Aschewin's Day and Good Friday are both what you call days of fasting and abstinence,

like both those two things.

And so it means fasting, right?

So giving up some food, abstinence means avoiding meat.

All Fridays and Lentra also days we avoid meat.

And there's a whole reason about that.

We can talk about that in another video.

But one of the things that I think is important is what we've talked about here before.

What is fasting?

So we have in the whole Catholic Church the entire year, there's only two days when we

have to fast.

And that's Ashewin's Day and Good Friday.

You know, whenever you have a rule, someone has to ask the question in the 2000 year history

of the Church, someone has to say, okay, so what's the most I could possibly eat?

And it's still considered a fast day.

And so the Church has to answer that question because people really want to know, like what's

the most I could possibly eat in slavery, be a fast day, or when other rules, it's like,

okay, what's the least I can possibly do?

And it still counts for like the thing.

Okay, so the Church comes up with this formula and says, okay, well, how about two small

meals and then one regular sized meal that's not, you know, larger than both those small

meals put together?

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