Good Friday!
Posted by: mistymae53
30th Mar 2012 07:29pm
I wondered if people on here believe that it is ok for people with intellectual or health disabilities to eat meat on Good Fiday. I have a family member staying with me on Good Friday who is unaware that they have been christened in the Catholic Church, is it wrong of me to allow them to eat meat on a day that I would not eat it myself. I am not a strict Catholic, there are just things I don't do, a girlfriend has told me that their is a dispensation for the disabled, especially if they don't have the capacity to decide for themselves. Once again I am not a strict or practicing Catholic,I just have things that I don't do!
Ziah
- 30th Mar 2012 08:06pm
As far as I am concerned, not eating meat on Good Friday is a personal choice - and therefore if someone is unable to make the choice for themselves, it should not be made for them. Regardless of someone's "being christened into a religion" - if they are not a practising Catholic/Christian/religion that doesn't eat meat on Good Friday, and have no knowledge or understanding of the tradition, they should not be forced into a practice which may upset their routine (and for a lot of disabled people, routine is everything). If they have an understanding of the practice, they are able to make the choice for themselves.
I would, however, make an exception for a person such as this being housed in a group home or retirement/nursing home, where everyone gets the same meals from the main kitchen, in this case, they eat what's on the menu for that night - fish, chicken, meat, tofu or pink polkadot pickled pork. And if it's a religious home (like, say, an Anglicare home) that observes no meat on Good Friday, then they don't get meat on Good Friday.
That's my $0.02 anyway. And I happily eat meat on any day of the year, but allow those who don't to do as they please.
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