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Friday Abstinence Outside of Lent
It should be noted that Fridays throughout the year are designated days of penance. The Code of Canon Law states, "The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent" (1250). The American Bishops have allowed us to choose a different form of penance rather than abstaining from meat, but there must be some form of penance, for this is the day we commemorate Christ's suffering and death. The bishops stress that "among the works of voluntary self-denial and personal penance...we give first place to abstinence from flesh meat" (Pastoral Statement on Fasting and Abstinence).
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