Posted on 03/02/2017 7:28:42 PM PST by NYer
No, that's a myth. It never changed. There's just an option to give up something else, instead. There were always exceptions. For example, soldiers were allowed to eat meat, if necessary.
WRONG..wholesale chicken is so cheap that you couldn’t
hardly replace it with anything else.
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Seach Subway chicken DNA and read what you find.
Thanks, we have one here. Will try!
Enjoy.
I’m not catholic, but I really like this time of year because everyone puts greasy fried fish sandwiches on sale.
McDonald’s has them 2/$2.50
Nobody says it’s mentioned explicitly in the Bible.
Fasting is practiced in the OT and the NT. Abstinence from meat on Friday is a form of fasting.
Where in the Bible does it say that we are allowed to do only what is explicitly mentioned in the Bible? Hint: nowhere.
Jesus gave Peter and the apostles the authority to make laws.
Evidently, you don’t take the words of Jesus seriously.
Yes but it not a sin to not participate.
Then do not go to the Catholic subject threads.
Evidently, you don’t take the words of Jesus seriously.
Evidently, you must think that guys wearing funny hats in Rome had authority to over-ride the writings of the apostle Paul.
Adding things to the Gospel, declaring it be a sin to not follow those additional commandments can be to preach 'another Gospel' ---- which Paul warned the Church -- should not be allowed or followed.
It is one thing for there to be recognition that times of purposeful fasting do have a rightful place within practice of Christian faith. It is yet another to prescribe a form of that to be universally observed (when and where, and how much, etc.) for all, while terming it "penitence", and the like.
Rather than a punishing thing, rather than a penitential act (and please bear in mind; it is not a sin to otherwise eat daily meals);
Fasting can be a positive putting away of the flesh, a positive laying aside that which nourishes the body alone, in order to better focus upon what man more truly owes their lives to, which is; every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, as that last portion it is written that Christ Himself did say ...
See to it that in the future my FRiend, what you recommend I follow actually does comport well with the Scriptures as written, rather than merely as those have been sought to apply by the likes of 'Rome', OR WHOMEVER -- I simply don't care who it is that adds things to the Gospel which go contrary to what was originally conveyed that Gospel to be, and that it be some kind of sin to go against johnny-come-centuries-later teachings arising out of Rome.
As the apostle Peter, the man himself and others who were with him steadfastly maintained, as it is written in Acts, chapter 5);
I never recommended that you follow anything. I stated a well-known fact: It is a sin for a Catholic to eat meat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent.
How could my stating of this fact offend you in any way?
Your repeated references to “guys in funny hats” is evidence of anti-Catholic bigotry, however.
Actually, you did tell another here that is was a sin to not do as the RCC instructs.
When confronted on that point, you flippantly told me I didn't take the words of Jesus seriously. I showed you how and why that statement of yours is simply not true.
Come back when you have an actual complaint. Bring the Gospel, not some altered, adulterated, near-to but not quite genuine facsimile when you do.
Now see what you would have missed explaining had this been a Catholic's only caucus thread?
I think the key part in that response is that it is a sin for CATHOLICS to eat meat on Friday without an adequate reason. They can make the rules for their own members but they cannot insist their rules apply to ALL Christians. There seems to be a lot of confusion among Catholics, though, about meatless fasts on Friday throughout the whole year or just during Lent. Ask 10 Catholics that question and you just may get 10 different answers.
Senior citizens are also allowed to eat meat on Fridays. Lots of "exceptions"!
They got rid of that during Ecumenical Council during Pope John’s tenure. I was still in Catholic Girl’s School ... grammar school.
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