To encourage this ideal, the Church has set forth these rules and regulations for the observance of Lent:

1.  Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.
2.  All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence only.

Church Law binds as follows:

1. The Law of Abstinence (not eating meat) obliges those who have completed their 14th year.
2. The law of Fast (only one full meal each day, the other two meals together being less than one full meal, nothing between meals) obliges those who have completed their 21st year until the beginning of their 60th year.
3. Proportionately grave inconvenience excuses from the laws of fast and abstinence.