Forwarded from BELLUM CONTRA HÆRÉTICOS
There's a 10 year indulgence available for saying the Angelus. Just sayin'...
FASTING AND ABSTINENCE IN LENT
These are the current fasting and abstinence rules for Lent, as they've stood since the reign of Pope Pius XII:
Fasting obliges those between the ages of 21 and 59.
Fasting means:
~ Only one full meal is allowed in the day, and that after noon
~ That meal may contain meat, unless it's also an abstinence day
~ Further, two small meatless snacks, called collations, are allowed each day: when added together they must not exceed the size of a full meal
~ Snacking between these is not permitted
~ No liquid breaks the fast, including milk
~ Things that we may call liquid, but are made of solid matter, such as soup and fruit or vegetable smoothies, do break the fast
~ each fasting day is midnight to midnight
All the forty days of Lent (that is, excluding Sundays) are fasting days.
Abstinence obliges all those who are 7 or older.
Abstinence means no meat or soup made from meat. Other foods, including those using meat juices, are allowed.
In the universal law of the Church, the abstinence days in Lent are all Fridays and all Saturdays, with the addition of Ash Wednesday and the Ember Wednesday. Ireland follows these rules.
In England, the Saturdays are swapped for the Wednesdays, so the abstinence days are all Wednesdays and all Fridays with the Ember Saturday.
In the USA, the abstinence days are all Fridays and Ash Wednesday only. The Ember Wednesday and Saturday are days of "partial abstinence", which is described as a day on which meat is allowed at the main meal but not the two collations (which sounds to me exactly like a fasting day without abstinence).
In Scotland, St. Joseph's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation and the obligation to fast is overturned. In Ireland that is true of St. Patrick's Day.
These are the current fasting and abstinence rules for Lent, as they've stood since the reign of Pope Pius XII:
Fasting obliges those between the ages of 21 and 59.
Fasting means:
~ Only one full meal is allowed in the day, and that after noon
~ That meal may contain meat, unless it's also an abstinence day
~ Further, two small meatless snacks, called collations, are allowed each day: when added together they must not exceed the size of a full meal
~ Snacking between these is not permitted
~ No liquid breaks the fast, including milk
~ Things that we may call liquid, but are made of solid matter, such as soup and fruit or vegetable smoothies, do break the fast
~ each fasting day is midnight to midnight
All the forty days of Lent (that is, excluding Sundays) are fasting days.
Abstinence obliges all those who are 7 or older.
Abstinence means no meat or soup made from meat. Other foods, including those using meat juices, are allowed.
In the universal law of the Church, the abstinence days in Lent are all Fridays and all Saturdays, with the addition of Ash Wednesday and the Ember Wednesday. Ireland follows these rules.
In England, the Saturdays are swapped for the Wednesdays, so the abstinence days are all Wednesdays and all Fridays with the Ember Saturday.
In the USA, the abstinence days are all Fridays and Ash Wednesday only. The Ember Wednesday and Saturday are days of "partial abstinence", which is described as a day on which meat is allowed at the main meal but not the two collations (which sounds to me exactly like a fasting day without abstinence).
In Scotland, St. Joseph's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation and the obligation to fast is overturned. In Ireland that is true of St. Patrick's Day.
Forwarded from ChristianTactics
Privyet Hermano in Christ, may the Grace of Christ Victor be upon you. Friendly tomorrow that Lent has started. It is time to purge yourself of all earthy attachments and pursue sanctity. Or die trying. Train in mind, body, and soul. The Enemy is hunting you. Don’t let him snag you into the abyss. Suffer with great joy and pursue God above all else. Deus Vult
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Remember, in order to supernaturally merit for your fasting you must be in a state of grace. An act of perfect contrition will be able to restore you to grace provided you meet all the conditions if you cannot receive the sacrament of penance at this time.
May God grant you the grace to repent of your sins!
May God grant you the grace to repent of your sins!
From Challoner's Meditations:
ASH WEDNESDAY
ON ASH-WEDNESDAY
Consider first, how God calls upon us, by his Prophet, in the lesson of this day: 'Be converted to me,’ saith he, 'with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning - and rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God,’ Joel ii. 12,13. Christians, hearken to this summons from heaven. O let it sink deep into your souls; and if this day you hear the voice of God sweetly inviting you, turn to him in good earnest; now at this holy season harden not your hearts, lest provoked by your impenitence he turn away from you, and you die in your sins. O let us repeat and amend, as we are admonished by the Church on this day, whilst we have time, lest being overtaken by death, which is ever following at our heels, we should seek for time of penance, and not be able to find it.
Consider 2ndly, the meaning of the ashes which are put on our heads this day with these words: 'Remember that thou art dust; and into the dust thou shalt return.’ Sackcloth and ashes were the ancient habit of penitents. The Ninevites by fasting in sack-cloth and ashes found mercy. Let these ashes then, which we receive on our heads at the beginning of this penitential fast, be a lesson to us to enter upon it with the like penitential spirit. They are an emblem of contrition and humility; let us receive them with a contrite and humble heart. They are also a remembrance of our mortality, of our frail composition, and of our hasty return to our mother earth. O let us think well on this, and renounce henceforward our unhappy pride and presumption; O let us make good use of this our time, and prepare for that moment which shall ere long send away our souls into another region, and turn our bodies into dirt and dust.
Consider 3rdly, Christian soul, those words, as if, they were addressed to thee: ‘Yet forty days and Nineve shall be destroyed,’ Jonas iii. 4. Alas have not thy sins, like those of Nineve, called to heaven this long time for vengeance? And hast thou not too much reason to fear, lest the mercy which thou hast so long abused should now quickly give place to justice, and should suffer thee to die in thy sins? Perhaps this is the last reprieve that God will grant thee. In all appearance the good use, or the abuse of these forty days, may determine thy lot for an eternity.
Conclude then to spare no pains to avert the judgment that hangs over thy head, and so spend these forty days of reprieve in suing for mercy, after the manner God has appointed, that is, by fasting, weeping, and mourning, that thou mayest effectually find it.
ASH WEDNESDAY
ON ASH-WEDNESDAY
Consider first, how God calls upon us, by his Prophet, in the lesson of this day: 'Be converted to me,’ saith he, 'with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning - and rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God,’ Joel ii. 12,13. Christians, hearken to this summons from heaven. O let it sink deep into your souls; and if this day you hear the voice of God sweetly inviting you, turn to him in good earnest; now at this holy season harden not your hearts, lest provoked by your impenitence he turn away from you, and you die in your sins. O let us repeat and amend, as we are admonished by the Church on this day, whilst we have time, lest being overtaken by death, which is ever following at our heels, we should seek for time of penance, and not be able to find it.
Consider 2ndly, the meaning of the ashes which are put on our heads this day with these words: 'Remember that thou art dust; and into the dust thou shalt return.’ Sackcloth and ashes were the ancient habit of penitents. The Ninevites by fasting in sack-cloth and ashes found mercy. Let these ashes then, which we receive on our heads at the beginning of this penitential fast, be a lesson to us to enter upon it with the like penitential spirit. They are an emblem of contrition and humility; let us receive them with a contrite and humble heart. They are also a remembrance of our mortality, of our frail composition, and of our hasty return to our mother earth. O let us think well on this, and renounce henceforward our unhappy pride and presumption; O let us make good use of this our time, and prepare for that moment which shall ere long send away our souls into another region, and turn our bodies into dirt and dust.
Consider 3rdly, Christian soul, those words, as if, they were addressed to thee: ‘Yet forty days and Nineve shall be destroyed,’ Jonas iii. 4. Alas have not thy sins, like those of Nineve, called to heaven this long time for vengeance? And hast thou not too much reason to fear, lest the mercy which thou hast so long abused should now quickly give place to justice, and should suffer thee to die in thy sins? Perhaps this is the last reprieve that God will grant thee. In all appearance the good use, or the abuse of these forty days, may determine thy lot for an eternity.
Conclude then to spare no pains to avert the judgment that hangs over thy head, and so spend these forty days of reprieve in suing for mercy, after the manner God has appointed, that is, by fasting, weeping, and mourning, that thou mayest effectually find it.