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Lenten Regulations
Diocese of Joliet-in-Illinois
 

Fast and Abstinence Regulations

1. Everyone 14 years of age or over is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent.
2. Everyone 18 years of age and under 59 years of age is bound to fast and to abstain on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
3. On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, only one full meatless meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one's needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted on these two days, but liquids, including milk and fruit juices are allowed. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige.
4. To disregard completely the law of fast and abstinence is seriously sinful.
5. Lent is the principal season of penance in the Christian year; all, in addition to following the Lenten regulations, are strongly urged to develop and follow a program of voluntary self-denial, serious prayer, and a performance of works of charity and mercy.                                                                                                                                                        

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JDCCW Events 2019

*March 24th- Soil and Seed Mass St. John the Baptism, L’Erable, Il (2pm)

March 30th Friends of BBSF Luncheon, Reserve 22, Glen Ellyn, Il

April  27th, Women of the Year,  Cathedral of St. Raymond (10am)

May 7th- SWG Spring Institute, St. Anthony’s Frankfort

May 9th WD Sprint Institute, St. Isidore’s Bloomingdale

June 5th Kankakee, Spring Institute

June 6th FI Spring Institute, St. Mary’s Paxton.

 More information will follow as the dates get closer

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