Question about fasting?

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I read in the Bible that it says when you fast you suppose 2 annoint yourself with oil, do you have 2 do that? God bless
 
It is not included in the New Law of Christ, any more than is circumcision which was requires for Jewish males. Anointing with oil is a ceremonial procedure and as such is not reqyired.

"Christ is the author of the New Law. He claimed and exercised supreme legislative authority in spiritual matters from the beginning of His public life until His Ascension into heaven. In Him the Old Law had its fulfilment and attained its chief purpose. The civil legislation of Moses had for its object to form and preserve a peculiar people for the worship of the one true God, and to prepare the way for the coming of the Messias who was to be born of the seed of Abraham. The new Kingdom of God which Christ founded was not confined to a single nation, it embraced all the nations of the earth, and when the new Israel was constituted, the old Israel with its separatist law became antiquated; it had fulfilled its mission. The ceremonial laws of Moses were types and figures of the purer, more spiritual, and more efficacious sacrifice and sacraments of the New Law, and when these were instituted the former lost their meaning and value. By the death of Christ on the Cross the New Covenant was sealed, and the Old was abrogated…

newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm.

From the Code of Canon Law
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Can. 1250: The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Can. 1251: Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Can. 1252: The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance.

The rules for fasting and abstinence in the United States are:
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Every person 14 years of age or older must abstain from meat and meat products on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent.
Those between the age of 18 and 60 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Those who are 14 years of age or older must abstain from meat and meat products on all other Fridays of the year, unless he or she substitutes some other form of penance for abstinence.
 
CountrySteve said:
I read in the Bible that it says when you fast you suppose 2 annoint yourself with oil, do you have 2 do that? God bless
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No, you don’t have to do that and you don’t have to fast if you are under 21 years of age.
 
CountrySteve said:
I read in the Bible that it says when you fast you suppose 2 annoint yourself with oil, do you have 2 do that? God bless
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What Jesus meant when He said that was that if you were practicing some form of bodily penance to not try and show off with it, because in that time people would go about disheveled trying to look holy. Where the oil comes in is that it was used in that time to for cosmetic purposes. To use it while fasting would mean making an effort to practice your penances humbly and privately.
 
WoundedIcon said:
What Jesus meant when He said that was that if you were practicing some form of bodily penance to not try and show off with it, because in that time people would go about disheveled trying to look holy. Where the oil comes in is that it was used in that time to for cosmetic purposes. To use it while fasting would mean making an effort to practice your penances humbly and privately.
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So for us today, that means not going around talking about how hungry you are because you are fasting. Get up, shower, shave, wear normal clothes and go about your normal business. If you use any lotions or conditioners usually, use them on Ash Wednesday also. 😛
 
Canon Law:

Can. 1252 The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. **The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. **Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance.
 
Nelka said:
21 in America?

That’s old.
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Well, under 21, you’re not considered to be an adult, so you’re likely still growing. Fasting could be unhealthy for a growing young person, so the Church, in her wisdom, exempted the young from fasting. It stands to reason: a borderline anorexic sixteen-year old coworker of mine skipped her lunch regularly and it finally caught up with her. One day at work, she keeled over at her register and banged her head. knocking herself out. Our boss had to call for an ambulance: turned out her blood sugar had dropped to a perilously low level, and the knock on the head didn’t help the situation.
 
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