Anyone here observe Lent, etc?

Let's say we add additional bible reading and devotional time? And, let's say at the end of the Lenten season I find that it has brought me to a closer walk with Jesus, would that be ok with you? Many people don't understand that Lent isn't necessarily giving something up but adding something. Many people also find that at the end of Lent they want to continue the practice that they began at the beginning of Lent. Non-liturgical Protestants like yourselves rarely understand this kind of discipline or benefits of it.

 

I like lentils too. I get daily recipes from a Frenh site, Marmiton.org. They have lentil recipes and just yesterday they had some using lentils, lentilles in French
Chrome does a translation of the recipe, sometimes a bit strange, as it translated lentilles as lentis, and next time it transalated as lenses.

A man who attended a local Baptist church once said "My pastor has started lent classes." My friend and I both asked him "Why?" He paused for quite a time then said, "I suppose he thought it was a good idea." Later someone told me the other Baptist church in the town also observes Lent and othe RC practices. I suppose that is because they belong to Churches Together.

 

Two problems with your post, 1- That's the ugliest picture I have seen in a long time. 2- A women teaching men.

That's what s wrong with the liberal SBC.

 

Why do Catholics observe Lent?

By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.
CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church #540 pg 138

 

What?

Susie Hawkins was on the committee in 2000 that rewrote the Bapt. Faith & Mess. for the Convention!


Those stained glass windows depict the heroes of The Conservative Resurgence!

Dorothy Patterson Gets Stained-Glass Windows Installed at Seminary Chapel

"The windows will immortalize Baptists who helped effect the culture change to more conservative attitudes in the Southern Baptist Convention, Patterson said. 'My dream was to portray the 20-year history of the conservative resurgence of the Southern Baptist Church,' said Patterson, wife of seminary President Paige Patterson."

 

No.

 

If you need to do additional Bible reading etc., why wait until Lent? And why stop at the end of Lent? If you find that something you started in Lent has been beneficial, that's great, but by carrying on with it you have negated Lent

 

I think about it this way:
The time leading up to the Passover supper is important because it was the hardest part of his ministry before the Crucifixion. Can't we take time to remember it? How many times did he go hungry? How many miles did he walk?
Its not biblical, and? Putting flowers on grandma's grave isn't either but I'll be doing that. Catching beads at mardi gras isnt in the Bible, but I do that too.What's not no is yes, not vice versa.

 

No historian calls them the dark ages now days.It is well known those days were not dark and ignorant . The Catholics started the first scientific studies. Galileo got in trouble because he mixed science with religion. He was put under house arrest and still allowed to write his books. And he never proved Copernicus. That was not proven until the mid 1800s.

 

The Catholic church isnt as bad as Protestants want to believe. The problem is Protestants go in with a full cup, full of themselves and thier so called correct view of doctrine.
By the way there are Roman Catholics, old Catholics, eastern rite Catholics, eastern orthodox, western rite orthodox...oh but they're all wrong.

 

James Bradley, an English astronomer, actually provided the mathematical proof in the early 18th century.

And remember that Tycho Brahe, a Lutheran Dane, compiled a mountain of data that would become the basis of modern astrophysics. He developed a mixture of heliocentrism and geocentrism, but on the basis of mathematics, not religion.

And consider the contributions of Johannes Kepler, a Lutheran contemporary of Galileo, who postulated the laws of planetary motion that Galileo completely ignored. Galileo also insisted that tides were caused by the sun alone, when Kepler correctly said they were predominantly caused by the gravity of the moon.

So don't go overboard in trying to make the scientific revolution a "Catholic" invention.[/QUOTE]
Not discounting the post reformation discoveries. Just stating that they were never anti science and actually support it to this day. And the first universities for such were theirs.

 

Interesting history.

 

Some more thoughts on Lent from a Reformed point of view...

Lent is not observed in Reformed churches for a few reasons. First, the Reformers considered it a popish invention, inexorably tied to Roman holy week observances. Second, it goes against the Reformed view of holy days. In most Reformed churches the only holy day that is to be observed is the Lord's day. There is no positive command in the New Testament to observe any day or season as holy. That designation is reserved for the Lord's day. Third, personal holiness and piety is something each Christian should strive for on a daily basis, not just at a certain time of year.

 

I understand you are sharing your personal observations and I seem to have been mistaken as to your lack of understanding of the value of spiritual discipline. My apologies.

I have a friend that's using "A Purpose Driven Life" in a Lenten study. A chapter a day works out well with 40 chapters

 

Well - no - we don't want to offend the largest "Christian" body on earth with the truth.

It was the Dark Age where and when perhaps million were slaughtered for not bowing the knee to the pope and spiritually speaking it still is (at least in Europe) minus the torture and bloodshed.

So what if the Italian/German renaissance caused the first glimmer of light in Europe. It was the dawning of enlightenment in the darkest hour in Europe. Rome kept the tiny candle of literacy going but spiritually speaking there was also a spiritual famine in that darkness.

Yes people get saved in Catholicism IN SPITE OF THEIR CHURCH and yes I was such a one even before Vatican II caught on.

And I will admit that here in America the hierarchy is trying to shed the old grave clothes.