The Apostles Fast

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Do Traditional Catholics do the Apostles Fast?

A related question: Is there a Feast of St. Peter alone?
 
Rawb said:
Do Traditional Catholics do the Apostles Fast?

A related question: Is there a Feast of St. Peter alone?
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  1. Eastern Catholics (I’m not sure how many) do, but Latin-Rite Catholics do not. I’m sure somewhere on the face of the earth there is a Latin-Rite Catholic doing the fast to prove me wrong, but it has never been a tradition in the Latin Rite.
  2. There is the Feast of St. Peter in Chains on August 1, and the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter on February 22 (formerly divided between St. Peter’s Chair at Rome on January 18 and St. Peter’s Chair at Antioch on Feb. 22). These all celebrate certain aspects of his sainthood, but his principal feast day is the one he shares with St. Paul.
 
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  1. Eastern Catholics (I’m not sure how many) do, but Latin-Rite Catholics do not. I’m sure somewhere on the face of the earth there is a Latin-Rite Catholic doing the fast to prove me wrong, but it has never been a tradition in the Latin Rite.
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Everything I read says that Pope Leo I spoke about it in at least one homily, back around 461, so at some point it must’ve been a shared fast. (I didn’t know this until I googled it after reading your comment about it never having been a tradition in the West. I promise I’m not trying a ‘bait n’ switch’)

So then my question would be about when, does anyone know, was it dropped?
  1. There is the Feast of St. Peter in Chains on August 1, and the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter on February 22 (formerly divided between St. Peter’s Chair at Rome on January 18 and St. Peter’s Chair at Antioch on Feb. 22). These all celebrate certain aspects of his sainthood, but his principal feast day is the one he shares with St. Paul.
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When were these instituted, do you know?
 
Rawb said:
Everything I read says that Pope Leo I spoke about it in at least one homily, back around 461, so at some point it must’ve been a shared fast. (I didn’t know this until I googled it after reading your comment about it never having been a tradition in the West. I promise I’m not trying a ‘bait n’ switch’)

So then my question would be about when, does anyone know, was it dropped?
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That I couldn’t tell you, unfortunately.
When were these instituted, do you know?
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I don’t know anything that I wouldn’t just be regurgitating from here (scroll down to “Feasts of St. Peter”) and here from the Catholic Encyclopedia, so you may as well read it for yourself. Looks to be roughly 5th century in both cases.
 
The Apostle’s Fast and the Dormition Fast are not present in the Latin Rite. I’m not even sure how much fasting is done in Advent in the Latin Rite. I’ve been brought up to approach Advent as a joyous occasion, thus unfitting to hold a fast.
 
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