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by Carmella on April 15th, 2006

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Why don't Christians eat meat on Good Friday?

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  • by Alatea on April 18th, 2006

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    Catholic and Orthodox Christians treat this day as a fast day. Orthodox Christians spend all this day in fasting from all food, to the extent that their health permits. Catholics also refrain from more than one normal meal, though they may add up to two small meals as required for good health. The Book of Common Prayer designates Good Friday as a day of fasting, but the contemporary worship books make no such reference. As Good Friday is the most holy day in Holy Week, most Catholics do not eat meat.

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    Though the rules for fasting and abstinence have relaxed over the centuries, Catholics still see Lent as a sacred time of self-denial, prayerful contemplation, and, yes, breaded cod. Adult Catholics are expected to fast (usually defined as eating one meal a day) on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday* and to abstain from eating meat on each Friday in Lent and on Ash Wednesday. Catholic-school kids see their lunchroom hot dogs replaced with meat-free fare. Many Catholics still "give up something for Lent"—chocolate or alcohol, for example. But the emphasis is as likely to be on almsgiving or acts of charity, in hopes of making the world or one's self better rather than simply abstaining from pleasure.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2137092/

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    • because they dont have time to have a good fry up on good friday

      Piso

      by Piso on March 13th, 2008

    • The whole fasting thing is accurate, but one of the popes back in the 1300's decided to declare all fridays no meat day because the fisherman were not selling any fish...nothing at all to do with the bible---catholicism is full of ritual that doesn't always havea basis in the bible. As with other sects of christianaity, a lot of rites and rituals were based on pagan rites to try and convert them keeping things "the same".

      Karen_Q

      by Karen_Q on April 22nd, 2011

    • You saying the Pope is God and has the right to change the bible law

      Piso

      by Piso on April 22nd, 2011

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