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My husband is a former Catholic, but he still observes the no meat on Fridays, so I do my best to accommodate that. It's one of the few things he's held onto so I try and honor that even though it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since he's been attending a different church with me for over 3 years

We aren't Catholic, but my MOPS (moms of preschoolers) club is founded at a Catholic church, so there's been a lot of lenten observation stuff going on lately. All of our meetings have to do with preparing for the lenten season, etc. They put together a digital cookbook for everyone (I submitted a vegetable tian that we make a lot) and we'll be visiting some fish fries

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Tonight we gorge on pancakes and ice creams sundaes - we always give up sweets for Lent!

We have been awful about attending church but I am going to try to do that as well!

Yep. Baptist here, but we always observed it at church growing up. What's the rice bowl challenge?

I will be doing a personal Lenten bible study (the She Reads Truth study). I have taken things away in the past but think adding a spiritual practice will be more beneficial both to my personal spiritual life and to me serving and helping others. That will hopefully be in addition to the bible in a year that I made my new year's resolution but it's going to be tough because I'm already so bad at keeping my daily bible reading (even though I have no excuse--I always make time for Facebook and HB so why not for scripture!?).

Yup. I'm giving up fast food. DH and I together are giving up going out to eat (but church fish frys don't count, nor does food that others buy us). DH is giving up pop.

40 bags sounds interesting! I definitely want to be proactive about decluttering and organizing this season too. Spring cleaning for the body and soul!

This does not speak to how I religiously observe Lent, but we try to go to local fish fries on Friday nights instead of eating out at a restaurant to help out the local churches or fire halls.

Yes - don't give anything up though. I will try to pray more frequently and just generally be more connected to God on a daily basis! We continue to attend church on Sundays. Our church also does midweek Wednesday services during Lent - DH will definitely make it to all of them, I may do half (pregnancy exhaustion after work!). Will definitely be going to Ash Wednesday tomorrow though.

Definitely. I do the Busted Halo Fast/Pray/Give calendar and it has very much helped my time of reflection during Lent. I'm encouraging my husband do to it this year...he has never practiced Lent before.

I'm Orthodox, and although I don't observe Lent and I'm not particularly religious, my mum does. Traditionally its Wednesday and Friday throughout the year with no meat or animal products, but she also does Lent, the first 15 days of August (Dormition of Our Lady), and before Christmas. I guess if you're already vegan, your mostly there

Yep, I'd like to make it to mass this evening. Not sure we'll get home in time from work though. We will be eating cod for dinner and having a small quiet time as a family.

We typically give up all eating out (take out, fast food, restaurants) for Lent. But instead of giving up something, I'd like to take on a daily quiet time reading/prayer for myself.

The Rice Bowl app is great too!