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Offline Cryptinox

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Sundays during lent
« on: February 21, 2021, 02:36:55 PM »
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    • Are Sundays during lent "free days" where you can have what you gave up? Was this the practice before Vatican 2? I have not seen anything in the 1917 code dealing with this yet.
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    Re: Sundays during lent
    « Reply #1 on: February 21, 2021, 02:51:21 PM »
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    • It is my understanding that Sundays--even the Sundays of Lent--are not penitential days; they are always celebratory days of rejoicing. So if you've given up sweets for Lent, you can indulge some on Sundays, even during this penitential season.  If I further recall correctly, this is why Sundays aren't counted at all as the days "of Lent." If you go by the calendar, Lent seems to last for 46 days--if you count the Sundays. But we don't include those Sundays, so Lent consists of 40 days.
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    Re: Sundays during lent
    « Reply #2 on: February 21, 2021, 02:59:13 PM »
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    It is my understanding that Sundays--even the Sundays of Lent--are not penitential days; they are always celebratory days of rejoicing. So if you've given up sweets for Lent, you can indulge some on Sundays, even during this penitential season.  If I further recall correctly, this is why Sundays aren't counted at all as the days "of Lent." If you go by the calendar, Lent seems to last for 46 days--if you count the Sundays. But we don't include those Sundays, so Lent consists of 40 days.

    Right.  Sundays aren't part of lent so penances/fasting do not apply.  It's always been this way.
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