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Feature: Religion & Spirituality
February 18th, 2013

Fast Pray Give

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Traditionally, Lent was a time for personal conversion leading up to Easter, during which Christians practiced the spiritual disciplines of fasting, praying and almsgiving to strip away all that is unnecessary and become more mindful of their ultimate dependence on God. Let’s recapture the true meaning of Lent in ways that are actually relevant to your life. Each day throughout Lent, starting on Ash Wednesday, the calendar’s link for that day will become active, revealing a Daily Jolt for spiritual contemplation relating to Lent, and new and practical ideas for fasting, prayer and almsgiving.

Oh, and we’ll have weekly prizes and a grand prize. By filling out a brief survey and sharing your contact info with us, you will be entered into random drawings for the weekly and grand prizes. (You can enter once a week, which also increases your chances of winning the grand prize 16GB Apple iPad mini. Complete rules are here.)

Busted Halo’s® Fast Pray Give Calendar is completely unflunkable, entirely relevant and totally inspiring. The idea isn’t to be perfect but to continue on our path, so if you slip up one day, don’t give up; simply begin again the next day. We hope you’ll join Busted Halo this year with our Fast Pray Give Lent calendar.

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  • Ruth Barclay

    this has nothing to do with the calendar just a comment on a happening today.

    A southern baptist neighbor/friend just returned from a trip to Rome. He was talking of his trip and all the churches. I heard him say to someone else in the group how it comfirmed his feelings of “you know how those catholics are so superficial”. He was not talking to me although to a group of us. I did not respond to this although I left the discussion wishing I had but wonder what I would have said. I am also questioning if this is a common feeling among non catholics and why. Maybe I’m a little sheltered but I had never heard this.

    Share your thoughts please.

  • Lynn L’Heureux

    Love the Lenten calendar. Shared with RCIA last evening.

  • http://www.facebook.com/newelementduo Dannie Elise

    How do I subscribe to this so that each day it’s sent to my email?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ada.lam.503 Ada Lam

    I live in Hong Kong. Any way that I could follow the links to the dates of the calendar according to our time zone?

    • Emma Anthonisz

      Agree with Ada! I live in Australia, and it’s Ash Wednesday now, but I can’t access it on calendar, because right now your today is my yesterday :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/Karengal408 Karen Esselborn Gallagher

    Can you tell me if Valentine’s Day, February 14th, has ever fallen during Lent before? That is my birthday and I don’t ever recall it being in Lent. And I will be 64 this year!

    • Veronica Zamarron

      I do remember Valentine’s Days in the past falling during Lent. I remember because I would sacrifice chocolate and would save my Valentine’s goodies for Lenten Sundays. My birthday has ALWAYS fallen during Lent…so no German chocolate cakes for me!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/awolfe.ii Andrew Wolfe

    Guess I can’t give up prize drawings for Lent… or blogs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/trisha013 Trish Taylor

    looking forward to it!

  • http://twitter.com/SouLFoodLF SouLFoodLittleFlower

    Hooray! I was hoping you guys would create something like this! Thank you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/fr.robert.fath FrRobert Fath

    Is there a way to embed the calendar on a parish website? With the appropriate citations, of course!

    • http://bustedhalo.com/author/joe-williams Joe from Busted Halo

      Great question! While it is not a possibility to embed the entire calendar, we do offer a widget of our Daily Jolt that can be embedded on any website or blog. Beginning next Wednesday the 13th, this widget will turn into the Fast Pray Give widget, updated daily with the quote for that day. To receive the code to embed, simply email widget@bustedhalo.com and request the Daily Jolt Widget or visit here for more information on all of our widgets: http://bustedhalo.com/widgets

      • http://www.facebook.com/fr.robert.fath FrRobert Fath

        Excellent! I’ll add it to our parish website in time for Lent! Appreciate the help. Blessings from the North Pole!
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