If i have gave something up for Lent can i eat it on a special occasion?!
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Giving up something you enjoy for Lent is a choice, not an obligation (the obligation is to fast [not eat meat] on certain days, if you're Catholic; and most likely some non-food-related requirements that I'm not aware of, not being Catholic myself).
But if you choose to give something up, at least have the willpower to give it up for the entire period. What's the message, otherwise? "Well, I'm devoted, but only as far as it doesn't inconvenience me."
Well you "gave up" something as a sort "sacrifice" and having it kinda kills the sacrifice part of it.
But that's up to you. This is technically a question best directed at your God and none of us here are qualified though some probably think they are a god of some sort
I give up regular/gourmet food for Lent every year, resorting to bread and water plus steamed vegetables every now and then . I don't plan on having anything else even for special occasions.
Water IS a soft drink. Maybe you can only have like variations of water? Like mineral water, lemon water, and such, but nothing like soda or juice or coffee or whatever you classify as a soft drink.
But idk what your idea of a soft drink is. The technical term of a soft drink is a drink without alcohol. Alcoholic drinks are hard drinks. But if you just mean soda...or you meant to say hard drinks...or whatever, then just drink whatever inside those guidlines. But really, lent is about sacrifices. If you could take breaks whenever there was a special occasion it wouldn't really be a sacrifice. Like for instance, I gave up soda and make-up. Make-up is one thing, but my mom always buys Diet Coke and ginger ale and such, which makes it a lot harder to resist. That's why I chose it. The point is to give up something, to both teach self control and to create perspective on what it's like not having what you want when you want it. You know, that kidn of thing.
I think, and I could be wrong, that practicing Catholics take Sundays during Lent as a "feast day" on which they can enjoy the thing they gave up.
Why not drink iced tea, a juice cocktail, or a glass of wine that night? (From your question, I assume you only gave up soda.) There are other beverages out there. I hardly ever touch soda anyway, and I do just fine at parties ;)
No, you can't just be a tourist. YOu do it for real or not at all.
You've given up facebook?
Precious.
You knew your brother had a birthday during lent, so it's your doing. It's not like he didn't have a birthday last year.
You can drink juice, tea, coffee, milk, flavored water. Jesus gave up his life and you can't make it 40 days without soda.
yes, but the special occasion is easter. if you eat it before then you go to hell or something.
relieved former xtian
i would say no but sometimes i cheat so i would say depends on the occasion
The Sundays in Lent do not count as part of the 40 days, if that helps.
not until Easter