Do you eat meat on Fridays?

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Simple question.

I try my best not to and typically don’t, but sometimes I do if there’s a special occasion or I can’t find any fish to eat for lunch. Lent is always a no.
 
GangGreen said:
Simple question.

I try my best not to and typically don’t, but sometimes I do if there’s a special occasion or I can’t find any fish to eat for lunch. Lent is always a no.
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Same as you, but if I do eat meat I try and do something extra. Like saying a second rosary, or reading the Bible longer.
 
No.

I used to eat meat (outside of Lent) before I came over to the EF.
 
Every now and then I will end up at a place that doesn’t have another option and I will make an exception. Otherwise, no meat on Fridays. Obviously Lent is ALWAYS a no.
 
Our family refrains from eating meat on Fridays.

The main exception would be if there are leftovers that would otherwise go to waste.
 
Boulder257 said:
Every now and then I will end up at a place that doesn’t have another option and I will make an exception. Otherwise, no meat on Fridays. Obviously Lent is ALWAYS a no.
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I can’t think of any place that does not have salad or vegetarian offerings (Even McD’s has filet-o-fish). :confused:
 
I don’t eat meat on Fridays during Lent, because I am obligated not to.
For me, the ‘gesture’ of not eating meat has little meaning, because I do not eat a lot of meat to begin with, so not eating it really means nothing to me.

I do, however, perform other acts of a penitential nature on all Fridays of the year under the guidance of my spiritual director.
 
Is this just Traditional Catholicism or is it recommended for all Catholics? I’m a new Catholic so all I learnt in RCIA was to fast from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

I have a friend who doesn’t eat meat Fridays but I didn’t realise other Catholics did during non-lent months.

Can anyone offer any advice or give me any links to information about this because I would like to start doing this?
 
I do my best not to eat meat on Fridays, but sometimes I forget, and sometimes things happen to me. For example last Friday I was out with friends for lunch, and I was very careful to order the no-meat sandwich, but when it came, I bit into it before I realized that my order had been mixed up with someone else’s.

Rather than waste the food (I know a lot of people from hungry parts of the world, and I am very conscious about not wasting food), I ate it. 🤷
 
At home I don’t eat meat on Fridays, but if I am a guest at someone’s house for dinner and meat is served, I eat it.

Our rare visits to restaurants are onely rarely on Fridays, so the issue doesn’t come up. Except when I totally forget it’s Friday. 😦
 
jmcrae said:
I do my best not to eat meat on Fridays, but sometimes I forget, and sometimes things happen to me. For example last Friday I was out with friends for lunch, and I was very careful to order the no-meat sandwich, but when it came, I bit into it before I realized that my order had been mixed up with someone else’s.

Rather than waste the food (I know a lot of people from hungry parts of the world, and I am very conscious about not wasting food), I ate it. 🤷
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I can understand and I sympathize with you here!

I abstain on all Fridays also. A few weeks ago, I went to my favorite Vietnamese restaurant and ordered goi cuon. These are fresh salad rolls in rice paper with shrimp and pork. So I ordered mine without pork. But the restaurant was busy, which made the waitress confused. She brought me the wrong order. I took one bite and found pork. I decided to pull it out and eat the rest. Then when I talked to the owner I realized I got someone else’s order. I felt kind of bad that I didn’t send it back, because maybe the other person got their order without pork.

I am not a rude person who sends back dishes at restaurants. I tend to just eat what is before me. But I have learned that sometimes it is worth your while to speak up when something is not right. Last night I bought a bottle of sparkling water, but it was flat. I mentioned this and exchanged it for another one, which was also flat. I guess a whole batch had been accidentally frozen. The barista was more than willing to keep giving me bottles until I was satisfied, but I said I would drink the flat bottle anyway. It tasted fine. I think they will probably open them all up anyway. The moral of the story is that you can speak up about your order without being rude. The restaurant is probably eager to hear about problems so they can correct them before they get out of hand.

The local Knights of Columbus have promoted a program where we abstain from meat and offer it up for the unborn children facing abortion. I think this is gaining some traction. I have mentioned it twice to my own Council, and it is circulating on a state level if not higher now. We are all pledging to do something for the unborn. Even if we just offer a daily prayer, it is so powerful and helpful when we offer a spiritual penance.

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I don’t change my carnivore diet on Fridays, except during Lent. I do an alternate penance, typically doing one of my wife’s chores, or some extra prayers. I find either one of those to be more meaningful to me than not eating meat.
 
I do not eat meat on Fridays except for when I am invited to someone and they cooked meat or a similar situation like that. I also try to keep an attitude of penance on Fridays…
 
I abstain from all animal products on Wednesday and Fridays…unless it is a non fasting week.

We Byzantines keep Vegan Wednesday, Friday, all of Lent and the Pre Christmas fast( from Nov 15th to Xmas) and the first 2 weeks of August in honor of Our Lady’s Dormition and for anywhere from 2 weeks to 7 weeks before the feast of St. Peter and Paul (depending on the date of Easter that year). It comes to about 1/2 the year if you add it all up.
 
I try not to eat meat on Fridays. If I have make an exception or forget I try to substitute some other form of penance. If I do no form of penance on Friday, I do confess it the next day and try to do better the next week.
 
Elizium23 said:
I can understand and I sympathize with you here!

I abstain on all Fridays also. A few weeks ago, I went to my favorite Vietnamese restaurant and ordered goi cuon. These are fresh salad rolls in rice paper with shrimp and pork. So I ordered mine without pork. But the restaurant was busy, which made the waitress confused. She brought me the wrong order. I took one bite and found pork. I decided to pull it out and eat the rest. Then when I talked to the owner I realized I got someone else’s order. I felt kind of bad that I didn’t send it back, because maybe the other person got their order without pork.
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If they noticed and were upset, they got the same replacement order that they would have gotten even if you had sent yours back. They still would have had to throw it away, since the other customer wouldn’t want to receive something that already had a bite out of it.
I am not a rude person who sends back dishes at restaurants. I tend to just eat what is before me. But I have learned that sometimes it is worth your while to speak up when something is not right. Last night I bought a bottle of sparkling water, but it was flat. I mentioned this and exchanged it for another one, which was also flat. I guess a whole batch had been accidentally frozen. The barista was more than willing to keep giving me bottles until I was satisfied, but I said I would drink the flat bottle anyway. It tasted fine. I think they will probably open them all up anyway. The moral of the story is that you can speak up about your order without being rude. The restaurant is probably eager to hear about problems so they can correct them before they get out of hand.
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I agree with you on that - and if the server is continually getting the orders mixed up, they need to know that, too. But once you’ve bitten into something, they aren’t going to sell it to someone else - they have to throw it out, and that’s where my scruples kick in. :o
 
Since returning to the Curch I’ve been trying to do my best to remind myself and get into the habit of doing some sort of penance on Friday, it’s hard but I think I’m getting there, I’m slowly intergrating no meat on Fridays.
 
I never eat meat on Friday. But sometimes my human nature kicks in and I forget.
 
I’ve been trying to re-establish the piety my grandfather always insisted upon of fasting on Fridays and Wednesdays but it’s hard.
 
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