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<span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><span style="font-family: Palatino; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Reminder, today is Good Friday, a day of universal fast and abstinence. </span></b><span style="font-family: Palatino; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">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). </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 17px;">If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy <span dir="ltr">Saturday night</span>) 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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 17px;">Any questions, pls let me know. </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Fr Michael </span>
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<div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. Kindly understand the brevity of this response. </div>
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