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Ash Wednesday
 and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.

All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence.
Fasting means eating only one full meal with two smaller meals which together do not equal the full meal. No snacks or eating between meals. Fasting obliges all Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59.
Abstinence means eating no meat nor soup nor gravy made from meat.  (Meat is considered to be the flesh and organs of mammals and fowl.)  Abstinence obliges all Catholics over the age of 14.