Does Lent mean not eating meat or does it just mean sacrificing something?

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Sacrificing something that you are attached to or is it about meat specifically please?
 
–No meat is on Ash Wednesday, all Fridays in Lent and Good Friday.
–Fasting is on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (up to 2 small snack/meals + 1 full meal)

Eastern Catholics have a much stricter Fast (no butter/eggs/cheese/milk)

More details:

usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/questions-and-answers-about-lent.cfm
Apart from the prescribed days of fast and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and the days of abstinence every Friday of Lent, Catholics have traditionally chosen additional penitential practices for the whole Time of Lent. These practices are disciplinary in nature and often more effective if they are continuous, i.e., kept on Sundays as well. That being said, such practices are not regulated by the Church, but by individual conscience.
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Elena you are in Aus?

Here is the direction to us from my Parish Newsletter , I am in Aus.

This is taken directly from the direction of the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell.

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of Fasting and Abstinence from meat.
On all other Fridays , the law of common practice of penance is fulfilled through any of the following

A. Prayer ie mass attendance, family prayer , visit to church or chapel, bible reading, stations of the cross, praying the rosary

B. Self-denial ie no meat, no sweets, no dessert, reduce tv time, or other entertainments

C. Helping others ie take the family to visit the elderly, visit the sick, visit someone lonely,

(Not sure what fasting laws are as in how many meals, snacks, drinks, and time frame. I am going to ask my priest tomorrow).
 
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