On Fridays during Lent, we as Catholics abstain from meat - not because cheeseburgers are evil, but to remember that Christ gave His flesh for us. Small sacrifices train the heart for bigger surrender. “Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love – which is the definition of God,” said soon-to-be blessed Fulton Sheen. Abstinence means refraining from eati