[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 33, Issue 33

[Sue Clemenger]

So, Johann (or others), what are ways in which a person could include these
devotional practices in the Lenten season? I am not, modernly, Catholic (nor
even Christian), although I was raised in a variety of Protestant churches
(Mom being kind of a congregation-shopper).  I would like to make this
second Lenten experiment for my persona a meaningful one as an exploration
into what she (Maire) would have felt and done, without, of course, being at
all disrespectful of those for whom this is an actual, living religious
experience.  Besides the food/fasting, what else would I be likely to be
doing, as a 14th century woman during Lent?
--Maire

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>
> Benedicte,
>   Indeed, the devotional practices of alms-giving and prayer vigils were
not and are not a way to make excuse for the mishaps in the fasting regimes,
but were/are and intrical part of the whole Great Fast/Lent experience.
>   There are many ways to observe Lent, the sick and the young and the aged
are always exempt from the fasting regime, but not from the core message of
the Great Fast, to prepare for the Resurrection by an increase in devotions
and depth of prayer and rightousness of life.
>
>   "The Fasting and Abstainence stops the pollution, but it is by prayer
and good works that one cleans the house"
>   St. Macrina the Great, 3rd. century Ceasarea in Cappadocia
>
>   Johann