Friday devotions

[CompSciGuy]

So I know that on Fridays of lent we are to abstain from meats, but I heard somewhere that we are expected during the rest of the year we are expected to perform some other act of devotion. The person telling me this also told me that this requirement binds under penalty of serious sin. Is this true, and can someone confirm this? I can’t imagine that it would be mortally sinful to miss a Friday devotion (though it would be a very good practice).

 

[RCIAGraduate]

“may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.” Jude 1:2

Here’s a link on this site that may help…

catholic.com/quickquestions/outside-of-lent-do-we-have-to-do-anything-special-on-fridays

All Christ’s faithful are obliged by divine law, each in his or her own way, to do penance. However, so that all may be joined together in a certain common practice of penance, days of penance are prescribed. On these days the faithful are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves, by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and especially by observing the fast and abstinence which the following canons prescribe. (CIC 1249)

All are obliged to repent, and so that there may be corporate repentance toward God, days of penance have been set up, as in the Old Testament when the Jews proclaimed a national fast to do repent of their sins against God. Today, Friday is the chief day of penance since Christ died because of our sins on Friday, and Sunday is the chief day of worship, since Christ rose for our salvation on Sunday. (CIC 1250)

“Friday remains a day of penance, even outside of Lent. Here is what the Code of Canon Law has to say”

But there’s more…

“Thus the law of abstinence from meat is still binding unless one’s national bishops’ conference has provided for alternate forms of penance. In the United States, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has obtained permission from the Vatican for such substitution. Catholics are obliged to do some form of penance on Fridays and keep the day as per canon 1249, but now they can choose the form of penance they wish to do.”

If you’d like you could possibly develop a devotion to the Sacred Heart and/or pray the Sorrowful Mysteries on Fridays.

Happy Sunday…