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Part — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)

On the Sixth Precept of the Church, or On Ecclesiastical Fasting

- Ecclesiastical fasting is situated in abstinence from foods and from a certain quality of foods, which according to the form prescribed by the Church is to be observed especially in the time of Lent, of the Ember Days, and of certain vigils, namely of Pentecost, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of All Saints, and of the Nativity of Our Lord.

Fasting and Abstinence Why the Church commands fasting and abstinence

We must treat, 1. of the essence and obligation of fasting; 2. of the causes excusing from fasting.

Fasting and Abstinence Why the Church commands fasting and abstinence

Within this part

Chapter I. On the Essence and Obligation of Fastingnn. 489–506
- Article I. On the One Meal and the Little Refectionnn. 490–501
  - § I. On the One Mealnn. 490–496
  - § II. On the Evening Collationnn. 497–501
- Article II. On Abstinence from Flesh Meat in Fastingnn. 502–504
- Article III. On the Hour of the Mealnn. 505–506
Chapter II. On the Causes Excusing from Fastingnn. 507–516