2007-04-15 09:18:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Days of Penance are described in the Code of Canon Law (1249-1253):
Divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way.
In order for all to be united among themselves by some common observance of penance, however, penitential days are prescribed on which the Christian faithful devote themselves in a special way to prayer, perform works of piety and charity, and deny themselves by fulfilling their own obligations more faithfully and especially by observing fast and abstinence.
The penitential times are every Friday and the season of Lent.
Abstinence from meat is to be observed on all Fridays.
Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
In the United States of America, the bishops, with the permission of the Pope, for Catholics to substitute a penitential practice or even a charitable practice of their own choosing on the Fridays outside of Lent.
Many U.S. Catholics just continue to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-15 13:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roman Catholic Diet
2016-12-10 14:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by rensing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Food restrictions are during Lent Season (40 Days before Easter).
Ash Wednesday (exactly 40 days before Easter) we fast until dusk and then abstain from eating meat (beef, pork, chicken).
Good Friday (Friday before Easter, sybolizing when Jesus died on Earth) we also fast until dusk and abstain from meats.
All Fridays within Lent, we abstain from eating meat on Friday's.
2007-04-15 09:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only one - no meat on Ash Wed and Fridays during Lent.
2007-04-15 09:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
None....well, I saw the other posts....I answered mine with the assumption we were talking about regular food, not some barbaric idea.
Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Greenwood
2007-04-15 09:21:24 · answer #5 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm... we'll.... I guarantee they aren't aloud to drink blood or feast on babies. I suppose that's a restriction, isn't it?
2007-04-15 09:21:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL, SEEFOOD RESTRICTION.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RisingStarOfThePhoenix/
2007-04-15 09:21:52 · answer #7 · answered by wicaphoenix2000 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No meat on Fridays.
2007-04-15 09:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
at home we had none.
2007-04-15 09:21:37 · answer #9 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not to eat alone with a priest.
2007-04-15 09:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋