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I know Ash Wednesday is a day of fast ann abstinence and a day of obligation for going to mass, but if I work overnight, what chunk of time is Ash Wednesday for me? The part during the day when I’m asleep or the part at night when it’s technically already over for everyone else? Could someone please help me out?
 
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chaple:
I know Ash Wednesday is a day of fast ann abstinence and a day of obligation for going to mass, but if I work overnight, what chunk of time is Ash Wednesday for me? The part during the day when I’m asleep or the part at night when it’s technically already over for everyone else? Could someone please help me out?
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What I think matters is that you actually make a commitment. Not necisarily whether you do it in the day or at night. If you sleep in the day, then just fast till you go to sleep the next morning instead. That is what I think.
 
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chaple:
I know Ash Wednesday is a day of fast ann abstinence and a day of obligation for going to mass, but if I work overnight, what chunk of time is Ash Wednesday for me? The part during the day when I’m asleep or the part at night when it’s technically already over for everyone else? Could someone please help me out?
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What I think matters is that you actually make a commitment. Not necisarily whether you do it in the day or at night. If you sleep in the day, then just fast till you go to sleep the next morning instead. That is what I think.
 
Actually, Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation, though I would still encourage you to attend Mass if you are able. To my knowledge, the Church considers Wednesday to be what the rest of the world does: from 12:00am to 11:59pm, February 9th 2005
 
I work the overnight shift as well. While answering the Ash Wednesday question, this also applies for other matters. No meat Fridays (for me) pertains to midnight to midnight. Which is the same for everything else.

This probably works out better for third shifters, because most of the “day” is spent sleeping and not being tempted while fasting.
 
I worked the 11-7 shift for many years when younger, When I woke up Friday(or Ash Wed.) around 2PM my day began, I would fast/and or not eat meat from that point on until I woke up Saturday. It’s was easiest way to keep Lent for myself.
 
We can really wrap ourselves around thee axle on this stuff!

My example – I was flying across 6 time zones coming home around a Friday - it was Friday on and off of course, depending on what time zone you were in. What made this important, is meals are very limited on a plane.

So I just made my best guess as to the right thing to do, I said I am traveling home, so when it’s not Friday at home I can eat meat.

I figured I gave this situation so much thought power God would appreciate my effort even if I didn’t get it completely to the letter! (although it is a penance offering so it really is the thought and action that counts).
 
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chaple:
I know Ash Wednesday is a day of fast ann abstinence and a day of obligation for going to mass, but if I work overnight, what chunk of time is Ash Wednesday for me? The ?
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the part of the day you are awake, when you would normally be eating.
 
Just some clarification on the ‘Church Day’. With important feast and holy days the Church follows Jewish practice and the feast day commences at dusk of the day before and ends at sunset of the next day. This is the reason why we can have a Sunday Mass on Saturday evening (the ‘vigil’ Mass). This is also the reason you will find two sets of Vespers Hours in the Divine Office - Sunday Evening 1, and Sunday Evening 2. Sunday evening 1 prayers are said on Saturday evening, the beginning of Sunday by Church reasoning, and Sunday Evening 2 is said on Sunday evening, as a mark of the end of Sunday.

Important feast days will usually follow this chronology. However, as Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation the day commences at dawn and ends at Midnight.
 
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Important feast days will usually follow this chronology. However, as Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation the day commences at dawn and ends at Midnight.
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I think it begins and ends at midnight.
 
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Just some clarification on the ‘Church Day’. With important feast and holy days the Church follows Jewish practice and the feast day commences at dusk of the day before and ends at sunset of the next day. This is the reason why we can have a Sunday Mass on Saturday evening (the ‘vigil’ Mass). This is also the reason you will find two sets of Vespers Hours in the Divine Office - Sunday Evening 1, and Sunday Evening 2. Sunday evening 1 prayers are said on Saturday evening, the beginning of Sunday by Church reasoning, and Sunday Evening 2 is said on Sunday evening, as a mark of the end of Sunday.
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I respectfully disagree, unless someone can clarify.

While the Church does begin the liturgical celebration of Sundays and Solemnities on the evening of the preceding day, I have never seen any Church document that says that evening *is *the day nor *begins *the day. Rather, the catechism and canon law (eg) refer to the “holyday **itself ** or on the evening of the previous day” (**emphasis **added). If the previous evening were the start of the day, then the “holyday itself” already includes it, and the above phrasing is redundant, no? (you wouldn’t say the “day itself or on the morning of the day” would you?)

Likewise, I’ve never heard an admonition to avoid servile work on Saturday evening? Wouldn’t you think so, if it was technically part of Sunday?

If I have misunderstood, I welcome correction.

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chaple:
I know Ash Wednesday is a day of fast ann abstinence …
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I would guess it’s midnight Wednesday morning, to midnight Wednesday evening, and if you were on a jet plane, I would guess that it is OK to use the local time (over where you were flying).
In any case, I would not advise the participation of viewing of lewd plays such as the V_monologue, which was played with student participation on Ash Wednesday at Holy Cross college in Worcester, Masssachusetts. I don’t know why the Jesuit authorities and the local bishop give their approval for the showing of these lewd plays at Catholic campuses on Ash Wednesday.
 
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