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loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2008, 05:24:39 pm ---Just the flowers or the whole vine? I hear it eats people. ... ;D
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Just the blossom!
The vines are tough as nails!
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2008, 05:23:40 pm ---What's the point of havin' Ash Wednesday if you don't have Lent? ???
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It's a time for atonement amd reflection going into the Easter season.
I was raised to believe that Christs sacrifice and his grace are enough and that he paid the ultimate sacrifice so there is nothing we have or should do as far as having to do somthing or give up somthing to atone for our sins.
That belief is based on the verse in Ephesians (can't remember chap and verse, I'm slippin :laugh:)
Salvation comes through faith and that by grace and not of our own works so none may boast.
But I never understood that because I always thought Lent wasn't done to insure salvation but just as an act of love.
I could be wrong, it happens! :-\
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: Scott on February 04, 2008, 05:19:21 pm ---Perhaps because in general they are smarter than men.
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I am noting the date and time for future reference, Scott! :laugh: :laugh:
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 04, 2008, 05:23:40 pm ---What's the point of havin' Ash Wednesday if you don't have Lent? ???
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The point of Ash Wednesday has always been to me the day all my Catholic friends and acquaintences remind me they are Catholic by wearing a smuged black dot on their foreheads.
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on February 04, 2008, 05:32:35 pm ---But I never understood that because I always thought Lent wasn't done to insure salvation but just as an act of love.
I could be wrong, it happens! :-\
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It is confusing as hell, pardon the inevitable pun. :laugh:
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