This may be over asked. But I'm going to ask anyway.
Why do Catholics eat fish and no meat on Fridays during lent?
And I should ask my dad, who was Catholic growing up, but since I'm here...has this been a change? It seems like I remember that my dad growing up used to eat fish every Friday and not just during lent.
Thanks for indulging me! (And from the looks of your front page, it's been slow, so maybe a new thread is not such a bad thing? )
This may be over asked. But I'm going to ask anyway.
Why do Catholics eat fish and no meat on Fridays during lent?
And I should ask my dad, who was Catholic growing up, but since I'm here...has this been a change? It seems like I remember that my dad growing up used to eat fish every Friday and not just during lent.
Thanks for indulging me! (And from the looks of your front page, it's been slow, so maybe a new thread is not such a bad thing? )
You are correct. Catholics did not eat meat on Fridays before the 1960's. Then everything went wild in the 1970's and that disciplinary rule passed. By the 1990's a compromise was reached to observe Fridays in Lent by eating fish then.
The orthodox reason? To honor Christ's death on a Friday.
The urban legend (perhaps correct)? That the fishermen in Italy lobbied the pope to guarantee themselves a market at least one day a week when they returned with their catch.
Korah
You are correct. Catholics did not eat meat on Fridays before the 1960's. Then everything went wild in the 1970's and that disciplinary rule passed. By the 1990's a compromise was reached to observe Fridays in Lent by eating fish then.
The orthodox reason? To honor Christ's death on a Friday.
The urban legend (perhaps correct)? That the fishermen in Italy lobbied the pope to guarantee themselves a market at least one day a week when they returned with their catch.
Korah
LOL St.Peter was a fisherman, it was all a big racket!
lol just kidding,
um throught the year, most catholics do not eat fish on friday, only on Lent, maybe some do
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it still is encouraged by the Church to not eat meat on Fridays not just during Lent, but all Fridays.
Is it? I didn't know that.
I work at a Catholic school. I'll have to check their menu and see what they're serving kids on Fridays outside of lent. Come to think of it, it seems I remember there being a lot of cheese pizza on Fridays.
From what I remember hearing, the penance of abstaining from meat on Fridays, goes back to the end of the Crusades, where the Pope, asked the Church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays, as a sacrifice to God to keep the Holy Land open to Christian pilgrimages.
Just ask my Nana for a bacon butty on a Friday morning and watch that nerve in her temple go!
Mine too! I don't know how (or if) she ever reconciled to my dad not raising us Catholic. Apparently she Baptised me herself when I was six weeks old because she didn't trust my church to do it.
Mine too! I don't know how (or if) she ever reconciled to my dad not raising us Catholic. Apparently she Baptised me herself when I was six weeks old because she didn't trust my church to do it.
Mine used to take me to Mass whenever I was at her house on a Sunday, I was pulled up to the Communion rail at least once to cries of "But Nana, I'm not confirmed yet, I'm only eight!" (we were raised Methodist) to her response of "they don't know you're not Catholic, they'll think you are!" I'm sure she tried to trick me into going to Confession once too
And our cousins are being raised Anglican as well, she must be gutted that none of her grandchildren are Catholic, poor love.
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I am grateful for reps, thankyou! I'm just forgetful too...
But I'm going to ask anyway.
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not just during Lent, but all Fridays. 
Come to think of it, it seems I remember there being a lot of cheese pizza on Fridays. 
Mine too! I don't know how (or if) she ever reconciled to my dad not raising us Catholic. Apparently she Baptised me herself when I was six weeks old because she didn't trust my church to do it. 
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