The season of Septuagesima is a preparation for the season of Lent.
Sunday, Feb 1: Septuagesima Sunday
Sunday, Feb 8: Sexagesima Sunday
Sunday, Feb 15: Quinquagesima Sunday
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Current Practice
Begins on one’s 14th birthday
Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent
Obliges abstention from fleshmeat
The Discipline of 1962
Applies on one’s 7th birthday
Complete Abstinence: all Fridays of the year, Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday,a nd the Vigi of Christmas
Partial Abstinence (meat and soup or gravy made from meat permitted once a day at the principal meal): all the days of Lent, the Ember Days of Wednesday and Saturday, and the Vigils of Pentecost and the Assumption
Abstinence from meat is dispensed on Holy Days of Obligation
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Current Practice
Applies to everyone aged 18 to 59, inclusive.
One full meal permitted and two other meals may be taken which, when combined, are less than a full meal
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
The obligation to do penance is lifted on Fridays that are also celebrated as a solemnity.
The Discipline of 1962
Applies for those aged 21 to 59, inclusive.
Days of Lent from Ash Wednesday inclusive, Ember Days, and Vigils of Christmas, Pentecost, and the Assumption.
One full meal permitted and two other meals may be taken which, when combined, are less than a full meal.
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Current Practice
Applies to all the Faithful
Lent and Fridays outside of Lent