The Catholic Church has specific guidelines for fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting means eating only one full meal, with the option of two smaller meals that together do not equal a full meal. Snacking between meals is not allowed. Additionally, Catholics are required to abstain...
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Question: What is the official beginning of Lent? At what hour? Answer: Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Canon law considers a day to run from midnight to midnight (can. 202 §1). That would mean that Lent begins at 12 a.m. on Ash Wednesday. ...
Lent is a time for certain Christian denominations to fast and to serve penance for 40 days. Lent takes place, for Catholics, starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Thursday. Protestants observe it from Ash Wednesday until Holy Saturday. Neither observe Lent on Sundays which makes the to...
Catholic Observation of Lent In Catholicism, Lent is a deeply structured and sacramental season emphasizing penance, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. It begins on Ash Wednesday, where believers receive ashes as a sign of repentance, and includes strict fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, alo...
Assuming that priests are in their right minds and that a) they pay attention and b) are not cretins (not lightly to be passed over) and c) say the Roman Canon (as they ought in the Roman Catholic Church) what shall we say? Sticking to the Vetus Ordo, because it is the unquestiona...
Lent, then, is generally observed as a time for Christians to reflect, repent, and pray as a way of preparing their hearts for Easter. It is commonly observed by many Christian denominations—Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and others—although not every Christian church or denomination does so....
A prayer cloth is recognized in some church traditions as a sacramental, which means it is blessed by a priest to acknowledge its relevance to a sacrament—or an outward sign of an inward grace. Other sacramentals include blessed palms, holy water, a crucifix, or Ash Wednesday ashes....
CatholicAmericanThinker.comNorman Matoon ThomasNov 20, 1884 - Dec 19, 1968Six time Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of America. From a 1944 speech:"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of 'Liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of ...
Shrovetide, the week preceding the start of Lent. The word Shrovetide is the English equivalent of Carnival, which comes from the Latin words carnem levare, meaning “to take away the flesh.”“To shrive” means to hear confessions, according to Catholic theologianFather William P. Saunders....