Lent:
Discipline and History (CUF Faith Fact) How did Lent arise? What is its current discipline,
and what is its history?
Daily
Penance, Days of Penance (CUF Faith Fact) What does the Church teach about daily penance? What
are the days of penance, and how ought Catholics to observe
them?
Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini
(1966), which governs the penitential discipline of the
Church
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' (now the
USCCB), Pastoral
Statement on Penance and Abstinence (1966),
which applies that universal discipline to the United States
and offers recommendations for Lent.
From Our Founder
I also agree that the laity generally are still too passive (that is, when
they’re not too aggressively active!). That is really one of the basic
reasons for the existence of CUF: to be a little alarm clock to wake people
up, and then a center around which they can rally, and act in the way
befitting members of Christ’s true Church. . . . The situation keeps
changing, and it’s important that the laity try to act under some kind of
coordination, which only an organization like CUF can provide.
H. Lyman Stebbins
March 1, 1973
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