The fact that I didn't post Sunday can be chalked up to my observance of a Little Easter:
When observing fasting or abstinence during Lent, regard must be paid to the fact that Sundays are Feast Days, so the fast or abstinence may be broken. If one counts the days from Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter Sunday, excluding the Sundays, one will see that there are 40 of them, equating with the number of days Christ spent in the wilderness.
Little Easter* is also responsible for the glass of wine I drank shortly after 12 a.m. Sunday.**
*By Little Easter, I mean "Lila & Thor," who were in town for a book release party for one of Lila's friends. It was a festive event, full of free wine and beer and what my HSH calls "The Ubiquitous Table of Above Average Cheese and Hummus."
I was chaste, however, and planned to remain so. Then Lila mentioned that, as each Sunday in Lent is a Little Easter, and is not counted in the 40 days of Lent, well, Lenten fasts are sometimes broken on those days. Thor confirmed it to be so, although he added that he maintains his own fast throughout Lenten Sundays, as well. Although, I don't think he's giving up something as tempting and rewarding as this.
It should be noted that I abstained right up until 12:02 a.m. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, SOBER!
And I did not use the same justification to imbibe again Sunday evening, you know, in Thanksgiving for the Baby Jesus and the cup of salvation and all that.
**I didn't post Saturday because I was busy. Then lazy. Then busy again. Then drunk.
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