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Only fleshy meats and products made with pieces of meat. Not including fish. This is mostly left up to personal discretion, however. For others, however, it could pose serious health problems. The Church does offer plenty of exemptions. Do you qualify for an exemption? If so, the extent to which you participate is between you and God. You and He both know if you truly should be exempt from spiritual fasting or if you are just trying to get out of it. This includes chicken wings, chicken legs, chicken pot pie, and any other dishes made with pieces of chicken.
Chicken broth is debatable, but may be okay if strained well just the juice remaining. Catholics may eat chicken on all other days during the Lenten season as well as on any Solemnity. There is some disagreement about whether condiments derived from meats such as chicken stock, beef gravy, etc. You will want to ask your local priest for a definitive answer on this one.
Yes, Catholics may eat eggs for Lent at any time. You can eat a wide variety of simple, meatless meals, such as pancakes, eggs, spaghetti, cheese pizza, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, salad, vegetable soup, fish, shrimp and more. In our house, our boys are not allowed to jump on the furniture. As their parent, I have the authority to make that rule, and I have for the good of our family. As my children, my boys are expected to listen and obey because I am their mother. Is jumping on the couch inherently wrong?
No, not unless their mother has made the same rule at their house. Is jumping on the couch really that big of a deal? No, not really. Is eating meat inherently wrong?
Is eating meat really a big deal? For more on this issue, please see my post: Who has the Ultimate Authority? A Biblical Look at Sola Scriptura. And makes it reallllly easy to be lazy and do nothing at all.
Others believe it rule was invented—at least in part—to help the fish economy in the 16th century. Neither the Torah, Talmud, or New Testament clearly explains the rationale behind the divide. And we also have these words from the famous 13th century theologian and philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas:. Wherefore the Church forbade those who fast to partake of those foods which both afford most pleasure to the palate, and besides are a very great incentive to lust.
Today, however, most Catholics follow the Catholic fasting rules because we agree that this day period of reflection, humility, repentance and sacrifice is ultimately good for our spiritual health and, ultimately, because the church said so. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, cold-blooded animals and shellfish are permitted. To conclude — you can eat fish, butter, eggs, cheese, and even soups or gravies made from meat.
Curious about Catholicism? A little self discipline can be good for you sometimes, arbitrary or not. As for the special dispensation thing, one thing the Catholic church has going for it over protestant churches on paper at least is the human hierarchy over strict biblical interpretation.
Now sure, this leads to a different kind of abuse, blah, blah, we could go all day, but it also allows for a human agent of the church to allow exceptions to arbitrary church law for the greater good whether this particular instance was worthy of such a dispensation is another matter. May die….!
Kind of like asking a plumber for advice on how to lay sod. All sorts of people get dispensations, i. For instance, if this wedding were being held during Lent because someone in the wedding party was being deployed to Iraq soon, a dispensation would certainly be given. Catholics and God, and Catholics and the Church, are in a familial relationship, not a legalistic, draconian one.
The closest thing I can think of is when the president gives all DC federal workers a holiday exemption because its snowing. Its not supposed to generally happen, but there are exceptions to SOME rules… Other rules, of course, the president would never make exceptions.
My understanding is that if you are somewhere where the food is provided that it is ok to eat meat. Like if I have a luncheon at work it is better to eat the meat that is on your sandwhich than pick it off and waste it becasue wasting food would be a bigger sin. I still feel guilty about it but I would feel even worse for just wasting it. Birds are also considered meat; on these grounds chicken is prohibited.
Fish are a different category of animal- sea animals and therefore are permitted to be eaten during lent. This authority extends to Church discipline as well as doctrine. When the Church imposes a discipline, its members are bound to obey it, unless they are dispensed for a proportionate reason. This exercise of authority is seen in Acts 15, where the Church, in its first major council, bound all Christians to the discipline of abstaining from meat that had been sacrificed to idols or that had come from strangled animals When the Church promulgated its teaching about abstaining from meat Acts , no Christian was free to disregard the discipline without committing sin.
But since Paul explained that meat in itself is not unclean and the eating of meat is not inherently sinful Rom. When the Catholic Church imposes a discipline such as not eating meat on Fridays, the same principle holds.
Consider this parallel example. His sin is not the eating of cookies a morally-neutral act in itself , but of disobedience. Finally, we should mention why Friday abstinence was imposed. The Church recognizes that, since meat is a chief part of most meals served in most places, and since meat is usually the most valued or expensive part of a meal, abstinence from meat on Fridays is a good way for Christians to unite themselves more closely to the sufferings of their Lord Rom.
Abstinence from meat is a sacrifice which unites them in penance and strengthens the solidarity of the Church through mild suffering. Catholics do not solemnize weddings during Lent.
Guess not! Cause if you are you will respect the beliefs of your fellow. Why do you comment on something you dont understand? Hemmant, shame on you to say priest perform their magic voodoo!! Do you know what your saying? Do you know what voodoo means? I pity you so much for having a limited mind. Do you fear GOD? YOU dont! If you think Catholics are good about bending the law on a whim, you should take a look a judaism! I almost feel that there must be some deep internal void that one needs to ridicule religion in hopes of reassuring oneself of their belief.
Perhaps rather than ridicule one should examine himself. Often times we are not honest with ourselves because we are afraid of what we might find. I see too many people who make negative comments based on preconceived ideas, a lack of thorough understanding or an unwillingness to educate themselves. It is so and often too easy to just make fun. If a person finds great peace through their religion and is therefore a better person, how can you make fun? Time would be much better spent elsewhere. Just some thoughts from a cradle Catholic who is always learning and thirsting for more…take care.
This is going to get snarky, but you came on to a very popular atheist blog to preach at us, and that can happen…. Ridiculous beliefs have a way of ending up as the objects of ridicule. We laugh at Scientologists with their interstellar airplanes and aliens in volcanoes.
We laugh at Monty Python. We have a sense of humor. We have a deep internal void? We have to reassure ourselves of our belief? Seriously, consider this: many atheists, most of us perhaps, were born into religious families and considered ourselves religious. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles cold-blooded animals , and shellfish are permitted.
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