Ain’t That the Truth
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The widespread chattering about how a solemnity affects the rubrics of Lent might actually be meaningful if the Church still required an actually meaningful regimen of fasting and abstinence throughout the season. To back out of abstaining from meat on one of the only seven days per YEAR that abstinence is required seems more than a little bit self-indulgent. The UK bishops got it right, IMO, when they re-instituted the rule of abstinence for all Fridays throughout the year.
We have lost the understanding of Colossians 1:24, and thus also the collective will to suffer with Christ, in even the smallest of ways. Sadly, only our…cough…shepherds can lead us back to that holy understanding and the praxis it naturally generates.
@Frank: 👍