As the faithful prepare once again to abstain from meat on Fridays, Fr Tim Gardner offers some lively flesh-free recipes
Topic: Friday Fast
This Lent I’m going to make a big sacrifice
Posted on Friday, 4 March 2011
Looking back at my New Year’s resolutions is profoundly disheartening. At least I get another chance at self-discipline
Now we’re restoring the Friday fast, can we have our Holy Days of Obligation back, too?
Posted on Wednesday, 8 December 2010
This year, Twelfth Night will be on day eight: give us a break
Debate: Should the Friday Fast be restored?
Posted on Friday, 3 December 2010
Or should it be left up to individual Catholics to observe?
Bishops seek to ‘revitalise’ Lent as season of penitence
Posted on Friday, 3 December 2010
General secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ conference is charged with finding ways of re-emphasising Lent as penitential season
Debate: Six months on, what is the lasting legacy of the Pope’s visit to Britain?
Are Catholics still energised and renewed by the trip or has the momentum already been lost?