what exactly do you consider fasting and simply obstaining from meat? what's considered the age requirements?(catholic)
2007-02-11 18:30:16 · 9 answers · asked by bananas_harajukugirl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics age 13 and up to age 65 are bound by the laws of fating and abstinance.
Fasting means you can eat one full meal that day, and the other food you eat all together must be less than one full meal. The Fasting days are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Abstinance means not eating anything containing meat or meat products. Generally, Catholics eat fish as a meat substitute. Poultry, beef, and pork are all not allowed on days of abstinance. Seafood of any kind is allowed, as are meatless meals. Days are abstinance are Ash Wednesday, and all Fridays during Lent.
Technically, Catholics are still bound to meatless Fridays...but outside of Lent, the meatless Friday can be replaced by another act of penance or sacrifice.
2007-02-14 15:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is not Pagan. It originated in the middle ages, long after the Pagan religions were extinct. People who read too many wacko Jack Chick types get that idea. Most of these crazy ideas come from books like "Babylon Mystery Religion" by Hyslop which no scholar takes seriously. He is about as a reliable source of historical knowledge as Dan Brown's DaVinci Code. LOL!
Lent represents the fasting of Jesus during the 40 days he spent in wilderness...hardly Pagan! LOL!
In general, during Lent, a person fasts by abstaining from the meat of a warm blooded animal. Sundays are considered feast days, and eating read meat or poultry is allowed.
2007-02-11 18:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fastig is not about abstaining from food, dietary guidelines are only a small part of Lent, also, 120 for 5'1 is healthy, Im 19 5'10 and usually 150lbs, but go down to 130lbs during some Fasts
2016-05-24 00:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orthodox Christians usually fast from all meat and meat bi-products throughout Lent (including meat, dairy, poultry, fish and alcohol), with a complete fast durring the final days of Holy Week.
I'm not sure about the Roman Catholic requirements.
2007-02-11 18:36:20 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is pagan. Coming from the Anglo-Saxon Lencten, meaning “spring,” Lent originated in the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. “The forty days’ abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess…Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz” (The Two Babylons).
Tammuz was the false Messiah of the Babylonians—a satanic counterfeit of Jesus Christ!
2007-02-11 18:32:55 · answer #5 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fasting should be accompanied pray. It does not necessarily mean abstaining from meat. It could be a total fast from food for a few days or from something we may like or enjoy (eg chocolate).
2007-02-11 18:35:12 · answer #6 · answered by scruff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send me an email with an unrestricted address and I'll send you a free printable booklet in PDF format, that has all the Lenten regulations, plus lots of other good Lenten stuff.
You can reach me at Questions@AskMeAboutGod.Org
2007-02-11 19:46:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I abstain from dead babies and from eucharists.
2007-02-11 18:48:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do you really like...give it up
2007-02-11 18:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋