Beverages/fasting

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These are the beverages I believe I am allowed to have tomorrow: water, milk, fruit juice, coffee, tea. Am I leaving anything out? Or are there any of these that aren’t acceptable? I should know after 15 years of being a Catholic, but just making a final check.
 
There aren’t any clear guidelines regarding what beverages are and aren’t allowed between meals on a fast day. My personal opinion is that water and medicine are allowed, similar to the Eucharistic fast.
 
I’m hypoglycemic and I’m still trying to figure out how to get through tomorrow. This is my first Ash Wednesday as a Catholic.
 
From EWTN:
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Fasting The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th Birthday [Canon 97] to the 59th Birthday * to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The Church defines this as one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal in quantity. Such fasting is obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The fast is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which could be considered food (milk shakes, but not milk). Alcoholic beverages do not break the fast; however, they seem contrary to the spirit of doing penance.**
 
maltmom said:
I’m hypoglycemic and I’m still trying to figure out how to get threw tomorrow. This is my first Ash Wednesday as a Catholic.
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If you need to eat more than allowed then you could get a medical dispensation from your pastor.
 
maltmom said:
I’m hypoglycemic and I’m still trying to figure out how to get threw tomorrow. This is my first Ash Wednesday as a Catholic.
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Those who are excused from fast or abstinence
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Besides those outside the age limits, those of unsound mind, the sick, the frail, pregnant or nursing women according to need for meat or nourishment, manual laborers according to need, guests at a meal who cannot excuse themselves without giving great offense or causing enmity and other situations of moral or physical impossibility to observe the penitential discipline.*

Hypoglycemia is a medical condition and not eating can cause dips in your blood sugar. I don’t think you are bound by the fast but ask a priest to be sure. 😉
 
Those are generally fine. Milk is okay, but milkshakes and meal replacement shakes are not. I tend to stick with water and perhaps unsweetened tea; I just feel like I’m cheating when I drink milk, but that’s just me.
 
DaughterOfMary6 said:
Those who are excused from fast or abstinence
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Besides those outside the age limits, those of unsound mind, the sick*, the frail, pregnant or nursing women according to need for meat or nourishment, manual laborers according to need, guests at a meal who cannot excuse themselves without giving great offense or causing enmity and other situations of moral or physical impossibility to observe the penitential discipline.

Hypoglycemia is a medical condition and not eating can cause dips in your blood sugar. I don’t think you are bound by the fast but ask a priest to be sure. 😉
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I agree for the most part, but potentially causing offense is not grounds for failing to meet one’s obligations.
 
maltmom said:
I’m hypoglycemic and I’m still trying to figure out how to get through tomorrow. This is my first Ash Wednesday as a Catholic.
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This is something I found through Fisheaters:
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Those who need to be excused from the obligations of fasting and abstaining for medical reasons (pregnancy, the demands of extraordinarily hard labor, hypoglycemia, etc.) should speak with their priests for a dispensation. True charity trumps all law, and law exists to serve true charity!*

fisheaters.com/fasting.html
 
Thank you everyone. I have a plan for the day. As long as I have protein and complex carbs I should be fine. I’m bringing a small bag of peanuts with me to work today just in case I start to crash.

Have a blessed Lent.
 
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