Ash Wednesday 1964 Letter from Fr. John Fennelly to Tom explaining that he is trying to bring his flock together.

Card from + Wall to Fr. Dunne regarding arrangements For Ash Wednesday.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid relating a notice from His Holiness concerning the Lenten fast and abstinence. The Osservatore Romano will publish the Apostolic Constitution ‘Paenitemini’ on 17th February. It concerns a new penitential discipline which lays down fast and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The obligation to abstain binds from 14 years and the fast from 21 to 60 years.

Note from Fr. James Ardle MacMahon to +McQuaid stating that he had contacted Fr. Kevin Mullen at the Nunciature asking if there was no longer a Lenten fast apart from Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. He stated he did not know anything except what was in the letter of the Nuncio. He was informed that the Lenten Regulations were being posted to the printers and there may not be any practical difficulty as +McQuaid had dispensed from the day after Ash Wednesday to Passion Sunday.