Must we fast throughout Lent?

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I’ve searched for the answer (on this site) to this question and surprisingly can’t find it.

Specifically, I want to know the Church’s offical position on whether we must fast (i.e. one full meal and two smaller ones with no snacking between) on each day of lent?

It is my understanding that we are required to fast, and abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstain from meat on the Fridays thoughout lent but it is not a requirement to fast on the Fridays and other days of lent. Correct?

So, the difference between lent and the rest of the year is that we are required to abstain on Fridays whereas the rest of the year we don’t have to abstain on Fridays, we can do some other penance?

Also, have these rules changed? In the past was it required to fast each day of lent and to only eat one meal with meat each day of lent (excluding Fridays of course)?

(: Responses quoting Canon Law, Catechism of the Catholic Church, et cetera, preferred 🙂
 
To simplify the Canon Law regulation, you must fast from the time of your 15th birthday until the time of your 59th birthday. You can be excused from fasting if there is a valid health reason, such as diabetes or other chronic condition or you’ve gotten sick some other way. Any priest can tell you if you must fast on any given personal circumstance.
 
there are at least a dozen threads on this topic, with links to provide answers to your question, the best source is your own bishop and what he published in the parishes before Lent.
 
So, we are supposed to fast everyday of lent! :eek:

I thought “fast” meant give something up!

I thought the fasting was only for fridays as well as no meat.

Oh dear.

Can anyone clarify, I couldnt get much from the link to the Canon Law.

In Christ.

Andre.
 
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Magicsilence:
So, we are supposed to fast everyday of lent! :eek:

I thought “fast” meant give something up!

I thought the fasting was only for fridays as well as no meat.

Oh dear.

Can anyone clarify, I couldnt get much from the link to the Canon Law.

In Christ.

Andre.
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No we Latin Catholics are NOT required either to not eat meat or to fast more stringently on each and every day of Lent - just the Fridays of Lent we should abstain from meat and Ash Wednesday and Good Friday we must fast as well. On other Fridays of the year we should do some ‘penance’ (extra prayers/charity/give up something enjoyable)
 
it is a season of penance, sacrifice and alsmsgiving though

i imagine that one of the reasons the Church dosen’t determine that we must be more stringent in our penance and sacrifice is they do not want o place upon us an undue burden like the Pharisees.

However when we freely and willfully offer God our sacrifices and penance through Jesus, im sure he is pleased.
 
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LilyM:
No we Latin Catholics are NOT required either to not eat meat or to fast more stringently on each and every day of Lent - just the Fridays of Lent we should abstain from meat and Ash Wednesday and Good Friday we must fast as well. On other Fridays of the year we should do some ‘penance’ (extra prayers/charity/give up something enjoyable)
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I forgot to mention that I belong to the maronite rite. !!

Problem?

In Christ.

Andre.
 
Pre Vatican II discipline for Lent called for EVERY DAY - Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday to be a Sacred Fast of only ONE meal per day. Wednesday and Friday you had to abstain from all meat including soup made from meat.

I know this because most people at my TLM Indult Parish still practice this.

Ken
 
As a Maronite Catholic you should contact your Eparchy (Diocese) to find out the lenten regulations. Mostly they are the same as the Latin Rite Diocesean regulations where we have to fast only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstain from meat on all Fridays of Lent. Also in order to do something that replaced the previoud discipline of fasting every day you would give up something you normally enjoy like candy during Lent.

I found information for you here usamaronite.org/events/results.cfm?nid=66

Ken
 
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kleary:
As a Maronite Catholic you should contact your Eparchy (Diocese) to find out the lenten regulations. Mostly they are the same as the Latin Rite Diocesean regulations where we have to fast only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstain from meat on all Fridays of Lent. Also in order to do something that replaced the previoud discipline of fasting every day you would give up something you normally enjoy like candy during Lent.

I found information for you here usamaronite.org/events/results.cfm?nid=66

Ken
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Thanks for that.

IM slightly confused as it lists fasting as; not eating from midnight to noon?

Anyhow, to be a further pain, I live in the U.K.

Where do i get the contact details from to find out what i should be doing and when!

In Christ.

Andre.
 
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BonnieBj:
To simplify the Canon Law regulation, you must fast from the time of your 15th birthday until the time of your 59th birthday.
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Simple, yes. Clear, no. 😃
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kleary:
Pre Vatican II discipline for Lent called for EVERY DAY - Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday to be a Sacred Fast of only ONE meal per day. Wednesday and Friday you had to abstain from all meat including soup made from meat.
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Any links to Pre Vatican II Canon Law or other official doc?
 
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