Today is Good Friday...

just mike

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Will you stay away from eating meats today if you're a Catholic...I will.
I am not a practicing Catholic so I will eat meat if it's "what's for dinner". Since I'm not going to be cooking tonight, I will eat whatever is offered:nod:
 

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We're lapsed Catholics, but I used to stick to fish or vegetarian dishes on Good Friday until I realized that DH was eating lunch meat, so it didn't seem logical to continue.
 

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I am not religious at all.  I went to the store so there is plenty of options:)
 
 

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I'm curious (I could probably look this up in an encyclopedia somewhere or ask my co-worker but I'm here right now :tongue2:)---what's the origin of not eating mammal/bird meat on Fridays (today or more; I know one of my co-workers has been doing fish fries at his church on Fridays for a while now)? Is it purely a self-sacrifice thing, or is there another reason?
 

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I'm curious (I could probably look this up in an encyclopedia somewhere or ask my co-worker but I'm here right now
)---what's the origin of not eating mammal/bird meat on Fridays (today or more; I know one of my co-workers has been doing fish fries at his church on Fridays for a while now)? Is it purely a self-sacrifice thing, or is there another reason?
Good point!  Did some research :

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. The Lord cooked fish for His Apostles after His Resurrection, and most of these men were fisherman

and a more cynical one:

the fishmongers in Rome had fallen on hard times, and the pope had a 'finding' that eating fish on a Friday was a christian thing to do. this was in the fourth or fifth century.  An early version of government (it WAS the holy roman empire at the time) rigging the market to favour constituencies
 

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I don't know if there is a connection but the very early Christian church was a Jewish sect.  In the kashrut law there can't be mixing of meat and dairy.  Fish is not considered to be meat it is neutral so can be eaten with meat or dairy.  I don't know if that is part of the reason or not, never read or heard it anywhere but for some reason I always made that connection.
 

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Growing up my mom had a thing of never asking friends of ours(the kids) if they ate meat or not fridays(any friday)  she would assume they did not and always served veggie or fish meals.  NONE of any of our friends ever were that religious.

Her Grandma I think it was, never ate meat Fridays.
 
 
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