re: What is meaning behind no meat Fridays during Lent?

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Keep changing the rules.

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actually the rules never changed

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Although Friday abstinence remains the law of the Latin Church, many national bishops’ conferences — including the U.S. bishops — make exceptions in their jurisdictions, permitting Catholics to choose another form of penance instead.

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And why do folks have a huge blow out crawfish boil on Good Friday ?

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because they don't follow the fasting part of Good Friday

There are such people as Catholic in Name Only...you know the ones that just go to Mass on Christmas and Easter. That take communion even though they haven't been to confession in ages.

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Meat" when it comes to beef, pork, and chicken is the muscle of those animals.

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If not meat what exactly is the flesh of fish considered?

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Something about the Pope making a deal with fisherman back in the day. No meat on Fridays during lent means more money in Fishermans pocket means more money in church collection plate.

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Heard this too. Was going to post it. I can’t remember where it was from.

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Just a Catholic tradition to remind you of the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross to save his believers' souls.

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Clear

Brings up 2 questions I have always had (for post for another day)

Were all Earth inhabitants intended to be believers of Jesus? Seems like no as impossible limitations of geography, Mobility, language, and forces suggest God’s plan included some and excluded many by nature of limitations.

Saving souls…which souls, just those non believers at the time, all preceding or forthcoming? In my life experience so far, God seems far less symbolic than what is portrayed here.

Winn Dixie was robbed by a dude named Judas, so no meat was available that Thursday night.

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There is something very organic and bodily about this practice that affects people in emotional and spiritual ways that can’t be easily explained.


By switching from steak to fish on Fridays?

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Answering the OP, people are missing the point of Lent entirely.

Lent is a time of preparation. As Jesus prepared himself in the desert for 40 days, Lent is a time for Christians to prepare ourselves. How can we be better Christians? How can we connect more with the sacrifice of Jesus.

One of the biggest answers is to mentally prepare ourselves with the analogy of the desert (give up things that we covet to help center and focus on our spiritual relationship). Food. Technology. Alcohol. Caffeine. Other vices.

Lent is also 47 days. I've always wondered why Christians throw around "40 days of Lent" so casually. For anyone who has sacrificed a lot, we can probably count the hours.

And for the record...you don't have to be Christian to understand the concept of cutting out significant parts of our daily lives to help refocus on what is important in this life.
New Years is a time for rebirth and commitments to self improvement. Lent and the Easter season is much the same but with a 47 day focus on how to improve. There is something satisfying about being disciplined. There is something satisfying about eliminating a lot of the unnecessary noise in life... even if it is for over a month and a half.

I was raised as a catholic rebel "lutheran" on a cattle ranch so I never observed a no meat day.

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at take communion even though they haven't been to confession in ages.

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Why do I need to tell some pedo my sins?

it used to be a fast day, not a seafood platter day.