What is the time to eat on good Friday

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Ok so only one meal at anytime? Where I am originally from they believed we were to fast until 10 am and where I live now they believe its 12 noon.
 
There are different devotional practices but under two meals without meat is one of the only rules.
 
I take medicine and I have to eat for some to work so should I just wait to eat then?
 
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I take medicine and I have to eat for some to work so should I just wait to eat then?
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I don’t know what country you are in. The US Catholic bishops say nothing about what time of day to eat on Good Friday. Regardless of what country, medicine is exempt from fasting rules and any required food with medicine would also be exempt.
 
Be practical. The law says one full meal and two smaller meals.

It may make sense to have the smaller meals for breakfast and dinner, and the large meal at noon; that way you can keep up your strength during the day.
 
So we don’t have to fast until a certain time I live in Louisiana and if not I can’t believe we have been wrong for years.
 
I find if very odd that we’re finding different beliefs on this issue.

Here are the current laws of fast and abstinence for Good Friday:

Complete abstinence from meat is required.
Fasting is required, which means one is permitted to eat one full meal and two smaller meals. The two smaller meals combined must be smaller than the full meal. (so the total amount of food eaten is less than two meals)

There is no precept determining the time of day that one must eat.
 
Your area, diocese, or family might have local traditions. I wouldn’t say that they are wrong, but they would not be binding under pain of sin.
 
The Old Colonel will eat vegetable broth at 0500 hours; run five miles; eat vegetable broth at 1300 hours; a meal of bread, butter and vegetable broth at 1800 hours. I will not continue the fast on Holy Saturday, however, as is the recommended custom. This is a personal choice.
 
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So we don’t have to fast until a certain time I live in Louisiana and if not I can’t believe we have been wrong for years.
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No. You don’t.

There are many pious practices out there-- different local customs and traditions. They aren’t requirements that the Church makes.

The requirement is to abstain from meat and to fast. The definition of fasting is one full meal and two smaller meals.
 
For myself I do not eat anything between 12 noon and 6 p.m and that is something … I have been doing for a long time… It is not required, it is just something I do.Fasting on Good Friday is the same as we did on Ash Wednesday and ’ dshix ’ posted the requirements. for that.Have a Blessed Easter. God bless:🦋🦋
 
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There isn’t any official times designated by the church to eat on Good Friday, however, I’m pretty sure it says that it is referable to have the bigger meal on a fasting day towards the end of the day.
 
In my diocese it is one meal no meat. I eat my veggies before going to church and when I come home I have my “Catholic Fish with potatoes without vegetables”.

Different rites within the Catholic Church have different rules regarding Lent as well.
 
I do not do any kind of fast being that I am a type 1 diabetic however I do refrain from meat on all fridays of the year.
 
There is, in fact, a meal time implied by Paenitemini (the document governing modern fast and abstinence):
  1. The law of fasting allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food in the morning and evening, observing—as far as quantity and quality are concerned—approved local custom.
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The implication being: (if “some food” is not-prohibited morning and evening) the main meal is in the middle of the day.
Disclosure
Personally I find it easier to fast early in the day, and hate going to bed hungry, so I usually take my meal closer to the day’s end
 
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