Speaking of Feasts

[DaveBj]

How come nobody actually feasts on feast days? Sounds like a good time for a good old-fashioned Southern-Baptist-style covered-dish dinner on the grounds

DaveBj

 

[Minerva]

some religious orders that keep to rules of fasting generally, have a true feast on feast days. I also had a friend who usually skipped dessert but on her namesake’s feastday and other feast days of the year she “feasted” on dessert. But it is a good idea. When I have children, I would like to make it a family tradition that we have a special meal on their namesake’s feasts and other feasts of the year. I unfortunately do not have a namesake’s feast day since neither my first nor middle names are saint names.

 

[asquared]

I heartily concur. We have 3 family fiestas during CCD, All Saints, 3 Kings and May Crowning (last day of CCD).

 

[pnewton]

My family honors feast days, usually with some gift of a religious nature. We also call relatives on their feast days.

 

[Edwin1961]

In know in some of the Eastern Catrholic Churches there are feast After a feast day.
Pascha (Easter) after the Easter foods are blessed in their baskets, everyone shares among everyone else. We have done this after every Pascha Liturgy I have attended for 3 years now.

 

[Kielbasi]

How come nobody actually feasts on feast days? Sounds like a good time for a good old-fashioned Southern-Baptist-style covered-dish dinner on the grounds

There are so many feast days on the calender, if Catholics actually did ‘feast’ as you suggest, we’d all weigh 400 lbs.

The expense of erecting additional pews to handle the increased size of Catholics could bankrupt the church.

 

[viktor_aleksndr]

Feast day in my place is really a feast. This is a tradition that was started since the begginning of the Catholicism in my Place.