Do you eat meat on Fridays?
If you do, do you make any other sacrifice instead?
Do you know that abstaining from eating meat on Fridays was never truly done away with?
Canon 1251
Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Before I converted it was explained to me like this: if you do not want to give up meat than you can give up something else that qualifies as a sacrifice.
Now the way I see it is, unless you have some sort of addiction, like smoking (all I can think of), then what could possibly replace abstaining from eating meat, and would you remember the alternate sacrifice every week? I believe you would have to pick ONE thing and do it every Friday, no changing week to week out of convenience, otherwise what's the point?
Some may think it's not that hard having meatless Fridays, and maybe once upon a time it wasn't, but nowadays it gets a little tricky, but that's where the word sacrifice comes in.
The act of not eating meat one day a week shows a great level of discipline and control, and I think even gratitude.
What is so wrong with making a small sacrifice for the BIG sacrifice HE made on Good Friday?
I would like to hear some feedback on this...
