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unless i’m mistaken, we used to, right? why no more? the eastern rites still do, don’t they?
just a curiosity.
just a curiosity.
This question that always puzzles me. Do you need to have a mandate from on high for this? Has anyone said we are not to fast? If you think it helpful, then do it.unless i’m mistaken, we used to, right? why no more? the eastern rites still do, don’t they?
just a curiosity.
I attempted to answer the question as it was written. the question was not “Why does not the Catholic Church still mandate fasting?” the question was “Why do we not fast?”. I said “we” not “you”. The rules were changed so that we might choose these disciplines, do them out of love not fear. If “we” do not do them, it is because we choose NOT to do them. Others may disagree with my answer. If you don’t want my opinion, please do not request it. I am amazed by how many people join an opinion forum for the express purpose of resenting and taking umbrage when someone else voices an opinion.Puzzleannie, I think it’s a little insulting for you to be calling us D+ Catholics. (Whether it’s true or not, which I don’t know if it is, IMHO it’s still not a nice thing to say.)
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Hmm. Offend? Is that really the question? To my mind, the generous heart deisres to please rather than merely not to offend.The question is, does that mentality offend God though? Because if it’s not a sin, then it doesn’t offend God. And if it doesn’t offend God, then you should try not to let it bother you.
I know that the question was ‘why do we fast’. I realise that this calls for your opinion. I’ve got nothing against you having the opinion that ‘some Catholics don’t fast because they don’t want to embrace penitential practices out of love’. In fact you could have written it that way and it would not be insulting at all, and it’s a fair enough opinion to post. But either, you are of the opinion that we are not very good Catholics (“D+ Catholics”), or you don’t hold that opinion but chose to express things that way for emphasis. That’s the bit I found insulting. I know you said ‘we’ not ‘you’ but I felt that I was included in the ‘we’ since you seemed to be talking about Catholics in general, or Catholics who don’t fast in Advent. I don’t know if I’m a barely passing D+ Catholic, but even if I am I don’t like someone else to tell me that. (Someone may be of the opinion that I am ugly, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not an insult for them to tell me that). And I don’t like it when someone concludes that I am a D+ Catholic just because I don’t fast in Advent. I also don’t like the implication in your recent post (ok, I know this is not explicitly stated) that because someone (such as me) complains about an insult then their only reason for coming on the forum is to take offence at other’s opinions.I attempted to answer the question as it was written. the question was not “Why does not the Catholic Church still mandate fasting?” the question was “Why do we not fast?”. I said “we” not “you”. The rules were changed so that we might choose these disciplines, do them out of love not fear. If “we” do not do them, it is because we choose NOT to do them. Others may disagree with my answer. If you don’t want my opinion, please do not request it. I am amazed by how many people join an opinion forum for the express purpose of resenting and taking umbrage when someone else voices an opinion.