving also being a little disciplining action (I use a safety razor).
I just hope that me going from man to suave boy won't make me too prideful either.

Well, you are a brave man for trying to conquer your pride. I hope all goes well for you.

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I completed my plan for the lent.
I am doing

I have outlined as many ideas as I have been able to. Hopefully at least one half sticks the whole time. I shoot for the stars maybe I will hit the moon at least. My aim this lent is the new man inside of me to be born. Spirit as an immovable island. Year ago the lent was the best time of my year so I truly hope I will repeat this. The benefits are thousand times worth it if one makes it.

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and

Faith is a grace. It doesn't save you but is a gift of election

So do you have to give something up forever or just a period of time? Also I'm told you're supposed to read during lent.

For a period of time. You can read a lot during lent to make it productive.
For me I also use it to carry out things that I want to implement into my regular life but fail for the most of the year.
If avoiding something in your life works so well during the lent why not do it for the most of the year.

So I'll make this lent on my challenge to finally beat my porn addiction and masturbation.
Also aim to maintain on a strict diet and schedule, working out properly and studying again, my lunch is going to be my main dish and because of that, meat allowed and hearty, however I will limit my dinner to only vegetables and restraining on other crap food.
I'm already following on daily mass, but been falling off the wagon with some practices and diligence, specially self discipline. As usual, Sundays will be holy and a time to relax.

Also worried about the period just before lent, usually the feast, in my country is carnival, while I don't intend to partake in the degeneracy one bit, there is still parties, and of course, personal degeneracy. What do?
Also would like tips and advice from those more experience in it, how to be stronger in your penance? What about when you feel really down and lost in motivation, ways to keep you strong on the path?

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That happens where I live, too. New Orleans carnival season has historically been one of debauchery and sin leading up to Ash Wednesday. Though there is some hope. In the years following Katrina, we've slowly tried to make carnival more family friendly, which means shutting down the prostitute mills and ending liquor tourism. The parades and festivals these days are a lot better than they were 10 years ago, but it's difficult for an entire city to overcome its past.

Thanks man.
I'll be happy when I can start growing it again.
I really hate shaving.

Tell me about it. My job requires i stay clean shaven, but I get whiskers and fuzz literally the next day and it pisses me off.
It never effing ends.

Well interesting, I'm already sort of doing this, but I guess I'll it officially to lent, to leave my beard grow fully until easter, which is the opposite of what I have been doing lately.
And by that I mean no shaving and no trimming, letting it go full and wild, pretty much like someone lost in the desert would. And for me this happens to be quite annoying, since even though I enjoy a bit of beard, it comes to itch like crazy and get really annoying after some time.
And then again, none of these soy boy really go full beard, do they?

Ima try to give up hating on people with different denominations.

That's kind of prohibited.
One cannot show outer signs of fasting if they come around people.

I think I've figured it out! For Lent this year, I won't necessarily be giving something up; but I will be devoting more time to study. I'll be taking the KoC online courses (they're free) to strengthen my faith and knowledge of the Church.

And how is letting the beard grow a sign of fasting?
And that doesn't make any sense, are you suppose to hide your penance?

Growing your beard out is fine, letting it go untrimmed and wild is not fine. Keep it clean!

Please help me understand what I'm allowed to eat during lent and when. I do a Friday fast already, is it different during lent? Are there more days than Friday? Do eggs count as meat? Are protein shakes cheating? Pls respond.

If you're Orthodox, every day is a strict fast except that oil and wine is allowed on most Sundays and fish is allowed on certain feast days. Basic rule is that if it has bones, it's meat and is to be avoided; eggs are still meat even if they have no bones currently. Avoid dairy, alcohol and oil as well.
if you're not Orthodox, and I suspect you aren't, then I think there are only certain days you need to do a strict fast, but maybe the Orthodox rule will help you in it.
No matter what though, don't fret about it too much. If something has a bit of egg or cheese in it and you forget and eat it, or if it's like the 3rd ingredient listed, it's ok. Fasting shouldn't cause you to stumble more, even though it isn't easy.

Are eggs really considered meat? They're not fertilized.

I started catechism for Pentcost with my veteran Falklands war priest as teacher; and 11 other persons as students.
I'm giving up masturbation forever.
It's been a week already and I'm doing so fine, it's magical, but in reality is the word of Jesus going through me.
Pray for me and for my confirmation to stay forever until eternal life.

Many blessings to all.

No masturbation, no selfies and caring about fashion too much. No alcohol as usual. It's my first time attempting a proper fast. I have no idea how I'm supposed to substitute oil. Any tips on that?

I'm looking to add a book on prayer for Lent. I have a hard time reading so I'm just going to settle on one single book and read the whole thing by Easter.

Anyone have a recommendation? I hope for something that is about Christian meditative prayer, how to pray all day, the best way to go about it, etc. The author needs to be a Saint, please. Thanks in advance.

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I just checked my handy-dandy daily readings app and it specifically mentions eggs as a separate thing. So no, not meat, but still something to avoid during a strict fast. Example being that this next week is what we call cheesefare, which is meant to help prepare for the great fast and allow you to use up all the dairy you still have and eggs are allowed during this week. But during the great fasts, eggs are not allowed.

The autobiography of Saint Theresa of Avila

Jokes on the abstinence stuff, I'm already vegan. I'm going to have to fast more.

Yes, keep your beard trimmed and clean, do not show any outer signs of fasting.

The idea is to abstain from something you enjoy, not just something you pull out of a hat by rote. Think about a great joy, a luxury, you have in your life and give it up. The idea of abstaining is to suffer, even if just a little. If you're vegan, then you already have the discipline to fast. So, find something else and stop being boastful.

I already plan on giving away the time I spend on the internet.