and then they could eat it on friday and then they could not and then they could. the old pope told them. wazzup with that lol lol lol
2006-07-24 11:58:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abstaining from meat on Fridays was a church discipline that was intended to help Catholics remember that Christ suffered and died on a Friday.
By doing without meat, which is something most of us enjoy, we were joining our meager sacrifices with the eternal sacrifice of Christ, for the greater honor and glory of God.
The only difference between today and earlier times is that Catholics are now allowed to choose their own Friday sacrifice.
These days, a number of things can be substituted in place of abstaining from meat ... fasting, prayers, charitable works, answering stupid questions on Yahoo ... you get the picture.
Cleo715 doesn't know what she's talking about. Masses haven't been routinely said in Latin for 40 years, and abstinence from meat is still REQUIRED for most of the faithful, on every Friday, during Lent.
The church has the God-given authority to make rules to guide the faithful, and to change them whenever it deems it appropriate.
Where does your authority come from?
2006-07-24 14:07:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might be too young to remember it - heard about it from fam and friends though. Some older Catholic's still don't eat meat on Friday - some don't eat meat on Fridays in Lent
2006-07-24 12:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are not suppose to eat meat on Friday's during Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday
2006-07-24 12:04:22 · answer #3 · answered by msjune 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're allowed to eat meat on Friday's in lent. It's a symbolic sacrifice, it used to be mandatory, but the church got the meaning of symbolic. But if you do it or not, that's up to you.
Also, fasting on lent is not mandatory for children and seniors, but most seniors are used to the old-school, masses-in-latin kind of church so they still fast...*lol
2006-07-24 12:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by cleo715 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be catholic and we weren't allowed to eat meat on friday during lint, is it lint or lent?, anyways you know what i'm talking about can you tell I wasn't a good catholic, anyways so that was the only time we weren't allowed to eat meat.
2006-07-24 12:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by Trish H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-07-24 12:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by RandyGE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I'm sure many Catholics still follow this practice. It has a name, but I can't remember it at the moment.
2006-07-24 12:03:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laws from God are eternal.
Man's law changes.
1 Timothy 4: 1 - 4 says such would happen.
2006-07-24 12:11:22 · answer #8 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I sure do. In 1964 I had a hot dog on Friday and I thought I would go to hell. Then....... I got over it!!!!
2006-07-24 12:02:49 · answer #9 · answered by Skypilot49 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps when I have preached to others I myself should be castaway" (1 Corinthians 9:27)
"He that taketh not up his cross, and followeth Me, is not worthy of Me" (Matthew 10:38).
2006-07-24 12:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by BlahBlahBlah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋