tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post6466390491582187434..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Fridays in Lent?Adorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-32944502824354717482012-02-23T22:46:12.773-06:002012-02-23T22:46:12.773-06:00Thanks for your comment, PITtravelgirl!
Haven...Thanks for your comment, PITtravelgirl! <br /><br />Haven't looked at this post and I see several grammatical errors. Always good for growing in humility. :-) <br /><br />In all seriousness, glad this has been helpful for you. Be sure to click on the links I provided within to other experts - they really do explain it better than I!Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-15520809845966331142012-02-22T08:32:37.648-06:002012-02-22T08:32:37.648-06:00I know this post is two years old, but I've be...I know this post is two years old, but I've been scouring the internet for an explanation for why Catholics don't eat meat on Friday and this is the best one I've found! Thank you, Adoro!PITtravelgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10204684988225944684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-61787769241702816022010-03-09T05:59:21.671-06:002010-03-09T05:59:21.671-06:00In Florence, Italy in the 1500's (I don't ...In Florence, Italy in the 1500's (I don't know if this was common other places) the Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of St. Vincent in Prato used to make special sweets that were sold DURING LENT. These were to HELP with the fast! <br />Now, we think giving up sweets is the ultimate meaning of Lenten penances! I bet that the idea was that it helped keep the blood sugar up when you weren't eating any protein. <br />I'm all for reviving Lenten practices from the 1500's! :-)Monialeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033902695799768919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-29865757748120232282010-02-27T13:47:43.337-06:002010-02-27T13:47:43.337-06:00Interesting post. Funny, too :) Personally, I neve...Interesting post. Funny, too :) Personally, I never eat fish on Fridays. Actually, I never eat fish...can't stand the stuff. Once in a blue moon I'll force a few bites down to see if it still tastes disgusting and it always does.Mary N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06618318192221168152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-41360941903633887222010-02-26T19:46:55.088-06:002010-02-26T19:46:55.088-06:00I've never heard that we "have" to e...I've never heard that we "have" to eat fish; that we are required to. It's an option for people instead of eating "meat". The only thing that bothers me about eating fish on fridays is that we're not supposed to eat meat, but people eat fish. Fish IS meat. Meat is the flesh of an animal, and therefore fish IS meat. The reason that I think we are allowed to eat fish is because it is a way of cheating when we fast. No one would follow the rules if all meat were excluded, so we find an exception and say "well, if we just say meat is only mammals, then it's okay, and we get around it. Personally, I go vegan on fridays in Lent.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01433491116784162956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-84333408299970375242010-02-26T19:41:59.560-06:002010-02-26T19:41:59.560-06:00Re: fasting
Fasting does call up strong emotions....Re: fasting<br /><br />Fasting does call up strong emotions. You get people who want to prove you don't know why you're doing it, people who don't like you doing it, and people who get all nose in the air about how lax Catholic fasting is, compared to their church or cause's total fast or vegetarianism.<br /><br />Most of the time, I don't mind. I do find myself getting edgy if people move from talking about "this is what I'm doing this year" to "this is what you should do!". (Or the ever-popular "tell Father Z he shouldn't eat nice things on Friday", which shows up like clockwork.)<br /><br />However, if you'd talked to me about 5:40 PM today, talking about fasting would have found me to be cranky and sobbing like a baby because my blood sugar dropped a little too far before I got to eat dinner. Sigh. Ah, the opportunities I get for mortification without fasting hard at all! Phear the Phasting! :) <br /><br />(Must plan better....)Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-64421651903255491932010-02-26T19:25:56.484-06:002010-02-26T19:25:56.484-06:00Re: St Patrick's Day
The Irish in Ireland wen...Re: St Patrick's Day<br /><br />The Irish in Ireland went through a hundred and fifty years of strict stamping out of "patterans" (patronal feast fairs) in order to make St. Patrick's Day not about drinking. Now that that's stopped, they're going back to doing what the American Irish never stopped doing on the one big patteran, which is dancing, listening to music, and drinking. (Although we don't usually gamble or fight, or go on barefoot pilgrimages before the drinking and fighting parts, so we're not really experiencing the full patteran spectrum.)<br /><br />It's a very similar phenomenon to what happened in the Appalachians, or with the Acadians in Quebec and Louisiana. The mother country forgot; the daughter country remembered -- sins and virtues both.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-37053955760989289422010-02-26T17:17:15.541-06:002010-02-26T17:17:15.541-06:00I hadn't heard the "saving the fish indus...I hadn't heard the "saving the fish industry" thing for many years; I didn't think anyone took it seriously anymore, until a co-worker mentioned it recently. I charitably (I hope!) corrected him.<br />It's funny, but Lenten "Friday food" doesn't really seem penitential to me. It brings back good memories of when I was a kid, and Mom fixed tuna casserole; salmon patties, or mac and cheese on Friday night. And my brother and I hurried to wash the dishes so we could watch "Rawhide" after supper (that really dates me!).Melody Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00442985285647041700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-90573814443492789742010-02-26T11:24:03.312-06:002010-02-26T11:24:03.312-06:00In Detroit Muskrat is OK. So if you need a fix... ...In Detroit Muskrat is OK. So if you need a fix... that is the place to go ;)<br /><br />http://www.aodonline.org/AODOnline/News+++Publications+2203/Michigan+Catholic+News+12203/2007+The+Michigan+Catholic+News+14936/070309+MCN+-+Muskrat+love.htmJoe @ Defend Us In Battlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15230524215323916396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-65491198850799017482010-02-26T09:32:01.365-06:002010-02-26T09:32:01.365-06:00I've heard that converts (like moi) are the on...I've heard that converts (like moi) are the ones who take things so very seriously when it comes to our mother Church. I appreciate every new fact that I learn. The Church Laws are there for a reason and it's like the American Constitution - everybody keeps trying to conform it to suit their personal agendas/lifestyles. <br /><br />Accept and go on, I say, or leaving the Church is another option. OR, you can just go to confession, but in that case, you must not engage in the sin again.<br /><br />I am embracing this Lenten Season with everything in me, and I am already experiencing a great and wonderful enlightenment. My spirituality is growing in leaps and bounds ... my cousin wrote to me the other day saying, "you have changed so much in the last year ...", meaning spiritualy.<br /><br />God is probably looking at all this hoopla and grinning at how silly humanity can be. At least He has something to humor him; war and evil are not the only things that our Loving Father sees!<br /><br />Blessings, Adoro,<br />AbbeyAbbey's Roadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04031127190630487584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-69568498782706331182010-02-25T22:36:18.015-06:002010-02-25T22:36:18.015-06:00Heh. I don't have problems with asking, or ans...Heh. I don't have problems with asking, or answering questions. <br /><br />Just saying, I guess, that it's a common enough misconception - and most people don't mean any harm by it. They just don't know any better.<br /><br />I’ve noticed, like you, how upset people can get over fasting and abstinence, and it really is very confusing. Our norms are so very lax in the West (I recently had to try and explain the Byzantine, in both senses of the term, restrictions for Great Lent to my Ukrainian Mom, and succeeded in gaining a headache). As if avoiding meat for one day a week is really such a burden. Well, it can be in my house – but I have *no* control on what I am able to eat, and that’s hardly what life is for most people. <br /><br />Anyway, back to watching figure skating!Mandrivnykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12114386237830968319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-45429711327429080802010-02-25T22:31:35.732-06:002010-02-25T22:31:35.732-06:00Gotcha :)Gotcha :)Joe of St. Thérèsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506671882770822003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-72963914693406426442010-02-25T22:15:34.444-06:002010-02-25T22:15:34.444-06:00Mandrivynk ~ It might not be an issue for YOU, but...Mandrivynk ~ It might not be an issue for YOU, but google it, and you'll find it's a point of contention for a LOT of people, Catholic and non-Catholic both. <br /><br />A few years ago when St. Patrick's Day fell on a Friday, you'd have thought it was Armegeddon with all the Catholics demanding dispensation so they could get drunk and eat meat. (While in Ireland they said, "What the heck is wrong with Americans? That's not what St. Patrick is about!")<br /><br />Just today, I've come across SEVERAL (i.e. "can't count") posts on this topic, because for some reason, everyone feels the need to discuss it, and certain people like to trot out the "fish industry" carp. <br /><br />(Yes, I said "carp" Given they are bottom-feeders I feel the transposition of letters is proper to this topic.) <br /><br />If I wasn't a blogger, maybe I wouldn't notice it, and maybe people wouldn't write to me asking for links on the topic. And so maybe I wouldn't notice. <br /><br />But clearly, it is a point of contention for some souls, and therefore, it NEEDS to be answered. And as it is a question, it belongs to the higher power of human reason, and thus it DESERVES to be answered, even if it isn't YOUR question. <br /><br />Does that make sense?Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-87211799516153845892010-02-25T22:02:17.934-06:002010-02-25T22:02:17.934-06:00I dunno, Adoro. Is the issue of meat on Friday'...I dunno, Adoro. Is the issue of meat on Friday's really that controversial?<br /><br />Honestly? Growing up, I thought Catholics had to eat fish on Fridays. I didn't learn about things like abstinence from meat until <i>after</i> I started seriously contemplating Catholicism.<br /><br />It wasn't a particularly petty thought on my part. I thought it was interesting, sure, and definitely pretty funny, but didn't much care. Lots of religions have dietary restrictions. If someone got upset at my anti-Catholic stupidity back then, it would really have put me off, I think.Mandrivnykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12114386237830968319noreply@blogger.com