Comments on: Combatting Everyday Addictions http://youngandcatholic.net/2011/03/combatting-everyday-addictions/ Your Faith Meets Your Life Mon, 13 May 2013 16:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://youngandcatholic.net/2011/03/combatting-everyday-addictions/#comment-205 Anonymous Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:08:00 +0000 http://littlestlane.com/?p=4319#comment-205 Agreed. I only brought up Lent at the start of the post to connect it to the idea of giving something up. I do think that it has relevance only insofar as that any Lenten sacrifice you make (even though it may not be something that is “bad for you”) is something you have an attachment to. Since not everyone can relate to giving something up for Lent because not everyone is a practicing Catholic, I thought Ash Wednesday was a good opportunity to talk about attachments in general, and how to break free from them.

In any case, I think if a person is struggling with certain vice, it would mean more if they resolved for Lent to work on that than for them to give up something like candy. I say this because I think it’s difficult to say yes to the greatest good when we are still saying yes to the evils in our lives, let alone the lesser goods.

]]> By: Jake http://youngandcatholic.net/2011/03/combatting-everyday-addictions/#comment-204 Jake Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:40:00 +0000 http://littlestlane.com/?p=4319#comment-204 I’ve had a number of conversations with people about this sort of thing. It often comes to what qualifies as a good Lenten sacrifice.

Often you’ll see people giving up these “bad habits” or even addictions for Lent. The problem I see is that the idea of a Lenten sacrifice is that you are supposed to be giving up a good in order to say yes to an even great good, God who is Goodness Himself.

Yes, Lent can be a good excuse to start trying to “kick the habit”, but I’m not sure it’s the kind of Lenten sacrifice we are called to make. It relates to Pope Benedict’s comments in “Light of the World” about homosexuality and priestly celibacy, but that’s another discussion entirely :-)

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