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Church Laws of Days of Abstinence and Fast

Updated: Mar 17, 2021

Current practice


Laws of Days of Abstinence Laws of Days of Penance


Begins on one's 14th birthday Applies to all the Faithful

Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent Lent and Fridays outside of Lent

Obliges abstention from flesh meat


Laws of Days of Fast


Applies to everyone aged 18 to 59 inclusive

One full meal permitted and two other meals may be taken which, when combined, are less than a full meal.

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday


The Discipline of 1962


Laws of Abstinence


Applies on one's 7th birthday

Complete Abstinence all Fridays of the year, Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday, and the Vigil of Christmas

Partial Abstinence ( meat and soup or gravy made from meat permitted once a day at the principal meal): all the days of Lent, the Ember Days of Wednesday and Saturday, and the Vigils of Pentecost and the Assumption.

Abstinence from meat is dispensed on Holy Days of Obligation.


Laws of Fast


Applies for those aged 21 to 59 inclusive

Days of Lent from Ash Wednesday inclusive, Ember Days, and Vigils of Christmas, Pentecost, and the Assumption.

One full meal permitted and two other meals may be taken which, when combined, are less than a full meal.



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