Annual Lent Fight

8 thoughts on “Annual Lent Fight”

1. FIGHTING COLORS
   The “Easter Triduum” begins with the “Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.” As English speakers, we need to be aware that “Easter” is originally an Anglo-Saxon word, not a “Catholic Church” word; and that the “native language” of the Catholic Church’s Roman liturgy is Latin, in which the Lord’s suffering death and resurrection are collectively called “Pascha”–the Latin and Greek borrowing of the Hebrew “pesach” meaning “Passover.” The Catholic “native language” says “Triduum paschalis”–roughly, the “Passover Three Days”. (The word “Easter” does not mean “passover”.)
   While Lent may be terminologically over once the Easter Triduum begins, that does not mean an end of the Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. While prayer and almsgiving are never put aside, fasting has a schedule. The Church requires us to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. However, the Church also directs us to fast on Holy Saturday. The following is from the “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy” 110 (from the English version on the Vatican’s website).
   “Nevertheless, let the paschal fast be kept sacred. Let it be celebrated everywhere on Good Friday and, where possible, prolonged throughout Holy Saturday, so that the joys of the Sunday of the resurrection may be attained with uplifted and clear mind.”
   As for the liturgical color of violet, its use does not entirely end until the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday night.
   Here’s the liturgical schedule of the Triduum and its colors.
   During the Easter Triduum (the PASSOVER Triduum), we receive the Eucharist at the following:
   (i) Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (during which the liturgical color for the vestments of the priest is white);
   (ii) Good Friday’s Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (during which the color is red);
   (iii) the Mass of the Easter Vigil, celebrated after nightfall on Holy Saturday (for this Mass the color is white).
   (iv) Mass on Easter Sunday (for which the color is white).
   Note that Mass is not celebrated on Good Friday. Rather, we distribute the Eucharist which has been reserved from Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass. This distribution takes place as part of the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion.
   Besides the four “Eucharistic liturgies” above, the Church has other official liturgies during the Triduum that priests or members of religious orders are responsible to observe: the “Liturgy of the Hours”. During the Liturgy of the Hours, a priest may choose to vest in an alb, stole and cope; this would be especially appropriate in the celebration of a religious order or when a priest is leading a congregation in the Liturgy of the Hours.
   During the Triduum, the Liturgy of the Hours and its colors are as follows.
   On Holy Thursday: Evening Prayer, celebrated only by those who do not participate in the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper; color white.
   On Holy Thursday, after the Evening Mass (before going to bed): Night Prayer; color white.
   On Good Friday, the color is red for the whole Liturgy of the Hours: Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Midmorning Prayer, Midday Prayer, Midafternoon Prayer, Evening Prayer (celebrated only by those who do not participate in the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion), Night Prayer.
   On Holy Saturday the color is VIOLET for the following: the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Midmorning Prayer, Midday Prayer, Midafternoon Prayer, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer (celebrated only by those who do not participate in the Easter Vigil).
   On Easter Sunday, white is the color for the entire Liturgy of the Hours.
   ….
   (My contribution to resuming the “Annual Lent Fight”. Anyone seeing red now?)

2. Fr. Stephanos, O.S.B. Vs. Inocencio
   First round knock out punch by Fr. Stephanos!
   Take care and God bless,
   Inocencio
   J+M+J

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4. As I browse through the many aspects of Lent that many persons are commenting on from many angles under the many Lenten topics on this blog, I increasingly appreciate the appropriate umbrella-title Jimmy has given: ANNUAL LENT FIGHT.
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   On Abstinence … or “Catholic Kosher”
   Writing for his monks in the sixth century, St. Benedict prescribes year-round that unless a monk is ill he is never to eat the meat of four-legged animals. He may so eat if he is ill, but once he recovers he is to abstain year-round from the meat of quadrupeds. That’s all that he says about kinds of meat. No discussion about fish, fowl or frogs one way or the other.
   (Don’t know what to say to you, Jimmy, about your boyhood fondness for frogs. They got four legs … but … they’re green…. I always abstain from eating frogs for Lent.)
   Since St. Benedict speaks of frugality in many aspects of monastic material existence, I suppose his ban on four-legged meats is a question of the frugality in the cost of meat. Fowl can be left to “free-range” for their food; fish can forage in their streams and lakes; but four-legged animals used for food require either land for raising them, or land on which to hunt them.
   Given today’s economy and culture in the West, and given the fact that the meat of animals that do not have four legs may be much more expensive than the meat of the four-legged ones, it seems to me that when we abstain from meat, we in the West today ought to simply just do without any kind of flesh. However, if we eat fish (and the Church has never said, “Thou shalt eat fish on Fridays!”), we should choose the most inexpensive fish possible.
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   Fish Is for Sundays, Fish Is for Easter, Fish Is for Breakfast
   Luke 24:36-42
   As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them.
   John 21:1-14
   After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberi-as; and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?” They answered him, “No.” He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
   If it was good enough for the risen Jesus….

5. Father Stephanos, Your Blessing Please!
   My son said that he could eat a monkey today since he had to stay home from school today because he was sick! 🙂
   (My wife and I were discussing the Rule of St. Benedict and his law of not eating four legged animals unless one were sick.)

6. Sorry, the devil made me do it:
   An Irishman moves into a tiny village in County Kerry,
   walks into the pub and promptly orders three beers.
   The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man
   three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone.
   An hour later, the man has finished the three beers
   and orders three more.
   This happens yet again. The next evening the man
   again orders and drinks three beers at a time, several
   times.
   Soon the entire town is whispering about the “Man Who
   Orders Three Beers.”
   Finally, a week later, the bartender broaches the
   subject on behalf of the town. “I don’t mean to pry,
   but folks around here are wondering why you always
   order three beers?”
   “Tis odd, isn’t it?” the man replies, “You see, I have
   two brothers, and one went to America, and the other
   to Australia. We promised each other that we would
   always order an extra two beers whenever we drank as a
   way of keeping up the family bond.”
   The bartender and the whole town were pleased with
   this answer, and soon the “Man Who Orders Three Beers”
   became a local celebrity and source of pride to the
   village, even to the extent that out-of-towners would
   come to watch him drink.
   Then, one day, the man comes in and orders only two
   beers.
   The bartender pours them with a heavy heart. This
   continues for the rest of the evening: he orders only
   two beers. The word flies around town. Prayers are
   offered for the soul of one of the brothers.
   The next day, the bartender says to the man, “Folks
   around here, me first of all, want to offer
   condolences to you for the death of your brother. You
   know-the two beers and all….”
   The man ponders this for a moment, then replies,
   “You’ll be happy to hear that my two brothers are
   alive and well. It’s just that I, myself, have
   decided to give up drinking for Lent.

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