st patrick's day

[hilde_the_dog]

ijust noticed that our bishop issued a dispensation for st patrick’s day due to the fact that it is on a Friday in lent. And that if one uses the dispensation one should abstain on another day during March 13-18. Is this common. I joined the RCC four years ago.

 

[axolotl]

It’s fairly common, depending on the ethnic demographics of a particular diocese.

You really can’t expect people to go without their corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day!

 

[rwoehmke]

Our parish, St. Patricks has been doing this even before Vatican II and the changes in fast and abstinence requirements. No one has ever said well do it on a different day. Just count your blessings and enjoy that green spinach with warm bacon vinegar dressing.

 

[mpeacock]

Hurray for the dispensation! It is my birthday and at my age I want to celebrate all that I may have left. I will gladly fast on another day.
My parish is an old mainly Irish one so this is almost a moot point.

 

[netmilsmom]

axolotl:

It’s fairly common, depending on the ethnic demographics of a particular diocese.

You really can’t expect people to go without their corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day!

Honestly, Corned Beef is great the next day too!
Coming from an old Irish parish, we were given this dispensation. It made it more of a sacrifice to leave it until the next day.

Corned Beef! YUM! Corned Tuna is not the same.

 

[Morning_Glory]

St Patrick’s Day always during Lent. So what did I give up for Lent for years and years? Red meat. Oh, that corned beef always smelled so good at the pubs. But I never gave in.

 

[Dr.Bombay]

Corned beef is revolting. It would be a penance for me to put that nasty concoction down my gullet.

And beer is nasty no matter what color they make it.

 

[Toni]

Dr. Bombay:

Corned beef is revolting. It would be a penance for me to put that nasty concoction down my gullet.

And beer is nasty no matter what color they make it.

I will be in Frankenmuth that weekend I guess I will have to suffer through chicken instead. Or is the dispensation only for corned beef, and true Irish Catholic’s? I am at least a true Irish Catholic!

 

[MusicMan]

It is important to note that it is up to your local Bishop to determine if you can be dispensed from abstaining from meat when St. Patrick’s day falls on a Friday. You Bishop may elect to not give a dispensation.

It is also up to your local bishop to determine an alternate penance. Mine is not requiring that we abstain on a different day, although that is certainly an option, along with an extra time of prayer set aside for this purpose, almsgiving, or some other penitential action.