So that our Catholic people will live their lives rightly according to the spirit of the Lenten season, we ask that all observe the following according to the spirit of the church.
1. According to the law of the church all Catholics are to do penance for their sins by their personal actions and by the practice of penance in common. Hence we are designating days of penance on which Catholics are to pray and practice works of mercy and show special love by their self-sacrifice and fidelity everywhere.
(Canon 1249)
2. Every Friday throughout the year and every day during Lent are days of penance everywhere.
(Canon 1250)
3. Every Friday throughout the year, except Fridays that are special feast days, are days of abstinence from meat or from some other food, according to what the Bishop's Conference has already prescribed; Ash Wednesday and god Friday are days of abstinence and fasting.
(Canon 1251)
4. All Catholics 14 years old and over are to abstain. All Catholics from the age of 18 until they have completed their 59th year are bound to fast.
5. It is the duty of pastors and parents to train the young who are not yet bound to fast and abstain to learn a spirit of penance.
(Canon 1252)
6. For the Church in Thailand, on the authority of Canon 1253 of the Canon Law of the Church, the Bishop's Conference has determined these ways of fasting and abstaining:
ABSTINENCE
Those who practice on or the other of these regulations are to be counted as truly abstaining:
a) Abstaining from meat.
b) Observe some pious practice apart from the usual Station of the Cross, Visiting the Blessed Sacrament, saying the Rosary.
c) Performing some work of mercy, such as giving alms to the poor, visiting the sick.
d) Giving up some food or thing we like to do, such as, not drinking whisky and beer, not smoking.
e) Learning how to refrain from things or doing without luxuries.
FASTING: means eating only one full meal.
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