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Tag Archives: can. 1251
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
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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
Season After Pentecost on Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”: “The only way forward is to go back. We’re liturgically lost, and we can talk all we want about making…”
