why no meat on good friday?

Question

why do we eat no meat on good friday?

Answer 1

You must be Catholic? Not everyone follows this tradition.

Abstaining from something helps to refocus on what is important.

One belief of why meat was chosen is because most people feel that giving up meat (beef and chicken) is an inconvenience.

Another belief is that in many poorer countries, beef is a specialty.

Answer 2

As far as I’m concerned it’s now just become a family tradition to not eat meat on Good Friday. As I believe that my grandmother grew up with it as did my mother, although along the way I guess someone missed the meaning of why we actually do it, my grandma used to tell me if I eat red meat on Good Friday then I am eating the blood of Christ as a small 6 to 8 year old and still attending Sunday school I believed her. Over the years I stopped complaining and just accepted that mum wont be giving me steak on that day, until the time came when I started hating fish, she gave up and let me consume chicken. These days I cant really eat red meat any day, so does that mean I now need to give up the chicken for a plate of natures finest veggies?
I forgot it was Good Friday today when preparing my boyfriends lunch for work and gave him a cheese and bacon roll to snack on, now his mum is a Minister of a Church does that mean we will both go to hell?
I agree with previous people who have commented. If you wish to partake in the celebration then just “fast” choosing something you hate not having on a Friday, well if your like most my friends id tell you to don’t drink alcohol today seen that’s a Friday night tradition, plus a 4 day weekend for most.
Anyway my point is, I do not attend Church anymore I haven’t since I was around 9 years old. I could only quote parts of the bible If they where spoken in one of my favorites movies, I know I was christened in a Presbyterian Church, I attended Sunday School. I also took Catholic Scripture lessons during Primary school which was really only to get me out of my classroom.
So all I can say is my guilt now if I eat red meat on a Good Friday is due to the fact that I’m going against my family traditions, none of these feelings have to do with Jesus’ crucifixion.

Answer 3

I was just looking this up myself when I saw your question. What I found is that there's no clear reason why, and no documented point in time when it began as a practice. It's basically a Catholic law based on tradition.

While there are a lot of passages in the Bible talking about denying oneself and taking up one's cross, none directly address abstinence from meat. Check out the beginning of First Timothy chapter 4 though. Here are some highlights:

"...some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits ... commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."

"Reject profane and old wive's fables, and excercise yourself toward godliness."

As a Christian who grew up Catholic, the bottom line as I see it is this: focus on what matters. Relationships, authenticity, and truth. Confidently practice what there is basis for, and don't practice what there's not. Oh, and let others practice their traditions without condemning them -- see Romans 14:3.

Answer 4

I am not catholic and we don't eat meat on good friday in remembrance of Jesus and what he gave to us. He sacrificed his life for us. We surely can give up the meat that was most plentiful to the rich at one time. We don't all completely fast but is a practice along the lines of fasting. We give up something for him just as he gave his life for us.

Answer 5

A. 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.
Abstaining from something helps us refocus on what is important and it cuts out the things that might have seemed important. By abstaining, we have better ability to concentrate on God.
The Church asks us to inconvenience ourselves sometimes to serve as a reminder that they should always have God as a top priorty and pleasures as a lesser priorty.
Another belief is that in many poorer countries, beef is a specialty. For us to give it up, helps us to remember about people who are less fortunate than we are.

Answer 6

Who knows, Its not a biblical thing. For, look as you may, nowhere in the Bible will you find that Christians were ever instructed to refrain from eating meat on any Friday of the year, or on any other day. It is not a requirement of God. In fact, the Catholic edition of the Revised Standard Version Bible says that enjoining or commanding “abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving” is an evidence of a departure from the faith

Answer 7

I have a problem with that cz i'm vegetarian, so i wonder how can i fast on good fridays. its not just about not eating meat, u have to fast inorder to feel with the poor or maybe as a memory for jesus crucification.

Answer 8

its true that it doesnt say no meat on fridays during lent in the Bible, but it doesn't say to give eachother gifts on Jesus' birthday either. I mean, I could be wrong, but it just kinda makes sense to me that there's nothing wrong with giving something up in honor of Jesus dying on a friday, whether or not it says it in the Bible.

Answer 9

On Good Friday, the following verses have a particular significance:

Mat 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Abstaining from meat is a form of denying one's self, placing greater reliance on the Spirit of God.

Rom 8:2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.
Rom 8:4 That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things that are of the spirit.
Rom 8:6 For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.
Rom 8:8 And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.
Rom 8:11 And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

St. Paul knew what he was talking about.

Answer 10

I eat but I never knew people don't eat on good friday what the reason I will like to know this question myself