So, the last Sunday of the pre-Lenten is reached! Today, after the liturgy in the extraordinary form of Quinquagesima Sontag, "fiftieth" from the Latin 'quinquagesimus'.
In ancient Scotland, measurement book, I found the pre-Lenten she was "a time of serious reflection and bold departure from the world with their reckless carnival amusements. Adding to this is also implied that the church in the readings of the Hours of the great facts of Creation, the Fall and reminded the court of Sodom and Gomorrah. " After
with us in recent years, the unspeakable 'carnival-worship' spread like mushrooms after a warm rain, The memory of Sodom & Gomorrah understand perhaps prophetic. I have studied in any case, the current fast order and determined that I would practically be non-meat eaters only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday without a meal and I had all my 'duty' fulfilled to the letter. That's
can not well be yes. Fasting can be done in my opinion nothing to do with performance or effort, but to stay. We will not be asked to provide any heroic feats of strength in use, but leave out what separates us from Him. So it's not make it, but let's at. If we
of gluttony, the booze or other passions are addicted, we can neither hear Him still do his will. Logical, right? So's not about to drink a beer or less to give up the pork, but to see why we lose what we have received in baptism, constantly betray &. And to do that, where appropriate, what the Lord has repeatedly requested, namely to reverse.
reversal for me means the world and worldly things, as far as possible, the next 40 days longer and allow me not to worry about what is in Egypt, in politics or wherever. It is irrelevant to my soul, whether at last the beast Guttenberg been defeated, is the Memorandum 'Church in Blabla' fails or goes down, or whether the hl. Spirit finally comes back to the bishops. Although I noticed the latter would probably result if certain 1000-Cranes-admirer would get the bishop sometimes long drawn the Ohrwatschel. No matter. All this is not the next 40 days be my subject, I abstain from the world and draw me back into the inner desert.
television, radio, stereo system I have anyway not newspaper I'm reading for a long time no longer remains, only the internet set up so that I can still receive my mail, write a post here on the blog and otherwise everything else is blocked. I have created a few filters, effectively separating me from all sides on the web. So even over.
'm probably now been isolated from the world, as many a monk at the monastery. And that's good. I see increasingly, the transmission and the noise of the world makes it impossible for me to hear his soft voice. Would probably not be totally unsuitable as a Carthusian, at least I understand the radical escape from the world good.
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