Now there's still a recommendation for some sort of penance on Friday. I'm still wondering what, if anything, people do for that. I racked my brain for a while and came to the conclusion that as far as a regular practice of penance is concerned, fasting and abstinence is about the easiest thing to integrate into your life that there is.
Now there's still a recommendation for some sort of penance on Friday. I'm still wondering what, if anything, people do for that. I racked my brain for a while and came to the conclusion that as far as a regular practice of penance is concerned, fasting and abstinence is about the easiest thing to integrate into your life that there is.
The official position of the Usccb is that the meat penance is still supposed to be the normal practice. They say that they "the Catholic community will ordinarily continue to abstain from meat by free choice as formerly we did in obedience to Church law"
Sure. But they allow the substitution of any other penance, and I haven't ever had a conversation with anyone who does any other penance (save those who occasionally substitute a rosary when they forget and eat meat). So I'm still wondering.
Now there's still a recommendation for some sort of penance on Friday. I'm still wondering what, if anything, people do for that. I racked my brain for a while and came to the conclusion that as far as a regular practice of penance is concerned, fasting and abstinence is about the easiest thing to integrate into your life that there is.
The official position of the Usccb is that the meat penance is still supposed to be the normal practice. They say that they "the Catholic community will ordinarily continue to abstain from meat by free choice as formerly we did in obedience to Church law"
Sure. But they allow the substitution of any other penance, and I haven't ever had a conversation with anyone who does any other penance (save those who occasionally substitute a rosary when they forget and eat meat). So I'm still wondering.