Why don't Catholic's eat meat on Good Friday?

Answer 1

They can now.


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Answer 2

Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence for Catholics, out of respect for remembering the day Jesus was crucified and died for our sins.

The tradition of not eating meat (same as not eating meat on the Fridays of Lent) is meant to be a sacrifice. Some people trace it back to the Middle Ages when meat (well, the flesh of land animals and birds) was considered the food of the rich. Others say it was a conspiracy by the fishing industry to get more business. Still others talk of it being about not spilling blood.

To me, the important thing is to make the day about simplicity and prayer. I personally abstain from meat out of respect for the tradition, but I don't pretend that it somehow makes me a better Catholic.

Answer 3

Catholics do not eat meat on Friday because Jesus died on Good Friday and it is a way for Catholics to honor the sacrifice that Jesus made for us on that day. Abstaining from meat is a small way of uniting ourselves with the self-sacrifice of jesus.

Additionally, it helps us understand the plight of the poor. The rich can go to the market and buy meat, but the poor have to go to the river or lake to put protein on the table.

Answer 4

It is a form of sacrifice and penance for their sins and the sins of everyone in the world. If Jesus could give up his life for our sins, what is so hard about asking Catholics to give up meat for one day?

Actually Catholics are not supposed to eat meat on Ash Wednesday or any Friday during lent.

Answer 5

Jesus supposedly died on a Friday. Catholics used to refrain from eating meat every Friday not just Good Friday. You are allowed to eat fish.

Answer 6

As a former Catholic I know of no scriptural edict forbidding the eating of meat period. I do hear reports from time to time and the latest I heard was that the catholic church no longer prohibits eating meat on fridays.

Answer 7

Because Fridays are non meat days, so Good Friday is fish!

Answer 8

It became traditional that Roman Catholics should not eat meat on any Friday or Ash Wednesday.
It's a form of penance supposed to help you focus on more important things such as God.

Answer 9

+ Lent +

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.

+ Fasting and Abstinence +

Catholics in the United States are obliged to abstain from the eating of meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays during the season of Lent.

They are also obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday.

Self-imposed observance of fasting on all weekdays of Lent is strongly recommended. This is where people also give up chocolate, sarcasm, or something else for Lent.

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 10

This isn't the case since Vatican II. It was originally a sacrafice to be made on all Fridays to correspond with Jesus' sacrafice on Good Friday. Now it's only Good Friday that this is observed.

Answer 11

I would like to answer your question, but I get sapped by the Q&A patrol every time I say anything about the Catholic, so I will just say, I don't know, this is a lie but, oh well