[Magdalen] Fasting from FaceBook

[ME Michaud]

If it's too hard, remember Sundays!

At the women's retreat the other day we were given the rules of fasting for
this diocese (who knew they were so local?)
Everyone between 14 and 59 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Fasting is one full meal and two snacks.
No meat may be eaten (but broth made from meat is OK).

Even the unchurched gf-brought-up-Baptist said "That's not fasting!"

I was probably the youngest retreatant, or one of the youngest, and there
was much eyerolling and many predictable comments about The Old Days.

BTW this retreat was preceded by the daily 9:00 weekday mass. Because I was
once a sacristan, I learned to estimate a congregation by fifties (since a
pack of communion wafers contains fifty), and there were between 200 and
250 attendees at that mass. On Tuesday. Seventy or so at the retreat.
-M

On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, after much hesitation and prayer and back-and-forthing, I've decided
> I need to give up FB for Lent
>