2007-04-06 12:06:45 · 21 answers · asked by frightful12334 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because controlling what and when people eat is an essential component of brainwashing. Controlling their sexuality comes in a close second. The Catholic religion is very good at doing both.
2007-04-06 21:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Catholics CAN eat meat on Fridays - tradition used to be that Friday was a meat-free day, but that is no longer the case, though the tradition persists.
As for Passover - a Jewish Tradition - you are probably referring to Good Friday, and this is a day of abstinence for Catholics (I'm not one, so I've had a tasty lamb curry).
2007-04-06 12:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Modern Major General 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
reliable Friday and Ash Wednesday are the two days left interior the Roman Catholic liturgical year while the undemanding are asked to refrain from meat. it is not a sin in the event that they do no longer, they are merely asked to. It marks the initiating and end of the Lenten season, the place persons are asked to undergo in techniques the sacrifice and suffering of Jesus and to grant something up or do something greater in his honor. considering that reliable Friday is the day of his dying, it is a symbolic giving up of a exhilaration in his reminiscence. it is likewise an afternoon of fasting, the place in basic terms one finished meal is to be eaten, because it is on Ash Wednesday. it is barely a convention, yet has which ability to many Catholics, tremendously older ones.
2016-11-07 10:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics don't celebrate Passover.
2007-04-06 12:12:40 · answer #4 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Passover is a Jewish holiday and has nothing to do with Catholics.
Catholics don't eat meat on Friday as a penitential practice, to remind them of the death of Christ. It used to be a law - now it is a recommended practice, and not all follow it. The Church suggests that some penitential practice be followed - if not giving up meat, something else to take its place.
2007-04-06 12:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
passover is for Jewish people...I'm not catholic, but simply Christian and I don't eat meat on Good Friday. It's more so out of a sacrifice...
2007-04-06 12:10:53 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan C 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It was an unwritten law of the church but no longer exists, I am catholic and I eat meat every Friday with our priest, all catholics can eat meat any time they want now.
2007-04-06 12:14:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is very funny, or tragic, the way that some catholics use this practice. I live in a mostly Catholic country and yesterday the people in the supermarket where buying seafood and beers in immense quantities. This is a habit in this Holly week. Definitely tragic.
2007-04-06 12:20:56 · answer #8 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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.
2007-04-06 17:57:25 · answer #9 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Catholics do not observe passover, Jews do.
2007-04-06 12:12:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋