Quantitative and qualitative fasting is practiced by the faithful during Lent, thus limiting the number of calories and the quality of meals. What is qualitative and quantitative fasting, and when does it apply? What are their rules? And what is strict fasting, when does it apply and what are its restrictions?
Contents:
- Quality fasting: allowed and prohibited products
- Quantity Post: Rules
- Strict post: rules
Qualitative fastingis what we eat,quantitative fasting- how much we eat. When we combine qualitative fasting and quantitative fasting - we havestrict fasting . When is quantitative fasting effective? When is qualitative fasting valid? What are the prohibited products, which are allowed and how much can you eat?
Quality fasting: allowed and prohibited products
Qualitative fasting, also called abstinence from meat foods, involves excluding meat and broth from the diet. In this case, meat is all that by its nature, custom or common opinion of people, is meat, including blood, brain, bone marrow, unmelted fat as well as broth and meat extracts. Broth is any water in which meat or bones have been cooked.
Qualitative fasting allows food:
- jaj
- dairy
- various spices (even animal fat) - anything that is added in a small amount to the main dish to make it tastier. It is therefore allowed to use butter, tallow, fat, lard, melted lard, etc .; small pieces of meat (greaves), remaining after melting, may be eaten together with the fat.
- fish
As for shrimps and other seafood, the current Code of Canon Law did not change the provisions of 1917, which include the category of cold-blooded animals that live in water, e.g. frogs, turtles, snails, etc., which can be eaten while keeping qualitative fasting.
Regarding the consumption of waterfowl meat, the authors' opinions are divided; therefore, one should follow the custom of the given region.
It is worth knowing that qualitative fasting is obligatory on all Fridays of the year except for the celebrations, i.e. liturgical days of the highest rank (e.g. on the first Friday after Easter). The fasting applies to anyone aged 14 and over. From following this postsick people and those who do not have a choice of food (e.g. in mass catering points) are exempted1 .
The Catholic Church is encouraged to abstain from meat also on Christmas Eve.
Quantity Post: Rules
Quantitative fasting allows a one-time meal to be satiated throughout the day without forbidding the morning and evening meals, but they must be modest. Quantity fasting is valid on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. All the faithful who have reached the age of 18 and have not yet reached the age of 60 are obligated to it.
Quantitative fasting does not prohibit eating meat during a meal until you are full. On the other hand, during the morning and evening meals it is allowed to eat meat only if it is customary to do so in some area. To maintain fasting, it is enough to take a third of what you usually eat for breakfast and dinner.
Who is not obliged to keep a quantitative fast (e.g. due to illness, young age or exceeding age) or has received a dispensation from him (the parish priest or his place gives it to individual believers, families or groups of believers), free from quality fasting, e.g. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of Lent, eat meat with every meal.
Read also: Lent - how long does it last? Post rules
Strict post: rules
Strict fasting is in force in the Catholic Church on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. It is a combination of quantitative and qualitative fasting. So it consists in abstaining from eating meat (except for fish) and limiting the quantity of meals. It also assumes eating one meal to your heart's content and two smaller ones.
Compulsory for adults up to the age of 60. In Poland, according to the guidelines of the Polish Episcopate of 2014, strict fasting means eating one meal fully and two incomplete ones.