Fasting Regulations
Our Tradition is to abstain from meat after Meatfare Sunday and from dairy products
after Cheesefare Sunday until Easter. The following are the minimum requirements.
- All who receive Communion in the Eparchy of Passaic are required to abstain from meat on Wednesdays and Fridays of the Great Fast.
- All adults who receive Communion in the Eparchy of Passaic are required to abstain from meat, eggs, and milk products on the first day of Lent, Monday, March 3, and on Great and Holy Friday, April 18.
These are the minimum requirements; however, the faithful are encouraged to do more.
Pastors and Administrators may, for a just cause, grant to the individual faithful and to individual families, dispensations or commutations of the fasting rules into other pious practices.
Source: https://www.eparchyofpassaic.com/files/ECL-6103-WEB.pdf