At one time, Catholics didn't eat meat on Fridays the year around. In some places, they still do not. I with they'd just have left it that way.
and that means, if I'm at a work function, I probably can't.
I was in depositions last Friday and the firm hosting it ordered from Jimmie John's. I like Jimmie John's, but none of the three options fit the abstinence rule.
Today I'll be in a mediation. Chances are overwhelming the same thing will happen.
Non Catholics don't really grasp it, particularly if you are here in the West. A non meat lunch is just not done unless you can say you are some oddball diet, which I'm not. So, I just won't eat.
Which is okay, as I don't eat lunch normally anyhow. I make the fasting rule pretty much everyday.
A good thing is that McDonalds has the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, made from Alaskan pollack, which is really good. They have it all year long, but I never think of it until Lent, which might be because I don't go into McDonalds very much. Apparently this holds true for a lot of other people as 25% of Filet-O-Fish sandwiches are sold during Lent.
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No meat on Fridays here either. At least I don't have to try to remember something new during Lent.
You must abstain year around, which is commendable. I wish the rule had never been changed.
Yesterday panned out as expected, except that due to having had a big chunk of my large intestine taken out the year before last, most mornings I can't eat much and due to half my thyroid having been taken out, I have to take a thyroid medication every morning. Old age. . .
Anyhow, yesterday morning I was really pretty sick, stomach wise, and didn't eat breakfast, which isn't a big meal for me anyhow. Lunch was Jimmie John's, so I abstained. By the time I concluded my work at 7:00 p.m. I just wanted to get home, so home made mac and cheese it was at 9.
The rule was never abolished, the Church just allowed people choose another form of penance instead. Most I dare say do not habitually offer another sacrifice.I agree the requirement should never have been weakened. But so many things have been watered down. Cheers!
The alternative form of penance is no doubt largely forgotten, assuming that most Catholics are even aware of it. To add to that, the way it was done left a great deal of confusion and there's debate on whether the alternative was required, or suggested.
All of which is a good reason to have left it alone.
One reason, I'd note, to leave it alone is that it made Catholics stick out, whether they wanted to or not. That may sound odd, but when you stick out, you are more inclined to also stand your ground.
On fish on Friday, I'd note that growing up my father caught so many fish that we just kept on keeping on with fish on Friday. We always had fish, so . . . I still fish a lot, but I don't seem to be as successful of fisherman as he was.
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