Chicken broth on Fridays?

[jemfinch]

I’m planning to make Potato Soup for our meatless Friday meal, and was wondering whether chicken broth would be permitted.

I can use vegetable broth, but I have chicken broth handy, whereas vegetable broth would require a trip to the store

As a vegetarian awhile back, I never would’ve eaten chicken broth, but I never would’ve eaten fish or seafood, either, so it’s hard to know which way the Church leans on this issue. Frog legs are apparently permitted (and they taste just like chicken) so that complicates the issue even further.

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[Della]

If you are adhering to the strongly suggest Friday penance of no meat, then the chicken broth would violate that.

My dh and I have made no red meat on Fridays our penance (because I cannot eat most seafoods), so chicken is all right for us, but it wouldn’t be for those who have promised God not to eat meat on Fridays as their penance. That’s how I see it, anyway.

 

[baltobetsy]

I’m sure someone will have the reference that soups and condiments made with meat do not break the rule of abstinence. If you do a search on this forum about Lenten abstinence, you will surely find it. Also, Jimmy Akin’s blog surely will have it.

Please go ahead and use your chicken broth. And if you want to post the recipe for your soup, that would be nice, too!

Betsy

 

[puzzleannie]

I posted the regulations for this diocese on fast and abstinence during lent. Animal fats, meat broths and condiments made from meat are permitted. if you prefer not to use them, don’t. the regulations are stricter in Eastern rites. Get on your diocesan website and find out what the regulations are and post them someplace.