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Tag Archives: fasting
20 February 2012
Ash Wednesday, Fasting, Abstaining, and You.
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday.
Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Continue reading
22 December 2011
A suggestion before Christmas: fast and abstain and perform works of mercy
It is a Christian custom that we fast before our feasts.
Our friends at Rorate remind us that before 1965, 23 and 24 December were days of fasting and abstinence.
May I suggest to you good readers that you do something along … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes
Tagged abstinence, Christmas, fasting, mortification, works of mercy
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13 May 2011
WDTPRS KUDOS to the Bishops of England and Wales: meatless Fridays re-established
If perhaps the Conference of England and Wales won’t be enthusiastic about Universae Ecclesiae I read this with pleasure from the site of Peter Jennings:
Fish on Friday re-established by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
By Peter Jennings · … Continue reading
14 March 2011
QUAERITUR: Feast days during Lent, or “plenus uenter facile de ieiuniis disputat”
From a reader:
This year, the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary falls on a Friday. In the Extraordinary Form, it’s a first class feast. Meat would normally, therefore, be allowed (despite the Friday).
However, in the universal calendar (ordinary form), it’s … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged fasting, LENT, penance
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23 April 2009
Kicking it up a notch: our Catholic identity – Fr. Z rants
A reader alerted me to a letter of His Excellency Most Reverend R. Daniel Conlon, Bishop of Steubenville about Friday penance.
This is post on the website of the Diocese of Steubenville and the letter was to be read before or … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Classic Posts, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged crisis, fasting, friday, identity, penance, rubrics, Steubenville
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