Fasting For No One

I probably speak for many when I say that there is some excitement in anticipation of Lent only days away. This excitement will last us the first few weeks of the fast and then will power will have to carry us the rest of the way. I think it really is a joyous time and it’s always sad to encounter those that don’t feel the same way.

We have a few of those stubborn Serbs who claim that they just “can’t” do it. In fact, for the longest time I thought Evelyn Waugh was describing a Serb in one of his novels when he wrote:

“Guy went alone to the Garibaldi where he found it difficult to explain to Mr. Pelecci, a deeply superstitious Catholic but in the manner of his townsmen not given to ascetic practices, that he did not want meat that evening. Ash Wednesday was for Mrs. Pelecci. Mr. Pelecci feasted for St. Joseph and fasted for no one.”