Fair point! That overlap of penance and festivity is an odd thing, but it does have precedence. Christmas Eve was a day of fasting and abstinence, which is why so many cultures have the tradition of a fish dinner on that night.
Fair point! That overlap of penance and festivity is an odd thing, but it does have precedence. Christmas Eve was a day of fasting and abstinence, which is why so many cultures have the tradition of a fish dinner on that night.
Indeed! I think the juxtaposition is particularly appropriate for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, since reparation for sins has always been part and parcel of that Feast, and devotion to the Sacred Heart in general.
Fair point! That overlap of penance and festivity is an odd thing, but it does have precedence. Christmas Eve was a day of fasting and abstinence, which is why so many cultures have the tradition of a fish dinner on that night.
Indeed! I think the juxtaposition is particularly appropriate for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, since reparation for sins has always been part and parcel of that Feast, and devotion to the Sacred Heart in general.