Dancing during Lent

[puzzleannie]

What about Fridays during Lent? What about Good Friday? I just looking for opinions.

it is incomprehensible to me that any Catholic would consider going dancing or any party or entertainment on Good Friday, but that is my raising. there is no church law I am aware of about dancing in general but Lent is a penitential season overall so she leaves it to our own prudential judgement.

 

[TheAdvocate]

In Eastern Europe, the Orthodox and Eastern Catholics still have this prohibition. I’m not sure whether it’s a formally written law or not, but all I know is that when I’ve visited those regions during Lent, Advent, the Philip’s Fast, etc., the dancing stops.

Just FYI.

I’m not saying this as a slam against western Catholics, but clearly the East is still much stricter when it comes to these kinds of things (e.g., in the Byzantine-Catholic Churches, there is no eating meat on any Friday of the year**—and that IS a formal law.)

** unless the Friday in question falls on a feast day, of course.