Christ IS Risen!
The problem? Post-Pascha meltdown!
The reason? Too much!
Too much of a drastic flip-flop of lifestyle. Too much of a Lenten Life that is only lived during Lent. Too drastic a shift from Lent to Bright Week. No meat for 56 days, suddenly; nothing but meat. Intense prayer, many liturgical services, then none. Daily fasting, then none. Restriction and self-control is replaced with over-indulgence. How much of the Lenten effort is erased in Bright Week by over-indulging the Flesh with flesh?
The answer? Moderation. Instead of doing Lent for the prescribed period each year and making an intense and (compared to the rest of our life) unbalanced, strenuous effort. Try some of Lent all year round. Try following the Wednesday and Friday fast, the other fast periods. Try keeping some of the Lenten discipline as part of “normal” living, all year round. Then try not going for the “Quad-Staker” at BK on Bright Monday. Maybe just a bacon cheeseburger.
Gotta be better than toilet haunting.
Mea Culpa…I did do the quad stacker ‘thing’ on Bright Monday and there were no ‘complications’…of course it was one of the only things that I ate that day…sorry, the male child dared me…
By: mamajuliana on May 8, 2008
at 2:47 pm