Evelyn Edwards

Evelyn Edwards Instagram – I couldn’t help but post a fantastic abbey ruin on the first day of Lent. I didn’t grow up Catholic… but I did go to an all girls private Catholic college for a year before I transferred to UCLA. It was then that I began “giving up something for lent” – usually diet soda or something akin to that. But the Medieval Monk would have gone through a season of fasting and penance that the modern person would shudder at today. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday were “black fasts” with no food consumed at all on those days. On all the other days of Lent food was not consumed until 3pm which was considered “the hour of our Lord’s death.” Water, watered down beer as well as watered down wine were allowed for beverages during the 40 (really 46 days if you count the Sundays) day fasting period. The Monks would not be allowed eggs, dairy, meat, cheese, cream, or animal fats of any kind. Lent would then culminate with the Triduum: the 40-hour fast lasting from sundown on Maundy ‘commandment’ Thursday all through to the middle of the day on Holy Saturday. That makes intermittent fasting seem like Mardi Gras if you ask me! .⁣
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