-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-01-19  07:58 <=-

 >  JM> Sunday, in the Catholic tradition, is always a feast day, never a
 >  JM> fast day.
 >  JM> (I've always wondered why fast days seem to move so slowly).
 > Obviously, not occupying one's time in the spiritual things that it's
 > supposed to be enabling... <G>

 JM> More so people wouldn't get discouraged when the period was a lot
 JM> rougher than today.
 JM> I always wondered how people in the Middle Ages made it.
 JM> There often wasn't enough food to begin with then add fasting on top
 JM> of that...

I'd've thought that the days of fasting wouldn't have been much
different to them than a regular day would be... As you said, it isn't
so much not eating at all as refraining from certain foods on the fast
days... if they didn't get those foods anyway, there'd not be all that
much difference... 

 >  JM> This ends today's history lesson.  There will be a test later. 
 > Will this be on the test, or will the test be on the next part that you
 > didn't get to yet....?   

 JM> Both. 

Ah... the perfect test... <G>

ttyl      neb

... Hesitate to attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

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