The days of fast are the weekdays of Lent including Holy Saturday (until noon), the Ember Days, and the Vigils of Pentecost, the Immaculate Conception, All Saints' Day, and Christmas (or December 23). Those not bound to fast may eat meat as often as they wish, except on days of ...
There are battles being fought over tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and Europe. Other countries are trying to adapt to the new Trump Administration rules. Pray for Trump that he is able to fix all of the problems that the Democrats caused with their open borders and their overspending.” Sunday,...
Temptation And Spiritual Warfare Some wonder what role temptation plays in the story of salvation and why the First Sunday of Lent focuses us on the Temptation of Jesus in the Desert. We must understand why God allows us to be tempted, and how temptation and spiritual warfare are related so...
When Paul warned of those who “forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods,” he had in mind people with the Manichean belief that sex is wrong and certain foods like meat are immoral. (Thus, the spiritual ideal for many modern New Agers is a celibate vegetarian...
Doesn't the Bible accuse the Church of teaching 'doctrines of demons' by regulating marriage and enforcing abstinence from meat? Well, no.
Catholic American Thinker Rules Of Engagement Within the Catholic American Thinker website will be found everything that touches the Catholic in life; economics, politics, alternatives to the Catholic ethos, explorations of systems deemed "superior" to Western civilization, history, culture, tradition...
WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR LENT? “The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church’s penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitent...
To mortify and overcome ourselves in all things that hinder us from observing our rules; or from performing as we ought the ordinary actions of the day, as well spiritual and interior, as exterior; for all the faults committed in them proceed from our not being so much masters over ourselve...
but they were offered to God during the spring planting season in the hopes that the wheat crop would be protected from natural disasters. Though often referred to as fasting days, during the Easter season, they would have been observed as days of abstinence from meat, but not days of fasti...
The sincere man in Confucius's eyes was the man whose conduct was always based on the love of virtue, and who in consequence sought to observe the rules of right conduct in his heart as well as in outward actions, when alone as well as in the presence of others. Benevolence, showing ...