Something personal on lent and fasting habit(s) :-)

Praised be Jesus and Mary!
I have been so involved with this new website for our shop that I started thinking it would be great to give up internet over the period of Lent and then just use that as an excuse for job not done. Wouldn't work ...ha?

The whole point of lent is to renounce something you like the most for the glory of God, for love of God and Our Blessed Mother, who will, of course, prefer we fast from sin.

However in this mine, not such a long life, I have met people who are so willing to abstain from cigarettes, alcohol, food (including chocolates , ahhhh!) but will not stop gossiping, criticizing and constantly complaining about everything.
Do I have to mention that come Easter , they all go back to their old habits. But that is not what I wanted to write about. My mind is womens mind, and we go several tracks at one time LOL :-)

I remember when we were children of 14 years old (my brother and I) decided we will fast for the Lent. All 40 days. Our mother accepted that because we said it is a vow and vow must be respected.
I honestly do not remember the actual vow I made but I do remember that in that period of life I prayed hard to be a good person. I truly wanted to be good.

In those days we did not know that one who fasts can eat eggs and milk and all kind of things. It was unthinkable!
Digression again: Only latter, after I started working in our family shop, we had some Italian pilgrims coming up often and buying a lot of the dairy products and eggs on Fridays. We were astonished when they said it is for fasting! 

 Fasting is fasting, and with occasional treat in a form of a fish, we were to eat bread, fried potatoes, some "pita" and cooked vegetables... So no grease, no meet, no dairy product of any kind.
And if you think you'll loose weight .. no! sorry, it doesn't go that way. Fasting is not dieting and should not be ever placed in such a context.

On Sunday we were allowed to whatever we wanted. As Sunday is the biggest Feast Day of all one cannot fast on Sunday. Should I tell how it looked when after 7 days  we saw all that food on the table .. oh my,,,, I tell you what ... that stomach ache is not to be forgotten ....
We learned the lesson and then were more considered about our food on the next Sunday...

I was thinking to maybe start blogging about our Lents in family and maybe add a few recipes of the meals I cook on fasting days. It might help  you include your whole family into a fasting "esprit".

Would you be interested? Let me know ... God bless you all
Anita