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Meriadoc  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what are you giving up for Lent?

Do non-Catholics participate in Lent regularly? I don't know many Catholics, but I know plenty of non-Catholic and have never really known anyone to take part in it.





user-inactivated  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Half my family is Lutheran, and they do, then complain about it a lot. The Episcopalians I've known do too. So at least the protestant sects who stayed close to catholicism do it.

By the time I was old enough to be expected to participate I was also old enough to know I wanted nothing to do with religion, so I've never actually done the lent thing myself.

rob05c  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know a number of Protestants who do, typically younger and more liberal ones. I do, and I'm not Catholic. I find temperance and charity valuable. That's really all there is to it.

galen  ·  3596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know Methodists do. I'm no longer religious but I still think it's a valuable exercise.