tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13804788.post3509055269214304346..comments2024-03-27T11:27:31.790-05:00Comments on A Catholic Life: Friday Penance: Still Required in EastertideMatthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07929374709032473716noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13804788.post-13287205873865093872023-04-14T07:44:51.969-05:002023-04-14T07:44:51.969-05:00Yet even 1917 liberalized too much about fasting! ...Yet even 1917 liberalized too much about fasting! Please see the articles and book mentioned here:<br /><br /><a href="https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-definitive-guide-to-traditional.html" rel="nofollow">https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-definitive-guide-to-traditional.html</a>Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929374709032473716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13804788.post-52367038748901886602021-04-09T06:16:25.224-05:002021-04-09T06:16:25.224-05:00Thank you for this! Every time I hear that penance...Thank you for this! Every time I hear that penances are being dropped, I go back to 1917 before all the mess. You’re right that Easter Friday is NOT a holy day of obligation, even tho it is a first class feast. The ranking of “Solemnity” comes from post Vat II so we cannot apply it here. Jennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834076299604529047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13804788.post-82438086270253269072021-04-08T17:23:56.864-05:002021-04-08T17:23:56.864-05:00The 1983 Code was promulgated by a heretic and is ...The 1983 Code was promulgated by a heretic and is impregnated with the spirit of modernism. We must reject it until a future time when sanity and order is restored to the Church. Keep the stricter (though not perfect) 1917 Code as we must use caution during these unprecedented times.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929374709032473716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13804788.post-77380571531817101552020-04-24T17:12:12.068-05:002020-04-24T17:12:12.068-05:00There isn't ambiguity, however, whether the Fr...There isn't ambiguity, however, whether the Friday in the Octave of Easter is a day of abstinence. <br /><br />"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 [...]" (Source: http://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann1244-1253_en.html#TITLE_II.)<br /><br />According to the Liturgical Calendar: "Although not given the title of Solemnity, '[t]he first eight days of Easter Time constitute the Octave of Easter and are celebrated as Solemnities of the Lord' (Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, no. 24)." (Source: http://www.usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2020cal.pdf)<br /><br />Now one might say that on account of Canon 1250, the day remains penitential nonetheless. One might also say that the very idea of being a Solemnity, which removes the need to abstain on that day, similarly removes the need to do penance. Perhaps there is something which speaks to that, but I am not aware of it.Clay Bahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013514680058611204noreply@blogger.com