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!

Deb

27th Sep 2012 09:49pm

I know it's a very late comment but will always ring true in this debate and has shocked many Catholics. There is no biblical dogma which prevents the eating of meat on good friday. It was a papal (pope) decree a few hundred years ago to prop up an ailing fishing industry. By encouraging the faithful to partake in a seafood dish one day a week it saved many jobs.
The modern day equivalent would be our government telling us to all buyAustralian made goods to help our manufacturing industry (pity they don't)

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