Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence. The other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat.
Lenten penitential regulations
Authors: Find moments of silence this Lent, connect three pillars of season
Two authors provided their insights on how to make Lent meaningful in 2022 — especially since this is the third Lent the church will observe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Afghanistan: Pope launches appeal for fasting, prayers for God’s mercy
“I ask everyone to continue to help the needy and to pray that dialogue and solidarity may lead to the establishment of a peaceful and fraternal coexistence and offer hope for the country’s future,” he said, after praying the Angelus with visitors in St. Peter’s Square Aug. 29.
Father Scott Pogatchnik: Lenten training to reach our heavenly home
Lent, our own ‘spring training,’ prepares us for the mysteries of Holy Week.
Guide to fasting offers helpful information for Lenten discipline
Fasting, the author says, is not mortification of the flesh. Daylong gorging and grazing are what punish the body instead. Fasting as part of a lifestyle gets the body working as it was intended to work.
Fasting during Lent includes sharing, treating others kindly, pope says
The pope preached on the day’s first reading, taken from the prophet Isaiah, which condemned the false ways the faithful were fasting on a day of penance and the ways that are “acceptable to the Lord.”
Father Kenneth Doyle: Fasting and holy Communion/Funeral Mass in funeral home?
What are the rules of fasting before receiving Communion and can a funeral Mass be held in a funeral home.
Father Kenneth Doyle: In heaven for sure?/ Fasting and the family
Q. My mother passed away some time ago, and I wonder whether she is now in “God’s eternal embrace.” How can I be sure? She was […]