Comments on: Vegan Lent

By: Kaihsu Tai

Kaihsu Tai — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:47:43 +0000

Hi Dann! I was visiting Mike in front of the White House in DC earlier today!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:35:03 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, the inimitable Dann Dempsey!

I have been told that Ethiopian Orthodox Christians observe a vegan diet in Lent and on other fast days. A couple minutes of Googling don’t find any clear explanations of this.

By: Dann Dempsey

Dann Dempsey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:29:12 +0000

hey, neat — i was directed here by querying “vegan for lent”. (a week or so into this lenten season, i noticed that my fasting diet has become vegan, wanted to see if other episcopalians are doing the same thing.)

By: Dr Kaihsu Tai (Oxford, England)

Dr Kaihsu Tai (Oxford, England) — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:50:01 +0000

Blessed Lent to all readers and contributors. Today at the Mansfield College chapel service, we had the lessons Isaiah 58.1–12 and Matthew 6.1–6 and 16–21; read them. Dr Elaine Kaye preached on Richard Baxter whom I thought was the lower churches' answer to Thomas More. And we sang his hymn They lack not friends who have thy love: "As for my friends, they are not lost; / the several vessels of thy fleet, / though parted now, by tempest tossed, / shall safely in the haven meet."

By: Adam (Southern California)

Adam (Southern California) — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:20:14 +0000

One of these days you should go hardcore and take a vow of silence for Lent.

By: Mike (Worcester)

Mike (Worcester) — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:35:21 +0000

Part of my vegan odyssey has been realizing that the vegan food-space isn’t very limited; at least, it doesn’t feel limited.

I’ve found that I get real spiritual and penitential value from fasting if I skip food altogether, so most Fridays in Lent I’ll be juice-fasting and skipping caffeine as much as possible. My day job requires a great deal of concentration, so if the fasting turns out to be too extreme I’ll rachet it back.

If the juice fasting works out, skipping the soy will be incidental.

I haven’t yet compared Lent plans with my housemate Scott, who in years past has turned Lent into a competition. So my disciplines may change.

By: Dr Kaihsu Tai (Oxford, England)

Dr Kaihsu Tai (Oxford, England) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:27:54 +0000

Hi Mike – I am wondering what you will be eating within your very limited food-space. Are you taking a diet journal, chronicling your every meal? (I am guessing lots of lentils and wheat-gluten, but meat-eating stifles my creativity.)

By: Adam (Southern California)

Adam (Southern California) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:57:41 +0000

Excellent! Let me know how it goes.