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Tag Archives: can. 1251
ASK FATHER: Must we do penance, abstain from meat, on Friday in the Octave of Christmas?
This is a question which comes up each year. It came up again today. Must we do penance on Friday within the Octave of Christmas? The short answer is YES. This year. According to Canon Law, Catholics are bound to … Read More
Posted in 1983 CIC can. 915, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged can. 1245, can. 1251, Friday penance
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2 Comments
ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
We are now in the Easter Octave – Happy Easter! Let’s get out in front of this before the calendar clicks over to Friday. First, allow me to post a shot of last night’s (Wednesday’s) repast. The beef is so … Read More
ASK FATHER: Penance and abstinence on Friday, 6 January, Epiphany
From a reader… QUAERITUR: The feast of the Epiphany is a Friday this year. Our FSSP calendar has it marked as a day of abstinence, according to 1962 law, but my TLM planner from The Liturgical Year calendar family does … Read More
ASK FATHER: Must we do penance, abstain from meat, on Friday in the Octave of Christmas?
This is a question which comes up each year. It came up again today. Must we do penance on Friday within the Octave of Christmas? The short answer is YES, this year, yes. According to Canon Law, Catholics are bound … Read More
ASK FATHER: Pork butt for the Sacred Heart
From a reader… QUAERITUR: So . . . I have to smoke some pork butt today for a get together tomorrow. It will send sweet odors heavenward, low and slow and very very tempting for us mortals still stuck on … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Canon Law
Tagged can. 1251
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ASK FATHER: Did Vatican II extend the Good Friday fast also to Holy Saturday? What about Sacrosanctum Concilium 110?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: For a scrupulous person (me!), who would like clarity on his obligations: Is the extending of the Good Friday Fast to Holy Saturday obligatory? One translation of SC 110 says, “Let [the Paschal Fast] be celebrated … Read More
ASK FATHER: Must we abstain from eating meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
We are now in the Easter Octave – Happy Easter! Let’s get out in front of this before the calendar clicks over to Friday From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I recently returned to the traditional Friday abstinence from … Read More
ASK FATHER: Abstinence on a Friday of Lent that is also the Feast of the Annunciation. What to do?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: What is required / recommended regarding fasting and abstinence when a solemnity falls on a Friday in Lent? And another… I can’t make out if the Lenten Friday rule of abstinence applies to the Solemnity tomorrow? … Read More
ASK FATHER: Must we do penance, abstain from meat, on Friday in the Octave of Christmas?
This is a question which comes up each year. I’ve had three notes in email today. Must we do penance tomorrow, Friday within the Octave of Christmas? The short answer is YES, this year, yes. According to Canon Law, Catholics … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged 1245, can., can. 1251, Friday penance
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ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat today, Friday, Feast of the Sacred Heart or must we abstain?
A couple people have asked today about Friday abstinence from meat. Canon 1251 of the Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church says: Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter?
We are now in the Easter Octave – Happy Easter! Let’s get out in front of this before the calendar clicks over to Friday From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I recently returned to the traditional Friday abstinence from … Read More
ASK FATHER: Friday penance in Lent on the Feast of St. Joseph
From a reader… QUAERITUR: You have frequently posted blogs stating that the Friday penance is abrogated when that Friday is a solemnity. Would that apply to a Lenten Friday also, in this case tomorrow – the solemnity of the glorious … Read More
ASK FATHER: Friday penance, abstinence during the Octave of Christmas
From a reader… already… Is Friday, December 30, a Meat Friday since it falls within the Octave of Christmas? It is good to see that someone is planning ahead. As I write we are a fortnight from the day in … Read More
ASK FATHER: The Magical Friday Bacon-Fish!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I saw from NOAA today that they discovered a species of moonfish which is “the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds.” HERE Since in your wonderful … Read More
Friday Abstinence, the Octave of Easter and You
Each year during the Octave of Easter – and of Christmas – there is a Friday. Fridays are days of penance, usually observed by abstinence from meat. So, can one eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? The … Read More
QUAERITUR: Friday penance in the Octave of Christmas revisited
Yesterday I facetiously posted about Friday penance during the Octave of Christmas. Days (other than Sunday) within the Octave of Christmas are not “heavy enough” (as a “solemnity” would be) to “outweigh” the Friday obligation to do some sort of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged can. 1245, can. 1251, Friday abstinence, meat, Octave of Christmas
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QUAERITUR: Does the obligation to do penance on Fridays bind us under pain of sin?
From a reader: I advised a friend that Catholics are either to abstain from meat on Fridays or to substitute another form of prayer, good work, or abstinence; and that she should confess if she failed to do this. In … Read More
Friday Lenten Penance on 25 March – Annunciation
Those who are bound by the law are to do penance on Fridays of Lent. However, tomorrow, Friday is 25 March, the Solemnity (in the post-Conciliar calendar) of the Annunciation. Please attend to can. 1251. Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, … Read More
TheCavalierHatherly on When Card. Tagle sang “Imagine”: “No possessions? I wonder what would happen if I walked into Paul McCartney’s house and sampled some of the things…”
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