No booze for Lent

[Doc4]

I'm not drinking alcohol during Lent.

I rather backed my way into this one, as I got a cold a bit before Lent started, and whenever I get a cold I skip the alcohol until I am better. So then I figured "why not do this for Lent as well?".

Personal choice, while I "drink responsibly" normally, I do like to occasionally do brief periods (few weeks) of abstinence, mostly as a "body reset" to give the system a chance to recover from the occasional need to deal with alcohol in the system. I'm not posting this to encourage others to do the same, or to imply that those who don't are somehow "wrong" or something.

Just posting my personal journey and welcoming comments from others who do similar.

 

[Wal59]

I gave up giving up for Lent for Lent

 

[m949]

Why not follow in the tradition of the monks of the Order of Minims, followers of Francis of Paola, also known as the Paulaner monks, who originally came from Italy but settled in the South of Germany?

In the 17th century the created the all-beer diet specifically for the fasting times during Lent. For 46 days they didn’t consume any solid food, just a rich and quite boozy Doppelbockbier and water. They created this malty and rich beer in 1634 and called it liquid bread. They believed that the more you drink this beer, the more purified you‘d be for Easter.

Based on this rich trandition many monasteries in the South of Germany have a working brewery attached, often with a restaurant and beer garden. During Lent these monasteries would brew their famous Doppelbock (lit. Double buck / double billy goat), which almost always leads to hordes of drunks hanging around the monastery.

I kind of like this tradition…Prost

 

[rm71]

I'm trying to do the same. So far so good...

 

[Doc4]

In the 17th century the created the all-beer diet specifically for the fasting times during Lent.

Giving up sobriety for Lent might be a way to get more people interested in the Church.

 

[KW Driver]

I had a friend who did it annually. He suffered. Annually.