Fasting in Advent? Yea or Nay?

[CalCatholic]

I am fasting during Fridays on bread and water. I do this year round.

You are a better person than I am… now if I could spread a little butter and add a slice of cheese to that bread and if the water could be turned to coffee, then I might have a chance.

 

[UpUpAndAway]

As a diabetic I can no longer fast/abstain from food like I did when I was a young woman. So, I give up other pleasurable things for my fasts and penances.

Fasting does not have to be food-related, though that tends to be the first thing that springs to mind when people hear the word “fast.”

Though I answered that Advent is a penitential season, canon law says otherwise.Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Source: Code of Canon Law

Well, I’ll be. Learn something new every day. As The Husband says in moments like this, « Je me coucherai moins bête ce soir » (“I’ll go to bed less stupid this evening”).

Still going to fast, however, as that is my year-round practice. Though fasting during Advent is not required I wouldn’t discourage anyone from engaging in it, even if they don’t follow a perpetual fasting program such as mine.

 

[PietroPaolo]

Though I answered that Advent is a penitential season, canon law says otherwise.Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Source: Code of Canon Law

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Roma locuta est. That settles one of the two original questions, is Advent a penitential season. Now that leaves us with whether to fast or no, which I probably will