I have an question about lent

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Not my opinion. It’s fact. You can look it up for yourself if you’re interested.
 
Please, link me to the Vatican, US Bishops or your Bishop’s website where this is listed as law/doctrine
 
Let me explain not just because of my self to fast from chocolate but because i eat to much of chocolate as well and hope this can teach me to eat less

I am healthy but i have mental illness ocd what gives me urges like obssesive thinking what can be annoying i hope you understand and empathize
 
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I am healthy but i have mental illness ocd what gives me urges like obssesive thinking what can be annoying i hope you understand and empathize.
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:hugs: @sebo3e, thank you for sharing this with us. Please let your mind be at peace about this. Your having mental illness makes you exempt from fasting and abstinance. Please don’t worry about doing that.

According to The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,(http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/questions-and-answers-about-lent.cfm) “Those that are excused from fast and abstinence outside the age limits include the physically or mentally ill including individuals suffering from chronic illnesses such as diabetes.

Also excluded are pregnant or nursing women. In all cases, common sense should prevail, and ill persons should not further jeopardize their health by fasting.”

Again, please don’t worry about the Lenten fasting and abstinance. But definitely do what your dr suggests about eating a healthy and well balanced diet.

God love you.:hugs:
 
No problem and wait just a min people with mental illness are free from lent absence from something just confused
 
Yes, @sebo3e, you’re exempt from fasting and abstinence because you have mental illness. As I said earlier, the Church never asks you to do anything that is going to jeopardize your health.
 
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But i dont have offical thing that i have mental illness i found that out by my self does that count i have ocd since i was a child and i realised that when i readed on the internet about obessive doing things and video on youtube what s ocd about
 
While an official diagnosis would give you peace of mind and confirmation of what you learned from the Internet, no one is going to ask you to produce a document proving you have OCD or any other mental illness.
 
Sorry for late reply and i understand also even so people with disorders are absent from lent that doesnt mean i cant at least try do 40 days from chocolate or something?
 
@sebo3e, if you choose to up chocolate for the duration of Lent, give up all chocolate as I stated in a previous post. Don’t do it halfway. You would only be giving it up for 40 days. That’s not so long. And you’d be doing it for your health.

You can also choose to give up non-food items for Lent. TV, the Internet (when you’re home not at work if Internet usage is a part of your job), movies, etc. And in their place, cultivate good habits.

Walking or biking (which improves your physical health), taking a course in something that interests you, reading the Bible and about the Saints (not the sports team), attending Mass more often, participating in Stations if your parish offers that, increased prayer time, volunteering at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen, maybe paying for someone’s meal or groceries. The possibilities are endless and will help you grow closer to Jesus.

Before you know it, Lent will be over. But your relationship with Jesus will have grown deeper and stronger.😇
 
@JulianN, were you not taught these things by your priests? I grew up with them! And our priests continue to remind us of them each year in word and via Church Bulletin.
 
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@JulianN, you might also look at this from Scott P Richert’s blog on Thought.com.
  • Every person 14 years of age or older must abstain from meat (and items made with meat) on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and every Friday of Lent.
  • Every person between the ages of 18 and 59 (your 18th birthday completes your 18th year, and your 59th birthday begins your 60th year) must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting consists of one full meal per day, with two smaller meals that do not add up to a full meal, per day, with two smaller meals that do not add up to a full meal, and no snacks (emphasis mine).
 
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Those who suffer from scrupulosity are advised not to seek guidance from this or any other internet forum, speak to your pastor/confessor and follow his guidance.
 
And I stand by what I said which is the exact same thing I was taught by my priests in the various parishes I’ve been a member of during my lifetime.

Perhaps snacking means something different to you.
 
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But as your sources show, it only applies to Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Nobody reading this thread should leave with the impression the Church teaches that snacks are not allowed during Lent.
 
This speaks of fast days. Good Friday and Ash Wednesday. Those bound to fast are not supposed to snack.

The snack prohibition does not apply to the other days of Lent.
 
I’m going off topic to the thread in order to agree with your post.

My son had a brain injury a few years back. One of the lingering issues is his brain works differently than before. He struggled with OCD and scrupulousity. I specifically told him he could not join CAF.
 
Allright thanks for explaining but sadly i am introvert dont go much out only maybe to store or to church etc if i need to and it took me alot of couarge to even do this to go to church because of my fear of people etc if you get me? its more like opposite

for example i prefer that someone goes with me if needs to do something what you told me but i dont have freinds and since i was consantly judged and rejected alot that made me depressed so on and on that s why i am here online also
 
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