Fast and Abstinence are prescribed for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday for those who have completed 18 years of age and up to the age of 60 years.
Abstinence is prescribed as a general rule for every Friday, applicable to those who have completed the 14 years of age.
Eucharistic Fast: The faithful must abstain from solid food and liquids for one hour before receiving Holy Communion. This regulation is applied to Masses celebrated in the morning, afternoon or at midnight. Water does not break the fast. Those who are sick, even though not confined to bed, may take any liquid or food as medicine at any time before Holy Communion without asking permission.
Easter Obligation may be fulfilled at any time between the First Sunday in Lent and Trinity Sunday (Sunday after Pentecost).
Holy Days of Obligation: Sundays or Saturday (where it has been decided), Christmas and Assumption of the Bl. Virgin Mary.
Feast days transferred to the following or preceding Sunday: Epiphany (January 6th); Corpus Christi; Ascension; Sts. Peter & Paul (June 29th); Assumption of the Bl. Virgin Mary (August 15th).
Special celebration days: Mary, Mother of God (January 1st); Our Lady of Arabia (Saturday after the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord); St. Joseph (March 19th); All Saints (November 1st); Immaculate Conception (December 8th).