[Sca-cooks] Lenten ideas for non Christians...

[Radei Drchevich]

Lent for non-Christians?  Isn't that like Oxegen for Methane-breathers?

joy
radei
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcus Loidolt" <mjloidolt at yahoo.com>
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Lenten ideas for non Christians...
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:38:41 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
> Benedicte,
>    Yes, the eastern rite may consume such seafood as mentioned...on 
> Sundays, please note that this is not a reprieve granted for the 
> weak, but rather an understanding of the nature of the Day of 
> Resurrection, which every Sunday is.
>    What would/could a non Christian do as a devotion for Lent? 
> Well, every religion has it's own prayer and meditational 
> cycle...enhance this with the point of encouraging and meditating 
> on the concept of new life, redemption, change from death to life, 
> dark to light, bad to good, good to better, ect...The core concept 
> is change and our being prepared for it. What to do? Give alms, 
> care for the poor, encourage new growth for the benefit of others, 
> heal old wounds, repair damaged relationships, ect...
> 
>    Maire, a 14th century Irish woman, you'd probably be spending 
> additional time at church devotions, the way of the cross was just 
> gaining popularity as a substitute for the dangerous pilgrimage to 
> Jerusalem. Collecting and dispersing alms to the poor and indigent 
> of the area, helping those who might already be doing so. You might 
> also use this time to sort seeds and decide your poultry breeding 
> stock, even if you lived in town you'd have a few hens...
> 
>    Johann
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:12:43 -0700
> From: "Sue Clemenger"
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Lenten stufff, chickens, fish and
> vegetarians...
> 
> Non-spined/invertebrates would include things like bivalves and crustaceans,
> right? That would give the eastern-rite folks some fishy things, for sure!
> I'm not actually sure if I'm going to do the
> Sunday-as-a-reprieve-from-fasting or not. I'd like to see if I can do the
> whole 40 days, since my persona is quite distinctly religious, enough so,
> that I don't think I'd be fudging it for anything except dire need (illness
> or some such).
> --Maire, who finds it odd but amusing that *she* is deeply religious and
> Sue, who pays the bills, is also deeply religious, but one is Catholic, and
> the other, Wiccan
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:17:39 -0700
> From: "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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcus Loidolt"
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:34 AM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 33, Issue 33
> 
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
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