Question for Catholics: Why is Friday the day when meat is prohibited?

Question

I understand the concept of refraning from meat, but why was Friday the day chosen to do it, as apposed to Monday?

ok, wadi... maybe learning how to read would be a good idea...

Answer 1

Catholic traditions nullify the Word of GOD. Jesus is Alive!!!

Answer 2

The reason for the empasis on fish was actually due to Church-controlled fisheries (the Church owned an entire coast of Italy and claimed the waters) doing poorly and the Vatican wanting to get people to eat more fish to stimulate the economy.

The main explanation for why it is on Friday is generally that, even back then, there was usually a 5 day work week and fish did not keep, so they would have to get rid of the fish at the end of the week. It was initially on Wednesday and Friday and was a general fast, but then fish were pushed and Wednesday lost emphasis due to the need to move fish on Friday and people not wanting to fast as often. The reason it was Wednesday and Friday is due to the Jewish tradition that existed of fasting on Monday night-Tuesday morning and Thursday night. As with the sabbath, these two fasting days got bumped up one, due to differences in opinion over which day was the beginning of the week. It also happened to make it fall on Wednesday and Friday, which fall on the big, non-sabbath Lenten holidays.

Answer 3

Since the earliest days of the Catholic Church, on every Friday throughout the year, Catholics are required to do some kind of penance. Most Catholics do not eat meat on Friday as a penance. As far as research says, no Pope introduced this practice, but it gradually became a practice.

Answer 4

Because giving up meat is a sacrifice, and we make that sacrifice on the day of the week when the greatest sacrifice of all time was made- FRIDAY, as in Good Friday!

Answer 5

Friday is the supposed day of J*sus crucifixion, so they don't eat meat to remember the somber quality of the day

Answer 6

Wasn't Friday the day Jesus was crucified? The Meat thing is supposed to be our way of sacrificing something, as he did, and I think it is supposed to be on the day he died.

Answer 7

Fridays were chosen because Jesus died for us on Good Friday.

The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal.

By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

This season of penance is an intense moments of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

...who is teaching you...? Colonel Sanders...? The Roman Church changes that "order" about 30 years ago... to understand the "decree's" of the Roman Church is to try to understand someone taking drugs... most of the spiritual and religious gymnastics that "they" practice are not of God or found in Scripture... (like eating meat on Friday)... or fiddling with "beads" or reciting over, and over, and over and over the same prayer-chant....

Answer 9

Christ gave up his flesh for us on Good Friday, so we put aside Lenten Fridays for abstaining from red meat and chicken (i.e. flesh) in remembrance of what he did for us.

And no, Geoffrey, the Church never was involved in the fishing business.

Answer 10

It is Saint Paul's innovation.