I am the new part-time editor of the Saint John Newmann! Go to

http://www.sjnlilburn.org/ and tell me if I did a good job! Dad is going to pay me every week I do it. This week was more of a… training lesson. I might be out of business already though. My dad is thinking of switching it to blog style. Aaaw man! I only did it once. Oh well… maybe I can help with the Life Teen page.

I have heard a lot of people talking about what they are giving up for Lent. I have also heard (from fellow christians who celebrate this season) a whole bunch of excuses for not giving anything up yet:

“I just can’t find anything worthy enough!”

“Well…i was giving up this one thing, but then I decided to give up something else, and then I had to do this other thing so I couldn’t give it up, then I thought of something else… but I forgot”

Or simpler terms of the last one, only more common “i forgot…”

“Oh…I gave up spending money!” then a few minutes later “Who wants to go with me to buy ice cream?” (when the person next to them says they thought they weren’t spending money) “No I meant my own money… someone gave this to me!”

Also I hear a lot of this “Well I’ll be, it is Lent already? Well as soon as I finish this ice cream I am no longer eating desserts!” Even though they forget the next week with a huge piece of cake.

This one is one I don’t here the most, but at least it is the truth! “I did not want to do it this year.”

Those are a few examples of Lent excuses.