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re: Question for you Catholics that obstain from meat on Fridays during lent
Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:28 pm to mikrit54
Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:28 pm to mikrit54
On judgement day, I'd hate to think that my diet will come into question.
If you don't think seafood is meat, just ask a crawfish.
On a serious note, your relationship with Jesus is a personal one. Follow your gut feeling.
If you don't think seafood is meat, just ask a crawfish.
On a serious note, your relationship with Jesus is a personal one. Follow your gut feeling.
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Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:33 pm to Jack Daniel
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Oh, I'm Catholic but I was raised its better to stay home and eat a ham Sandwhich instead of going eat a seafood feast as a sacrifice.
What a cop-out.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:37 pm to Jim Rockford
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lol jim rockford
Posted on 3/25/17 at 11:41 pm to 31TIGERS
I've no idea how the flesh of an animal is not considered meat just because said animal lives under water.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 11:51 pm to Jack Daniel
Neaux!
Catholics abstain from meat on ALL Fridays during Lent. They can eat mac&cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, pancakes, eggs, but should not eat any type of buffet. It defeats the purpose of making a "sacrifice".
Lent is a season of making sacrifices by giving up something(s) and/or doing charitable works of mercy.
If a catholic does go to a seafood buffet they are still abstaining from meat, which honors the letter of the "law", but the spirit of the "law" is to make sacrifices and repent from ones sins.
Giving up things helps one detach from sins.
Catholics abstain from meat on ALL Fridays during Lent. They can eat mac&cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, pancakes, eggs, but should not eat any type of buffet. It defeats the purpose of making a "sacrifice".
Lent is a season of making sacrifices by giving up something(s) and/or doing charitable works of mercy.
If a catholic does go to a seafood buffet they are still abstaining from meat, which honors the letter of the "law", but the spirit of the "law" is to make sacrifices and repent from ones sins.
Giving up things helps one detach from sins.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:19 am to djmicrobe
I love the smell of tuna in the morning. It smells like victory. 
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:33 am to Jack Daniel
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Catholics that abstain from meat on Fridays during lent
Catholics are supposed to abstain from meat on every Friday of the year, not just during Lent. We are allowed to substitute some other form of penance for abstinence. The percentage of U.S. Catholics who are aware of this seems to be close to zero.
Not many people eat like kings on Fridays... I eat a lot of beans on Fridays, mainly pinto, because I really like them without any meat.
Code of Canon Law
This post was edited on 3/26/17 at 6:41 am
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:46 am to djmicrobe
What kind of sacrifice is not eating meat on Friday for a few weeks while eating a PB&J and Mac n Cheese? Anybody can give up something one day per week. This seems like some man made rules that God probably doesn't care about. I would think he wants sacrifice and consistency throughout your life, not once a year for a few Fridays give up cheeseburgers. The rest of the year live like a pagan. To each their own though.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 9:15 am to pcolatiger28
It's not a "man-made rule"
The Church was given privileges and responsibilities by her founder. It's written there in the Gospel.
We still have free will, the ability to choose right or wrong based on our consciences.
Why Friday? What happened on a Friday all those millennia ago?
Is seafood a sacrifice? To some of us, yes. Is it a delicious sacrifice? Yes. Guess which day of the week I CRAVE sausage pizza? You got it. Friday
The idea of abstinence on Fridays, and the fasting for Lent, is not about "rules" it should be freely embraced. A little bit of privation, or suffering, is a way for those who believe to join their sufferings to His. The Church doesn't ask us ALL to be martyrs, or tortured or crucified, but simply join our little sufferings to His. And, to do it TOGETHER, sharing in it.
Fasting is designed to be a shared sacrifice, as well as a disciplining of our bodies and wills,freely, submitting them to God's.
As a previous poster asserted, too, we are asked to do this every Friday, although here in the States, the Bishops received permission (an indult) to allow Catholics to substitute abstinence from meat outside of Lent for another form of penance.
The Church was given privileges and responsibilities by her founder. It's written there in the Gospel.
We still have free will, the ability to choose right or wrong based on our consciences.
Why Friday? What happened on a Friday all those millennia ago?
Is seafood a sacrifice? To some of us, yes. Is it a delicious sacrifice? Yes. Guess which day of the week I CRAVE sausage pizza? You got it. Friday
The idea of abstinence on Fridays, and the fasting for Lent, is not about "rules" it should be freely embraced. A little bit of privation, or suffering, is a way for those who believe to join their sufferings to His. The Church doesn't ask us ALL to be martyrs, or tortured or crucified, but simply join our little sufferings to His. And, to do it TOGETHER, sharing in it.
Fasting is designed to be a shared sacrifice, as well as a disciplining of our bodies and wills,freely, submitting them to God's.
As a previous poster asserted, too, we are asked to do this every Friday, although here in the States, the Bishops received permission (an indult) to allow Catholics to substitute abstinence from meat outside of Lent for another form of penance.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 9:31 am to RedPop4
I'm sorry, but if you want to fast...fast.
Eating seafood is not fasting.
Eating seafood is not fasting.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 9:36 am to Jack Daniel
Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays to honor the "flesh" Jesus sacrificed for them. So if you eat meat on Friday, you're basically eating Jesus, you Heathen...
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:21 am to fr33manator
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I would ask questions like that but I'm not a judgemental baptist bitch.
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baptist
Saved by one word.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:29 am to LetTheValleyShake
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Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays to honor the "flesh" Jesus sacrificed for them. So if you eat meat on Friday, you're basically eating Jesus, you Heathen...
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Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays to honor the "flesh" Jesus sacrificed for them. So if you eat meat on Friday, you're basically eating Jesus, you Heathen...
I'll forgo the history behind this tradition and ask the obvious, isn't
quote:what the whole transubstantiation thing is about for the Eucharist?
basically eating Jesus
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:31 am to mdomingue
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what the whole transubstantiation thing is about for the Eucharist
Rather than questioning us, what do you believe in? TIA.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:46 am to go ta hell ole miss
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Rather than questioning us, what do you believe in? TIA.
I do not think I was questioning you or whomever "us" is, simply questioning what one poster choice of words relative to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. This board would be a poor choice of places to try to have a serious doctrinal discussion.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 12:09 pm to mdomingue
I'd welcome a discussion over lunch or dinner. My faith can certainly be strengthened.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 12:11 pm to Jack Daniel
Sounds like OP couldn't get a table Friday night at his favorite seafood joint because of all the Catholics feasting like kings.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 1:11 pm to Jack Daniel
Easy. If you enjoy seafood and would ever choose it willingly outside of Fridays, you should probably abstain from it then, too.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 1:18 pm to Hopeful Doc
Most of the major supermarkets always seem to have cheap beef during lent as demand is lower.
Got some choice TBones at Rouses like week for $5.99
Got some choice TBones at Rouses like week for $5.99
Posted on 3/26/17 at 1:19 pm to Popths
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On a serious note, your relationship with Jesus is a personal one.
What exactly does it mean to have a personal relationship with Jesus? It seems very subjective, uneasily defined, and never truly observed.
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