46.5 Are Sundays part of lent?

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 28 February 2017

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Summary

Back when I worked as an apologist with Catholic Answers we received a lot of questions around this time of year. Perhaps the most common was, “are Sunday’s excluded from Lent?”

The answer is . . . are you ready for this?

No. Sunday’s are not excluded from Lent. According to the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, “Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord’s Supper exclusive” (28).

No exceptions are given for Sunday’s during Lent. In fact, a couple of paragraphs later the GN says: “The Sundays of this season are called the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent. The Sixth Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week, is called Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday)” (30).

So there you have it. Now, does that mean that we cannot choose to allow ourselves the things we voluntarily gave up for lent? No, it doesn’t. These voluntary fasts are personal devotions. Because they have been voluntarily taken up, we can choose to set them aside.

That said, be awesome and sacrifice this Lent. What my P.E coach told me in middle-school applies to Lent also, “mate, if it’s not hurting, you’re not doing it right.”

Link to GN here: https://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDWLITYR.HTM

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pines with the Quinus episode 46.5. I'm Matt Fraad.
0:08.5	Today I'm going to be answering a question that many people ask around this time of year.
0:14.1	Namely, are Sundays part of Lent?
0:17.1	Great to have you here at Pines with the Quinus. This is the second episode this week.
0:31.2	Did you listen to yesterday's episode? That was on the fifth way of St Thomas Aquinas.
0:35.8	If you haven't listened to it, you should. Because it's awesome. How you doing?
0:40.5	Tomorrow is Lent, unless you're in the Eastern Church, in which case the great fast started Monday.
0:46.8	But for the Roman Church, the Lent begins tomorrow. And I have some massively exciting news.
0:53.2	And I don't know how to get it across loud enough. I wish I had a bell or something to kind of...
0:58.4	Listen, listen, listen, listen. There is a book that Thomas Aquinas wrote.
1:04.5	And in this book, he writes a meditation for every day of Lent. Did you know that?
1:10.2	No, you didn't. Well, you might have. But I didn't actually. This book is in the public domain.
1:16.1	So guess what I've done? I have recorded audibly this entire book.
1:20.8	And I've broken it up into small meditations for every day.
1:24.6	Here's how you listen to it. If you want to listen to what St Thomas Aquinas says for every single day this Lent,
1:31.3	go to PinesWithTheQuinas.com, click the Patreon banner.
1:34.9	Those who support Pines With The Quinas for $5 or more a month,
1:39.8	you have access to the entire audio meditations from this book.
1:45.5	That's really cool. You can download the Patreon app and listen to a different meditation every day.
1:52.6	It's got a great little audio player on that app, just like iTunes.
1:57.3	And that could be a really beautiful way to, you know, A, pray more, right?
2:02.4	B, maybe take on something extra. And C, arms giving.
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