--- David Nicol [email protected] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
First off, some people don't celebrate (for lack of a better word) Lent.
the word you appear to be looking for is "observe"
Thank you, sometimes the word doesn't even make it to the tip of the tongue.
Secondly, Vatican II put a lot of joy back into Lent, and I doubt there are many pre-Vatican II folks on KCLUG (for example, Grandma eats fish on ALL Fridays and she's 97 years old).
um, we have Luke-jr, who appears to be pre-reformation
Vatican II changed everyday doctrines such as changing the banning of the consumption of meat on Fridays to merely the banning of the consumption of meat on Fridays *during Lent*. The Pope's official apology to Galileo didn't come till the 1990s.
St. Patrick's Day Trivia: St. Patrick's Day occurs during Lent, and in 2000 and 2006 it landed on a Friday, the Lenten day on which meat cannot be eaten. This sent the Irish-American Catholic population into turmoil, for the traditional dish on St. Patrick's Day in Irish-American Catholic households is "corned beef and cabbage". Fortunately, Catholic bishops granted special dispensations in 2000 and 2006 to permit Irish-Americans to eat "corned beef and cabbage" (but no other meat dish) on St. Patrick's Day during Lent. St. Patrick's Day will not be a Friday in Lent again until 2017.
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