Ash Wednesday (March 1) and Good Friday (April 14) are days of fast and abstinence. Catholics who are 18 but not yet 59 are obliged to fast, unless there is a serious health reason. Fasting means taking only one full meal and two lesser meals, with nothing to eat in between. All Catholics who are 14 years old and older also are obliged to abstain from eating meat.
All other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Again, Catholics should not hold themselves lightly excused, but the obligation should not apply if there is a serious health reason.
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The Cathedral basilica of St. Louis will offer a weekday evening Mass during Lent.
Mass will be celebrated Monday-Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the cathedral basilica, Lindell Boulevard and Newstead Avenue in the Central West End. The schedule begins on Ash Wednesday, March 1, and concludes on Good Friday, April 14.
Father Thomas Keller, associate pastor at the cathedral basilica, said the extra liturgies are being offered to the faithful who want to attend Mass on their way home from work. He said it especially would appeal to those who work in Clayton, the Central West End or Downtown.
The cathedral basilica’s regular Mass schedule is Monday-Friday, 7 and 8 a.m., and 12:05 p.m.; Saturday at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.; and Sunday at 8 and 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m. There will be no 5 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday, April 16.
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Source, St Louis Review
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