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The Catholic Church historically observes the disciplines of fasting and abstinence (from meat) at various times each year. For Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one's intake of food, while abstinence refers to refraining from something that is good, and not inherently sinful, such as meat.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Centennial Fountain in Fairmount Park was dedicated on 4 July 1876, following a parade of more than 5,000 and a Mass at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. [ 1 ] Catholic involvement in the temperance movement has been very strong since at least the nineteenth century, with a number of specifically Catholic ...
No episcopal conference has lifted the obligation for either fasting or abstinence for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fast and abstinence is regulated by Canons 1250–1253 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. They specify that all Fridays throughout the year and the time of Lent are penitential times throughout the entire Church.
While he emphasized the great importance of penance as "a religious, personal act which has as its aim love and surrender to God", he observed that the Church, attentive to the signs of the times is prompted to seek, beyond fast and abstinence, new expressions more suitable for the realization of the precise goal of penitence. [1]
Quarter tense is normally determined by national Roman Catholic hierarchies and not by the universal calendar of the church. The Saturdays of Quarter Tense were considered especially appropriate for priestly ordination. The days of Quarter Tense were, until the Second Vatican Council, times of obligatory fasting and abstinence.
As such, the Lutheran churches often emphasize voluntary fasting over collective fasting, though certain liturgical seasons and holy days are times for communal fasting and abstinence. [68] [69] Certain Lutheran communities advocate fasting during designated times such as Lent, [31] [70] especially on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
A person who ignores warnings of a bishop three times to follow a Christian truce. Anyone who sells wood, weapons or other materials to Muslims which can be used to fight wars with Christians, or who hires himself out to be a captain or pilot of a Muslim warship (the same decree also called on Catholics to confiscate their possessions and ...
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated 4 times in the 11th century (and would later be excommunicated a fifth time in the 12th century). He was excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII three separate times, and once more by Pope Urban II. The first was on 22 February 1076 over the Investiture Controversy.