Our Lady Of Mount Carmel
Roman Catholic Church
39 East 22nd Street, Bayonne, New Jersey 07002-3753
201- 339-2070
Parish Bulletin
This weeks Parish Bulletin: Mar. 7th Bulletin

The following are the regulations concerning the Lenten season:
1. The days of both Fast and Abstinence during Lent are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
The other Fridays of Lent are days of Abstinence. On a day of Fast, only one (1) full meal is permitted. (Those between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast.)
On a day of Abstinence, no meat may be eaten. (Those who have reached the age of 14 are obliged by the law of abstinence.)
2. The obligation to observe the laws of Fast and Abstinence “substantially”, or as a whole, is a serious obligation.
3. The Fridays of the year, outside of Lent, are designated as days of penance, but each individual may substitute for the traditional abstinence from meat or some other practice of voluntary self-denial as penance.
4. The time for fulfilling the Paschal Precept (Easter Duty*) extends from the First Sunday of Lent, Feb.21,2010 to the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, May 30, 2010.
*Canon 920, §1. All the faithful, after they have been initiated into the Most Holy Eucharist, are bound by the obligation of receiving Communion at least once a year.




Sponsored by the Advisory Board of ASCA
Archdiocese is preparing the annual tradition of honoring those couples in our Archdiocese who will be celebrating Five,Twenty-five, and Fifty years of Christian marriage in the year 2010.
