Why can Catholics eat fish on Fridays during lent but not other meat products? What makes fish so special? My wife, who is Catholic, cannot give me a good answer on this.
2007-01-25 16:08:30 · 5 answers · asked by mdbjrtwo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here is a link that you might find helpful:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09152a.htm
2007-01-25 16:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church invented many man rules. I am not expert on this subject to know how Paul wrote against rituals such as this. Paul even went so far as to say circumcision by human hands but not by the spirit is not binding.
I can state then there is no reason, under The New Testament, for a Christian not to eat meat, but fish on Fridays. I know Peter, I think in Acts, was instructed to eat meat, that God had previously prohibited. This was at the instruction of God.
So we should follow God, not men.
2007-01-26 01:17:39 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Dr. Glen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has something to do with fasting and Jesus only had so many fish and so many loaves of bread and fed hundreds of people with that little bit of food. I'm not positive of exactly how that goes, but it has something to do with that.
2007-01-26 00:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by froggi6106 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
feed her a tuba steak
2007-01-26 00:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by spanky 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
gotta do something with all that frozen pollock. thomas
2007-01-26 00:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋