Eve of a feast day

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The day before a feast day a vigil is said.

Does this mean during lent i can also start to feast on the eve of the actual feast?

For example…

Its Saturday night during Lent, and say i gave up chocolate.

can i start to eat chocolate on the saturday night? seeing as though the Church can celebrate a feast the night before also…?
 
Flatty10 said:
The day before a feast day a vigil is said.

Does this mean during lent i can also start to feast on the eve of the actual feast?

For example…

Its Saturday night during Lent, and say i gave up chocolate.

can i start to eat chocolate on the saturday night? seeing as though the Church can celebrate a feast the night before also…?
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Only major feast had vigils, and the vigil was fast day until the 20th century.

The days of celebrations were the days within the Octave and the Octave day itself, but in lent and passion times no octaves are celebrated.

Liturgically Until 1960 any weekday ended around three o’clock with the none, so with the Saturday vespers the Sunday started and lasted until the end of Sunday, except in Monday was some festivity, sot that vespers had precedence over the Sunday vespers. Imho this was not interpreted on that way, that Saturday evening the fasting rules would be abolished as they were for Sunday.
 
Flatty10 said:
The day before a feast day a vigil is said.

Does this mean during lent i can also start to feast on the eve of the actual feast?

For example…

Its Saturday night during Lent, and say i gave up chocolate.

can i start to eat chocolate on the saturday night? seeing as though the Church can celebrate a feast the night before also…?
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You can break the fast after Liturgy. Preferably after you receive Communion. Which means you would have prepared for the Feast and gone to confession.
 
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so therefor there is no fast Saturday evenings?
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If you’ve already celebrated Easter with the Easter Vigil, why are you still on Lenten Fast?

Like I said, if you attend the Mass, then you stop fasting. If you didn’t, you continue fasting.
 
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