A Topic of Moral Theology

Causes Excusing from Fasting

What excuses from the fast: labour, poverty, ill health and the other causes proportionate to the precept.

In the index as Fasting · Labor (Labor) · Ecclesiastical fast (Jejunium Ecclesiasticum) · Excusing causes · The sick (Infirmi) · Workers (Operarii) · Abstinence · Impotence · Servant (Famulus) · Bakers · Children · Convalescents · Dispensation · Journey (Iter) · Old persons · Poor persons · Pregnant woman (Praegnans) · Servants · Age (Aetas) · Artisans · Barbers (Tonsores) · Bishop · Cause (Causa) · Confessor

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Part Third. On the Precept…, Book First. On Abstinence …, Question Second. On the Pr…, Article Third. On Causes Excusing from Fasting, n. 687 — 687. Who are excused. In order that someone be excused from fasting, a grave cause proportionate to the gravity of the precept is required. The causes excusing from fasting can be reduced to three: a. weakness of body; b… Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. I, Treatise On the Precepts o…, On the Sixth Precept of th…, Chapter II. On the Causes Excusing from Fasting, nn. ¶1, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515 & 516 (48 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Appendix: On the Precepts of God and of the Church, nn. 1122, 1123, 1124, 1125, 1126 & 1127 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Tr. XIII, Ch. III, Art. I, § 4. On Causes Excusing from the Law of Fasting and Abstinence, nn. ¶74, 664, 665 & 666 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Vol. I, TREATISE ON THE PRECEPTS O…, CHAPTER II: ON CAUSES EXCUSING FROM FASTING, nn. ¶1, ¶573, ¶574, ¶575, ¶576, ¶577, ¶578 & ¶579 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Vol. I, Pt. II, Section Third: On Ecclesia…, Tractate I: On the Precept…, Ch. I, Article III: On Causes Excusing from Fast, nn. ¶1232, ¶1, ¶1233, ¶1234, ¶2, ¶1235, ¶1236, ¶1237, ¶3, ¶1238, ¶1239, ¶4, ¶1240, ¶1241, ¶1242 & ¶1243 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: On the Virtue…, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article I: On Excusing Cause, or Impotence, nn. 966, 967, 968 & 969 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. VII, On the Second Precept of t…, Chapter II. On Causes Excusing from Fasting, nn. ¶1, 338 & 338, Q. 2 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt I: Who are reckoned unable to fast, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt II: On necessity excusing from fasting, nn. 1–17 (17 passages)

Tr. VI, Disputation I: On the Virt…, Q. VI, Sole Subquestion: On Fasting, Doubt VII: Who are bound t…, Subdoubt III: On cases of piety excusing from fasting, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Fasting and Abstinence — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Slater, Cases I · Spirago · 1917 Code of Canon Law · Decretum of Gratian · Decretals of Gregory IX — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)