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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">TODAY is Ash Wednesday</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">, the beginning of Lent. Holy Mass and blessing with Ash at 12:05pm and 7:30pm in MIT chapel.
Sacrament of Confession 8:00pm - 9:00pm, lower lever of MIT Chapel. More information: MITCatholic.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of universal fast and abstinence.
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Fasting is obligatory for all who have completed their 18th year until the beginning of their 60th year.
<b>Fasting allows a person to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may be taken, not to equal one full meal.</b> Abstinence (from meat) is obligatory for all who have completed their 14th year of age (c. 1252).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy Saturday night) as the “paschal fast” to honor the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus and to prepare
to share more fully and celebrate more readily his Resurrection (see <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium</i>, 109). Fridays in Lent are obligatory days of abstinence (from meat) for all who have completed their 14th year. As always, anyone for whom fasting or abstinence
would pose a health risk is excused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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