tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post6863747866836359815..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: Feast and FastPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-7244155563344452552008-08-24T08:27:00.000+01:002008-08-24T08:27:00.000+01:00Andrew,There was never a 12 hour fasting rule per ...Andrew,<BR/><BR/>There was never a 12 hour fasting rule per se. The Eucharist was to be the first Food of the day and hence the Apostolic Fast from midnight.<BR/><BR/>The Eucharistic Fast was not penitential in character and as such was different from fasting during Lent and on Vigils & Ember Days etc.Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-67517519975692033002008-08-19T06:08:00.000+01:002008-08-19T06:08:00.000+01:00This excellent blog is well worth reading, great l...This excellent blog is well worth reading, great link, thanks. To this day I eat fish on Fridays - but that's more because I'm rather partial to fresh fish, particularly if accompanied by a crisp sauvgnon blanc. <BR/><BR/>Like many, I had understood that this particular abstinence had been abolished long ago, as apparently do many esteemed members of the clergy, but according to Australia Incognita, Friday is still a day of abstinence. However, he also helpfully notes that you can do an alternative penance if you fancy a steak for an extended Friday lunch. My own view is that it shouldn't matter what you eat. <BR/><BR/>I recall an old mentor of ours telling me that he ascribed the dramatic fall in people - especially children - fainting during mass to the lifting of the 12 hour fasting rule. <BR/><BR/>Mind you, with the obesity crisis threatening to engulf the western world (truly an obscenity when you compared with famine in developing nations), it might not be a bad thing to reintroduce it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com