It doesn’t help God, but the small change to our eating habits assists us in turning our minds in gratefulness to Christ whose flesh was sacrificed for us on a Friday.
Bean soup, bread, and water sound fine to me. I seldom drink anything but water, diet soda, or coffee. A beer, fountain Coke, or root beer are an occasional treat. I always keep a couple of Red Stripes in the refrigerator.
That is right, there is no “wiggle room” during Lent. Abstaining from meat is mandatory.
That, too, is right. Eat all the meat you like if an HDO falls on a Friday. Some US dioceses also give a dispensation if St Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday, so corned beef and cabbage are safe.
I thought we could “eat all the meat [we] like” if a solemnity falls on a Friday, regardless if it’s an HDO or not (not all solemnities are HDOs).
Quite right. I try to avoid even small voluntary penances on Sundays. Precisely what those consist of, I will keep to myself — penances aren’t supposed to be made known to others, if it can be helped. One thing that makes dietary penances so significant is that they are “inside of you” and can’t be seen by others. Unless you are around someone continuously, they can’t know what you eat, and what you don’t eat.
In the east, it’s pretty much anything with blood, so fish are meat.
In the east, we don’t use organs, nor do we eat any part of them you could brea a tooth on those black keys . . .:crazy_face:
I don’t know about the West, but in the East, fasting is prohibited during Bright Week (the week after Pascha/Easter), as it is a time for pfeasting ins celebration.
The really odd one is whenAnnunciation and Good Friday are the same day . . . (but this won’t happen again in any of our our lifetime . . . nonetheless, my church saved the sepecialbookletswe printed
)oops. My bad for not clarifying, my family did not abstain from meat during Christmastide or Easter. I would tell my kids, we’ve got six weeks of Lent, but 7 weeks of Easter. We didn’t put all of the candies in their baskets on Easter Sunday and would spread out the cheer over the 7 weeks. When the children were little, sometimes we would dye eggs more than once during Easter as well. Christmas and Easters were joyous times.
Is this true in all countries? I live in the UK and abstinence from meat is required on Fridays throughout the year as far as I’m aware, but I thought that after sixty something you didn’t have to abstain.
I live in the UK, too, and want to clarify this. According to the Briefing Notes produced for the Press at the time of the announcement by the Board of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales., not abstaining from meat on Friday in England and Wales (I don’t know about Scotland) ‘does not rise to the level of mortal sin’.HomeschoolDad:
Is this true in all countries? I live in the UK and abstinence from meat is required on Fridays throughout the year as far as I’m aware, but I thought that after sixty something you didn’t have to abstain.
They’re not exactly high on my list of favorite foods for that very reason.