Ritual on Fat Tuesday

A little weird but i don't know why time passes so quickly in our new office. Seems like hours have already passed but I have not done anything significant yet. Not even a sale. Or maybe it just because I’m out on a client call the whole morning and when I get back to the office its already lunch time and by the time I return to the office, I'm set to leave after an hour and forty five minutes because I’m on half day leave until tomorrow due to my confirmation seminar.

So yesterday was about Ten Commandments and today, it was the 7 Sacraments. A seminarian from Ateneo, Brother Rene, did a talk on the importance of 7 Sacraments. I won't go into details about it anymore. After the talk we were asked to group ourselves and re in act the 1 of the Seven Sacraments. Through a draw lots we were asked to do the Sacrament of the Holy Orders. The problem is, none of us have ever witnessed this kind of sacrament. But by the help of divine intervention, during the 4th sacrament being demonstrated, Msgr. Romy entered the hall and instructed us to take part and witness the burning of the old palms for tomorrow's Ash Wednesday Mass.

It was a first time for me and my bro to witness this kind of ritual made by Catholics. I didn't know that the Burning of the Palms also has its own rituals. Msgr. Romy said that today is a Fat Tuesday, you can eat all the meat and fatty food that you can eat since tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, start of the 40 day fasting and abstinence for us Christians. During the ritual, 7 people shared their experiences on the 7 Capital Sins. And I was so surprised that gluttony is one of the capital sins. I'm so guilty of this and I can't believe that I'm committing this sin almost every week. I'm also guilty of all the other six but not as much as gluttony. After arriving at home, I called my fiancé immediately and told him about it... and yes he new about the capital sin. And we promised (or was that me only) to eat at a minimal from now on.