Where does that come from?
2007-04-06 14:02:58 · 17 answers · asked by rockystartz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Anglican Protestants are, also, not supposed to eat meat on Fridays.
The Queen of England (at the time) declared that seafood was not meat, and that they should eat seafood on Fridays. It was originally to support the fishing industry.
2007-04-06 14:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Used to be Catholics did not eat meat (fish was OK) on Fridays all year long. That was negated by Vatican II, which was in the 1960s, as I recall. Now meatless Good Friday carries the tradition.
The reason is that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Good Friday, to be precise. Perhaps eating meat on the day Jesus died was too gross when you consider that, with transubstantiation, Catholics "eat Jesus' flesh" symbolically every time they take communion.
2007-04-07 01:10:37 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually Good Friday is a day of total fasting (no food at all)
The reason Catholics are told not to eat meat on Friday comes from what Jesus said the day before during the Last Supper: "Take this all of you, and eat it. This is my body (flesh), which shall be given up for you. Do this in memory of me."
The idea is that Jesus offered his flesh to be sacrificed for us on a Friday, so it is a sign of acknowledgement, respect, and rememberance. It is "extra-Biblical" in the sense that Jesus never actually said "don't eat meat on Friday", but the tradition is derived from events in the New Testament...namely Jesus's offering of his flesh and blood on that fateful day.
It's alot like saying "The only flesh I will eat on a Friday will be that of my Lord Jesus in the form of the Eucharist."
2007-04-06 14:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roman Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays during lent, and most fast on these days. It is a form of self denial which is a spiritual exercise used along with medition and prayer to bring one closer to God.
2007-04-06 14:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
however the guidelines for fasting and abstinence have comfortable over the centuries, Catholics nevertheless see Lent as a sacred time of self-denial, prayerful contemplation, and, specific, breaded cod. person Catholics are envisioned to speedy (frequently defined as eating one meal an afternoon) on Ash Wednesday and robust Friday and to abstain from eating meat on each and every Friday in Lent and on Ash Wednesday. Catholic-college childrens see their lunchroom warm canine replaced with meat-loose fare. Many Catholics nevertheless "supply up something for Lent" chocolate or alcohol, for example. however the emphasis is as probably to be on alms giving or acts of charity, in hopes of becoming the international or ones self greater effective incredibly than merely abstaining from exhilaration.
2016-11-07 10:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by predmore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 17:34:09 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a roman catholic and I haven't been told not to eat meat on Fridays, at least in our church they all eat meat on Fridays.
2007-04-06 14:08:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a form of self-denial which along with prayer is supposed to help a person have a more personal understanding and relationship with God
2007-04-06 14:09:13 · answer #8 · answered by ryorama 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An attempt to have the people "fast" without really fasting. Catholicism itself is quite the works-based salvation, and much of their teaching contradicts Scripture, e.g., Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
2007-04-06 14:07:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a silly rule that has something to do with Jesus' supposed sacrifice. Personally, I'm not about to let any religion dictate my diet.
2007-04-06 21:54:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋