Fasting on Fridays

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Do any of you fast on fridays throughout the year, even outside of lent? I consider myself a very traditional Catholic, and I have decided to abstain from meat on fridays throughout the year, and I was just wondering if any other tradional or old-school Catholics did the same? This is my first post-Thanks

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latinkeeperLA said:
Do any of you fast on fridays throughout the year, even outside of lent? I consider myself a very traditional Catholic, and I have decided to abstain from meat on fridays throughout the year, and I was just wondering if any other tradional or old-school Catholics did the same? This is my first post-Thanks

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Hi! Hope you enjoy the forums…

That or some other form of penance is called for on all Fridays throughout the year… sadly I haven’t participated in the actual fasting part like I should:o although I feel it is a wonderful act.

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latinkeeperLA said:
Do any of you fast on fridays throughout the year, even outside of lent? I consider myself a very traditional Catholic, and I have decided to abstain from meat on fridays throughout the year, and I was just wondering if any other tradional or old-school Catholics did the same? This is my first post-Thanks

God Bless
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Please note that fasting and abstaining from meat are different things. Do not mix them up.

Fasting is only required two days a year and they are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Abstaining from meat is required during the Fridays of Lent.
On all other Fridays of the year some form of penance is required and abstaining from meat is one penance choice.
 
We abstain from meat on all Fridays throughout the year.
 
Yes My Father never ate meat on Fridays. Maybe 8 times in his life if he had no other choice. I think I am going to go back to the old way. I may really go back and do the fasting once a week.

This Lent may be when I begin. I think it is a great way of keeping in touch with God.

In two way everytime you think to eat you say a prayer. And every time you get a hunger pain you remember to thank God for giving you food,
 
latinkeeperLA said:
Do any of you fast on fridays throughout the year, even outside of lent? I consider myself a very traditional Catholic, and I have decided to abstain from meat on fridays throughout the year, and I was just wondering if any other tradional or old-school Catholics did the same?
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I do. In order to keep with the spirit of the exercise, I also make it a point to eat very simple food on Friday. What I mean by that is, I don’t go out on Friday to a fine restaurant and order Copper River salmon with asparagus mousse. 😉 I eat things like lentil soup or beans on toast or baked codfish, and if I happen to be out to eat I’ll just get something like a cheese quesadilla.
 
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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
CCC 1438 The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church’s penitential practice.
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From the Code of Canon Law:
Can. 1249 The divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way…
Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
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Our family since I was wee little and now with my family with 3 children do not eat meat on Fridays throughout the year. There are rare occasions that we do but I usually will plan meatless meals on Saturday to “make-up”.

I think it is a good pratice to have because my children always remember and ask… are we having fish tonight?🙂

Paul

ps… Welcome to CAF!!👍
 
I just started again to abstain from meat when I realized that it is considered a valid penance for the Friday’s requirement. For a long time I though that the Friday requirement was eliminated. Now It is just dry veggie burger for lunch, or if I am lucky some fried catfish. Our cafeteria is not as good as it used to be.
 
Question…Is chicken considered "flesh meat’? Does “fish” include seafood like shrimp or lobster, which are considered “luxuries” today?

When I attended the Orthodox Church, they considered “fish” to include seafood, even lobster, because when the law of meat-avoidance was initiated, lobster was considered “poor food”, so it was okay to eat it.

I’m not sure how the Catholic Church views it. I would appreciate any (name removed by moderator)ut on the matter.
 
Actually, even before Vatican 2, there were some Fridays in the year that were abstinence-free, namely those that fell 25 December-6 January.
 
AngelaBarbara said:
Question…Is chicken considered "flesh meat’? Does “fish” include seafood like shrimp or lobster, which are considered “luxuries” today?

When I attended the Orthodox Church, they considered “fish” to include seafood, even lobster, because when the law of meat-avoidance was initiated, lobster was considered “poor food”, so it was okay to eat it.

I’m not sure how the Catholic Church views it. I would appreciate any (name removed by moderator)ut on the matter.
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Yes chicken is meat and shellfish is fish for abstinence purposes. Interestingly, the Church also considered seal and whale to be fish even though they are mammals. I don’t know if that thinking has changed with the centuries.
 
Phemie said:
Yes chicken is meat and shellfish is fish for abstinence purposes. Interestingly, the Church also considered seal and whale to be fish even though they are mammals. I don’t know if that thinking has changed with the centuries.
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Muskrat is considered non meat too! 👍
 
We abstain, my wife and I, from meat on Friday’s whenever possible. We just like doing it. We DO however fail in this endeavor on occasion, primarily during vacations etc.
 
Yes, I am old-school Catholic (don’t like the term ‘traditional’) and I do abstain from eating meat or meat products on Friday throughout the year.

It is really not that difficult with all the choices available.

On another thread I read a poster say that the meatless meal must be “simple.” I have never heard that nor learned it as a child so I believe that is a personal choice of the poster and should not have been forward as truth (unless, of course, a legitimate source can be given).
 
Phemie said:
. Interestingly, the Church also considered seal and whale to be fish even though they are mammals. I don’t know if that thinking has changed with the centuries.
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and muskrat in what is now the Detroit area and what was once French Canada, froglegs too

many of us old folks never stopped the practices we gew up with, so still abstain for the most part on Fridays, and fast and abstain at least to a degree on Lenten weekdays. Since in any case we eat very little red meat and eat fish frequently throughout the year, the penitiential aspect may be somewhat lacking.
 
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