Whats the reason that Christians dont eat meat on Good Friday?

Question

Ok peoples - read the question. I didn't say Friday I said Good Friday.
And no its not just Catholics. I'm from a Protestant background and it's very much a done thing for us too.

Answer 1

This practice is a little out of date, and goes back to the Middle Ages. When it began, Christians would not eat meat on Friday at all (every week) but as time went on, this became rare. Now it is customary for some Christians to fast and practice abstinance on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday...this is in repspect for Christ and as a show of devotion.

Answer 2

It is a tradition based on the concept that anything positive and good in your day to day living can and sometimes should be foregone upon occasion as a means of showing God that you care. When meat was scarce, voluntarily giving it up was a real sacrifice. So over several centuries it became institutionalized as a sacrifice compelled by Canon Law.

However, even churchmen eventually grow up and now it is voluntary once again. The emphasis these days is on doing something positive as a mark of love and respect rather than giving up something positive. For example, visit the sick instead of not eating meat. Of course you can do both and many do.

Answer 3

genuinely, the reason at the back of no longer ingesting meat has to do with the be conscious "lent" interior the 1st place. "Lent" potential "time of lean", while the beef improve into too no longer basic and lean to harass slaughtering and ingesting. I do have faith that each and all and sundry of lent is meant to be meat loose, for this reason (yet i'm no longer Catholic, so i am going by employing heresay.) through fact in historical circumstances, and up interior the process the final century or so, it wasn't conceivable to feed the animals adequate and that they have been exceptionally plenty on their own interior the process the wintry climate, and the beef wasn't good to consume. So, as a non christian, that's what i've got been advised. no longer likely approximately Gd in any respect, as are, for the main area, many Christian customs. they are pagan, and are available to well-liked circumstances by adoption of historical pagan customs from different cultures.

Answer 4

Christians do eat meat on Fridays. I eat meat every Friday.

You're thinking of catholics, and catholics are not saved Christians. Catholics are a Babylonian pagan cult that has a false gospel that leads to eternal hell, and countless false teachings like this meat thing, which is from Babylon, not the Bible.

Answer 5

not eating meat on Good Friday is cosidered a small sacrifice for Catholics because..... meat is delcious right? but if your a veggie lover... then that wouldn't be cosidered a sacrifice.

why do they sacrifice? because it's Good Friday... This is the day where JESUS was nailed to the cross.. this is the way Catholics somehow celebrate, remember, give respect, and relate to the sacrifices of JESUS... come to think of it.... you eating a steak while JESUS is nailed down?

and for Mister stubborn aka: CJ. are a real catholic?
don't yah know the meaning of Good Friday?

Answer 6

Ptttttth
When I was a kid we FASTED on Good friday. LOL We didn't eat red meat at ALL for lent. (40 days. Let's all think, what happend for 40 days that a Christian might want to think about?) And we also had to give something up. Man one year I gave up candy and was dying.
Then one year I gave up Church for lent. Never did go back ;)

Answer 7

I am a Christian, and where in GOD'S word does it say that we can't ?

We are not to eat meat sacrificed to false gods/ idols.

Acts 21: 25

25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Answer 8

That is a new one....I am very surprised at the reason christians give for eating meat at all...clean and unclean....

The Bible and the dietary laws, and the terrible diseases today....


and Jesus did not make all meats clean.....he made all mankind clean....

Good Friday? could it be a catholic thing??

Answer 9

That is not Christians in general. At one time, Catholics did not eat meat on Fridays, but I think, over the decades, that practice has fallen away.

Answer 10

The law of abstinence requires a Catholic 14 years of age until death to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in honor of the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday.

"The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church'spenitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary works)".

Catholics give up eating meat -- for example, on Good Friday -- to commemorate and honor Christ's Sacrifice on that day, and to follow His instruction to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. (Matt. 16:24; Mk. 8:34; Lk. 9:23). It is a practice that dates back to the earliest days of the Christian Church. Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria both mention it in their writings. It is a practice which is thoroughly Christian, for we note that Christ Himself recommended fasting, saying: "When thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face... and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will repay thee." (Matt. 6:17-18). In the same vein the Apostle Paul described his own suffering for Christ: "... in hunger and thirst, in fastings often..." (2 Cor. 11:27). Fasting was practiced both by Christ's followers (Acts 14:22) and by Christ Himself. (Matt. 4:1-2). And Our Lord told His disciples that some devils cannot be cast out "but by prayer and fasting." (Matt. 17:20). Paul's denunciation of those who abstain from eating meat applies to those who reject the eating of meat entirely, as though it were evil in itself. His denunciation has nothing to do with the abstinence of Catholics, for on other days Catholics eat as much meat as do other people. Moreover, the abstinence from meat is not binding on all Catholics. Young children, old people, sick people, and all Catholics in countries where meat is the principle diet, are excused.