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- Catholic Family Kids Website Launches
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- Luke’s haircut – Kerry Politzer: Rhodes Rage
- Family Life
- “Shelter your children when young, but if the sheltering goes on through the child’s teens and twenties, it may keep out wisdom and growth as well as pain.”
- Tell your kids where you’re going
- Church Life
- Theology of “Feeling” – If it feels good, do it
- Is freedom the same as good?
- Pope John Paul II. (2005). Memory and Identity. Rizzoli: New York.
- Mailbag
- Isaac from Vancouver, British Columbia.Canon 919
1. One who is to receive the Most Holy Eucharist is to abstain from any food or drink, with the exception only of water and medicine, for at least the period of one hour before Holy Communion.
2. A priest who celebrates the Most Holy Eucharist two or three times on the same day may take something before the second or third celebration even if the period of one hour does not intervene.
3. Those who are advanced in age or who suffer from any infirmity, as well as those who take care of them, can receive the Most Holy Eucharist even if they have taken something during the previous hour.On the EWTN site (http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_dispositions.htm) they further describe what food is:The Eucharistic fast is before Holy Communion, not the Mass. It is a fast from food and drink, water is alright, as is medicine. The moral theology tradition teaches that to be food it must be a) edible, b) taken by mouth, and c) swallowed. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, candies, breath mints, lozanges and anything that is put into the mouth to be dissolved or chewed meets these conditions once the dissolved contents are swallowed. Chewing gum does not break the fast, but it is disrespectful of the Sacred Liturgy and once the juice is swallowed the fast is broken. The tradition also teaches that the fast is strict – one hour, that is, 60 minutes. Given that until recently the fast was from midnight, this seems very little to ask of Catholics.
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