If meatless FRi would become the norm, how would you feel about it

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“If meatless FRi would become the norm, how would you feel about it?”

It wouldn’t bother me. I’ve been mostly meatless on Fridays (except for a few exceptions) since Lent and quite frankly it’s a practice that I think is good for me.

We DO live in a selfish, self-absorbed society and I think doing little things like this to sacrifice our desires and our wants is a good thing. Fasting too is valuable (unfortunately I wouldn’t dare fast at this point with the hours and kind of work I do - I’m prone to fainting spells as it IS and I think fasting would just make things so much worse).

‘I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship…’

Sometimes when I read that verse I interpret it to mean that we have to give up what we desire and offer it up as a sacrifice to God. 🤷 That would include meat on Fridays (I’m a HUGE meat eater so for me it IS a sacrifice).
 
RSD said:
So based on these responses, it is clear that the Church should go back to the practice of meatless Fridays (which many people will characterize as the Church requiring us to eat fish).
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No doubt. But putting a fish on the calendar is probably a better way to remind of the meat abstinence than a “no meat” icon, don’t you think? There should be a positive in all this.
 
ProVobis said:
No doubt. But putting a fish on the calendar is probably a better way to remind of the meat abstinence than a “no meat” icon, don’t you think? There should be a positive in all this.
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How about putting a carrot. 😛

Fish is still flesh.
 
=ProVobis;7927191]Believe it or not, a fish was the sign of an early Christian, before the cross replaced it.
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TIME did not permit me to read ALL of the prior post; so if this has been pointed out PLEASE forgive me.

BUT HOW ONE FEELS IS OF NO CONCERN AT ALL:

Like the Teachings on the Eucharist; “take up your cross and follow me” can be found FIVE TIMES!

The idea that ANYONE can No one can and no one will] follow Christ in Glory without FIRST having followed Christ in Sacrifice. [And YES friends that is a bible teaching.]

No one has ever become a saint or a Saint w/o sacrifice.

Christ did not set up His One Faith, One Church as a democracy.🤷 All of the “key’s to heaven” reside now within the CC, just as Christ desired. [Mt. 16:19]. Christ never pooled the people for their views: HE ONLY DID WHAT IS RIGHT! Amen!

God Bless,
Pat
 
I grew up meat-free on Fridays, and my family eats meat only a couple of times a week anyway, so it wouldn’t be a big deal for us.

If it’s not a real sacrifice in the first place, does it still count as penance? 🤷
 
karow said:
If it’s not a real sacrifice in the first place, does it still count as penance? 🤷
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Actually, I heard someone say that meat less Fridays is in Canon Law. I don’t know if that’s a myth or not, I just hope it isn’t. 👍
 
CHAPTER II : DAYS OF PENANCE
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Can. 1249 All Christ’s faithful are obliged by divine law, each in his or her own way, to do penance. However, so that all may be joined together in a certain common practice of penance, days of penance are prescribed. On these days the faithful are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves, by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and especially by observing the fast and abstinence which the following canons prescribe.
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Can. 1250 The days and times of penance for the universal Church are each Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
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Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
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Can. 1252 The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance.
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Can. 1253 The Episcopal Conference can determine more particular ways in which fasting and abstinence are to be observed. In place of abstinence or fasting it can substitute, in whole or in part, other forms of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety.
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Hi,
It is a good thing if one does it for love. It is a bad thing is one is forced to do it under sin and resents it in some way. For this reason, it may be best to leave it up to the individual but encouraged from the pulpit.
 
fred_conty said:
Hi,
It is a good thing if one does it for love. It is a bad thing is one is forced to do it under sin and resents it in some way. For this reason, it may be best to leave it up to the individual but encouraged from the pulpit.
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I disagree…obedience is a virtue, and the magesterium has the right to mold us through acts of mortification…they tried leaving it up to the individual, and heaps apparently don’t even know we are obliged to do anything at all
 
fred_conty said:
Hi,
It is a good thing if one does it for love. It is a bad thing is one is forced to do it under sin and resents it in some way. For this reason, it may be best to leave it up to the individual but encouraged from the pulpit.
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God didn’t leave it up to Adam and Eve when He forbid them not to eat of a certain tree.
 
redrosetea said:
I disagree…obedience is a virtue, and the magesterium has the right to mold us through acts of mortification…they tried leaving it up to the individual, and heaps apparently don’t even know we are obliged to do anything at all
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Too true.

I have seen the following, on church attendance, attributed to Theodore Roosevelt:
I know that one can worship the Creator in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in a man’s own house as well as in church. But I also know, as a matter of cold fact, that the average man does not thus worship.

Similarly: I know that one can do penance voluntarily. But I also know that the average sinner does not volunteer to do so.

:twocents:
tee
 
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