if you are catholic is it true that you are not suspose to eat red mean on a friday throught the year?

Answer 1

No.


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Answer 2

Yes, unless the bishops and Pope make an exception.

The Days of Penance are described in the Code of Canon Law (1249-1253):

Divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way.

In order for all to be united among themselves by some common observance of penance, however, penitential days are prescribed on which the Christian faithful devote themselves in a special way to prayer, perform works of piety and charity, and deny themselves by fulfilling their own obligations more faithfully and especially by observing fast and abstinence.

The penitential times are every Friday and the season of Lent.

Abstinence from meat is to be observed on all Fridays.

Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

In the United States of America, the bishops, with the permission of the Pope, allow Catholics to substitute a penitential, or even a charitable, practice of their own choosing on the Fridays outside of Lent.

Many U.S. Catholics just continue to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

At one point this was true but the church has relaxed its stance on eating meat, any meat for that matter except fish. Now most catholics observe eating meatless meals on friday only during lent.

Answer 4

No, that is just for duing Lent, the weeks before Easter. That is why there are so many fish deals on Fridays.

Answer 5

yes, this is correct.

Some people think it is no longer true...but there is a clarification most people forget about,.

IF you choose to eat meat/poultry on a Friday, you are supposed to do another act of sacrifice to replace abstaining from meat.

Fridays during Lent do not have that option.

Answer 6

just during lent