February 29, 2024 / 12:50 PM
Many know that every Friday during Lent, as well as on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics practice abstinence, so they do not eat meat. However, it is perhaps little known that this penitential custom extends to every Friday of the year.
He Code of Canon Lawthe law that guides the life and ministry of the Catholic Church, establishes in its canon 1250 that “in the Universal Church, are penitential days and times every Friday of the year and the time of Lent”.
Next, in canon 1251, the Code details that “every Friday, unless they coincide with a solemnity, the abstinence of meator other food determined by the Episcopal Conference.”