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Catholics in England: No meat on Friday
September 23, 2011

It’s not just for lent anymore. Catholics will be standing in line at the local fish fry in order to escape mortal sin for eating meat on Friday.


To eat fish on Friday is considered a 'sacrifce' according to the Catholic Church.
After 27 years, bishops in Wales and England have decided to ban meat on Fridays as they did in the pre-Vatican 2 era. A practicing Catholic and father of three, thinks it’s a great idea:

“I think it’s a very good idea,” Dominic Schofield told CNA. He and his wife were preparing to sit down to their Friday night fish dinner.

“Over the past 20 to 30 years we’ve perhaps lost touch with some of the more grounded Catholic practices and that, in turn, has chipped away at belief in more fundamental things too. So the restoration of this ancient Catholic tradition can help reverse that trend,” Schofield said.

A BBC interview with Fr. Stock explained that Catholics were not practicing ‘Penance’ on Fridays to remember Christ’s death:

“I think what hadn’t been envisaged at the time was that because people wouldn’t be carrying out the same act together that this might lead to the loss of penance in people’s lives,” said Fr. Marcus Stock, General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

Bishops are hoping the revived practice of abstinence of meat, will bring more people into the Catholic Church:

“traditional Catholic devotions such as making the sign of the cross with care and reverence, praying the Angelus, saying a prayer before and after our meals, to name only a few,” can be “a powerful call to faith.”

Schofield was excited that he can show others he is Catholic by not eating meat:

“The decision by the bishops will have great apostolic value.”

“For example, when somebody now asks ‘Do you have any special dietary requirements?’ we can now say, ‘Yes, I can’t eat meat on a Friday. I’m a Catholic!’”

Source: CNA

My Comment:

This whole idea is foolishness. The bishops are hoping that if they seem “more Catholic” and give people more “rules” it will attract more people into the church. They look at it as a badge to wear on their arm to show the world just how Catholic they are. This is so sad. They are not saying we can see more people saved by preaching the Gospel, but that people need man-made rules to coheres them into the church. Jesus desires their hearts, not to see them eat a fish meal to escape hell.

How crazy is it that Catholic Americans can eat meat on Friday and not be in sin and the English Catholics who eat meat on Friday will burn in hell for consuming a hamburger? These are the things that Martin Luther came against, and rightly so.

Fasting is a private practice between you and the Lord. No one should know about it. The God who sees everything sees your fast. We do not stand on a corner announcing our fast so all the world knows how much we “sacrifice”.

Many Catholics who fast from meat will go to a Red Lobster Restaurant and pig-out on Lobster. How is this a sacrifice? I know this, because I did it. I thought if I stayed within the lines I was good. I avoided hell and enjoyed my dinner! What a joke. This is not what the Gospel is all about.

But the Catholic Church makes rules that give people a false sense of security and people believe if they follow the list of do’s and don’ts they will be saved.

NO! Repent of your sins and turn to Jesus. Reject the man-made traditions that keep you a slave. Find freedom in Christ by giving your whole life to Him! A fish dinner just won’t suffice.

1 Timothy 4
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Written by Sue


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