Is Ash Wednesday a no-meat day?

[carol_marie]

I thought it was only no-meat on Fridays? Is today a no-meat day also?

Thanks,
CM

 

[Della]

Yes, it is a penitential day, today (Ash Wednesday), so no meat.

And no meat on the Fridays of Lent, either.

The Catechism tells us:

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.36 These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary works).

 

[frleo]

carol marie:

I thought it was only no-meat on Fridays? Is today a no-meat day also?

Thanks,
CM

Today and Good Friday are days of fasting and going without meat. The other Fridays of Lent are to be meatless.

 

[carol_marie]

Thank you.