Year Round Meatless Fridays

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Tis_Bearself said:
Yeah, I’ve had to stop myself from buying some lobster…said to myself, “That is not a penance”.

I got some maple syrup cured salmon instead. I’m happy to report I didn’t much like it, so it was penance.
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See, I ask myself whenI ea salmon, “What kind of penance is this?” I love salmin so much.
 
wild caught salmon tastes better (imo), but is usually more expensive than the farmed

both varieties are good; loaded with omega oils & protein
 
I have always observed meatless Fridays & will continue to do so. Not a problem for me.
 
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that is a very important article;

covers most, if not all, of the various issues posted here

thank you for sharing that…
 
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I rarely eat meat anyway (usually only once or twice a week), so abstaining isn’t much of a penance for me. My New Year’s Resolution for this year was to give up one meal on Friday in honor of our Lord’s passion. I think I’ve forgotten twice, so then I’ve given up a meal on the day I remembered. Since Lent, I’ve spent that mealtime praying the Rosary (It’s typically during my lunch break at work since it’s 30 minutes I’m required to take anyway).
 
I’ve been abstaining from meat on Fridays for about 3 years but I’ve been offering it up toward an end to abortion. I’ve tried fasting with it as well, but I work a physical job and my production suffered so I had to revert back to just meatless.
It gets easier the longer you do it, so much that you may not even think about it anymore until someone offers you food.
 
Kei said:
In recent memory we screwed up and ate meat before realizing what day it was, and so I said an extra Rosary
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That’s what I do; I either abstain from meat or pray an additional five decades of the Rosary, depending on my situation that day.
 
Our house has observed meatless Fridays for all my married life of 45 years. Does that mean every Friday. No there have been occasions when it was not observed but those occasions would have been the same before when it was required and not optional.
 
Yeah. I love seafood all too much to use it as a penance. The closest to penance is Mickey D fish sandwiches, but even those…
 
In Lent in the states where I spend the most time, the churches often have very good fish fries on every Friday except Good Friday. It’s a benefit for the churches, they make lots of money which the churches can definitely use, people (usually elderly Knights of Columbus ) work really hard to put these on and it’s a good fellowship opportunity as many parishioners attend. The thing is, if you go and spend the money on the dinner to help the church, then it’s not much of a sacrifice because the food is so good. You can probably find some other church, usually one in a rich area that doesn’t need fundraising money, doing a bread and veg soup fast night, but if you go there then the church that needs the money and is doing the fish fry doesn’t get paid. This is why I think of the fish as more of a common witness rather than a penance. I go to a different awesome fish fry each week and spend my money to help the church putting it on.
 
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Hadn’t really considered the common witness angle. Good point.
 
My parents don’t eat meat on Fridays,sometimes I don’t if I can remember
Today I have (Friday) but I’m very aware of a packet of chocolate coated
biscuits (cookies) calling me from the pantry…and trying to ignore them…
 
i can definitely appreciate that

eating seafood, vice beef, pork or chicken, is not penance

So… that is why i am suggesting “lentils & beans” on Friday

something i KNOW i will not adhere to 😦
 
tawny said:
I have always observed meatless Fridays & will continue to do so. Not a problem for me.
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Same for me. When the USCCB issued a new rule, we never changed. It’s easier than trying to come up with a new penitential practice anyway.
 
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