I have been eagerly awaiting more responses on this. Besides
fasting, I'd like to, not so much suggest, as run past the list an
alternate possibility, which was suggested to me from my recent
and entirely novice-level explorations of the liturgy. Quadragesima
was a period of extensive processions. At Chartres, which I have
been reading about, and in many other places, particularly
cathedral cities, processions to virtually all of the important
churches in and around the city would be made through
quadragesima. These processions, I believe, were based on the
stational processions that took place in Rome. Might this penance
involve participation in such processions?
Jim Bugslag
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