After a period of feasting ‘The time for Penance has come!’. It is Ash Wednesday and at Mass we will have received the Ashes which have been burnt and blessed from the Palms of the previous year. Each of us will then go to Mother Abbess with our Lent Books ‘for approval’, and our lenten penances. This is a custom of ours and St. Benedict asked us to this during lent as extra spiritual reading.
We also have an extra day of fasting – wednesday’s and friday’s.
I was going to update my vocation journey but i am still having problems with technical hitches this end, sometimes the computer works sometimes it doesn’t get connected at all. It is just luck at the moment!!!!!
Well i bid you all a very happy and fruitful lent - so who’s going to give up sugar, sweets etc….?
sr. d
Lent in the Orthodox Church is a bit different.
All weekdays are fast days and meat and dairy products are not eaten at all. Of course, the fasting rules are modified for pregnant ladies and the sick or those who must travel.
Maureen
Hi, These 2 days are what our community have adopted and most probably other religious houses have different days and different levels of fasting. After all fasting doesn’t mean just food (although i think that this is the general idea), it also means a time to do charitable works like visiting the sick, lending a helping hand to someone in need, or giving to charity.
god bless
sr. d
M.E
Thanks for the web address its a great help!
The answer to your question on the removal of the holy water, i think is: its to represent the desert where our lord went for the forty days, but i’m not 100% sure its the way i read an article, maybe its wrong and has anyone else got any ideas on why holy water is removed from the church during lent?
I found a site which may help – you could try:
catholichomeandgarden
good luck!
sr. d