Catholic Fast Days

  • Thread starter Thread starter Crusading_Canuk
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
C

Crusading_Canuk

Guest
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could point me to a list of Traditional Catholic Fast days. Also, my parents ordered me the Angelus Press Daily Missal for Christmas, does it have a calendar for the different feast and fast days?
 
The various funeral homes in our area print out Catholic liturgical calendars and toward the end of December they are available in the Church foyer.

I’ll Google: Catholic liturgical calendar fast
and get back with what I’ve found.

churchyear.net/calendar2011.html
 
A list of Traditional Catholic Fast days and their modern status can be found here:

fisheaters.com/fasting.html

Note that the Vigil of Christmas fast and abstinence was moved back to the 23rd in the 1950’s.
 
Crusading_Canuk said:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could point me to a list of Traditional Catholic Fast days. Also, my parents ordered me the Angelus Press Daily Missal for Christmas, does it have a calendar for the different feast and fast days?
Click to expand...
Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
 
Crusading_Canuk said:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could point me to a list of Traditional Catholic Fast days. Also, my parents ordered me the Angelus Press Daily Missal for Christmas, does it have a calendar for the different feast and fast days?
Click to expand...
As Vince1022 has pointed out there are only two days in the year we are required to fast and that is Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

We are of course also required to fast at least one hour before we receive Communion.
 
I think the OP was wanting a list of the Traditional fast and abstinence days that were in former usage pre-Vatican II. Of course we only have the bare minimum of two fast days per year at the present time that binds under pain of sin… but that doesn’t mean that this should be the totality of our yearly penance. It’s just the bare minimum! We get out of religion what we put into it, and I’m afraid that we’re not putting in nearly enough anymore. So, making a devotion of observing the pre-Vatican II customs can be an excellent way to enrich spiritual life.
 
Thoma25 said:
I think the OP was wanting a list of the Traditional fast and abstinence days that were in former usage pre-Vatican II. Of course we only have the bare minimum of two fast days per year at the present time that binds under pain of sin… but that doesn’t mean that this should be the totality of our yearly penance. It’s just the bare minimum! We get out of religion what we put into it, and I’m afraid that we’re not putting in nearly enough anymore. So, making a devotion of observing the pre-Vatican II customs can be an excellent way to enrich spiritual life.
Click to expand...
Right. The Church only legislates the “minimum.” Wednesdays and Fridays have been considered special days in the Catholic Christian tradition (e.g. ember and rogation days) and of course Friday is always a day of penitence, regardless of the minimum requirements of Church law.
 
Crusading_Canuk said:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could point me to a list of Traditional Catholic Fast days. Also, my parents ordered me the Angelus Press Daily Missal for Christmas, does it have a calendar for the different feast and fast days?
Click to expand...
The Roman Catholic Daily Missal 1962 by Angelus Press is worth it’s weight in gold. I received mine as a gift from my parents three years ago today. It is one of the best single-volume resources available to Catholics.

[Chapter One - Page One]
FEASTS AND FASTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Section I. HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION on which we are bound to hear Mass and to abstain from servile work.


  • IN THE UNITED STATES AND NORTH AMERICA…

  • IN CANADA…
Section II. FASTING AND ABSTINENCE DAYS “Unless you do penance, you shall likewise perish” (Lk. 13:5)


  • REQUIREMENTS FOR PENITENTIAL DAYS UNDER PRESENT CHURCH LAW (Canons 1249-1253 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law.)

  • GUIDELINES FOR OBSERVING TRADITIONAL PENITENTIAL DAYS (Canons 1250-1254 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law.)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top