FASTING refers to only one full meal, with two small meals and no eating between meals for the whole day. The Church directs the holy fast to all those 18 years old until their 60th year.
ABSTINENCE refers to not eating meat at all during the day. Everyone 14 years of age and older are obliged to abstain from meat on the Fridays of Lent.
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.
All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence.
When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the Lenten obligations do not apply.
Pro-Life Quote by Thomas Jefferson
"The first and only legitimate object of good government is the care of human life, not its destruction." - Thomas Jefferson to the Citizens of Washington County, Maryland, March 3, 1809
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