Happy Lent! Time to fast from fasting?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (??) "Fasting is primarily an act of willing abstinence or reduction from certain or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time." (Wikipedia) In Denmark celebrating lent mostly means eating loads of filled pastry. It seems, however, that the practice of fasting has gained increasing popularity amongst post-modern protestants recently: Inspiration is picked up from, e.g., the practices of the late-antique 'desert fathers' and medieval monasticism (which was of course much more severe, than its modern variants), or what have you.