February 19, 2025 - Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time - Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life! Latest Divine Mercy Reflections: Reflection 59: “Oh, Blood and Water…” After Jesus’ death, one of the soldiers came to Him and was ordered to make certain He was dead...
Thousands search Catholic.com every year for things like Lent rules, Lent fasting, Catholic fasting rules, and Catholic Lent rules. So here are the Ash Wednesday fasting rules for Lent. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. TheCode of Canon Lawsays: Can...
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Easter drew in its train Pentecost, which was fixed as the fiftieth day after the Resurrection; it was the festival commemorating the Descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles. These fifty days made up an unbroken festival, a Jubilee, a time of joy during which there was no fasting and ...
Ash Wednesday in the Covid Desert Today we begin the season of Lent. Yes I know that this past year has felt like one long lent. We didn’t even really celebrate Easter last year. But here we are. In the desert again. To be honest I still have a lot of repenting and conversion ...
Completing the Old Testament’s testimony on penitence, we turn to the example of the Son of God as related in the New. Christ, who always practiced in His life what He preached, before beginning His ministry spent 40 days and 40 nights in prayer and fasting, and began His public mission...
A rather large cross on my forehead on Ash Wednesday. Perhaps our lives are not as treacherous as climbing a mountain, but perhaps they are. It is usually when we are far from God’s love when our lives begin to spiral downward. When we fall or sin we fail God and our fellow man....
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FASTING AND ABSTINENCE:In addition to abstinence, fasting is to be observed by all Catholics between the ages of 18-59 years (inclusive). There are two days for this: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (no meat is to be eaten on these two days). On days of fasting, one full meal is allo...
Today’s gospel reading (Wednesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time) is taken from Mark, chapter 9, verses 38-40. John says to Jesus that they saw someone casting out demons in Jesus’ name and that they tried to stop him, “because he was not following us”–as if it is about “...