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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Tech Catholic Community:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. We will have two Masses in the MIT Chapel, at 12:05 and 7:30 pm. Remember that these Masses take longer than usual weekday Masses, because we have two long lines (for ashes and communion). So plan accordingly.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. It is however, an
<b>obligatory day of fasting</b> and <b><u>abstinence from</u></b> meat. The rules can be found here (<a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/catholic-information-on-lenten-fast-and-abstinence.cfm">http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/catholic-information-on-lenten-fast-and-abstinence.cfm</a>),
but here is the main point:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">“For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not
equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Fridays in Lent are also obligatory days of abstaining from meat</u></b><u>.</u> Some people tend to forget this, so it might be a good idea to put reminders or other notifications in your phone or calendar set for first thing in
the morning on Fridays. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fr. Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Catholic Chaplain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
MIT Building W11-012<br>
40 Massachusetts Ave. <br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
617-252-1779 (office)<br>
617-910-0463 (mobile and text)<br>
</span><a href="mailto:dmoloney@mit.edu">dmoloney@mit.edu</a><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><a href="http://tcc.mit.edu" target="_BLANK">http://tcc.mit.edu</a><span style="color:black">
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