ALL Fridays of the year are Days of Abstinence from meat. (Code of Canon Law, #1251) Catholics who are 14 years old and older are required to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year.  (Outside of Lent the Bishops of the United States have given Catholics permission to substitute another penance in place of not eating meat.)  “Parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound by the law of fast and abstinence are educated…

There will be a 2nd Collection on February 24-25 for CRS Rice Bowl. Rice Bowl is a Lenten program run in schools and parishes that helps provide funding for the Catholic Relief Services’ food security projects, which support agriculture, nutrition, education, and self-sufficiency in communities around the world. 75% is remitted to CRS for overseas projects and 25% may be retained in the diocese for local antipoverty projects. Please give generously.