That "someone", of course, being Jesus Christ.
I remember one time we had just arrived at my Aunt and Uncle’s house for a weekend visit and my Aunt found out my cousin who was in high school at the time had eaten a cheeseburger at lunch. It was like the end of the world. She had to go to the priest Sat morning and confess. The good old days. :))
Sorry, the church can't tell me when I can make love to my wife...
O' wait...Meatless Friday...never mind...
I remember it, but that grade school cafeteria fish was really bad. But now you can get pretty good frozen fish. Bring it on!
If memory serves, McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish grew out of a desire to provide Catholics with a menu option on Fridays. Prior to that, the restaurant had tried (and failed) to market a sandwich involving a ring of grilled pineapple or something like that.
Our local diner still serves their mac and cheese special on Fridays. Put stewed tomatoes on top and you have a meal that will hold you the entire evening.
Heck, I'll do it, for two reasons. One to remember Jesus and his sacrifice, and two, because it would irritate the left to practice my religion publicly.
Started Living the obligation again over a year ago, Big picture it is a good way of keeping our Lords sacrifice in the mind much of the day. Every time I think about food (too much) I remember why We have this day of obligation.
A co-worker is part of the Society of Pope Pius X.
They don’t recognize the Vatican conferences.
So, he’s on all year fish Fridays. And, during lent, its no meat whatsoever for 40 days. I think he also goes to mass more often than once a week....and, of course, the mass is in Latin.
I’ve never understood how eating fish (or macaroni and cheese, for that matter) can be an act of penance.
I’m fond of both. Ate them every Friday in the school cafeteria when I was a child and didn’t feel like I was missing a thing.
Seems to me that it would be more penitent and do more good to fast and give the savings to the poor.
For those who are not Catholic, you can also join in and go Galt on Fridays.
Just hope that those who are Bible based Christians do not get into a fit saying that what the Lord did on the Cross took of the need for sacriface out of penence.
I just don't know what to think of Dolan. He seems somewhat astute, yet overall his approach to the Left in general (and Obama-ism, specifically) is either hopelessly naive, or hypocritcally political. My cynicism leads me to believe the latter.
He was always free to observe Friday abstinence.
Eating meat on Fridays was not a mortal sin. Ergo, one was not in danger of being sent to hell upon death. Rather, it was a venial sin.
Can. 1249 All Christ's faithful are obliged by divine law, each in his or her own way, to do penance. However, so that all may be joined together in a certain common practice of penance, days of penance are prescribed. On these days the faithful are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves, by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and especially by observing the fast and abstinence which the following canons prescribe.
Can. 1250 The days and times of penance for the universal Church are each Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Can. 1252 The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance.
Can. 1253 The Episcopal Conference can determine more particular ways in which fasting and abstinence are to be observed. In place of abstinence or fasting it can substitute, in whole or in part, other forms of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety.
Balut! Balut! Balut!
Balut is for friday’s
Balut is a chick just before hatching and ok for Friday. Meat that isn’t meat
I grew up in a town where there were just a handful of Catholics. There was and is a Catholic church but it is about the size of a one bedroom house.
Our school from grammar school through high school always served fish on Fridays, I suppose for the Catholics. No one minded and the fish was pretty good. In fact all their food was decent especially the rolls.
Those of us who are Traditional Catholics have observed Friday abstinence and all other aspects of Catholic orthodoxy that the new religion of Vatican II sought to destroy.
Does one nee to be told to abstain from meat on friday? I would think that ya could do it without “mother church” telling you to ???