re: Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday... Do you participate in Lent and/or no meat on Fridays

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Fish bleed too. What's your lame excuse for that?

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Catholic convert here. As with many of the guidelines, the meat on Fridays and fasting things are misconstrued.

Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, replacing animal sacrifices, which were warm-blooded. Hence, no meat of warm-blooded animals on Fridays, in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice. Mere abstinence from meat is not considered fasting.

The only lenten fasting days are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, but many Catholics have a big ol' crawfish boil with beer on Good Friday, which is abstinence from meat but certainly not fasting and not all that conducive to remembrance of his sacrifice.