tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post2182208105255090838..comments2023-10-18T07:37:44.164-04:00Comments on Aspiring Homemaker: Thinking about LentSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08352890482012517149noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post-26220031000241108862008-02-02T22:13:00.000-05:002008-02-02T22:13:00.000-05:00Hi Susan!I just finished with a wonderful book tha...Hi Susan!<BR/><BR/>I just finished with a wonderful book that you may have read....A Mother's Rule of Life. It is about her conversion as well as her conversion to the use of a schedule. It has been a great tool in our life over the past while here in St. Paul. Also, I received a new Liturgy for Christmas and in her book she encourages scheduling the time to pray with it throughout the day. God has really used a mixture of her book, a new family schedule and the Liturgy to bring alot of peace and order to my our life during the past while and I thought I'd share that with you!<BR/><BR/>Britt in St. Paul, MNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post-26858753589719875812008-02-02T14:43:00.000-05:002008-02-02T14:43:00.000-05:00Congratulations, tentatively! I'm taking a break f...Congratulations, tentatively! <BR/><BR/>I'm taking a break from blogging for Lent, which is a HUGE sacrifice, believe me! It's getting a little out of hand anyway, and is an area where I need to practice discipline (and as with things like Confession, I won't do it unless I absolutely HAVE to). I'll have to keep up the high-school English blog, as class will keep going on, but otherwise I plan to confine myself to weekly "Feast Day" posts on Sundays.<BR/><BR/>We already abstain from meat on Fridays all year round, but during Lent we traditionally give up coffee, alcohol, and all sweets. For years I used to say that my discipline was to live with someone who had given up coffee, alcohol and sweets for forty days . . . We just generally go for abstemiousness and the sense of fasting from things which make our lives merrier during feast seasons. <BR/><BR/>I also strip our mantel/altar significantly and put a crucifix at the center of it. <BR/><BR/>Thinking of trying to find some "Stations of the Cross" coloring pages (haven't checked out that section of Catherine Fournier's Domestic Church yet, but they are a great resource) for the little kids, so that we can make a "Stations" booklet. We try to do the stations at least once a week at home, singing verses of the Stabat Mater at each one, to -- I'm sure -- the bemusement of our Assemblies of God neighbors. We have little illustrated booklets with readings from St. Alphonsus Liguori, which are lovely, but I think the littles would like to have their own. We can color pages and put them in page protectors and staple them. Then they could take them to church for Stations as well. <BR/><BR/>We're currently reading The Hobbit, the littles and I, and I think we may go on to The Fellowship of the Ring. Several years ago we were reading the last book of the trilogy during Lent, and it was a profound experience, at least for me.Sally Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05014351173194941624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post-89182167168583074742008-02-01T20:21:00.000-05:002008-02-01T20:21:00.000-05:00Helpful post thanksMore about Lent here:http://www...Helpful post thanks<BR/><BR/>More about Lent here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.liturgy.co.nz/worship/matters_files/dateofEaster20080201.html<BR/>http://www.liturgy.co.nz/liturgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822769747947139669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post-26969111324420682482008-02-01T17:31:00.000-05:002008-02-01T17:31:00.000-05:00Well it's only a few days, now, Robyn! Ash Wednesd...Well it's only a few days, now, Robyn! Ash Wednesday is next week. Let me know what you come up with. You should blog about your local food stuff, too. I'm interested to hear more . . .Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352890482012517149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248074932107643923.post-44381129407260547482008-02-01T17:20:00.000-05:002008-02-01T17:20:00.000-05:00This sounds great, Q! I love that idea. I was th...This sounds great, Q! I love that idea. <BR/><BR/>I was thinking about Lent during New Year's thinking it could be a time that I chose one of my goals for the year and really focus on it. Like eating locally. I was thinking we would spent the lenten season either researching things (like how far away things really come and eliminating our top 5 or something like that). But, I just found out that Fresh Direct has a local section. I can get all of my dairy and meat locally through them. And we recently signed up for the CSA that just started in our 'hood. It would have been a stretch in any case...trying to make the goal lent-like. <BR/><BR/>So, all that to say...I've been thinking about it, but have not come up with any awesome ideas yet. <BR/><BR/>I like how far in advance you think and plan and prepare for lent. <BR/><BR/>Cool, yo.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119941917321754796noreply@blogger.com