I heard this once from someone that like Fridays on Wednesdays you're not supposed to eat red meat either? is this tur and please back up your reasonings and sources thanks Best answer gets 10 points
2007-04-25 10:32:16 · 11 answers · asked by simplemiss71 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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, for Catholics to substitute a penitential Practice 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.
2007-04-25 12:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It use to be the practice of the Catholic Church that one did not eat meat on Ash Wednesday and all of the Fridays of the year. This act of penance was a way that the whole church came together to practice their faith and ask God forgiveness. Now the practice is on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. The other Fridays are optional. We are still asked to do acts of penance but it is up to the individual as to how and when that takes place.
2007-04-25 17:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Mary W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If this were true, surely any priest I have known would have mentioned it once in the last 20 years ? I would ask your parish priest, but I do not believe it to be true.
I'm sure that you know that Catholics practice that meat is not eaten on Fridays (especially during Lent) due to the death of our Lord on a Friday (Good Friday is the day of reflection on this fact). Ash Wednesday,during the Lenten season is meatless and sweetless, from what I understand. No parish I have attended has ever mentioned that fact, but it is liturgically correct, from what I read. I do not believe that extends to any Wednesday in normal time.
Peace to you !
2007-04-25 17:45:59 · answer #3 · answered by nameless0909 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think thats right. All i know is you're not supposed to eat meat on fridays during lent, but other than that there aren't really any catholic dietary guidlines that i know of. I'm just out of religous education so i think they would have mentioned something.
2007-04-25 17:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by ****Lily**** 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The practice of not eating meat on Friday was established as rite for people to demonstrate gratitude for Jesus's flesh sacrifice.
Jesus was said to have been killed on a Friday, so on Friday, Catholics refrain from consuming any flesh with one exception: the flesh of Jesus Himself in the form of the Eucharist.
It's a simple fast which reinforces the acknowledgment of Jesus's gift to us: his blood and body
2007-04-25 17:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only on Ash Wednesday and the Friday's of lent. Other Fridays we can eat meat but it is still recommended to do something.
Cheers :-)
2007-04-25 17:40:39 · answer #6 · answered by chekeir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No this is not true, and only on Fridays in Lent can you not eat red meat, you can eat it on every other Friday of the year.
2007-04-25 17:35:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From my understanding it is only between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/fasting.html
2007-04-25 17:41:56 · answer #8 · answered by mrfurley_1974 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're not. friday is considered a holy day. it stems from the hebrew sabbath. sundown friday to sundown saturday. my grandmother used to abstain on wednesdays fridays and any days of obligation. she was the most pious person i have every known. p.s. thanks for this question, i was afraid if i opened it, that it would be some anti-catholic garbage.
2007-04-25 17:37:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not think that is true that sounds more like a strict jewish belief. they could also just be referring to lent maybe.
2007-04-25 17:35:44 · answer #10 · answered by life_l0ve_skyy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋