Our extended family celebrate with other family members on Thursday so we have our Thanksgiving on Friday. Thanks to Pope PiusXII. Thanks for your videos, we enjoy them very much.
Interesting idea, but wrong period and wrong pope. The increasing number of dispensations from abstinence on the Friday after Thanksgiving dates more from the time of St. John XXIII than that of Ven. Pius XII. The "Canon Law Digest," vol. V, p. 565 states: "The U. S. Apostolic Delegate can delegate to local Ordinaries who request it, the faculty to dispense from abstinence on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. The faculty, when granted, is valid for five years. 'N.C.W.C. Circular Notice,' 26 June, 1962." It would seem that many local ordinaries availed themselves of this faculty, which was no longer necessary after the Apostolic Constitution "Paenitemini" was promulgated in 1966, authorizing bishops' conferences to modify Friday abstinence laws.
Apparently this "indult of Pius XII" is mythical. Fridays are still days of penitence, but outside of Lent you may substitute for other sacrifices or acts of charity instead of abstaining from meat. Thanksgiving and the following Friday are always outside of Lent.
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Our extended family celebrate with other family members on Thursday so we have our Thanksgiving on Friday. Thanks to Pope PiusXII. Thanks for your videos, we enjoy them very much.
Love your videos..❤❤
And Thanks be to God for all the blessings he has bestowed on us.
Pope Pius, pray for us ! 😃
He allowed it and the Bishops ran with it. Now hardly anyone knows that your supposed to fast on Friday
Interesting idea, but wrong period and wrong pope. The increasing number of dispensations from abstinence on the Friday after Thanksgiving dates more from the time of St. John XXIII than that of Ven. Pius XII. The "Canon Law Digest," vol. V, p. 565 states: "The U. S. Apostolic Delegate can delegate to local Ordinaries who request it, the faculty to dispense from abstinence on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. The faculty, when granted, is valid for five years. 'N.C.W.C. Circular Notice,' 26 June, 1962."
It would seem that many local ordinaries availed themselves of this faculty, which was no longer necessary after the Apostolic Constitution "Paenitemini" was promulgated in 1966, authorizing bishops' conferences to modify Friday abstinence laws.
Apparently this "indult of Pius XII" is mythical. Fridays are still days of penitence, but outside of Lent you may substitute for other sacrifices or acts of charity instead of abstaining from meat. Thanksgiving and the following Friday are always outside of Lent.
Is it just turkey? Or can we eat the ham too?