What are my obligations?

[fhkjds]

I am not yet a confirmed Catholic. Being confirmed tomorrow night, Saturday…

since I am not a confirmed Catholic, does that have any implication for what my obligations are? Can I eat meat tonight at dinner, Good Friday dinner? I just realized that maybe I should have been taking care not to eat meat on Fridays during Lent, and that it had slipped my mind and not mentioned by my RCIA director. What are my obligations seeing as right now I’m not confirmed yet???

 

[The_Old_Medic]

You have the exact same obligations as any other Catholic.

 

[puzzleannie]

if you were baptized in another Christian denomination and are preparing to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church through profession of faith, Confirmation, and first communion (having already made your first sacramental confession) you are not yet obligated by the laws binding only on Catholics, such as the fasting discipline, but if you are like most you have been doing this willingly during Lent as part of your preparation.

If you are a baptized Catholic you are bound by every law that binds persons of your age.

 

[fhkjds]

Ok, I’ve heard 2 different views. Can anybody refer me to the catechism?

 

[smichhertz]

Why are you trying to find a way to eat meat on Good Friday? Regardless of whether or not your are bound by Church law, you’ll be doing it for the rest of your life, so you might as well start now.

FYI - I think Cannon Law dictates this kind of thing, because its church law, not the catechism.

 

[MarkThompson]

Ok, I’ve heard 2 different views. Can anybody refer me to the catechism?

I doubt this is covered in the Catechism. My guess would be that you are technically not bound, but … you’re being confirmed tomorrow? To even ask the question is like a guy who’s getting married tomorrow asking if it’s okay to go out tonight on a date with someone else.

 

[Joan1969]

I am not yet a confirmed Catholic. Being confirmed tomorrow night, Saturday…

since I am not a confirmed Catholic, does that have any implication for what my obligations are? Can I eat meat tonight at dinner, Good Friday dinner? I just realized that maybe I should have been taking care not to eat meat on Fridays during Lent, and that it had slipped my mind and not mentioned by my RCIA director. What are my obligations seeing as right now I’m not confirmed yet???

Personally, I"d just start avoiding meat on Lenten Fridays now, and not worry too much about what you did before, since you didn’t think you had an obligation and acted in good faith.

God Bless,
Joan

 

[Jennykay]

I see that back on April 8,2011 you asked a very similar question regarding eating
meat on Friday for your situation and you had some replies. I don’t know what you
are wanting to hear at this point. Maybe you should have asked your priest or RCIA
sponsor or instructor earlier in Lent. Anyway, since you will be “officially Catholic”
tomorrow night you’ll be obligated in all the ways Catholics are obligated so this
meat on Fridays during Lent won’t be a problem for you in the future.
God Bless you.

 

[m8g8]

I doubt this is covered in the Catechism. My guess would be that you are technically not bound, but … you’re being confirmed tomorrow? To even ask the question is like a guy who’s getting married tomorrow asking if it’s okay to go out tonight on a date with someone else.

Don’t be mean. You don’t know the full reason for the question.

 

[MarkThompson]

Don’t be mean. You don’t know the full reason for the question.

Well, if his doctor had prescribed it or something, he probably wouldn’t be asking the question, now would he. What we do know is that the reason he’s eaten meat on previous Fridays in Lent is just because the issue “slipped [his] mind.” Somehow I’m not sensing a very complicated backstory here.

 

[Link0126]

Just don’t eat meat. It’s not really that difficult, of course I’m a vegetarian so kinda got this one covered.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

Agreeing with others. There are about 100 meatless meals that even a non-vegetarian might eat on any ordinary day. spaghetti and tomato sauce, pesto sauce, or cream sauce. Cheese pizza, fish of a zillion kinds, mac’n cheese. The list is endless.

Perhaps you can plan to not eat meat on any Friday for a few weeks as a reparation for the sins of the world. Soon it will be a habit and by next Lent it won’t be an issue.

 

[jmcrae]

I am not yet a confirmed Catholic. Being confirmed tomorrow night, Saturday…

since I am not a confirmed Catholic, does that have any implication for what my obligations are? Can I eat meat tonight at dinner, Good Friday dinner? I just realized that maybe I should have been taking care not to eat meat on Fridays during Lent, and that it had slipped my mind and not mentioned by my RCIA director. What are my obligations seeing as right now I’m not confirmed yet???

Regardless of the technicalities (and I am under the impression that Catechumens are supposed to fast all of Good Friday and Holy Saturday in preparation for their Baptism, so presumably it is expected that the Candidates would at least fast on Good Friday) it would be a good idea for you to observe the fast, anyway, since by this time, you should have developed all of the habits of a good Catholic - I hope you aren’t waiting until after you are actually Catholic, to take up the lifestyle.