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S<\/span>o, now comes the time when everyone tells you, \u201cLent isn\u2019t just about giving things up, it\u2019s about taking things on. Think about what you can<\/i> do, not what you can remove from your life.\u201d Which is all fine and dandy, to be sure, but also stupid. Mortification is important. Mortification is what\u2019s necessary. I want a bumper sticker that says \u201cPut the pain back in Lent!\u201d or \u201cSelf-denial is the reason for the season!\u201d Just because it would shake things up. The world can understand us \u2018getting more into\u2019 our religion \u2013 they may even encourage us, give us a cookie. But what stands in contradiction to the world \u2013 and especially to the American world \u2013 is the Christian not eating. The Christian not drinking, not because drinking is bad, but because it is good. The Christian in pain.<\/p>\n

What will convince the world, and \u2013 infinitely more importantly \u2013 what will convince us<\/i> of the validity of our faith and all the truth she professes is not comfort, not the statement that \u201cthis will make me happy\u201d, but the witness of those being happy when they have nothing but<\/i> their faith. The rich, old, country club preacher saying grace is not much to rally around. But what hope there is in finding out that there is tremendous grace after a day without eating! What affirmation it is to learn that no, we do not believe because we are comfortable, we believe because it is true! To have the grace to praise God in our suffering!<\/p>\n

Plus it\u2019s badass. There\u2019s just no other way to put it. What else can you call a Church that specifically sets aside 40 days for it\u2019s followers to make their own lives difficult? It\u2019s as if the government mandated that, for the month of May, alarm clocks were to be replaced with getting punched in the face, for the sole purpose that it would make you stronger, and appreciate alarm clocks more. The Church looks at her children and does not say \u2018how cute\u2019 \u2013 she says \u2018shape up\u2019. \u201cOh you\u2019re rich, happy and full? Well for no other reason than that it will make you stronger, be poor, in pain and hungry.\u201d Aaaaaw snap. Where there is no pain, the Church requires it. Run that one over to the humanists, see what they think.<\/p>\n

Now I have to run to work, many apologies for the lack of coherence in posting. Don\u2019t think that I do not advocate the \u2018taking on of things\u2019 for Lent; I do, only after we get rid of those things holding us back. My Lenten \u201cadd-on\u201d? I will post on BadCatholic every day of Lent. Hold me to it.<\/p>\n

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