tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post931250494796430040..comments2023-07-05T22:26:40.892-04:00Comments on Splendor in the Home: Holy Lents, Holy EastersChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662784804825998751noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-15282114906852600902016-03-29T14:37:18.520-04:002016-03-29T14:37:18.520-04:00Thanks for sharing all your thoughts. As for bein...Thanks for sharing all your thoughts. As for being dedicated to the liturgy....I appreciate your compliment, but it should really be directed to my husband. He really takes his job as "spiritual head of the family" seriously, and is really good about keeping the rest of our prayer lives in shape!<br /><br />Yes, there is a comb in my veil! That veil was a gift from Tom last Mother's Day from Veils by Lily. He had them sew in one of their "mini comb snap clips." It's really small, but works amazingly well. I never have to fix my veil anymore. I plan to buy several more to sew into some of my others :-)Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662784804825998751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-18276080626663395372016-03-29T14:31:29.835-04:002016-03-29T14:31:29.835-04:00Happy Easter! I love all your thoughts here. Somet...Happy Easter! I love all your thoughts here. Sometimes I think that the more I make Lent about giving stuff up the more Easter becomes about eating stuff again. Which is super exciting and all. But that's not the point of Easter, any more then it's the point of Lent. There's a difference between powering through the sacrifices and using them to grow in holiness and I feel as though mostly I excel in the former. Don't know how to change that, but next year will bring a chance to try again anyway.<br /><br />You are so dedicated to the liturgy, it's awesome. We still have not attempted Easter Vigil as a family. This was the first year my husband went with just my oldest and it worked out well, although they left halfway though (as was planned) and we all went together Easter morning. Every time I start to think that maybe this year...my Holy Thursday experience changes my mind. My older kids do well enough but the baby and toddler just get super cranky. My kids don't sleep at Church, never have. But well be there soon enough I know.<br /><br />Is there a comb in your veil? I only wear hats because every time I attempt a veil I need to re-adjust like 20 times during Mass. It must be something I'm doing wrong because no one else has that problem, not that I notice anyway.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10449189050973961508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-31062265488087364042016-03-29T14:06:12.287-04:002016-03-29T14:06:12.287-04:00PS BEAUTIFUL family photo. :) PS BEAUTIFUL family photo. :) Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699055172049185864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-84907329315672420752016-03-29T14:05:00.713-04:002016-03-29T14:05:00.713-04:00I definitely agree about the prayer vs penance par...I definitely agree about the prayer vs penance part! I honestly didn't have a very penitential lent this year. (I made my bed every morning ... whoop-de-doo! :-P ) I, too, have fallen into the habit of laxity ... especially since the two years previous I had my Lent handed to me on a silver platter, so to speak. ;) (Infant twins; death of a parent.) <br /><br />Lent for me fell in a time of deep, deep struggle. And part of that struggle was being confronted with my own unworthiness and inability to sacrifice or to grow in holiness. I was pretty zealous as a student too--and I agree with Katie that part of that belongs to youth, helps us get started down the path God has for us into adulthood--but also, most of us as teens and young adults haven't yet been *tested* in ways that push us beyond our limits. Children and marriage definitely do that. ;) I am learning through difficult experience how dependent I am on God for EVERYTHING, even things I thought were my own interior possessions, and without that prayer I can do nothing. This didn't exactly translate into a concrete practice during Lent (although I did read a book called The Essence of Prayer, which I HIGHLY recommend), but I can say that my Lent was fruitful, if not as much as it could have been. Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699055172049185864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-41962568222022385282016-03-29T12:54:55.781-04:002016-03-29T12:54:55.781-04:00You make a good point about college being the time...You make a good point about college being the time when you (and myself as well) "woke up" to your Faith. I guess we were both exalting in that "honeymoon period" and it was easier to have intense emotional reactions to the changes in the Church season.<br /><br />I guess for me in the past, I was better able to link my sacrifices to the sacrifice of Christ. Wearing my hair up each day of Lent *was* a prayer. Now, when I give up sweets or whatever it is during Lent, I often think of it more as a burden :-/ It really is tougher to immerse myself in prayer now that I'm a "real adult" with so many concerns on my mind and demands on my time....I'm still trying to figure it all out!<br /><br />Happy Easter to you as well!Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662784804825998751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-75195399754439866852016-03-29T12:16:18.779-04:002016-03-29T12:16:18.779-04:00Happy Easter!
I've been thinking about this si...Happy Easter!<br />I've been thinking about this since I read it yesterday. I think for me Easter depends more on the "prayer" aspect than the "penance" aspect... Yes, I fasted/gave up a LOT more in college, but I think it was more the (at least semi-) daily Mass, more frequent adoration, participation in things like Bible study, etc that made those Easters feel more joyful. And maybe also due to the fact that being a cradle Catholic who sort of "woke up" to my Faith during college, I still had that fervor and feeling of newness. Definitely something to think about....<br /><br />I definitely wasn't super strict this year with my penances this year (one being food-related and one not)... but I tried to look at it as I was already making sacrifices/suffering (I'm thinking giving up sweets for a few weeks is preferable to a few weeks of nausea for most people!) Being in the first trimester definitely makes for a different sort of Lent...<br /><br />(As a side note, with Maria, my 28 week glucose test was on Ash Wednesday! I always thought that was so appropriate, that I had to do a brief fast that day when I couldn't do the full fast.)Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06914343351803930748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-73234926210976321752016-03-29T10:32:57.734-04:002016-03-29T10:32:57.734-04:00No shame in that! Being sick excuses you from fas...No shame in that! Being sick excuses you from fasting anyways. Such a tough fast is physically strenuous!Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662784804825998751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-43188989557334692082016-03-28T23:25:12.820-04:002016-03-28T23:25:12.820-04:00Oh yeah... this meant breaking my Lenten fast to h...Oh yeah... this meant breaking my Lenten fast to have chicken soup because it was one of the few things I didn't cough up. So much for that amazing Lenten fast of mine!jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02567286104645119169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781474098383349170.post-30556805830643547462016-03-28T23:24:05.336-04:002016-03-28T23:24:05.336-04:00I was doing an Eastern Orthodox style fast this ye...I was doing an Eastern Orthodox style fast this year... and then I got bronchitis TWICE. (The second time was during Holy Week so I missed the Triduum as usual these days since my son was born.)<br /><br />Go me.jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02567286104645119169noreply@blogger.com