Sean Hanson's List: Catholicism

• What is it to do fasting   and abstinence?
• To fast is to do without food
• Catholics
• are required to fast on only two days of the year - Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
• only one full meal in a day, with no food in-between meals
• two other meals
• should not total one full meal
• abstain is to not eat meat
• to be an act of penance

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