During these days, abstaining from meat is reccomended, but some other form of penance can suffice (cold showers, rosary in cruciform, charitable work etc.)

That's a hard fast

Also some can abstaining from something "spiritual" or something similar. Like: No swearing, idk abstain from society etc

@Deleted User Нет, но я русский православный

Then we have obligatory days of fasting (but post V-II "obligatory" means some retards dont understand what that means), these are: Fridays of Lent, Good Friday and some others which IDK about.
Here, abstaining from meat is a must, you are allowed 1 meal and 2 smaller meals.

i live

@Jay Dubya Ого, а где ты живёшь тогда?

@Deleted User same with Catholics, abstaining from swearing and alcohol are common during lent to replace the reccomended daily fast or abstinence from meat

But I'm of the mind that you should abstain from swearing at all times

with swearing it was just an example. (You should use them less anyway)

I hate swearing all the time.

@Deleted User Америка

Swearing is part of my culture

Wait! do us Catholics also have to fast this Saturday and Sunday too?

If you swear all the time it loses its impact

And Lent is more of a 'giving up' of a thing that in and of itself isn't sinful, but surrendering it as a way to temper your desires, promote virtue and sacrifice to god. Hence, the better sacrifice the better

It already lost it's impact in English language

In Russian language, the "swears" are much "stronger"

@LuxCo you fast from Now till Sunday 12:00am.

So basically good friday 12am to easter vigil 11:59pm

@Crux good looking out thanks

And they're really a taboo subject.

teach us swears

Its not good to swear full stop

No

Its a stumbling block.

And it reflects poorly on our faith

Which is also why I object to using the word "nigger" and other things

If I remember right, the Russian church had to step in and tell people to stop saying "your mom got fucked by a dog"

Optics

Optics is crucial to evangelization

Ive recently started to take my religion seriously. My lent didnt go so well since I dont have a hard wired brain of dicipline. Next year will be glorious tho.

We have to stand apart from the World.

Which is why buildings of steel and glass rise around us

But the church should still remain brick, wood and stone.

The church is unchanging, a rock among the chaos of our world.

If they screw with Notre Dame, France deserves to burn down.

If they build some modernist idolatry, they will have forsaken Our Mother and Christ.

God is really pissed. Judgement day or the day of the rope is coming soon imo

Judgement day is coming soon

Revelation