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At L-Mart we are here to make your Lent the best Lent ever. Other stores advertise to invoke your materialistic side. To buy what you don't need with money you probably don't have. Here at L-Mart our goal is your growth holiness and to grow in perfection to do what Our Lord and Savior continually calls us to.
Though at times there seem to be people in your parish that are working against you by depriving yourself of sacramentals and other aids to worship. This time of year is associated with Holy Water fonts going dry and other odd happenings which through good intentions are aimed to help you, but seriously miss there mark.
We at L-Mart to aid you from griping and complaining about such actions and take the positive approach by providing you with items to overcome unnecessary deprivations and other items to aid you. So check out our all new products for 2008 along with some of the classics you have come to love at L-Mart.
Detach-ment $14.99
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Detach-Ment works the opposite of normal cement products that helps to attach two things together. Detach-Ment helps you to detach yourself from undue affections and from sensate satisfactions so that everything is properly ordered to God.
Use the included brush included in the cap to brush on detach-ment from an item or person you are disorderly attach to. Detach-Ment is also safe to place on foods and home entertainment products!
... whether it is necessary, in order to attain this high estate of perfection, to undergo first of all mortification in all the desires, great and small, or whether it will suffice to mortify some of them and to leave others, those at least which seem of little moment. For it seems to be a severe and most difficult thing for the soul to be able to attain to such purity and detachment that it has no will and affection for anything. But you will be surprised at how a dab of Detach-Ment will help your assent to Mt. Carmel. -St. John of the Cross. |
Tongue Suppressor $9.99 pack of 20
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The Book of Psalms tells us:
I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue
Do you sometimes have problems bridleing your tongue and find yourself saying things you soon regret and with the Psalmist "Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue." and refer this to your own tongue?
If so you will love Tongue Suppressors which help to suppress those words you soon regret. Each Tongue Suppressor is coated with our patented tongue guard formula and in no time you will "Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit." and soon your "Tongue will sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are right." |
Charity Checker #22.99
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Are you a blogger or commenter and find that sometimes in enthusiastic defense of the faith you go a little overboard in attacking others personally instead of setting forth arguments to defend the Church? If so you will love this new browser plugin "Charity Checker" that works with your favorite browser and can even incorporate itself into blogger, MT, or Wordpress. Also works great outside of Lent. |
Ashes Plug $17.99
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On Ash Wednesday and the first Sunday of Lent often you will be subjected to that so-called hymn that borders on heresy named Ashes. As soon as the music starts for this song and before you hear those Pelagianism words "We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew." the Ashes Plug technology kicks in and blocks the offending "hymn" and stops blocking as soon as it ends. |
Computer Soulsaver $13.49
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Do you want to expand your prayer life and to make intercessory prayers, but you never seem to have the time because you spend too much time on the computer? Well the Soulsaver works just like a screensaver and comes up at programmed times blocking the computer screen until you finish those intercessory prayers you have been meaning to do. |
Confession Reminder $22.99
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The electronic confession reminder is the perfect tool to help you remember the last time you went to confession and when you should go next. After a month passes the alarm starts to slowly beep and if a year passes a piercing alarm sounds to remind that you really need to get to confession. So no more fumbling to remember the last time you went to confession and you can now tell father exactly the last date and time you went.
Included is a handy countdown display to easily track how many Hail Mary's Our Father's, etc you were given to say for penance. |
El Castillo Interior Detector $34.99
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Do you ever wonder if you have ever made spiritual progress considering all of the Lents you have gone through in life? Have you ever wondered exactly what mansion of Saint Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle you are in? Are you still in the basement of the castle accompanied by numerous reptiles which disturb your peace or have you gone from aridity in prayer to sweetness in prayer or even the prayer of union or beyond? Well now you can know for sure with El Castillo Interior Detector. Just hold it in front of yourself and watch the meter as it points between the range of the first mansion and the seventh.
If the meter seems stuck on the first mansion this is not the fault of the detector, which requires no batteries, but in yourself.
Warning: Do not attempt to point this device at other people to see where there are at or your own mansion level will immediately drop. If you must make comparisons make sure they are only between Christ and yourself. |
Portable Font $7.99
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On Ash Wednesday does your parish remove the Holy Water from all the fonts? Do they replace it with marbles, sands, twigs, or basically any object but Holy Water? If so check out the Portable Font. Easily collapses and fits in your pocket. While traveling the water won't link, but with just one twist of our patented lid you can then dip your fingers and bless yourself. Holds enough water for you and your family. |
Lenten X-Ray $19.99
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Some parishes start covering statues, images, and crosses on the first day of Lent instead of at least waiting till after the fourth Sunday of Lent or Holy Week. If your parish deprives you early of these worship aids then but a pair of our Lenten X-Ray Vision glasses. We use the same technology used in the new airport security scanner that can see right through clothes and brought to you at an affordable price. Now obviously it would be quite problematic and a deterrent to holiness to see through every bodies clothes. That is why our product has built-in Infrared technology so that the glasses capability is turned off in area where human body heat is detected. This way you can see right through the material covering statues, images, and crosses and also remain pure at the same time. |
Stations of the Cross Viewmaster $14.98
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Does your parish have a real abstract set of the Stations of the Cross. As you go from station to station is your first meditation "What the heck is this suppose to represent." That some wannabe Picasso has managed to con your parish. That without the text at the bottom of them you would have no clue as to meaning of the station?
If so you will love the Stations of the Cross Viewmaster. Each set comes with 14 awesome images which through the latest 3D technology look so real you will think you are in one of the more beautiful churches in Rome.
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Inward Binoculars $79.99
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Are you in the habit of fault watching? Where you watch others and catalog their faults like the most obsessive detail-oriented bird watcher?
Then you need the Inward Binoculars. Instead of training your eyes on others these Binoculars focus inward to reveal your faults. First start at the lowest magnification levels since it is more than likely your faults will be easily seen at this level. As you progress in the spiritual life you can increase the magnification. The fault comparison algorithm is not computed on others compared to yourself, but yourself compared to Jesus. The inward binoculars work best when you keep your eyes on Jesus.
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Sacred Heart Monitor $279.99
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Is your will united with the Sacred Heart of Jesus? Does your heart beat with the will of Christ or is there little synchronization?
With the Sacred Heart Monitor you will know for sure. If the signal is flat lined you might not have the leads connected correctly. If you do and it is still flat lined it means your prayer life is dead. If this symptom is detected resuscitate your prayer life immediately with prayer. Reading the Gospels is highly recommended to jump start your heart and prayer life.
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Yuck Spice $2.99
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Are you one of those people who just love seafood and find abstinence from meat something not anyway penitential? If you fit into this category you will love to hate Yuck Spice.
Yuck Spice is a very unpleasant seasoning you sprinkle on your seafood or salad if you are a vegetarian. This makes your normally enjoyable meal quite penitential and much more fitting with the season.
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Snack Patch $14.99
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Have you made a Lenten commitment to give up all snacks during Lent yet in years past you have always failed to keep this resolution?
Introduction the Snack Patch. Each pack contains amounts of all the normal crap you read on the ingredients of most snack food of additives, preservatives, color additives, emulsifiers, etc. Each week you change your patch and each week it contains less and less of your normal snack chemical soup you so love.
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Sackcloth T $17.99
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Have you ever wanted to try out sackcloth, but just weren't sure how it was done properly?
If you answered yes you are a candidate for the Sackcloth T the finest in penitential undershirts and you can get them monogrammed. People might give you strange looks as you constantly scratch your upper body, but they won't know your wearing sackcloth under your work shirt.
If you want something more fashionable then you can also order are sackcloth hoodies.
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Ash Wednesday Stencil $2.99
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Are you one of the millions that go to Ash Wednesday services only to come away with the sign of the smudge? Disappointed once again that you don't have a distinctive cross on your forehead. That when your co-workers see you they offer you a napkin or tell you got some grease on your forehead?
Well this will never happen again if you have the Ash Wednesday Stencil. Simply remove the film on the stencil and attach the adhesive side to your forehead before ashes are distributed. After ashes are applied remove the stencil to have that perfect cross revealed.
While it is too late to use this product this year, order now so that next year you won't get smudged.
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Lenten Resolution Tablet $22.99
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Do you want to write down your Lenten resolutions to help to remind you to keep them, yet don't want to make them too permanent? The Lenten Resolution is perfect for people who have to keep downshifting their resolution.
If you start with "Pray 30 minutes a day" and then after a week found you didn't make it, then simply shake the Lenten Resolution tablet and put "Pray 20 minutes a day." Shake all you want. Our tablet can take it even when you get down to "Pray 5 minutes a day."
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At L-Mart we have these and many other great products to ensure you have a Holy Lent and to prepare yourself for the best Easter yet!
With every order you also get our great two-step infallible guide to growth in holiness.
1. Love God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.
...Repeat as necessary.
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Well thankfully we don't seem to need the portable font this year. Our holy water has stayed put. Although I could have used the ashes plugs.
I won't sing that song, but they played it twice already.
What's the deal with the x-ray glasses thing?
Is there some actual rule about covering up the statues and whatnot? Or is it a pious tradition that folks have stretched?
In other words, I had never heard that you were supposed to cover the statues only later into Lent. What's the deali-o?
"Ashes" only borders on heresy? Pelagianism is what the song promotes &Pelagianism is a heresy.
Given how many other so-called Lenten hymns also border on or cross over into heresy do you think you could come up with anew & improved edition for next Lent?
I guess this shows that great minds think alike. After cringing through it at Mass Sun AM, I was planning on disecting "Ashes" & comparing it to what Scripture really says.
"Ashes", as I've pointed out before, is a bad rendering of the recommendations of The Imitation of Christ on how to offer yourself up at the offertory. Conry doubtless had read a Kempis or similar spiritual musings. He just went a little too far on the personal effort side.
"Lord, all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine. I desire to offer myself up unto thee as a freewill offering, and to continue Thine for ever. Lord, in the uprightness of mine heart I willingly offer myself to Thee to-day to be Thy servant for ever, in humble submission and for a sacrifice of perpetual praise. Receive me with this holy Communion of Thy precious Body, which I celebrate before Thee this day in the presence of the Angels invisibly surrounding, that it may be for the salvation of me and of all Thy people.
"Lord, I lay before Thee at this celebration all my sins and offences which I have committed before Thee and Thy holy Angels, for the day whereon I was first able to sin even unto this hour; that Thou mayest consume and burn them every one with the fire of Thy charity, and mayest do away all the stains of my sins, and cleanse my conscience from all offence, and restore me to Thy favour which by sinning I have lost, fully forgiving me all, and mercifully admitting me to the kiss of peace...
"I offer also unto Thee all my goodness, though it is exceedingly little and imperfect, that Thou mayest mend and sanctify it, that Thou mayest make it well pleasing and acceptable in Thy sight, and ever draw it on towards perfection; and furthermore bring me safely, slothful and useless poor creature that I am, to a happy and blessed end...
"Blessed is he who offereth himself to God for a whole burnt-offering, so often as he celebrateth or communicateth!"
dude, way too much time on your hands. But really funny though. "The Charity checker" is priceless. I have to get myself one of those. Meanness and sarcasm seem to be my fallback response when prompted.
Can I put in an order for one of everything, please?
;-)
Might I suggest you add to your store the Penitential Donut?
http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/penitential_donut
I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a set of Ashes plugs today.
BMP
Incredibly funny and incredibly thought-provoking.
Thank you.
P.S.
Ash Wednesday - smudged
Holy Water/Statues - safe for now
"Ashes" - sang as much as I could before feeling slightly ill . . . almost a whole line.
Flew out of Mass "On Eagle's Wings".
Happy to say, I made friends with the choir director at my church this year. When it came time for Lent, I expressed my concern about the "Ashes" song. He actually agreed with me! (I'd say Alleluia, but it's Lent). No heresy here!
Very funny.
I'm with folks on the Ashes song too. Maureen, you may well be right, but when you have to think *that* hard about what a song is actually saying, the song doesn't work.
I LOVE IT! Just absolutely hilarious. My husband just asked me what was so funny at this late hour.
Jeff, you are right on target as usual with a wonderful sense of humor. My personal favorite was the ashes stencil. Now if we could just get rid of those awful hymns and bring back the real ones, that would be a real blessing.
Oh, Jeff - I need something to clean my computer screen of the coffee.
Too funny!
You need to sell hairshirts as well.
@Shane
In the Church after Laetare Sunday the tradition is to cover the statues and even the rood with purple cloth. This is to remove all distractions from the central act of the consecration. By Good Friday we reach the point where there is no Mass celebrated. Only a prayer service and passion reading. The tabernacle is empty, the altar is stripped, Christ is crucified as we pray at 3:00pm during the Stations and laid in the tomb.
I usually have people ask me why I am am playing with a fire in front of the Church on Holy Saturday when people come in for what they think will be the Saturday night quickie Easter Mass. :-)
This is just sooo funny. I have been literally howling with laughter at my computer. Loved the Ashes stencil!
I don't know the Ashes 'hymn' - maybe it's more popular in America.
Keep this up, Jeff, you are the best jester on the net!
Clare from England
Great products, may I suggest some upgrades?
Confession Detector - personal edition: it beeps if you try to confess someone else's sins. Comes with complementary pair of modified "Ashes plugs" to give to your priest so that he does not have to listen to penitents confessing the sins of a wayward spouse or child.
Portable Holy Water font - with safety lock: a plug prevents water from floating out if you try to baptise someone (e.g. grandchild) who isn't in danger of death.
I wish you had a product that would give me the backbone to send this link to my pastor. He needs to lighten up! He also needs Fr. Philip Neri's Ten Commandments for a Good lenten Confession!
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