Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of the Archdiocese of Newark made the announcement about the upcoming holiday falling on a Friday during Lent.
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Why you may ask? St. Patrick’s Day, which is on Friday, March 17, coincides with one of Lent’s days of abstinence this year. “For those members of the faithful celebrating this Solemnity and who desire it, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin has dispensed the penitential obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, March 17,” the. “A substitution should be made in the form of fasting, prayer and/or almsgiving.”
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