Prayer and fasting.
Friday, the penitential day of the week.
Again, not that many Catholics realize that we are indeed required to abstain from eating meat on Fridays. However, in the United States we are allowed to substitute the abstinence from meat with another suitable penance or act of charity. We do this in remembrance of Our Lord’s passion, since Fridays are dedicated to his sorrowful passion and death.
Canon 1250 All Fridays through the year and the time of Lent are penitential days and times throughout the entire Church.
Canon 1251 Abstinence from eating meat or another food according to the prescriptions of the conference of bishops is to be observed on Fridays throughout the year unless (nisi) they are solemnities; abstinence and fast are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and on the Friday of the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Canon 1252 All persons who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence; all adults are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of their sixtieth year. Nevertheless, pastors and parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound by the law of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of penance.
Abstinence The law of abstinence requires a Catholic 14 years of age until death to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in honor of the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. Meat is considered to be the flesh and organs of mammals and fowl. Also forbidden are soups or gravies made from them. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles and shellfish are permitted, as are animal derived products such as margarine and gelatin which do not have any meat taste. - EWTN
Therefore, I will be off line today as well. Wednesday taught me that prayer and fasting is far better than writing a weblog. Thus, another hermit day for me.
