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Holly3278
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Hey everyone. As most of you know, Good Friday is a day of total abstinence. However, I have no idea what this means as compared to fasting that normally occurs on Friday. Could someone please explain?
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Della
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Fasting means to not eat or to limit food intake. Abstinence means to not eat/do something. For example, for Lent I abstained from listening to/watching all media during the day. So, we abstain from eating meat on the Fridays of Lent and fast from eating meals or limit meal sizes on Good Friday. Of course, anyone able to do so can fast any time of the year, although this is discouraged on solemnities and feast days. Does that help? 
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if_youCthispray
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fisheaters.com/fasting.html
maybe that will help, if you scroll down theres a chart that tells you which day are required to fast and also on the side the defintions of fasting and absstinence.
maybe that will help, if you scroll down theres a chart that tells you which day are required to fast and also on the side the defintions of fasting and absstinence.
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marica_mandic
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On Good Friday we do not eat meat and we eat one full meal and one half meal.
We go to church, Holy Comunion,
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fish90
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I thought we could eat two small meals that in total do not make up what the full meal equals? Maybe there is a difference with the Croatian bishops.
For Catholics, abstinence is simply not eating of meat. “Meat” here is defined as the flesh of warm-blooded animals and birds. Therefore, forbidden are lamb, pork, beef, horse, buffalo, etc. and chicken, duck, turkey, goose, etc. Permitted are seafood and cold-blooded animals, including fish, shrimp, crab, lobster, snake, frog, alligator, etc.
Fasting is defined as the taking of only one full meal and two smaller meals as needed such that both when added together do not equal a full meal. Moreover, nothing in between. Drinks such as milk and juices are permitted.
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