1.  Since it took me 4 hours to get home from work yesterday due to the weather, I completely missed the Parish Mission.  There was to be a soup dinner (outside of my penance anyway, that I was not planning on going to) and distribution of the ashes prior to the mission.  My friend and I texted about the whole late/traffic situation, and she was worried that I was missing getting ashes (she didn’t know that I had gotten them at morning Mass at OLGC).  So, she offered, “I’ll share my ashes with you!”

a.  How would that be logistically possible?

b.  Is that legit?

2.  Raging neophyte debate here:  when you are fasting, instructions from the Archdiocese’s website say, “The law of fasting allows one full meal per day, with two lighter meals. The quantity of food taken at the two lighter meals should not exceed the quantity taken at the full meal. The drinking of ordinary liquids does not break the fast.”  The question is, I was under the impression that you were only supposed to have the one meal, and that the two smaller meals (collations) were only to be consumed if [medically] necessary — for example if you were ill, elderly or diabetic.  So, which interpretation is correct?