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ASH WEDNESDAY.....Today marks the beginning of Lent season
gmimo
#1 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:47:42 AM
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Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and it marks the beginning of Lent. Ashes were used in ancient times, according to the Bible, to express mourning. Dusting oneself with ashes was the penitent's way of expressing sorrow for sins and faults.....
bwenyenye
#2 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:14:45 PM
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So how does abstaining from meat come in? Just out of curiosity.
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Jus Blazin
#3 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:54:36 PM
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Pierce
#4 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:38:34 PM
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Jus Blazin wrote:
There are so many things about Catholics I never seem to understand.


Just curious.....are you a Catholic?
gmimo
#5 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:09:19 PM
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bwenyenye wrote:
So how does abstaining from meat come in? Just out of curiosity.



meat is just an example....
you should abstain from luxuries (meat was considered a luxury in the old times)
Then when you save on the 'tangible' luxuries...the proceeds should be donated to the less privileged in the community.....


Even landing i guess....
otienosmall
#6 Posted : Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:06:54 PM
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Just one of the many pagan worship introduced by the roman catholic……

Lent’s Ancient Roots

Coming from the Anglo-Saxon Lencten, meaning “spring,” Lent originated in the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. “The forty days’ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshipers of the Babylonian goddess…Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz”.

Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians—a satanic counterfeit of Jesus Christ!

The Feast of Tammuz was usually celebrated in June (also called the “month of Tammuz”). Lent was held 40 days before the feast, “celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing.” This is why Lent means “spring”; it took place from spring to early summer.
The Bible records ancient Judah worshiping this false Messiah: “Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz” (Ezek. 8:14-15). This was a great abomination in God’s eyes!

But why did the church at Rome institute such a pagan holiday?

“To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity—now far sunk in idolatry—in this as in so many other things, to shake hands”.

The Roman church replaced Passover with Easter, moving the pagan Feast of Tammuz to early spring, “Christianizing” it. Lent moved with it.
“This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent”……Copy paste………


A small research on Church history can show you how all these catholic dogmas came into place
YesuWangu
#7 Posted : Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:23:42 AM
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bebeto
#8 Posted : Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:15:36 PM
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gmimo wrote
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bwenyenye wrote:
So how does abstaining from meat come in? Just out of curiosity.



meat is just an example....
you should abstain from luxuries (meat was considered a luxury in the old times)
Then when you save on the 'tangible' luxuries...the proceeds should be donated to the less privileged in the community.....


Even landing i guess....


so true!
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions" - Alfred adler
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