# Lenten fasting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 20, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710 "2008-08-20T19:49:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710/21 "2008-08-26T03:43:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Chronos]  
OK, I have to ask, then: What readings do you use for St. Patrick’s day?  
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The missal for Australia has:

Jeremiah 1: 4-9 for the first reading  
Psalm 116  
Acts 13: 46-49 for the second reading  
Luke 10: 1-12, 17-20 for the Gospel

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**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710/22 "2010-09-10T20:47:11Z")

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RESURRECTING

I now cannot find the article I linked in the opening post. Has it been removed?  
Powers &8^]

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710/23 "2010-09-11T02:07:35Z")

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In the past year or two they changed all the addresses for staff reports, so one wouldn’t expect that link to work anyway… But I can’t find it via Google, either. I dunno.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710/24 "2010-09-11T02:52:10Z")

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I seem to recall one bishop not giving a dispension for St. Patrick’s Day the one year (it was in some big US city, I can’t remember), and there was a huge uproar about it. I think he eventually back pedalled and gave in.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lenten-fasting/460710/25 "2010-09-11T20:50:36Z")

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When we transferred to the new urls, the old urls were still supposed to work. A few seemed to have slipped through the cracks. I’m not sure what happened here, I’ll have someone look into it.

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