Abstaining from meat

[Pedro_1987]

I know we are allowed to eat some animals when abstaining from meat, like seafood. Would I be allowed to eat escargot (snails)? I saw this thing of escargot and I really want to eat it, but I’m giving up meat for lent. I guess worst case scenario, I can eat it on a Sunday, but I was wondering if escargot was considered meat to Catholics.

 

[StrawberryJam]

I know we are allowed to eat some animals when abstaining from meat, like seafood. Would I be allowed to eat escargot (snails)? I saw this thing of escargot and I really want to eat it, but I’m giving up meat for lent. I guess worst case scenario, I can eat it on a Sunday, but I was wondering if escargot was considered meat to Catholics.

You must live in the US or Canada or somewhere in the world where you traditionally give up red meat for lent.

Ask your fellow Catholics what some Asians give up for lent.

Depends on your Bishops and how they call it basically. There are no universal rules on this in the Catholic Church that is universal.

IOW, get out of the mindset that everything revolves around what you do in the USA, or wherever you live. The Catholic Church did not originate in the USA unlike most cults, and what practices the Bishops in the USA adopt is not the end all or be all of what is proper protocol universally.

 

[Tietjen]

I know we are allowed to eat some animals when abstaining from meat, like seafood. Would I be allowed to eat escargot (snails)? I saw this thing of escargot and I really want to eat it, but I’m giving up meat for lent. I guess worst case scenario, I can eat it on a Sunday, but I was wondering if escargot was considered meat to Catholics.

You are only required to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. Save the snails for one of the other days just to be safe.

 

[HENRYO]

The Catholic Bishops here in Nigeria also prescribes abstinence from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday specifically. But abstinence is generally from what you like most, a kind of mortification. So, it could be from fish, egg, milk, pepsi/coke, watching too much movies etc. In your case, you may consider giving up snails all through Lent.

 

[Polycarp1]

I know we are allowed to eat some animals when abstaining from meat, like seafood. Would I be allowed to eat escargot (snails)? I saw this thing of escargot and I really want to eat it, but I’m giving up meat for lent. I guess worst case scenario, I can eat it on a Sunday, but I was wondering if escargot was considered meat to Catholics.

I would es car go and ask a priest!

 

[AlanFromWichita]

If lobster is OK, snails are OK.

If fish is OK, then lobster is OK.

IMO

 

[Paddy_Walker]

snails are land-mollusks. it might be a penance to eat them, like eating fish on friday. but i prefer fish to meat, so i’m confused too.