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February 25, 2009

Welcome to Lent

(Jimmy Akin)

Between my father's recent death and my own recent battle with a cold, I haven't posted much (thanks to Tim J and SGD, who have!), but with today being the beginning of Lent, it's appropriate for me to put up the posts relating to the Annual Lent Fight (which hasn't been so much of a fight in recent years, since we've been rigorously documenting claims regarding Lent from the official canonical and liturgical sources).

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Welcome back, Jimmy. Been waiting for your return to hear your take on (among other things) the new mythology/theology references in BSG, as revealed by the 5th cyclon.

Hope you are feeling better and know that we are all praying for the repose of your father.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Posted by: Jamie Beu | Feb 25, 2009 5:48:55 AM

Jimmy, good to see you back. Your posting of the Annual Lent Fight is becoming a tradition itself.

Posted by: Mary Kay | Feb 25, 2009 6:43:38 AM

Glad to see you again, Jimmy. I hope you're better.

I'm happy to see the Lent post again. Let me start the fight by asking a question: If the Easter Vigil mass ends before midnight (something that seems to be quite common here), may I consider myself to be already in Easter and therefore abandon the fasting and penance, or must I wait for the "official" beginning of Easter Sunday on midnight?

May you and Tim J. and SDG (or SGD?!), as well as everyone else here have a happy and spiritually fruitful Easter.

Posted by: Matheus | Feb 25, 2009 7:31:27 AM

...spiritually fruitful Lent.

Posted by: Matheus | Feb 25, 2009 7:49:00 AM

Do pork rinds count as meat?

Posted by: Gamera | Feb 25, 2009 9:09:10 AM

Don't forget: is it okay to empty out the holy water fonts during Lent? (Answer: NO.)

Posted by: Anita Moore OPL | Feb 25, 2009 9:59:00 AM

Don't forget: is it okay to empty out the holy water fonts during Lent? (Answer: NO.)

Posted by: Anita Moore OPL | Feb 25, 2009 9:59:21 AM

Matheus, yes. The Easter triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (my note: Holy Thursday), reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday.

That's from the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar

Posted by: Mary Kay | Feb 25, 2009 12:05:19 PM

okay, so I don't have when and when not to italicize down completely yet.

Posted by: Mary Kay | Feb 25, 2009 12:06:57 PM

Jimmy;

Has no one ever queried Rome about the Friday penance (all year long) question? I would have thought in all of the years SOMEONE should have asked and received a response.

Posted by: John Kenedy | Feb 25, 2009 1:45:19 PM

Thanks for replying, Mary Kay.

The Easter triduum...reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil...

I understand that Lent itself only ends on Easter Sunday, but I was thinking that perhaps, on the same way that going to the Easter Vigil on Saturday anticipates the fulfilling of our Sunday obligation, it would also allow us to consider ourselves to be in Easter, for fasting and penance effects at least.

Or is an Easter Vigil supposed to end only after midnight?

Posted by: Matheus | Feb 26, 2009 1:48:25 PM

Oops...

That should be: "...Easter Triduum only ends on Easter Sunday...", because Lent officially ends with the beginning of the Triduum, isn't it?

Posted by: Matheus | Feb 26, 2009 1:51:16 PM

Hey Jimmy, just found your site, love it! I would encourage your readers to check out our take on Lent. Instead of doing something mindless like giving up chocolate, we encourage our readers to do a daily FastPrayGive activity that will help participants understand the true meaning of Lent.

http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/fast-pray-give/

Also, our editor-in-chief wrote something for NPR regarding Lent as well.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101510650

Posted by: Jarrad Venegas | Mar 6, 2009 9:38:07 AM

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