My Kind of Lenten Fast
A report on a "38-year-old from Iowa [who] is following the example of 17th-century Bavarian friars who did not allow solid food to pass their lips during the penitential season" — Lenten fast of nothing but beer. Some history:
- Doppelbock received papal approval in the late 1600s, so the legend goes, because the Paulaner friars sent a cask of the brew to Rome which turned sour on the long journey across the Alps. The pope tasted the sour liquid and decided that anything so disgusting must be good for penitents, giving it his sanction.
Labels: Albion, America the Beautiful, Deutschland, Drink, Eire, The Catholic Faith, The Holy Father
8 Comments:
I'll drink to that!
Not me. I gave up alcohol for Lent!
This is the first Lent in which I haven't given up alcohol in years. I usually fast daily and give up alcohol, but this year I decided that was a bit too rigorous.
Sour beer -- sounds a little like Belgian lambic beers, which I find to be delicious! No penance involved with drinking those at all!
God bless Belgium monasticism for the fine beers it has given us.
+JMJ+
I don't know whether to encourage you to keep blogging regularly on a diet of beer and water (or 24 bottles of Guinness and an egg) or to caution you to keep the blog quiet for the duration!
Blogging Under the Influence is seldom a good idea.
+JMJ+
But for those of us who are sober, so entertaining! ;-)
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