Question About Holy Saturday

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lormar
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
L

Lormar

Guest
Does anyone here know what the 1962 fast and abstinence law is for Holy Saturday?

Maybe some SSPX folks know since, I believe, they follow those laws.
 
I believe it is a partial abstinance. Meat once a day, one whole meal and the other two amounting to only one meal.
 
It depended on the local bishops. In Hungary the abstinence (from meat) and fast ended at noon, meaning only not to have two full meals.
 
The rules for the vigil of a major feast were the same as for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday: fast and abstinence from meat.
 
giuseppeTO said:
The rules for the vigil of a major feast were the same as for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday: fast and abstinence from meat.
Click to expand...
Guiseppe, you would know.

What do you do in the SSPX? End your fast and abstinence at noon?
 
Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence. This fast doesnt continue until Easter does it? I am asking about the rules today not in the old one.
 
Lormar said:
Guiseppe, you would know.

What do you do in the SSPX? End your fast and abstinence at noon?
Click to expand...
Yes we do. This dates back to the pre-Pius XII reforms where the Easter vigil Mass was on Saturday morning and no Masses were permitted to be offered after 12 noon without an indult from the Ordinary. The new fire, Easter water blessed, and Easter vigil with the Great Gloria having been celebrated, the Lenten fast was ended by noon.

Most SSPX chapels begin the Easter vigil on Saturday at 10:30PM with the vigil Mass beginning around midnight. However, some independent chapels still celebrate according to the 1945 book and have the Easter vigil on Saturday morning.

The vigils we fast and abstain on are Epiphany, Pentecost, and Christmas.
 
dnar said:
Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence. This fast doesnt continue until Easter does it? I am asking about the rules today not in the old one.
Click to expand...
I would like to know the same…Are we supposed to maintain the fast and abstinence until the Easter Vigil or is it just Good Friday?
 
JAGCath28 said:
I would like to know the same…Are we supposed to maintain the fast and abstinence until the Easter Vigil or is it just Good Friday?
Click to expand...
While we are only bound to fast and abstain on Good Friday, it’s recommended to maintain the fast until the Vigil. From Paschale Solemnitatis
**VI. HOLY SATURDAY
**73. On Holy Saturday the Church is as it were at the Lord’s tomb, meditating on his passion and death, and on his descent into hell, (75) and awaiting his resurrection with prayer and fasting. It is highly recommended that on this day the Office of Readings . and Morning Prayer be celebrated with the participation of the people (cf. n. 40). (76) Where this cannot be done, there should be some celebration of the Word of God, or some act of devotion suited to the mystery celebrated on this day.
Click to expand...
 
it was a day of fast and abstinence but the rules depended on diocese, country and to an extent culture. For instance for us it was abstinence until the evening meal. In some of the ethnic parishes the baskets of food were brought to church to be blessed in the morning or early afternoon, and anything could be eaten after that time, as some cultures began their celebration in the evening.The Vigil was restored by then as the principal Paschal liturgy so where it was observed the fast and abstinence might extend until then.

I was surprised to learn that in some Eastern European cultures (not necessarily Easterm rites) eggs were traditionally forbidden in Lent so the eggs in the basket represented a break of the fast., Eggs made into all kinds of dishes or just the boiled ones.

Now, the fast of the Triduum is no longer the pentitential fast of Lent but the joyful anticipatory fast in preparation for the celebration to come–thing of a bridegroom waiting for his bride, a squire keeping vigil before being knighted, even the common act of eating very light before a big party or thanksgiving dinner.
 
puzzleannie said:
I was surprised to learn that in some Eastern European cultures (not necessarily Easterm rites) eggs were traditionally forbidden in Lent so the eggs in the basket represented a break of the fast., Eggs made into all kinds of dishes or just the boiled ones.
Click to expand...
Although Mom wasn’t from Eastern Europe, she tells of Grampa calling up the stairs to each member of the family on Easter morning to find out how they wanted their eggs cooked. Seems to have been a ritual that they had eggs for breakfast at Easter. Grampa was a cook in the lumber camps but was usually home at Easter.
 
puzzleannie said:
I was surprised to learn that in some Eastern European cultures (not necessarily Easterm rites) eggs were traditionally forbidden in Lent so the eggs in the basket represented a break of the fast., Eggs made into all kinds of dishes or just the boiled ones.
Click to expand...
Just as fact: In Hungary, even in the sixties each family gave a dozen eggs to the parish at the beginning of the lent, as food supply. I do not know how and when it was started, but the custom existed.

In other hand the Holy Saturday evening meal consisted of ham, hard boiled eggs, horseradish, red radish and fresh onion.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top