Fish on Friday Empty Ritual or Penitential?

[Orthodoxy776]

Is not eating fish on Friday a manmade ritual or a penitential practice of the church? I have trouble explaining it to a Protestant friend who says the Book of Colossians says its nothing more than an empty ritual.

 

[Devon_Caffran]

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