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Canon 1252 All persons who have completed their
fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence; all
adults are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of
their sixtieth year. Nevertheless, pastors and parents are
to see to it that minors who are not bound by the law of
fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of
penance.

Canon 1253 It is for the conference of bishops to
determine more precisely the observance of fast and
abstinence and to substitute in whole or in part for fast
and abstinence other forms of penance, especially works
of charity and exercises of piety.

Holy Days of Obligation in
United States of America

In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of
obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of
America, in conformity with canon 1246 of the Code of Canon
Law, are as follows:

• January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God;
• Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity
of the Ascension;
• August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary;
• November 1, the solemnity of All Saints;
• December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception;

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