It’s Holy Week, which is either a continuation and deepening of Lent, or its own Penitential Season, depending on who you ask (same thing with the Triduum - is it a separate season, or is it part of Lent?)
Your instructor was wrong. It is not over yet. Maundy Thursday or as it is also known Holy Thursday is the end of Lent and the start of the Easter Tridum.
Actually, it is over at the beginning of the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday night. That Mass is the first Mass of Easter, and with it, the celebration of the Ressurection begins.It’s Holy Week, which is either a continuation and deepening of Lent, or its own Penitential Season, depending on who you ask (same thing with the Triduum - is it a separate season, or is it part of Lent?)
Anyway, to your question about penance - no, your Lenten Penance, whatever you have chosen for that to be, ends at midnight on Saturday.
Yes, but we are in Church, and fasting for Holy Communion at that time.
Thank you Matthew for reaffirming what everyone else ignored; The Truth!
A wonderful response. I have been having a “debate” all morning with someone about this very topic and finally ended it with
I like your response much better.
Eating sweets is often sin of gluttony.
Lets not get scrupulous -not to mention that was not the question asked.
“Pope Innocent XI has condemned the proposition which asserts that it is not a sin to eat or to drink from the sole motive of satisfying the palate. However, it is not a fault to feel pleasure in eating: for it is, generally speaking, impossible to eat without experiencing the delight which food naturally produces. But it is a defect to eat, like beasts, through the sole motive of sensual gratification, and without any reasonable object. Hence, the most delicious meats may be eaten without sin, if the motive be good and worthy of a rational creature; and, in taking the coarsest food through attachment to pleasure, there may be a fault.”
Wow than all those Rosary Society bake sales (with all those cookies, brownies, fudge, cakes and other sweets) and children’s Christmas party at out parish must be promoting sin.
Not too mention those CCD teachers passing out candy to the kids for rewards. Oh and the candy our priest gave to our daughter after meeting us for the first time when we joined the parish -I guess that was sinful too."In the lives of the Fathers it is related that, though the same food was served to all the monks of acertain monastery, a holy bishop saw some of them feasting on honey, others on bread, and others on mire. By this vision he was given to understand, that the first eat with a holy fear of violating temperance, and were accustomed, at meals, to raise their souls to God by holy aspirations: that the second felt some delight in eating, but still returned thanks to God for his benefits; and, that the third eat for the **mere gratification of the taste. **Wow than all those Rosary Society bake sales (with all those cookies, brownies, fudge, cakes and other sweets) and children’s Christmas party at out parish must be promoting sin.
Gluttony is about excessiveness.
That’s good patience, I had chocolate in my hand on the way out of the Easter VigilNo Lent isn’t over until Holy Thursday. I have heard it said that it is technically over when the Mass of the Lord’s Supper starts. Not sure about that level of technicality. But Holy Thursday starts the Tridium which is also a penetential season - even more so then Lent itself so it generally isn’t “done” to give up your penance until Easter - or at least when you get home from Vigil Mass.
So Jesus turned water into wine for the nutritional value?
