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Not only do we set the parameters for\u00a0what\u00a0<\/em>we give up (sugar in coffee? A second cup of coffee? \u00a0All\u00a0<\/em>the coffee?), but we decide what\u00a0kind\u00a0<\/em>of thing we want to give up (or take on) \u2014 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 . . .<\/p>\n

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Image: detail of Bruegel\u2019s \u201cThe Battle Between Carnival and Lent\u201d, public domain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"