Meat on Fridays?

[Zoleee]

I am a little confused, is it a sin to eat meat on Fridays, or is it only required during Lent?

Thank you

 

[Anhelyna]

Thank you for your post omega2xx but this is OBOB , the main Catholic Board and Zoleee is looking for guidance from Catholic teaching here.

 

[Radagast]

Am I not allowed to comment on any post on the board?

No. This is a Catholic zone.

As it happens, though, the Catholic Catechism says that (in memory of the death of Jesus), each Friday, like the period of Lent, is "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)."

For Catholics in the USA, the obligation "under pain of sin" to refrain from meat on ordinary Fridays has been lifted. Abstaining from meat is still recommended, however:

"Friday should be in each week something of what Lent is in the entire year.... Among the works of voluntary self-denial and personal penance which we especially commend to our people for the future observance of Friday, even though we hereby terminate the traditional law of abstinence binding under pain of sin, as the sole prescribed means of observing Friday, we give first place to abstinence from flesh meat. We do so in the hope that the Catholic community will ordinarily continue to abstain from meat by free choice as formerly we did in obedience to Church law."

 

[Anhelyna]

Zoleee will have to check with his priest - he does not live in the USA

 

[concretecamper]

The US Bishop's petitioned to have the penitential practice of not eating meat on Friday removed except during Lent. Another form of penance was to be added.

Well, consistent with the spoiled children we are here in the US, no other form of penance was added.

Many Catholics do not know this but every Catholic should perform some type of penitential practice on EVERY Friday during the year. As for my family, we abstain from meat.

 

[Tomm]

I am a little confused, is it a sin to eat meat on Fridays, or is it only required during Lent?

Thank you

In Australia, we are allowed to eat meat only if we substitute it with a penance.
I usually do so by attending Mass.

 

[Rhamiel]

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Several places in the Bible people are told to submit to those in authority, as long as those in authority are not going against the teachings of God.
So yes, rebellion against legitimate authority, secular or religious, for no good reason would be a sin, you can not just say “oh that is a man made rule” and ignore it, that is not biblical

 

[Zoleee]

Hey guys, please don't argue here. I respect the advices of everyone, but I was searching for a Catholic answer. God bless!