LENTEN REGULATIONS:  (CURRENT DISCIPLINE)

Days of Abstinence:  Begins on one’s 14th birthday. 

Obliges abstention from flesh meat.

Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. 

Days of Penance:  Applies to all the Faithful. 

Lent and Fridays outside of Lent.

Days of Fast:  Everyone aged 18-59. 

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

One full meal permitted.  Two other

meals may be taken which, when

combined, are less  than a full meal.   

(The obligation to do penance is lifted on Fridays which

are  also celebrated as a solemnity: e.g., Christmas Day). 

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LENTEN REGULATIONS: (OLDER DISCIPLINE)

Days of Abstinence:  applies on one’s 7th birthday. 

Complete Abstinence:  on all Fridays of the year,

Ash Wednesday, and the Vigil of Christmas. 

Partial Abstinence:  weekdays of Lent,

Ember Days of Wednesday & Saturday,

Vigils of Pentecost & Assumption.

(meat and soup, or gravy made from meat

permitted once a day at principal meal)  

(Abstinence dispensed on Holy Days of Obligation.) 

Days of Fast: 

Everyone aged 21-59.

One full meal permitted, with 2 smaller meals. 

Days of Lent from Ash Wednesday on, Ember Days,

Vigils of Christmas, Pentecost and the Assumption.