Who is Notre Dame?
Notre Dame is French for "Our Lady", The Blessed Mother.

Fasting
is restricting eating to one full meal and two lighter meals in the course of a single day, and prohibits eating between meals. Adults who have not yet reached their sixtieth year are bound by Canon Law to fast. Pregnant women and people who are sick are not obligated to fast.

Abstinence
is refraining from eating meat. People who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by Canon Law to abstain.