your description very much confuses theology with discipline. the visible signs of lent and fasting are only disciplinary questions, which is a kind of an imple

your description very much confuses theology with discipline. the visible signs of lent and fasting are only disciplinary questions, which is a kind of an implementation of theology. one can implement it worse or better. i agree that it's sad that people takes only the "dry words of the canon law" into consideration and not open to accept the greater underlaying idea which manifests in lent - or it is the church teachers who should to a better job educating. well… more likely both aspects are responsible at once. in some sense they are right not abstaining from some foods just for the sake of abstinance. if there is no consciousness in it, if you don't know why and don't agree what do you, then it's probably more harm than gain.