Ash Wednesday Morning (ENG)

Lent begins Wednesday, February 18, and extends until Holy Thursday, April 2. Lent is the penitential season of the Church year, calling all Christians to penance and reconciliation. Ash Wednesday, the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday are days of abstinence from meat. On those days, all who are 14 years old and above are asked not to eat meat (beef, chicken, pork, lamb, etc.). There is no upper age limit to the law of abstinence. On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, those between the ages of 18 and 59 are asked to fast. On these days, we eat one full meal and two smaller meals, without snacks during the day. Those whose health could be negatively affected by fasting are automatically dispensed from fasting. Fasting and abstinence offer us the opportunity to be bound together in a common practice of penance, observed by all on the same days. As such, we support and encourage one another.