{"id":3934,"date":"2008-03-23T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:24:07","slug":"easter-and-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"Easter and Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are going to the 10:45 Mass, and then over to the Gagnons to eat lots of food and drink a bit of wine. <\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a cool picture.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/03\/apostles-peter.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: &quot;Apostles Peter and John hurry to the tomb on the morning of the Resurrection&quot;<\/a> Unfortunately it&#8217;s a little small &#8211; if I&#8217;d expanded it&#8217;s size on the posting it would have been too blurry. <\/p>\n<p>I give myself about a C+ for Lenten observance. Here was the original plan.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/02\/lent-and-lenten.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Lent and Lenten reading<\/a> I tried hard to use the Magnificat prayerbook, but only batted around 40%, since I kept <del>losing<\/del> misplacing the darn thing. But my special intention of praying for my two <del>rotten kids<\/del> lovely sons &#8211; I kept to that pretty well. Reading though, was disapointing. I did do the entire Dan Berrigan book (a collection of some of his essays, poems, homilies, etc), but only have gotten through about a third of &quot;The Forgotten Man&quot; (about the depression), and never opened either the Joan Andrews book (would have been a re-read), or Von Balthasar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are going to the 10:45 Mass, and then over to the Gagnons to eat lots of food and drink a bit of wine. I thought this was a cool picture.&nbsp; Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: &quot;Apostles Peter and John hurry to the tomb on the morning of the Resurrection&quot; Unfortunately it&#8217;s a little small &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}