Feast day:no abstinence?

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Hi, today/Friday is the Feast of Chair of St. Peter. Does that mean I shouldn’t do abstinence or any penance for that matter?
Thanks.

How about Station of the Cross?
 
vince2paul said:
Hi, today/Friday is the Feast of Chair of St. Peter. Does that mean I shouldn’t do abstinence or any penance for that matter?
Thanks.

How about Station of the Cross?
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No, you would treat as all Fridays of Lent.
God bless!
 
vince2paul said:
Hi, today/Friday is the Feast of Chair of St. Peter. Does that mean I shouldn’t do abstinence or any penance for that matter?
Thanks.

How about Station of the Cross?
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If your Bishop has made that decree.
 
The Friday penances are only lifted in the case of Solemnities falling on a Friday. The Chair of St. Peter is a feast, one rank lower than a Solemnity, so you still carry out your usual penances.

Now tomorrow, in addition to being St. Polycarp (an optional memorial, way down the list of festivity), it’s also my birthday. Why it has not been declared a Solemnity yet is quite beyond me, but feel free to celebrate as you see fit! 😃

Betsy
 
baltobetsy said:
The Friday penances are only lifted in the case of Solemnities falling on a Friday. The Chair of St. Peter is a feast, one rank lower than a Solemnity, so you still carry out your usual penances.

Now tomorrow, in addition to being St. Polycarp (an optional memorial, way down the list of festivity), it’s also my birthday. Why it has not been declared a Solemnity yet is quite beyond me, but feel free to celebrate as you see fit! 😃

Betsy
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Oh yes, I was thinking of solemnity when I mentioned feast day. :o Thank you and thanks for all the replies.

Btw, happy birthday!😃
 
baltobetsy said:
The Friday penances are only lifted in the case of Solemnities falling on a Friday. The Chair of St. Peter is a feast, one rank lower than a Solemnity, so you still carry out your usual penances.

Betsy
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Hi Betsy,
What is a Solemnity?

When you say carry out your usual penances - that means no meat today? My son, who attends a Catholic High School heard that we could eat meat today from some of his classmates.

ps. Happy B-day 🙂
 
luvlife said:
Hi Betsy,
What is a Solemnity?

When you say carry out your usual penances - that means no meat today? My son, who attends a Catholic High School heard that we could eat meat today from some of his classmates.

ps. Happy B-day 🙂
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A Solemnity is the highest rank of commemoration of an event in the life of Our Lord or Our Lady, or of a Saint. Many of them are holydays of obligation. After Solemnity comes Feast, then Memorial, then Optional Memorial. After that, it’s just a weekday. There’s probably a better definition in the Catechism or the Catholic Encyclopedia or Google.

Maybe your son’s classmates were hungry for a burger! Yes, that means no meat today, a Lenten Friday. If, for some reason, your Bishop decided that today’s feast was enough reason to suspend the abstinence for today, you would surely have heard about it in your Catholic newspaper or last Sunday in your bulletin, or even on the news, since what Catholics do is endlessly fascinating to the media. Some Bishops will lift the rule of abstinence on St. Patrick’s day if it falls on a Friday, especially if they have a large Irish population.

Thanks for the B-day wishes!

Betsy
 
baltobetsy said:
A Solemnity is the highest rank of commemoration of an event in the life of Our Lord or Our Lady, or of a Saint. Many of them are holydays of obligation. After Solemnity comes Feast, then Memorial, then Optional Memorial. After that, it’s just a weekday. There’s probably a better definition in the Catechism or the Catholic Encyclopedia or Google.

Maybe your son’s classmates were hungry for a burger! Yes, that means no meat today, a Lenten Friday. If, for some reason, your Bishop decided that today’s feast was enough reason to suspend the abstinence for today, you would surely have heard about it in your Catholic newspaper or last Sunday in your bulletin, or even on the news, since what Catholics do is endlessly fascinating to the media. Some Bishops will lift the rule of abstinence on St. Patrick’s day if it falls on a Friday, especially if they have a large Irish population.

Thanks for the B-day wishes!

Betsy
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Sometimes a Bishop may abrogate the Lenten abistinence if the feast day that falls on a Friday is the feast of a Patron Saint of the diocese or Cathedral.
 
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