Friday Penance

[Justin86]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1617893' date='Aug 5 2008, 04:55 PM']glad someone dragged up my post so I didn't have to respond to Akin's artical again. as I understand it, in the US it is venially sinful not to do some type of penance on all fridays throughout the year. this is because the universal law requires penance and the local bishops' conference has the authority to alter the level of requirement and offer replacements. the USCCB has definitely loosened the level of requirement and allowed for basically anything as a replacement, but we are still bound by the requirement of the universal law, just not bound as tightly as we could be.[/quote]
I would like to hear Archbishop Burke's opinion on this before Akin's or yours.

[Deb]

I did check this out and we are supposed to be offering up something else on every Friday, if not meat. I think I will just go back to no meat on Friday. Makes it easier for me to remember and I don't eat that much meat anyway.

I did note there is a full fish on the Vigil of the Assumption so I will have to take my calendar down and figure out what that means. I thought it meant no meat.

[Majella]

A full fish on the calendar means :fast and abstinance. No meat, 1 full meal and 1 partial meal.
Hope this is helpful!

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Deb' post='1620764' date='Aug 7 2008, 06:10 PM']I did check this out and we are supposed to be offering up something else on every Friday, if not meat. I think I will just go back to no meat on Friday. Makes it easier for me to remember and I don't eat that much meat anyway.

I did note there is a full fish on the Vigil of the Assumption so I will have to take my calendar down and figure out what that means. I thought it meant no meat.[/quote]

Regardless of what your calendar says, there is currently no canonically binding obligation to abstain from meat on any other days besides all the Fridays throughout the year (besides those which fall on a solemnity) and Ash Wednesday.

Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Edited August 9, 2008 by StThomasMore

[KOIfriend]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1622344' date='Aug 9 2008, 03:12 AM']Regardless of what your calendar says, there is currently no canonically binding obligation to abstain from meat on any other days besides all the Fridays throughout the year (besides those which fall on a solemnity) and Ash Wednesday.

Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.[/quote]

Wow, you just double talked. Amazing!

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Edited August 9, 2008 by KOIfriend

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Majella' post='1617330' date='Aug 4 2008, 05:50 PM']I was told incense used during Mass had the purpose of hiding the bad smell of the priest; the rosary was invented to keep dumb people occupied;etc,etc.[/quote]
Ay Dios mio, you're kidding!
[quote name='KOIfriend' post='1622345' date='Aug 9 2008, 01:16 AM']...[/quote]
Gotta admit, I've gotten really sick of that site, exceptionally quickly. What, are you the author of those or something?

[Lil Red]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1617171' date='Aug 4 2008, 01:36 PM']In your opinion, on non-Lenten Fridays (other than Solemnities), is it sinful not to abstain from meat or perform another penance?

Obviously this thread is intended for people living in the US, where the USCCB has decided that on non-Lenten Fridays the faithful may substitute abstinence from meat for another penance. If you live in another area, apply your bishops' conference's rules on non-Lenten abstinence to this poll.[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
it depends on whether people are aware of it or it. i'd say most people in the U.S. don't know about it.

[aalpha1989]

[quote name='KOIfriend' post='1622345' date='Aug 9 2008, 02:16 AM']Wow, you just double talked. Amazing!

That is wonderful. I love how I got to read that twice. I have been successfully programmed. Catholicism is great! I love it! You have to repeat yourself twice to get your point across, but it's great![/quote]

Dude. All he did was quote a source to show that he was right. And he was. Chillax.

[geetarplayer]

Happy Feast of the Assumption!

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='geetarplayer' post='1628176' date='Aug 15 2008, 02:51 PM']Happy Feast of the Assumption! [/quote]

I had steak alfredo at Olive Garden. It was good

[Luigi]

Scram!