tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post4681965499392605967..comments2024-02-02T19:30:12.868-06:00Comments on Fear Not Little Flock: Orthodox & Byzantine Catholic guidelines for fasting & abstinence during Great Lent 'versus' Roman Catholic fasting rules priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd http://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-52733188346145532842020-03-01T11:32:09.188-06:002020-03-01T11:32:09.188-06:00Indeed. But another aspect of it is that people...Indeed. But another aspect of it is that people's hearts seem to cry out for a purpose for their actions, while at the same time their secular minds reject the meaning. It must be a product of the Fall, but it leads to rigorous self imposition of practices that are meaningless as they lack a true spiritual base. A diet (and indeed, an unnatural one) that is imposed only because a person feels that it might slightly extend their mortality is pretty pointless, after all.<br /><br />By the same token I read today of a practice in which people now attend a class, more or less, to arrange for their own false funeral so they can reassess their life. We don't have to, as we have Lent.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-69741336333591019782020-02-27T12:02:13.581-06:002020-02-27T12:02:13.581-06:00Is it so true about secular people imposing restri...Is it so true about secular people imposing restrictions on themselves- I use this to my 'advantage'- if a 'pagan' can be vegan all the time- can't I forgo animal products occasionally for the love of God? :)priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd https://www.blogger.com/profile/03792937108732259684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-902102460517670809.post-36792567055441282002020-02-26T13:20:21.735-06:002020-02-26T13:20:21.735-06:00Thank you for this post. As a Latin Catholic, I...Thank you for this post. As a Latin Catholic, I've always been really confused about the Eastern fasting requirements, and this clears it up.<br /><br />Also, fwiw, as a Latin Catholic I find the Eastern practice inspirational. In recent years, during Lent, I've tried to make what little fasting that is acquired of us Latins a bit more rigorous, which oddly enough seems to make it a bit easier. At the same time, I've come to be amazed by all of the self imposed odd dietary restrictions that are self imposed by very secular people upon themselves, which I have a theory about, but which I'll expound on some other time elsewhere.<br /><br />Anyhow, this was very instructive and I was wondering about it.Pat, Marcus & Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com