Meat as an idol

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It’s different for different people. Meat is something I can take or leave so I abstain from tea which is something that I miss rather than meat which doesn’t bother me.
 
I am a meat and potato guy mainly because there are few vegetables that I eat and no fruits at all. It’s a texture thing for me on both fruits and vegetables. I also do not like the taste of fruit or most vegetables.

I am also allergic to tree nuts.
 
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They have too many carbs in them. I stay pretty low (50g a day or so).
 
I’m finding these viewpoints and the nutritional information quite interesting and helpful. Thank you all for participating and sharing your truth on the matter.
 
I’ve always wondered about the calorie content of a communion wafer
 
Actually, I don’t mind having vegetarian meals for a day, even vegan. The penance for me that comes with days of abstaining is working around meat-containing leftovers. You have to make sure you finish anything that “ought” to be eaten by Friday, so you don’t wind up throwing it out or worrying that you’ll get sick from eating it.

Fasting, in general, was once highly-esteemed in the Church. It has esteem in all the great religions. It is not about “rules.” It is about self-mastery and the boundaries of your life not revolving around you and your schedule. That is the way I look at Fridays.
lonegreywolf20 said:
I am a meat and potato guy mainly because there are few vegetables that I eat and no fruits at all. It’s a texture thing for me on both fruits and vegetables. I also do not like the taste of fruit or most vegetables.
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The idea of abstaining is also to be willing to eat what is put in front of you instead of what you like, though. It is not a bad practice for adults, either.
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Gee thanks, Cruciferi. My oatmeal now seems painfully inadequate.
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Yeah, and you’ll probably live to be so old that you won’t have nearly as many people at your funeral as we’ll have at ours, either, LOL. Poor thing.
 
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PetraG said:
The idea of abstaining is also to be willing to eat what is put in front of you instead of what you like, though. It is not a bad practice for adults, either
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Yeah, no thanks! As I said, it’s a texture thing mainly, just like eating meat off of bones. Everything has to be boneless for me in regards to meat.

Otherwise, I vomit.
 
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The idea of sacrifice, of a little physical discomfort, is so contrary to our world today.

“Follow your BLISS”

“You DESERVE to do what makes you happy”

is everywhere.

Can most of us come up with justifications for eating meat on Friday, yep. When you get down to bare faced honesty, it comes down to we don’t really want to.

Heck, just about everyone can make or buy a protein shake/drink for less than a meal would cost. Beans & Rice or eggs are inexpensive. When it matters, when we fall deeply in love with Christ, then we are happy to sacrifice for love of Him.
 
So, your saying I should sacrifice by eating what makes me vomit?

I don’t do protein shakes either. They are vial to me.

Beans fall into the texture issue, eggs causes me diarrhea. Rice I can do.
 
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So I should eat what makes me vomit for penance? Is that what you are saying? Just trying to understand your comment.
 
lonegreywolf20 said:
So I should eat what makes me vomit for penance? Is that what you are saying? Just trying to understand your comment.
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I mean that some of us choose our penances, but most of the difficult penances are those that life chooses for us.

Yes, we choose to do penance for the love of God, but not because God likes to see us suffer. It is the same reason as why we go to practice when we are in a sport. It is to prepare us for the test. Some of us, though, are put to the test without making something up from outside.

I think this is why people over a certain age are excused from penances that apply to everyone else. Getting out of bed every day to find out you’ve gotten old is penance enough. If that doesn’t remind one to prepare for the Last Things, what will?

If you really vomit when you eat foods that would make you healthier if you could eat them–and I don’t doubt that you do–you deserve sympathy, not judgment. You have a penance that never leaves you. (Yet another example of why we are not to judge…)
 
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PetraG said:
Yeah, and you’ll probably live to be so old that you won’t have nearly as many people at your funeral as we’ll have at ours, either, LOL. Poor thing.
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Lol!! 🤣🤣

I did write that at six AM my time. The day is young. 😂😂
 
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I’m always amazed when a thread is started about whether Catholics can or should eat meat on Fridays throughout the year. It seems to me that some folks are so afraid of letting go of meat one day each week. Really? Even if someone is an iron worker, carpenter, etc… There is no reason that meat can’t be abstained from for one day. It really does seem some people worship meat and are literally afraid to not have flesh each and every day.
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Yeah really!
 
A long time ago I was looking for a do-able ongoing penitential discipline I could live with. I made a Trappist retreat and there it was. They never eat meat.
 
Idols always seem to break my teeth, so I stick to meat . . . 🤣

More seriously, if you need vegetarian recipes, go to the community forum at byzcath.org: there is an annual thread on recipes at Lent, as most of the EC and EO still adhere to the traditional fast (no meat [and fish is meat1], dairy, olive oil, or wine from the first Monday fo the Great Fast until Pacha. Most allow fish on Saturday and wine on Sunday [or do Have that backwards]). Also, in the East the fasting prescriptions are not minima under penalty of sin, but goals to aspire to; it is understood that most won’t make it all the way.

But anyway, some amazing non-meat recipes there.

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Thank you for the link. I am tired of the same meals every Friday.
 
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