Huh? I don't understand what you are trying to say. Where is the contradiction?
Lent is in less than 2 weeks. What are you giving up?
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.
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.
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