madpriest's Ash Wednesday
(stay at home) meme
I read, yesterday, that the Archbishop of York is becoming a vegan for Lent. Good on him, although, as a Biblically based, liberal, revisionist scumbag, I personally believe that you should keep any personal, fasting details very much to yourself. Certainly I am not about to ask you to reveal your plans on the world wide web via my blog. However, what I thought would cheer us up on, what can be, a rather depressing day in the Church calendar, would be the opportunity to make suggestions as to what other people should give up or take on. This could be people from the OCICBW... community. For example, it has already been suggested this week that certain ladies, that we know, should, at least once a week, shove their pipes full of finest shag tobacco and smoke them. But it could also be some real life celebrity, like Homer Simpson, who is given the benefit of your caring suggestions.
So, over to you. And don't forget to be cruel - this is Lent after all.
19 comments:
The ABC should take up assertiveness for Lent.
Pope Pete of Nigeria needs to take up humility and silence. (For life)
We haven't given up anything for Lent in our family since that priceless year when my then 4 year old informed me firmly, about 5 days into Lent, that I had misheard her and she had said she would give up BROCCOLI, not chocolate!!
I might take up praying twice daily for all those ridiculous fundagelicals - now that's real penance.
A little off topic perhaps. But cultures clash round our way tonight. Ash Wednesday and Chinese New Year's Eve? The biggest feast of the year, on one of the most solemn Christian festivals. I'll be going to Mass at 8.00, but I'll have put away a vast amount of food beforehand!
If anyone evr asks me, I say that I've given up dieting ....
Perhaps News broadcasters could give up reporting on the American elections for 40 days ....
I think we should all give up visiting OCICBW... for 40 days.
Just think of the good we could do with all that time!
Just think of all the tobacco I could smoke!
Along the same lines as Saintly Ramblings's comment, I think all U.S. Presidential candidates—perhaps all politicians worldwide—should give up talking during Lent.
I hear that the Palestinian tentmaker responsible for emergency GAFCON housing has taken time off to construct a Lenten hair shirt for John-David Schofield.
One year, I gave up being bitchy for Lent.
I'm giving up eating ear-wax this Lent.
I will eat fillet mignon with bernaise sauce every Wednesday in Lent, and a Porterhouse steak with lobster newberg on Good Friday on the condition that everyone on Earth gets 3 good meals every day in a safe comfortable home. In addition, they must have a nice comfortable bed to sleep in every night. Every child must be loved, wanted, and indulged. All work and labor must be fairly compensated, and workers justly treated. Corruption must end. Every weapon must be melted down as scrap. Every stupid tribal and sectarian feud must stop.
Unless those conditions are met, I will continue to eat TV dinners, Chinese take-out, and diner fare.
So there!
What have Balaam and his ass got to do with stylites, or with Lent for that matter? Tho' I suppose your ass would be be stopped with a vengeance if you spent 40 years sitting on top of a pillar, surrounded by an admiring crowd.
Maybe some grandchild dared him to go vegan?
NancyP
I think Queer Fear would be a good thing for others to give up for Lent. They might find that they'll get used to it.
Several years ago, the church my partner and I were attending entered a time of discernment regarding the 'mos. I participated in that process by sharing my post-evangelical story. However, change as a result of the discernment process seemed distant and my partner was far from well, so we gave up church for Lent. Easter found us entering into the Episcopal Kingdom.
Seriously, I was happy to read that the Archbishop of York is going vegan for Lent, and think it's good that it's public knowledge. There has been a group that advocates observing a vegetarian Lent, and has been unable to get any support from the Church of England bishops. So I find this exciting news, regardless of his reasons. I was just lamenting to my listserv that no one in the Church talks about abstaining from meat, dairy or eggs during Lent. And so, no one thinks to do it. But a vegan Lent has a historic basis even in the Western Church that we have lost. And I really wish more church leaders would clue us in. It took me 35 years to figure out what the vestigial significance of Shrove Tuesday is -- and that it was more than using up fat -- for a day.
I'm giving up Lent for Lent.
I worry about the Archbishop of York. He's given up his dog collar and now he has given up food.
I'm giving up tact.
I suggest that churches start looking into the ways people get treated badly in their ordination processes. There's more about it on my blog.
Church should give up liturgy for Lent. Spend 40 days getting to relate to human beings instead of God.
Since I am a person who puts so much hot sauce on my food (even my oatmeal) it overpowers the real taste of the food, that is what I give up for Lent and hope I appreciate what the food really tastes like. In the spirit of that, I hope the Anglofundies give up their overpowering "selective Biblical literacy" hot sauce so they can really see God's value and worth in every human being, not just the ones who ascribe to their particular interpretation of Leviticus.
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