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Ash Wednesday
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08-03-2011 6:38pm#1
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Had a 36 hour party from Thursday night all the way through Good Friday last year, it was great, certain off licences deliver on Good Friday if you know them, which is great. There was a lot of loud music, cool people and I think there was other drugs aswell, it was the ultimate finger to Catholic myth - had a great time too. Won't anything like that this year I'm afraid, but I definitely will be having a drink and having some form of meat.
Speaking of which, do you reckon there'll be more pubs open this year?
The catholics who were fasting and doing abstinence from alcohol were better off than those at the party and taking drugs.
As a Catholic, all I can say it is silly if you think loud music - damaging your hearing possibly, drinking too much alcohol - possibly damaging your liver and using illegal drugs is the ultimate finger to Catholics, then :pac:
We didn't have the hangover the following day
You're an atheist but you don't feel comfortable with your beliefs and feel you need to do something which you deem anti-catholic, you are showing that Good Friday is more than anyother Friday to you.0 -
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When I was in transition year I was doing work experience near Temple Bar the week of Pancake Tuesday/Ash Wednesday, and on the Wednesday I had met some friends (who were also work experiencing in town) for lunch in Stephen's Green. I was a little late heading back to work, and was rushing down Dame St when I noticed a lady at a bus stop who had some dirt on her forehead. I would have stopped to tell her except that I was in such a rush... As I continued down the street, I noticed loads of people with dirt on their foreheads. I was completely baffled!
On the phone to one of my friends that evening, I mentioned it to her. She was like "Wtf, I noticed that too! Really weird!"
As you can probably tell, we did not go to a Catholic school... Even when I found out why, it still didn't make much sense to me. I'm really glad that I didn't stop to tell that lady that she had dirt on her face
Sure, I knew that the day was called Ash Wednesday because it is always marked in calendars and diaries, but nobody had ever told me WHY.
As a result, I never knew about this whole 'you can't eat meat' thing either. I didn't get a chance to make pancakes tonight though, so I'm going to do it tomorrow instead
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smokingman wrote: »Just about to lay waste to pancakes topped with sliced mars bars and baked for a few mins....mmmmm nom nom nom
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I would like to point out I didn't have much to drink nor do I take drugs, I didn't drink much because I was going to the United - Chelsea game the following day, so I didn't have a hangover, although I did have an early start. I left for my real home at 10:30. As I said, it was entirely subconscious until when I realised that I was probably doing that without knowledge. That's what I think anyway. I didn't even organise the party, my house mate did, and I didn't even know it was Good Friday until I was told.The catholics who were fasting and doing abstinence from alcohol were better off than those at the party and taking drugs.
As a Catholic, all I can say it is silly if you think loud music - damaging your hearing possibly, drinking too much alcohol - possibly damaging your liver and using illegal drugs is the ultimate finger to Catholics, then :pac:
We didn't have the hangover the following day
You're an atheist but you don't feel comfortable with your beliefs and feel you need to do something which you deem anti-catholic, you are showing that Good Friday is more than anyother Friday to you.
I always thought I went about it like every other day and never paid attention to these Ash Wednesdays or Good Fridays, but it occured to me I must have doing that. I didn't want it to be like that though - I just reckon I do that.
But as of today, it's a normal day. I'm going to college, will probably pop off to library then go home later on and watch the Soccer tonight.0 -
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Hello there, regular reader of A&A, but a rare poster. I was just wondering as an Atheist/Agnostic (or whatever non-theist phrase you'd like to label yourself), are you going to take advantage of it being Ash Wednesday and eat large amounts of meat, if you're not a Vegetarian, and consuming plenty of alcohol just to spite a fasting day in the Christian calender?
I find myself doing that yearly, it's almost a subconscious obsession with me, I only ever noticed myself doing it totally fanatically last year, and I know I'll end up doing it tomorrow and Good Friday, but it sort of worries me that I have a subconscious that is to piss religious people off.
Does any of my fellow non-theists do that here - intentionally or unintentionally? And just for the sake of gossipy tripe, has it ever drawn out reactions from a Christian?
I happen to be vegetarian, but I've got a rather big carrot cake waiting for me when I get home tonight, and for later there's some ale in the fridge
Mind you, none of it is because it's Ash Wednesday, I just happen to have it at home.0 -
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Same as any other day really. I had fish this week already, so probably will cook meat for dinner.
When I was in national school we had to get ash on the foreheads and were often given out to if seen wiping it off by the teachers. I remember munching into a ham sandwich one year and my horrified friend pointing it out to me. I virtually spat it out :pac: When you are just a kid you just don't know why this rule is imposed and don't ask. I suppose I sort of assumed that it was like anything else I wasn't supposed to swallow at certain times - more than 2 paracetamol in 4 hours if you have a temperature, any kind of food other than toast with a stomach bug, sweets in lent. I remember thinking something would happen to me if I ate ham!! And how mom could have let this happen 0 -
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FATHER DOUGAL: So, if God has existed forever, you know, what did He do in his spare time like before he made the earth and everything, you know?
BISHOP O’NEILL: Well... we all have doubts.
FATHER DOUGAL: And what about when you weren't allowed eat meat on Fridays? How come that's all right now but it wasn't back then? I mean, did the people who ate meat on Fridays back then, did they all go to hell or what? I mean it's mad! 0 -
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