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I bought some of those stuffed peppers with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese. After about 4 or 5 peppers it dawned on me I was eating meat on a FRIDAY of Lent! Did I commit a sin? I stopped eating them…

Also, I gave up eating sweets for Lent. I haven’t been very good this year. Is this a sin?

Should I confess these?
 
jay29 said:
I bought some of those stuffed peppers with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese. After about 4 or 5 peppers it dawned on me I was eating meat on a FRIDAY of Lent! Did I commit a sin? I stopped eating them…

Also, I gave up eating sweets for Lent. I haven’t been very good this year. Is this a sin?

Should I confess these?
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Two separate issues - as for eating meat on Friday, if you really forgot it was Friday and stopped as soon as you realized it, no, I don’t think it’s a sin, though you can mention it in confession if you feel guilty about it.

Also, I think in the Latin Rite Church you have the option of performing some other kind of penance than giving up meat on Friday, correct? So you could do something else to make up for it - give something extra to the poor, volunteer for a job you don’t really want to do, etc.

As for giving up the sweets, this is a voluntary penance you chose, not mandated by the Church, so no, it’s not a sin if you gave in to temptation and ate a sweet. However, maybe you should give up something else for the rest of Lent.

(P.S. do you still have any of those stuffed peppers left? I’m hungry. 😉 )
 
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I bought some of those stuffed peppers with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese. After about 4 or 5 peppers it dawned on me I was eating meat on a FRIDAY of Lent! Did I commit a sin? I stopped eating them…

Also, I gave up eating sweets for Lent. I haven’t been very good this year. Is this a sin?

Should I confess these?
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If you didn’t intentionally eat meat then how in the world could you have committed a sin?
 
Thanks for the replies. As soon as I realized, “It’s MEAT!” I stopped. I have plenty left for tomorrow.

Right now I am SMOKING a huge salmon fillet on my Webber bullet smoker, with pecan wood. YUM YUM! That with potatoes, carrots, and a nice glass of White Zifandel! Wow! 😃

I will have a Mass said for the Souls in Purgatory. Do not say anything in regards to this. I will miss the riches in heaven if I do. 🙂
 
I don’t know about you but I just opened a package of Lobster ravioli with parmesan garlic butter sauce. A nice salad and I am all set. My kids don’t know any better and have opted for cheese pizza!
 
Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but somehow it seems to me that eating lobster on Fridays is keeping to the letter of the law but not the spirit. Not that I don’t do the same thing. But in the spirit of penance, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to have a box of that macaroni with the orange cheese sauce? Except, that probably would be no penance for the kids…
 
Also, I think in the Latin Rite Church you have the option of performing some other kind of penance than giving up meat on Friday, correct? So you could do something else to make up for it - give something extra to the poor, volunteer for a job you don’t really want to do, etc.

Sorry, not quite correct. We Latin Rite Catholics have a penetential option on Fridays, except during Lent. The abstinence from meat i smandatory during Lent, optional during the rest of the year.

Peace,
Linda
 
Your right during the rest of the year we have the option of substituting a form of penance or we can abstain from meat on Fridays.

During Lent it is something we have to do out of obedience and respect for Jesus.

God Bless
Scylla
 
Jay,
Re. smoked salmon dinner
Not much of a penance when the meal is superior in quality to what you would normally eat on a Friday.
But we all seem to do things like this. I go to the K of C fish dinner at the parish. The baked fish and butter and herb potatoes are delicious.
And I’m pretty sure the pastor’s meal is just as tasty.
Que faire?

Matthew
 
It’s not quite accurate to say the abstinence is required on all the Fridays in Lent. It depends where you live.
In America, yes, but not in other countries - the U.K., Australia and Canada, for instance, allow the substitution of another penance of one’s choice.
 
bought some of those stuffed peppers with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese. After about 4 or 5 peppers it dawned on me I was eating meat on a FRIDAY of Lent! Did I commit a sin? I stopped eating them…
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Where’s the meat?? Prosciutto and Cheese are bad guys?
 
Four or five? I am not worried about the sin, because if you truly forgot it was Friday in Lent (these days I’m forgetting lots of things) then there’s no sin. But four or five italian poppers!!! What a stomach you have!!! :clapping: And where did you get them? I get mine at Prisco’s in Aurora, IL.
 
You have to eat meat on purpose for it to be something to feel guilty about. And I believe having lobster or crab on Friday is missing the point of fasting from meat on Fridays during Lent. In the olden days, having meat was a luxury, so giving it up on Fridays was truly a great pennace because it was something craved as “back then” all you had was your meat and potato and something green.

So if you LOVE fish and lobster and crab, or if you are a vegetarian, and never eat meat anyway, what can you give up on Fridays during Lent for pennance? I think that is the point.

Now if I have to give up COFFEE, I would probably slit my wrists…but meat isnt a problem.

I am making light of this…

Here is an idea, instead of giving up SWEETS for the rest of Lent, instead take 20 minutes of your time each day and say a Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Giving up sweets will only make your Easter outfit look better, but saying extra prayers, especially for those in Purgatory, is much more helpful and spiritual…

God bless you and may he send you the Holy Spirit for guidance…
 
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You have to eat meat on purpose for it to be something to feel guilty about. And I believe having lobster or crab on Friday is missing the point of fasting from meat on Fridays during Lent. In the olden days, having meat was a luxury, so giving it up on Fridays was truly a great pennace because it was something craved as “back then” all you had was your meat and potato and something green.

So if you LOVE fish and lobster and crab, or if you are a vegetarian, and never eat meat anyway, what can you give up on Fridays during Lent for pennance? I think that is the point.

Now if I have to give up COFFEE, I would probably slit my wrists…but meat isnt a problem.

I am making light of this…

Here is an idea, instead of giving up SWEETS for the rest of Lent, instead take 20 minutes of your time each day and say a Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Giving up sweets will only make your Easter outfit look better, but saying extra prayers, especially for those in Purgatory, is much more helpful and spiritual…

God bless you and may he send you the Holy Spirit for guidance…
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This is a good point. We eat meat rarely–usually our meals are meatless, save for my husband’s and sons’ lunches, which are usually turkey sandwiches. When I cook, it’s most always a meatless meal. So on Wednesdays and Fridays, I abstain from all animal products–basically a vegan diet.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that i feel much healthier on those days. Am pondering going vegan completely again, as I was for years. Then I would have to give up sugar.
 
Well this last Friday we had southwestern veggie soup with cheese and tortia chips. But, again it is something we all like so maybe we should have had a food that no one likes.:confused: It was simple and lite.
 
Eating lobster is not fasting. Fasting is when you only eat two small meals and one large one. And I had ravioli…don’t beat me up. No meat.

Believe me, my vegetarian family members don’t feel like they are doing much for lent because they never eat meat. Instead, they do a act of mercy…work at a PADS shelter on Fridays. Lent because a valuable lessen when you decide to do or not do something.
 
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Now if I have to give up COFFEE, I would probably slit my wrists…but meat isnt a problem.

God bless you and may he send you the Holy Spirit for guidance…
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I DID give up coffee for Lent. It was really hard the first week and a half,the headaches and jitteryness. I usually have 5 cups in the morning. I do have a weak cup of tea in the morning now just for the caffine jump I need to wake up. The rest of the day I drink herbal tea. Anyway the first thing I plan to do Easter morning is go to Dunkin Donuts and get an extra large vanilla coffee latte.
 
YOU GAVE UP COFFEE.!!!..Bless you. I tried that last Lent, and I was so mean and crabby (withdrawals I guess) I had to do extra pennance and found myself in the confessional more than usual.

Bless all of you vegetarians, I meant no offense. And I love lobster and shell fish too, and cheese ravioli, and veggie lasagne, so on Fridays I tease my husband and kids and tell them we are having liver and onions as pennance…still kidding…

I found that of all the things I have given up during all the Lents I have lived through, none of them seemed as difficult as sacrificing 30 minutes a day to say an extra Rosary, Chaplet or even read an extra 30 minutes of Scripture. So instead of staying away from the kitchen items, I try to put down my arts, crafts, novels, mysteries and read more about the Saints, or more Scripture.

We too have ‘accidentally’ eaten meat on Fridays in years past, especially the first few Fridays. So as soon as we realized we did, we gave up eating meat for the next day (Saturdays) and that hurts because we usually have a big Saturday breakfast because everyone is home and not at school, work, practice, etc.

It all works out…
 
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