[Apologetics] Yes, we can eat meat this Friday.

[Dianne Dawson]

Art,

While I respect your opinion when it comes to your personal Lenten practices, 
your statements are NOT in keeping with the mind of the Church - even as far 
back as the time of the Apostles, St. Thomas Aquinas, or other 
Church Fathers (cf. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09152a.htm).  The reason we 
abstain from meat on Fridays is not out of a sense of legalism but because 
Fridays, normally, are days of sorrow in remembrance of our Lord's 
death.  During Jesus' time meat was only served at festivals and other 
celebrations due to its expense.  However, Sundays and Solemnities in honor of 
our Lord or Blessed Mother are days of great joy and feasting.  As such it would 
not be proper to abstain from meat, for sacrificial reasons.  If you just wanted 
to not eat meat then that's something different altogether.

We also have to beware of developing a sense of legalism, which is something 
Jesus' specifically spoke against.

Dianne
 
Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1
 
 




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From: Art Kelly <arthurkelly at yahoo.com>
To: Apologetics Group <apologetics at gathman.org>
Cc: Father Hathaway <frehathaway at stveronica.net>; Amy Earline Kelly 
<AKelly421 at aol.com>; Father Peffley <fpeffley at juno.com>; Jimmy Murphy 
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Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 7:08:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Apologetics] Yes, we can eat meat this Friday.


No one who is sincere about observing Lent should eat meat on Friday!

Likewise, the belief of some that every Sunday in Lent dispenses them from 
whatever they are giving up misses the entire point of Lent!

ANYONE can give up something for six days.  That's not a genuine sacrifice!  

Only when someone gives up something he or she really likes all the way from Ash 
Wednesday to Easter Sunday does a real sacrifice occur.

So, this Friday and every Friday in Lent, DON'T eat meat!  (That holds true 
whenever St. Patrick's Day or St. Joseph's Day falls on a Friday too.)

And whatever you've given up for Lent, continue to give it up until Easter.

Art

--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Dianne Dawson <rcdianne at yahoo.com> wrote:


>From: Dianne Dawson <rcdianne at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Apologetics] Yes, we can eat meat this Friday.
>To: "Apologetics Group" <apologetics at gathman.org>
>Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:31 PM
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>Eating meat: permitted on the Annunciation
>Citing Canon 1251, various dioceses, Catholic bloggers, and even secular 
>newspapers are noting that the obligation to abstain from meat is abrogated on 
>Friday, March 25, because it is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. 
>
>Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.
>It’s ok to eat meat this Friday. Really! (Omaha World-Herald) 
>Saint Albert the Great Offers Place of Worship and Fellowship (Not to Mention 
>Fish Fry) (Baldwin-Whitehall Patch) 
>
>Archdiocese issues Lenten regulations (St. Louis Review) 
>Liturgical Advisories (Diocese of Pueblo) 
>Archdiocese of Washington: comments (Facebook) 
>Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord (Diocese of Des Moines)Happy 
>Meat-Eating Friday! (2011 Edition) (JimmyAkin.org) 
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>Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
>Ps 42:1
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