"Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "gloria.p" > wrote:
>
>> or is this a strange juxtaposition?
>>
>> Headlines from an online eastern newspaper:
>>
>> "Make your Lenten journey a meaningful one"
>>
>> and just below:
>>
>> "Stations of the Cross followed by a Lenten Fish Fry at St. Edmund's"
>
> It's just you. Stations of the Cross is a way to meditate on the
> suffering of Christ, thus making Lent more meaningful, and eating fish
> during Lent is a very common thing to do as an alternative to eating
> meat.
>

And church serves a very important social function for many people.
Fellowship and all that.