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                    [ArticleID] => 2211488
                    [Title] => Drew Barrymore reacts to Andrew Garfield's revelation of six months no sex
                    [Summary] => Abstinence is not a problem at all for actress-host Drew Barrymore, after revealing that she can go for years without sex.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-09-23 09:48:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Kristofer Purnell
                    [SectionName] => Health And Family
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                    [Title] => Pampanga village celebrates feast every Good Friday
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While Catholics are accustomed to fast and abstain from eating meat on Good Friday to commemorate the passion of Christ, a predominantly Catholic village in San Fernando celebrates its fiesta with plenty of meat dishes on the hallowed day.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 793956 [Title] => Abstinence: It's not all about the meat [Summary] =>

Starting on Ash Wednesday and every Friday thereafter until Easter, most Filipino Catholics would abstain from eating meat. The Church prescribes that one must fast and abstain in commemoration of the passion of Jesus Christ, and in observance of the Lenten Season.lak

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1099851 [AuthorName] => Aaron Erick Lozada [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 527665 [Title] => Pope urges prayer, action to comfort AIDS patients [Summary] =>

Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers and concrete action to comfort all those who are suffering from AIDS.

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The good man of the cloth, as expected, stressed on the need for abstinence or fasting in memory of the 40 days' fast of Jesus Christ in the desert. But while zeroing in first on food fasting for Christians not to gorge on food with gluttony, or splurge luxuriously on similar material needs, he expounded more lengthily on fasting in all other aspects and affairs of the parishioners.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331234 [Title] => Not in keeping with the season [Summary] => At the start of the 40 weekdays of Lent, one recalls the timely homily of an elderly priest then celebrating a Saturday anticipated mass that the family attended.

The good man of the cloth, as expected, stressed on the need for abstinence or fasting in memory of the 40 days' fast of Jesus Christ in the desert. But while zeroing in first on food fasting for Christians not to gorge on food with gluttony, or splurge luxuriously on similar material needs, he expounded more lengthily on fasting in all other aspects and affairs of the parishioners.
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