664: How do I fast on Good Friday (and Holy Saturday)? Traditional Catholic Fasting 101 [Podcast]

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Dr. Taylor Marshall

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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How does one fast on Good Friday? When does it begin? Maundy Thursday? When does it end? Does Lent end at noon on Holy Saturday? Does Lent end at midnight? Dr. Taylor Marshall explains the complicated history of Good Friday and the end of Lenten discipline. Latin Mass Hand Missals: praybenedictus.com/Taylor Win a Rosary from […]

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0:00.0	How do I fast on Good Friday and Holy Saturday?
0:07.0	It's a good question.
0:11.0	Lots of people ask it as we get to this time of years.
0:14.0	We get in Holy Week as we move into the sacred tritum.
0:18.0	How do we fast?
0:20.0	There's of course the need for tips how to get it done.
0:23.0	But then there's the bigger question.
0:26.0	The meta question.
0:28.0	And that is how long should we fast?
0:31.0	How hard should it be?
0:33.0	What are the obligations?
0:35.0	What's the bare minimum?
0:36.0	And then to me, kind of the really interesting question is,
0:40.0	how did the early Christians understand Good Friday, Holy Saturday,
0:46.0	Paska, the Resurrection Sunday Easter?
0:50.0	How did they understand it?
0:52.0	And how did they prepare?
0:54.0	And how did they fast?
0:57.0	I've done a lot of research in the last couple of days.
0:59.0	And I'm excited about today's show because I'm going to give you some church fathers.
1:03.0	St. Irenaeus, St. Apolitas, St. Gregory, the great,
1:07.0	lots of early documentation on what was going on.
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