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Fasting & Abstinence for The Vigil of All Saints (October 30th / "Halloween")
Catholic encyclopedia on "Eve of a Feast": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05647a.htm
> (Or VIGIL; Latin Vigilia; Greek pannychis).
> In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the Offices of Vespers and Matins), and sometimes also by hearing a sermon. On such occasions, as on fast days in general, Mass also was celebrated in the evening, before the Vespers of the following day. Towards morning the people dispersed to the streets and houses near the church, to wait for the solemn services of the forenoon. This vigil was a regular institution of Christian life and was defended and highly recommended by St. Augustine and St. Jerome (see Pleithner, "Aeltere Geschichte des Breviergebetes", pp. 223 sq.). The morning intermission gave rise to grave abuses; the people caroused and danced in the streets and halls around the church (Durandus, "Rat. Div. off.", VI, 7). St. Jerome speaks of these improprieties (Epist. ad Ripuarium).
Don't know how this adapted to being a day of fasting and abstinence for Catholics, but I think it persisted commonly until the Vatican 2 attempt at abolishing it.
Other such days of fasting and abstinence that some have tried to abolish are the quarterly Ember Days: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05399b.htm
On "All Saints' Day" (Nov. 1): https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm
On "All Souls' Day" (Nov. 2): https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315b.htm
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Catholic encyclopedia on "Eve of a Feast": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05647a.htm
> (Or VIGIL; Latin Vigilia; Greek pannychis).
> In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the Offices of Vespers and Matins), and sometimes also by hearing a sermon. On such occasions, as on fast days in general, Mass also was celebrated in the evening, before the Vespers of the following day. Towards morning the people dispersed to the streets and houses near the church, to wait for the solemn services of the forenoon. This vigil was a regular institution of Christian life and was defended and highly recommended by St. Augustine and St. Jerome (see Pleithner, "Aeltere Geschichte des Breviergebetes", pp. 223 sq.). The morning intermission gave rise to grave abuses; the people caroused and danced in the streets and halls around the church (Durandus, "Rat. Div. off.", VI, 7). St. Jerome speaks of these improprieties (Epist. ad Ripuarium).
Don't know how this adapted to being a day of fasting and abstinence for Catholics, but I think it persisted commonly until the Vatican 2 attempt at abolishing it.
Other such days of fasting and abstinence that some have tried to abolish are the quarterly Ember Days: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05399b.htm
On "All Saints' Day" (Nov. 1): https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm
On "All Souls' Day" (Nov. 2): https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315b.htm
#religion #Christian #Christianity #discussions