Required fast day
Required fasting day is the designation for certain days of the church year on which the Roman Catholic Church obliges believers from the age of 18 to the beginning of the age of 60 to fast .
designation
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it says on the required days of fast within the framework of the five church commandments :
“The fifth commandment (“ You shall keep the required fasting days ”) secures the times of renunciation and penance that prepare us for the liturgical feasts; they help us to gain control over our instincts and freedom of heart. "
Fasting and abstinence
The required fast days are to be distinguished from abstinence days, on which abstinence from meat is required for all believers from the age of 14. On a day of fasting, the faithful should be satisfied with a one-time satiety, and on a day of abstinence they should also avoid meat dishes. In addition, a small refreshment is allowed on the fast day at the other two table times. Fasting and abstinence days are calculated from midnight to midnight.
The Codex Iuris Canonici of 1917 gave the local ordinary (usually the local bishop ) the right to order days of fasting and abstinence in addition to holidays, but not to introduce them permanently, as only the Pope is entitled to do so. According to the CIC of 1917, all Fridays and Saturdays of Lent were required as fast and abstinence days, as well as the quarter days and the vigil days of the solemn Christmas , Pentecost , All Saints Day and the Assumption of Mary . In addition, mandatory fasting days were all days of Lent with the exception of Sundays, mandatory abstinence days all Fridays of the church year.
The Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini Pope Paul VI. 1966 reorganized the regulations on fasting and abstinence. Can. 1251 of the CIC of 1983 determines, according to the stipulations of the respective bishops' conference, abstinence from meat dishes or any other food on all Fridays of the year unless a solemn festival falls on a Friday , as well as abstinence and fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday .
On the days of fasting and abstinence, in addition to fasting or abstinence as required by church law, the faithful should “dedicate themselves to prayer in a special way, perform works of piety and charity, deny themselves by fulfilling their own duties more faithfully”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catechism of the Catholic Church, third chapter, article 14 The Church - Mother and Teacher, II The Commandments of the Church . 1997. Online at www.vatican.va. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Sintzel: Christian Catholic house book . Published by Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1842, p. 48.
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg: Lent then and now . Online at www.bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
- ↑ Codex Iuris Canonici, Can. 202
- ↑ Hubert Schiepek: Sunday and ecclesiastically prescribed holidays according to ecclesiastical and secular law (= Adnotationes in ius canonicum , ISSN 0946-9176 , vol. 27). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
- ↑ Codex Iuris Canonici 1917 Can. 1252.
- ↑ Codex Iuris Canonici, Can. 1251
- ↑ Codex Iuris Canonici, Can. 1249