chanel
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Is that just for Catholics?
Also, while going to Catholic School, we were fed fish on Friday more often than not.
I asked a nun and she told me fish wasn't meat. Since you just don't call nuns liars, I asked a Junior Priest. He got all bent outta shape and his response was useless and long.
So, why can Catholics ear fish on Friday?
Please don't tell me it's not meat.
Note to the god haters; This is a serious question, please keep your blather off the thread. Thank you.
Many of the branches of Catholic doctrine eat fish on Friday's. Not just the Catholic church.
Why? Because it is to abstain from warm blooded flesh meat not just meat.
It was wrong of the nun to tell you that fish was not meat.
the reason why the church did it;
it is a penance imposed by the Church to commemorate the day of the Crucifixion of Our Lord to enable us to make a small sacrifice for the incredible sacrifice He made for our salvation. Why, then, is fish allowed? The drawing of a symbolic fish in the dirt was a way that the early Christians knew each other when it was dangerous to admit in public that one was Christian. Our Lord cooked fish for His Apostles after His Resurrection, and most of these men were fisherman. After He established His Church, these fishermen became fishers of men for the Kingdom of God.
Thanks.
I still don't see the big difference between eating a warm blooded animal and a fish.
something dies so we can eat it eat meat.
and if the symbol was a fish...
ohh, my head
Back in the day, meat was a luxury and fish was plentiful. It was considered a sacrifice and a reminder about those who go hungry. Today it's considered a minor inconvenience, and it does make people stop and think about God and others for at least a few minutes a week. Not a bad thing at all IMHO.