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Annual Lent Fight Update!

BY Jimmy Akin

| Posted 3/9/11 at 3:34 AM

In the years I have been maintaining my personal blog (www.jimmyakin.org), I have uploaded something over 4700 posts (according to current statistics). This makes it a bit hard to remember everything I’ve put up.

Fortunately, I have the memories of readers to remind me, and one reader in particular has reminded me that there are some posts that I had forgotten to include in the Annual Lent Fight that I uploaded yesterday.

These posts concern, in particular, the Church’s laws concerning Ash Wednesday and its laws regarding fasting.

As a result, I’ve done some link updating.

Since Ash Wednesday is a day of both fast and abstinence, I have chosen to repeat here the relevant links, along with this introductory note citing the main differences.

I hope this helps, and I wish all a tranquil and spiritually productive season of Lent.

GENERAL

• BASIC INFO ON LENT
• LENTEN READER ROUNDUP
• Q & A ON LENT (THIS ROCK)

DURATION

• THE DURATION OF LENT
• LET’S COUNT THE DAYS OF LENT
• “FORTY” DAYS
• THE INFAMOUS SUNDAYS IN LENT CONTROVERSY: I, II, III, IV,V

PENANCE IN GENERAL

• THE GRAVITY OF PENANCE
• FOLLOWUP I
• FOLLOWUP II

FASTING

• THE LAW OF FAST: FOOD
• FASTING AND BEVERAGES
• FASTING AND “APPROVED LOCAL CUSTOM”
• FASTING AND “NO SECOND MEAL”
• FASTING AND “SOME FOOD IN MORNING AND EVENING”
• A SHORT PRIMER ON FASTING (BY SDG RATHER THAN JIMMY)
• MORE ON FASTING (BY SDG RATHER THAN JIMMY)

ABSTINENCE

• THE LAW OF ABSTINENCE
• FISHING INDUSTRY HOAX
• CAPYBARAS AND OTHER AQUATIC NON-FISH
• SOLEMNITIES THAT FALL ON FRIDAY DURING LENT
• SOUPS MADE WITH MEAT

ASH WEDNESDAY

• ASH WEDNESDAY (OVERVIEW OF THE CHURCH’S LAW)
• HOW LONG DO YOU KEEP THE ASHES ON?

HOLY THURSDAY

• SEVEN CHURCHES VISITATION

GOOD FRIDAY

• WHY IS IT CALLED “GOOD” FRIDAY?

FRIDAY PENANCE OUTSIDE OF LENT

• MORE ON FRIDAY PENANCE

What do you think?

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