Catholics can't eat meat, but is shrimp and other seafoods okay?

Question

thank you!

whooops i meant on fridays during Lent

Answer 1

Yes, on Fridays, especially Fridays during Lent, Catholics abstain from meat. Meaning the kind that walk on terra firma.

Those critters that live in water are ok.

Eastern rite Catholics go vegan for Lent.

Not many people are aware there are 21 branches of Catholicism under the Holy See. Even more outside of the Holy See. Most folks assume all Catholics are Roman.

Not so...

It is something of a misnomer, really. As the snarky ones have said, seafood is still meat.

This is true.

And Catholics who are vegetarian and vegan still have to give some thing up. They don't get a free pass just because they gave up all meats long ago.

I'm a Veggie Catholic.

What is important is to live the SPIRIT of the thing. Not the word. Lobster thermador is seafood, so it technically is ok. But it is SO not the spirit of sacrifice.

The whole thing of abstaining from meat on Friday is about sacrifice. Jesus died for our sins on Friday. We essentially pay homage to that gift by abstaining ourselves.

Answer 2

Yes, this is why restaurants serve clam chowder on Fridays.

Catholics (at least 14 years old) 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.

Catholics (from 18 to 60 years old) 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 3

Hence the Restruants biggest season for selling fish entree's
"FISH FRY FRIDAY".
To answer your question yes you can eat fish, veggies, dairys. Some people will claim you can eat poultry but I won't.
A lot of people don't even follow lent anymore, I usually screw up at least once (accidentally). How ever it is more or less a sacrifice or something to that effect. Back when my grandmother was alive she believed in fasting from dawn to dust. Imagine that, how the Catholic Religion has changed.

Answer 4

No meat on fridays during lent is a man made rule not a God made one.

It's the Jews that don't eat shellfish such as shrimp & lobster.

Answer 5

Fish & shellfish are okay for Friday's during lent, as fish is a traditional Friday night meal.

Answer 6

Shrimp and seafood are not meat - so it is OK for Catholics to eat it.

Answer 7

YES !

Hence we abstain from the use of flesh meat on Friday--the day consecrated to our Savior's

sufferings--not because the eating of flesh meat is sinful in itself, but as an act of salutary

mortification. Loving children would be prompted by filial tenderness to commemorate the

anniversary of their father's death rather by prayer and fasting than be feasting. Even so we

abstain on Fridays from flesh meat that we may in a small measure testify our practical

sympathy for our dear Lord by the mortification of our body, endeavoring, like St. Paul, "to

bear about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made

manifest in our bodies." [II. Cor. iv. 10.]

Answer 8

They can't eat meat on Fridays, but they can eat seafood.

Answer 9

Only on fridays (only during lent to most), It really depends on who you ask. My preist says you should avoid it if you can jsut to make sure. But if you have to, go ahead, like if you're on survivor.

Answer 10

Who said that Catholics can't eat meat? They aren't vegetarians!