Personal Fasting and Abstinence

[murraymuzz]

I was wondering if you are doing a personal fast or abstaining (outside of lent) should you break your fast on Sundays and other feast days? Or is it okay to fast on those days?

 

[Joe_5859]

I was wondering if you are doing a personal fast or abstaining (outside of lent) should you break your fast on Sundays and other feast days? Or is it okay to fast on those days?

If it’s a “personal fast”, you can create any perimeters that you feel like.

As Canon Law says Friday penance does not need be observed when a Solemnity falls on a Friday, my inclination is to not do those things on Sundays and Solemnities.

There are 6 other days of the week to fast.

 

[Rich_C]

I was wondering if you are doing a personal fast or abstaining (outside of lent) should you break your fast on Sundays and other feast days? Or is it okay to fast on those days?

I wouldn’t do special penances on Sundays. The Church has always discouraged it.

The great thing about being Catholic is that there is a season for everything.

 

[thistle]

I was wondering if you are doing a personal fast or abstaining (outside of lent) should you break your fast on Sundays and other feast days? Or is it okay to fast on those days?

You can do anything you want about personal fasts. You are not bound and you may break them any time you want. There is no sin there.