Why Don T We Eat Meat On Good Friday
Olivia Luz
Many christians abstain from eating meat on good friday and always enjoy fish for dinner.
The period of lent is meant to be one of reverence solemnity and sacrifice. In order to honor jesus sacrifices we try to make some of our own. Abstinence is one of our oldest christian traditions. One can abstain without fasting but on ash wednesday and good friday one does both.
In fact many christians especially. This is why people often give something up for lent as well. I d like to share with you the religious and biblical tradition as well as whether or not we as christians should eat meat or not on good friday. From the first century the day of the crucifixion has been traditionally observed as a day of abstaining from flesh meat black fast to honor christ who sacrificed his flesh on a friday klein p catholic source book 78.
Fasting refers to a specific practice of eating during the course of a day one regular meal and two smaller meals wherein the two smaller meals don t add up to one regular meal. Christians have abstained from eating meat on good friday for centuries and many people whether or not they are religious still will only eat fish on the day. This is because meat was traditionally seen as a delicacy and something to be enjoyed on special. Through my research i have found that some christians do not eat meat on good friday because that is the religious ways they have been taught.
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Biblically it is not said to fast meat or anything on good friday many just fast to recognize their sorrow in the death of jesus.
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