Lent - giving up meat and dairy

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I wasj ust wondering, for the first week of lent, if giving up dairy is also required along with meat? I know meat is, but is dairy optional?
 
Are you confusing Eastern and Western Lenten practices? Dairy and meat is the Eastern practice.
 
In the Latin Rite, we are to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays of Lent.

You are not required to abstain from dairy nor are you required to abstain from meat every day.
 
At first I thought your post read something along the lines of “meat and hair”. :eek:

Its just meat that has to be given up. Seeing as dairy isn’t meat its fine.
 
I don’t have a reference because it was told to me when I was very young, but it’s OK to eat frogs’ legs on days of abstinence. 😃
 
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