But yes, that's why Lady Marchmaine has a meta-rule that no Lenten obligation can burden another member of the family unduly.
Half my side of the family is Greek Orthodox, so we hear no end of the hardships imposed by their mostly vegan lent; except the reality of Orthodox lent is mostly observed in it's exception to practicing it's mostly vegan lent.
That's weird, I'm *only* eating capybara empanadas every day for lent as a mortification *and* as way to keep the abstinence on Fridays.
I do have a dream of one year eating one thing every day as some religious brothers I knew would do. Like, lentils with sausage from a big pot we make every Saturday... reserving a portion without sausage for next Friday. Every week, every day. Lady Marchmaine says we can do it when all the children have left our stewardship.
2025-03-06 09:28:23
I'll do a few minor mortifications and am looking forward to doing morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. I could, theoretically, never stop doing morning prayer and therefore never need to look forward to picking it up again... but that's why Lent is Lent. It reminds us that we stopped doing morning prayers for no particular reason.
I'm not doing the Hallow 40 challenge ... I checked it out a couple (few?) years ago and thought it was fine, but I'm just not that into listening to people read morning prayer to me. I did like the section I did on St. Francis de Sales -- he was a mensch.
On the technology front, I really like that they've finally figured out how to get the Hours into an app format -- younger generations will no longer understand our references to finding the proper for such and such a day -- but in turning it in to an app that keeps track of all the different feasts and saints days for various readings, it has the (necessary) deficit of including absolutely everything that you're *supposed* to do, including the many things that *nobody* does... so it's a little distracting to skip this bit, do that bit, and then skip this other bit. What I *really* want is a fully customizable app so I can tell it to drop the Hymn, don't repeat the antiphon in the middle of the canticle, and drop all of these alternate things in favor of the one that we always use. And, for all that is Holy, the doxology should be: "... as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be..." not that other way some people with questionable aesthetics have substituted. Maybe that's how I make my billions. If only the algorithm for getting all the proper readings in order wasn't so impossibly difficult.
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That's a great Bobby McFerrin video... he's really funny and his singing voice is very impressive.
Plus, there's one woman in the audience that has got some Ave Maria singing chops.
Well, capybara is hard to source.
But yes, that's why Lady Marchmaine has a meta-rule that no Lenten obligation can burden another member of the family unduly.
Half my side of the family is Greek Orthodox, so we hear no end of the hardships imposed by their mostly vegan lent; except the reality of Orthodox lent is mostly observed in it's exception to practicing it's mostly vegan lent.
That's weird, I'm *only* eating capybara empanadas every day for lent as a mortification *and* as way to keep the abstinence on Fridays.
I do have a dream of one year eating one thing every day as some religious brothers I knew would do. Like, lentils with sausage from a big pot we make every Saturday... reserving a portion without sausage for next Friday. Every week, every day. Lady Marchmaine says we can do it when all the children have left our stewardship.
I'll do a few minor mortifications and am looking forward to doing morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. I could, theoretically, never stop doing morning prayer and therefore never need to look forward to picking it up again... but that's why Lent is Lent. It reminds us that we stopped doing morning prayers for no particular reason.
I'm not doing the Hallow 40 challenge ... I checked it out a couple (few?) years ago and thought it was fine, but I'm just not that into listening to people read morning prayer to me. I did like the section I did on St. Francis de Sales -- he was a mensch.
On the technology front, I really like that they've finally figured out how to get the Hours into an app format -- younger generations will no longer understand our references to finding the proper for such and such a day -- but in turning it in to an app that keeps track of all the different feasts and saints days for various readings, it has the (necessary) deficit of including absolutely everything that you're *supposed* to do, including the many things that *nobody* does... so it's a little distracting to skip this bit, do that bit, and then skip this other bit. What I *really* want is a fully customizable app so I can tell it to drop the Hymn, don't repeat the antiphon in the middle of the canticle, and drop all of these alternate things in favor of the one that we always use. And, for all that is Holy, the doxology should be: "... as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be..." not that other way some people with questionable aesthetics have substituted. Maybe that's how I make my billions. If only the algorithm for getting all the proper readings in order wasn't so impossibly difficult.