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2 Meat Fridays? Maybe

A Pillar Explainer

The Pillar
Mar 14, 2022
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The solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord will fall in 2022 on March 25 — a Friday during Lent.

It is quite clear that Catholics are ordinarily obliged to abstain from meat on Lenten Fridays, but they can eat meat that day, March 25, because of the solemnity. 

But there is another Lenten solemnity raising questions this year: the Solemnit…

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