ATTN: Catholics Subject: Ash Wednesday, what are you giving up for Lent? Options

[*kryogenix*]

Tommorow's Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Lent. One full meal only tommorow, as well as no meat.

I think I'm going to give up computer games and TV. I feel kinda bad because I probably could do better by giving up videogames, but I doubt I'd be able to avoid playing videogames.

Giving up meat is also going to be tough as well.

Anyone have good suggestions, or is anyone stuck and needs help on what to give up?

[*Statues/Shadows*]

its funny watching catholics walk around with ash on their foreheads!!!

lovely.

Everyone here goes at night because school starts before any masses.

But so I'm an idiot. I ate breakfast this morning, got to second period and realized that it was Ash Wednesday and I wasn't supposed to have. Oops I did give away my lunch, though.

So, has anyone else heard of this rule where you can't eat meat still of course, but you can eat one real meal and two small ones? That's what my friend claimed when I mockinly chastised her for eating, and I'd heard it from my grandmother, but I always thought it was for the very young and the very old who had to eat. The other Catholic guy at my table hadn't heard of it either.

[*kryogenix*]

lovely.

Everyone here goes at night because school starts before any masses.

But so I'm an idiot. I ate breakfast this morning, got to second period and realized that it was Ash Wednesday and I wasn't supposed to have. Oops I did give away my lunch, though.

So, has anyone else heard of this rule where you can't eat meat still of course, but you can eat one real meal and two small ones? That's what my friend claimed when I mockinly chastised her for eating, and I'd heard it from my grandmother, but I always thought it was for the very young and the very old who had to eat. The other Catholic guy at my table hadn't heard of it either.

I'm almost positive it's no meat (abstinence) for everyone 14 and older, one large meal and two small snacks. I think the age ranges from 18-60ish. All of this is health permitting, and I think you can ask a priest for dispensations if you need it.

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I just looked it up here.

What are fast and abstinence?

Under current canon law in the Western rite of the Church, a day of fast is one on which Catholics who are eighteen to sixty years old are required to keep a limited fast. In this country you may eat a single, normal meal and have two snacks so long as these snacks do not add up to a second meal. Children are not required to fast, but their parents must ensure they are properly educated in the spiritual practice of fasting. A day of abstinence is a day on which Catholics fourteen years and older are required to abstain from eating meat. (Though under the current discipline of the Western rite of the Church, fish, eggs, milk products, and foods made using animal fat are permitted, they are not in the Eastern rites.) Their pastor can easily dispense those with medical conditions from the requirements of fast and/or abstinence.