[dansangel]

Fasting every Friday is *not* a lost rite in our household, I am happy to report.

[livius]

That's good, and I think there are probably many people who also do this and have kept on doing it since the 70s.

But I wish it would go back to being what it had been, simply a given and a communal practice.

I am afraid many people have missed the point here, and do not understand the difference between a personal act of piety, and a corporate or communal practice.

It was the communal practice that Vatican II destroyed.