Pastor Column: Fasting, Abstinence, and Annunciation
[Note: This is not the Sunday homily. It is an article for the bulleting of March 20, 2022] As everyone knows, Catholic aren’t supposed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent. What a lot of people don’t know, however, are all the other rules and exceptions that go with this. For one, we call this requirement abstinence. Most people associate that word with refraining from sexual activity, but it can mean to refrain from any particular thing. In this case, we’re talking about abstaining from meat. Now, I’ll jump to one exciting rule that a lot of people don’t...Read More