Order meat on Thursday, now it's Friday

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So, to quickly explain my dilemma, I work in a restaurant and I ordered steak. It was still Thursday. I took the food to go and went over a friend’s house for a bit. Now, it’s Friday (12:35 am) and I was wondering if I can still eat the steak I ordered. I haven’t eaten anything since two and it would be too noisy to cook anything else. Since I ordered it when it wasn’t Friday and paid money for it, can I eat it without being under mortal sin?
 
AshestoAshes said:
So, to quickly explain my dilemma, I work in a restaurant and I ordered steak. It was still Thursday. I took the food to go and went over a friend’s house for a bit. Now, it’s Friday (12:35 am) and I was wondering if I can still eat the steak I ordered. I haven’t eaten anything since two and it would be too noisy to cook anything else. Since I ordered it when it wasn’t Friday and paid money for it, can I eat it without being under mortal sin?
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Nope. Save it for Saturday, go home and fix yourself a peanut butter sandwich.
 
Nope. Save it for Saturday, go home and fix yourself a peanut butter sandwich.
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Peanut butter sandwiches are great. No jelly, though. Just plain peanut butter and bread. 😃
 
AshestoAshes said:
So, to quickly explain my dilemma, I work in a restaurant and I ordered steak. It was still Thursday. I took the food to go and went over a friend’s house for a bit. Now, it’s Friday (12:35 am) and I was wondering if I can still eat the steak I ordered. I haven’t eaten anything since two and it would be too noisy to cook anything else. Since I ordered it when it wasn’t Friday and paid money for it, can I eat it without being under mortal sin?
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NO, offer it up, that’s called a sacrifice. Eat something else and next time watch your clock a bit better, God Bless, Memaw
 
GNM1999 said:
Peanut butter sandwiches are great. No jelly, though. Just plain peanut butter and bread. 😃
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If your trying to be funny, it isn’t. Obeying Church law is very important and certainly not to much to ask during Lent. OP shouldn’t have ordered the steak that close to Friday unless he had plenty of time to eat it before midnight. God Bless, Memaw
 
One could argue that wasting a steak is a sin. Arguing over 35 minutes is silly.

He should eat the steak, go to bed, wake up on Friday and fast.

***An animal died to sit on your plate. The least you could do is have some respect and eat it. **
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No, it was already Friday. He should put the steak aside and eat something meatless. What is the point of misleading someone?
 
Kaliaa said:
No, it was already Friday. He should put the steak aside and eat something meatless. What is the point of misleading someone?
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How about eat the steak, be done with it by 1:00am Friday, then fast until 1:00am Saturday? In other words, create your own fiscal day. 😃
 
Memaw said:
If your trying to be funny, it isn’t. Obeying Church law is very important and certainly not to much to ask during Lent. OP shouldn’t have ordered the steak that close to Friday unless he had plenty of time to eat it before midnight. God Bless, Memaw
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You know I love you Memaw, but humor is the way some of us cope with these things. If he can’t have his steak, well, at least he can have a few laughs. He/ She didn’t eat it after all. (I hope).
 
Lost_Sheep said:
How about eat the steak, be done with it by 1:00am Friday, then fast until 1:00am Saturday? In other words, create your own fiscal day. 😃
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I see that you list Confused Catholic as your religion. And so you are. It doesn’t work that way. You don’t make up your own rules as you go along. The OP wanted to know the correct thing to do or they wouldn’t have asked.
 
Irishmom2 said:
I see that you list Confused Catholic as your religion. And so you are. It doesn’t work that way. You don’t make up your own rules as you go along. The OP wanted to know the correct thing to do or they wouldn’t have asked.
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It was a joke. :rolleyes:
 
TimothyH said:
One could argue that wasting a steak is a sin. Arguing over 35 minutes is silly.

He should eat the steak, go to bed, wake up on Friday and fast.

***An animal died to sit on your plate. The least you could do is have some respect and eat it. ***
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Absolutely not. That would be very wrong advice.
 
Of course you may 😉
Just think about it for one second, how do you think pope Francis would’ve dealt with this predicament?

The legalism found in this thread is stunning!
If one forgot it was Friday and then ate an entire stake should he make himself throw up?
Does that make sense to you legalists?

It seems more like Pharisee approach than anything…
 
AshestoAshes said:
Since I ordered it when it wasn’t Friday and paid money for it…
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When something is bough or paid for has no bearing on discipline around consuming it. I’m sure many people purchase lunch meat on days other than Friday and pay for it, but that does not free them from the discipline to abstain from eating it. There have been times where I missed dinner the night before Ash Wednesday or Good Friday, but that does not mean that I can just count breakfast as my dinner from the night before. The same applies here.

I am not trying to bust your chops, but pointing it out so you are careful about not justifying things.
 
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