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Keef Wrote:

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> I guess at least doing it for lent means you could

> have a ready made support network.

>

> Fair play to you GG. Wasn't having a dig, just an

> opinion.

>

> I stopped being catholic years ago but I only

> stopped being a practicing Christian a few years

> ago. I just can't imagine not giving something up

> for lent because I always have.

>

> This made me smile, having to give up in stages,

> like cutting down smoking before giving up

> completely! >:D<


Bless you - I'm not feeling got at!


I'll admit it's pretty odd isn't it. What's even more odd is being a lapsed-catholic inside a catholic church. Whenever I need to go (family reasons, sightseeing in the Vatican, whatever) I completely revert to catholic behaviour; genuflecting, blessing with holy water; saying all the right responses at the right times etc. I don?t know how to stop. Using your giving-up-smoking analogy of giving up in stages, maybe I?ll be blaspheming by this time next year and maybe lent will be a hedonistic highlight. Stranger things happen.


Incidentally, cutting down cigarettes doesn?t work ? you?ve just got to go cold turkey and be impossible to be around for a while. Sorry.

I was Cof E, but very "High Church", and mass was barely any different to catholic mass.


When I do go for whatever reason (usually being roped in to choir for special services by my mum), I too do every last genuflection, say the responses, and even say all the prayers that I could recite word for word anytime!


Aaaaanyway, I feel I've changed the thread of this thread (:-S), so come on people, what are we all giving up for Lent?


Actually, with a kid on the way in April, I shall be giving up my freedom, so if you don't mind, I shall spend Lent indulging in as many of my vices as possible!

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