Author Topic: Can we eat meat on the Epiphany this year? (Read 3837 times)

Darcy · « **on:** January 05, 2012, 09:19:09 PM »

I was wondering because if Christmas falls on Friday one does not have to abstain.

Merry Little Christmas.

Darcy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2012, 10:09:21 PM »

Well then maybe I'll just do a variation on this. It will be nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-dish_Christmas_Eve_supper

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2012, 12:55:06 AM »

Quote from: Darcy

I was wondering because if Christmas falls on Friday one does not have to abstain.

Merry Little Christmas.

Indeed, if it is a holy day of obligation, the law of fasting and abstinence ceases. See Can 1252:

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§4. Diebus dominicis vel festis de praecepto lex abstinentiae, vel abstinentiae et ieiunii, vel ieiunii tantum cessat, excepto festo tempore Quadragesimae, nec pervigilia anticipantur; item cessat Sabbato Sancto post meridiem.

Roman Catholic · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2012, 01:05:53 AM »

The Feast of the Epiphany is not a Holyday of Obligation in the USA.

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #4 on:** January 06, 2012, 01:09:03 AM »

Quote from: Roman Catholic

The Feast of the Epiphany is not a Holyday of Obligation in the USA.

Ups, I am sorry, a little confusing with all those different Holydays!