...and you're not allowed to eat meat on Friday during Lent, can you still take communion on Fridays in Lent?
2006-07-28 04:45:31 · 12 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course, I don't even have to look it up. Christians of every stripe talk about "absolutes" but they always have a justification, exception, or rationalization to get around any rule. So I'm sure they conjured up some way around that already.
2006-07-28 05:12:50 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The prohibition on the eating of meat on Friday's during Lent is a mortification, or a willful giving up of a pleasure. The pleasure of the taste of meat is what is being sacrificed. Therefore, consuming the Body of Christ does not "count" against the mortification.
2006-07-28 11:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas Andrew 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and yes. Clever question, but no cigar. Catholics are not cannibals. Transubstantiated bread is the 'meat' Jesus commanded be consumed that one may have life in Him.
When the Host visibly changes, it is not consumed, but regarded as a miracle.
If you are truly interested then you might want to research the Eucharistic Miracle of Laciano (Italy).
H
2006-07-28 11:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking about Good Friday, the sacred Host is taken out of the Church in observance of Christ's crucifixtion. It is done to show us the emptiness and darkness of life without our Lord.
The practice of not eating meat on Fridays is an act of fasting. It is meant to teach discipline by giving up something you like to do, to help you in spiritual growth.
I would appreciate it if you didn't put the sacred Body of my Lord on the same level as a steak. It's not funny.
2006-07-28 11:53:32 · answer #4 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics actually think that bread can turn into human flesh! I've heard some silly beliefs, but that really takes the cake...or wafer, as the case may be. Hey, what's it like drinking human blood? Is it salty going down?
2006-07-28 12:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a religion, some things do not make logical sense.
If you really want to learn more I'd be willing to try to help, but I am not a theological expert or a Priest.
I was raised Catholic and call myself a Catholic, but I'm not very religious and not easily offended. Do you really think you can tell us any Catholic jokes that we haven't heard? It's like telling a Jew a Jewish joke, he's heard them all.
2006-07-28 11:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always wondered what part of the body your eating. I mean they really aren't the tastiest crackers!
2006-07-29 02:41:28 · answer #7 · answered by Katy_Kat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-07-28 11:48:36 · answer #8 · answered by ndmac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who makes the wafer? Is there a big wafer factory somewhere? lol
2006-07-30 02:25:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html
http://www.rickross.com/groups/clergy.html
2006-07-28 11:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by Who am I? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋