go to bed

[MundaCorMeum]

If it's on Sunday, I would do my best to contribute.  I usually give up all unnecessary Internet usage during Lent.  I particularly like the Saint bio idea

[Bernadette]

So, what are we looking to do for Lent?  Any ideas?  We start getting the place all spruced up and then we have to go into Lent.  Penelope's decorating thread has inspired me.  We need a wall that we can build an altar on, maybe  each on bring in a picture or statue of something that raises your hearts to God.  A place where you can come and do a 15 minute meditation.  Maybe that should be over at my place.  These are just thoughts.  What do you think?

Yes, a good and holy post. LENT requires a plan. This will be proper and good. Maybe we can bring in some holy pictures , statues, holy reading material we can read and bounce off one another. Get holy. Get holier during the season. How many completely abide by the old calendar fasts and abstinence.

St. Teresa of Avila and Julian of Norwich, with a little St. Therese thrown in the mix, too. There, that's my contribution. And I'm giving up dessert and internet "window-shopping."

If it's on Sunday, I would do my best to contribute.  I usually give up all unnecessary Internet usage during Lent.

Ooh, this sounds better. I gave up the internet one year, and it was a positive experience all around.

[martin88nyc]

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Ooh, this sounds better. I gave up the internet one year, and it was a positive experience all around.
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This equals to almost an impossibility. 

[MundaCorMeum]

Ooh, this sounds better. I gave up the internet one year, and it was a positive experience all around.
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This equals to almost an impossibility. 
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Thus why I placed my "unnecessary" qualifier in there

[Kaesekopf]

If it's on Sunday, I would do my best to contribute.  I usually give up all unnecessary Internet usage during Lent.  I particularly like the Saint bio idea

>implying SD is unnecessary Internet use

[dymphna17]

We can each be on the opposite side of the barrier flag.  We need to see who wants to do what physically and what they want to do spiritually.  Maybe make up a chart  . 

For reading through out - I'm going to be reading Self Knowledge and Self Discipline by Fr. BW Maturin.

For reading (whether that would be personal or not)meditations - St Alphonsus de Liguori's The Passion and the Death of Jesus Christ.

And last but certainly not least - Saints for Sinners - this would be good for discussion about a saint that has inspired it.

For fasting I used to take it very seriously, then I became an insulin dependent diabetic. Now I can fast only in certain increments, if it doesn't meet certain benefits to my doctor she ignores.  So, I have to eat something at least once an hour.  I have to eat with this med, so that coordinates with mealtime for everybody else.

I love this idea! It can help us to help each other.  The wins, just. keep.  coming.

[Non Nobis]

Maybe we should create a "Lent" (or "Ideas for Lent" or something) thread and copy some of the posts from here over there.  Good ideas might otherwise be lost in this light "go to bed" thread, especially for those who don't follow it.

They are still good ideas, wherever they are.  I just thought I was in the wrong thread for a moment!

And yes it is time for me to go to bed. 

[dymphna17]

This is part of my lenten ritual as well:

Christ is ready, but only because He has too.


For those of us who have a hard time sitting down and reading books due to the lack of being able to concentrate on these things, KSMK-LP, the radio station out of St Marys might help.  Besides fitting music for the season, they have all the prayers, well, let me show you; 

On Air Today
00:00 - 03:00   Evening Solitude
03:00 - 04:00   3am Rosary
04:00 - 06:00   Chant
06:00 - 07:00   Friday Prime and Mass
07:00 - 08:00   Travel Rosary
08:00 - 09:00   Morning Conference
09:00 - 10:00   Classical Mix
10:00 - 11:00   Children's Hour
11:00 - 12:00   Classical Mix
12:00 - 13:00   Midday Conference
13:00 - 14:00   Midday Rosary

Everyone does things differently, so they may have ideas about things that will help you get through the day.  Maybe saying the rosary with other people will make you not lose your place and become frustrated or maybe listening to the conferences will make a difference for you.  I have no doubt that the conferences will be extremely beneficial for our souls. No, I was not paid for that spot.  I worked up there for a while and it was alot of fun.

Anyway, these were just a few ideas.   

[MundaCorMeum]

If it's on Sunday, I would do my best to contribute.  I usually give up all unnecessary Internet usage during Lent.  I particularly like the Saint bio idea

>implying SD is unnecessary Internet use

Hahaha....it is  . I come here because I choose to, not because I have to.  It's a sacrifice to give it up.  Take that for the compliment it is   

[Carleendiane]

Might as well, done cha think? I dunno anymore. Sometimes it's busy sometimes not. But who cares....OOOPPEEEENNNN!

[Chestertonian]

How about something like this.



I could picture it with both coffee cups in the am and wine glasses in the pm.

How clever! It's like a window, put on top of a box with legs! 

Maybe an akavit can make us a nice one

[Carleendiane]

How about something like this.



I could picture it with both coffee cups in the am and wine glasses in the pm.

How clever! It's like a window, put on top of a box with legs! 

Maybe an akavit can make us a nice one

"He's I asked him twice. He has no time. Anyway this one is gifted from Orate. Since it is virtual, it is unbreakable, but thanks for pulling it out.

[Carleendiane]

This is part of my lenten ritual as well:

Christ is ready, but only because He has too.


For those of us who have a hard time sitting down and reading books due to the lack of being able to concentrate on these things, KSMK-LP, the radio station out of St Marys might help.  Besides fitting music for the season, they have all the prayers, well, let me show you; 

On Air Today
00:00 - 03:00   Evening Solitude
03:00 - 04:00   3am Rosary
04:00 - 06:00   Chant
06:00 - 07:00   Friday Prime and Mass
07:00 - 08:00   Travel Rosary
08:00 - 09:00   Morning Conference
09:00 - 10:00   Classical Mix
10:00 - 11:00   Children's Hour
11:00 - 12:00   Classical Mix
12:00 - 13:00   Midday Conference
13:00 - 14:00   Midday Rosary

Everyone does things differently, so they may have ideas about things that will help you get through the day.  Maybe saying the rosary with other people will make you not lose your place and become frustrated or maybe listening to the conferences will make a difference for you.  I have no doubt that the conferences will be extremely beneficial for our souls. No, I was not paid for that spot.  I worked up there for a while and it was alot of fun.

Anyway, these were just a few ideas.   

I love the image you used dymph. A favorite lent picture.

[Carleendiane]

OPEN!!!! OPEN FOR COMPANY!!!!! I'm still here to open up sez me!

[Bernadette]

I went to the grocery store today, Carleen, and saw all of the Easter plush in the seasonal aisle. There were huge, fat plush lambs. Unpleasantly unrealistic, though.