Abstinence Meaning Catholic. The practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable ate with a haste and an apparent relish that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food. Most Eastern Churches both Catholic and Orthodox have more demanding laws of fasting and abstinence and retain the prohibition of milk and poultry products.
The law of fasting binds all adults beginning on their 18th birthday until the midnight which completes their 59th birthday. Habitual abstaining from intoxicating beverages. From the first century Christians have observed fasting days of precept notably during the season of Lent.
Depriving Ourselves of Something Good Before Vatican II Catholics were required to abstain from meat every Friday as a form of penance in honor of the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross on Good Friday.
The practice of abstaining from something. The moral virtue that inclines a person to the moderate use of food or drink as dictated by right reason or by faith for his own moral and spiritual welfare. Mar 01 2016 Abstinence is obligatory after reaching the age of 14. In addition Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence.
