Sundays interrupting Lent

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thistle said:
What we are required to do on Fridays outside Lent is to do some form of penance of which abstaining from eating meat is one of the choices.
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Correct… 👍 This is all I was trying to point out.

God bless :curtsey:
 
Marie Veronica,

First, I love this paragraph of your’s:

“Please don’t be embarrassed about living your Catholic Faith. Just tell your buddies… that you’re a practicing Catholic and you can’t eat meat on certain days. No biggie. If they give you any flack about it… hey, it’s their problem! Not yours. Jesus is the ONE Friend… you do NOT want to lose.”

It is the most important issue, isn’t it; the friendship of Jesus.:yup:

Secondly, why are other posters having such a difficult time understanding what you are saying about eating or not eating meat on Fridays throughout the year.🤷

I have always understood that we must still abstain from eating meat on Fridays throughout the year OR IF WE DO EAT MEAT ON FRIDAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WE MUST DO SOME SORT OF SUBSTITUTE PENANCE.

What is so difficult about that. I also do not know how anyone could go to Catholic school and not have learned that.

EWTN frequently broadcasts little clips on the Catholic faith and eating meat on Friday and/or doing a substitute penance is one of them. They end by saying BECAUSE WE ARE CATHOLICS.

:blessyou:
 
What MarieVeronica said. Canon 1251 is the default discipline which means Catholics are bound not to eat meat on Friday unless otherwise provided by the local conference of bishops. It is otherwise provided by the American Conference of Bishops, but not by every other conference or equivalent authority in the world. If you aren’t American, you need to check how it is in your country.
 
DH and I went to a chirch we don’t normally go to yesterday and it says in the bulletin (and I quote):

ASH WEDNESDAY AND GOOD FRIDAY are days of Fasting and Abstinence. Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence.

FASTING binds all persons who have completed their 18th birthday through those who have completed their 59th year unless prevented by poor health. On the days of fasting one full meal is allowed. Two other meals sufficient to maintain strength may be taken according to one’s own needs. Eating between meals is not allowed although fluids may be taken.

ABSTINENCE binds all persons who have completed their 14th birthday, unless prevented by poor health. On days of abstinence, the consumption of meat is not allowed. The Church strongly encourages this observance of Friday abstinence, but failure to do so is not regarded as sinful.

That last sentance is what I think is tripping people up. I can’t imagine that this is the only parish that said something like that. I’m even confused.
 
chevalier said:
What MarieVeronica said. Canon 1251 is the default discipline which means Catholics are bound not to eat meat on Friday unless otherwise provided by the local conference of bishops. It is otherwise provided by the American Conference of Bishops, but not by every other conference or equivalent authority in the world. If you aren’t American, you need to check how it is in your country.
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From my experience it is like this in the vast majority of countries. I believe there might be a couple of eastern European countries where abstaining is still required.
 
MarieVeronica said:
Yes, it is a requirement. Please see my post on Canon Law… above.

You wouldn’t believe the number of good, practicing Catholics… who simply think “we don’t have to abstain from meat on Friday anymore”… but they DO NOT do a substitute penance. :nope: They simply leave out the “substitute penance”… or they aren’t aware of that stipulation. I have spoken to many of these people… and I myself, wasn’t aware of the “substitute penance”… for a long time.

There seems to be a major misunderstanding about this, since Vatican II. That is the point, I was trying to make. We are required to abstain from meat on ALL Fridays of the year… OR do a substitute penance, as stated in Canon Law (above).

God bless.
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I’ve done it. I’ve eaten meat on the occasional non-Lent Friday when I was not feeling well, or doing heavy physical labor (ha! THAT’S pretty far behind me though!), or at a dinner. I always picked some other penance.

I remember one year our Bishop dispensed the no-meat-on-Fridays when St. Patrick’s day happened to fall on a Friday. 😃
 
Ah ha! “SK” your bishop must be from the “old sod” (Ireland) and wanted to make sure everyone could have their corned beef and cabbage. lol!!! :irish3: :shamrock2:
 
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