From Alabama-
Some people give up something for Lent, like a favorite food.
Alabama Episcopal Bishop Henry N. Parsley brings something extra with him during Lent.
"I carry a stone in my pocket," Parsley said on Ash Wednesday as he opened the Lenten preaching series at Cathedral Church of the Advent. He held it in his fingers and showed it to the congregation as he stood in the pulpit. "It reminds me I have no right or need to cast the first stone. I'm no less a sinner than anyone else."
Lent is the penitential season leading up to Easter, which will be celebrated by most Christians this year on April 4. It's a season of 40 days, not counting Sundays, in which the church urges penitence and self-examination.
"The season of Lent is meant to bring us to review our sinfulness," Parsley said. "It's simply knowing that you're mortal and fallible and not God."
Giving up meat or chocolate or carrying a stone are practices meant to serve as reminders.
More here-
http://blog.al.com/living-news/2010/02/episcopal_bishop_henry_n_parsl.html
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