Oh, the Lents you can Lent!

Oh, the Lents you can Lent!

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Not only do we set the parameters for what we give up (sugar in coffee? A second cup of coffee?  All the coffee?), but we decide what kind of thing we want to give up (or take on) — and why. Here are a few broad categories of ways to observe the penitential season. One or the other may be more spiritually fruitful for you, but none of them is really wrong . . .

 

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Image: detail of Bruegel’s “The Battle Between Carnival and Lent”, public domain


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