Friday Fast

[Crispy]

does it HAVE to be meat? what are some other good substitutions?

[ofpheritup]

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Does going to Friday mass with three small children count as a penance?
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Oh yeah, you betcha" This is penance with capital P.
Do I sound like I come from a large family?

Edited September 26, 2005 by ofpheritup

[ofpheritup]

[quote name='Crispy' date='Sep 26 2005, 02:18 PM']does it HAVE to be meat?  what are some other good substitutions?
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GOSSIP !

[homeschoolmom]

Soda...

[Maria]

Abstaining from meat is abstinence, not fasting. Fasting is having less than (or equal to, perhaps) two meals worth -- 1 full meal and two snacks.

We do the abstinence thing but we don't fast on Fridays.

[OLAM Dad]

Some form of penance is required, being old fashioned, my family doesn't eat meat. I find cam43's link interesting. I wasn't aware that the USCCB was considering returning to no meat Fridays for all Catholics.

I, too, find that not eating meat on Friday's is a good outward sign of my faith at work.

[lifescanticle]

I would like to say that I always remember to abstain from meat or do some other form of penance but I can rarely remember to do so. Or I remember after a meal. Does anyone have a good suggestion to jog my memory?

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='lifescanticle' date='Jan 18 2006, 06:30 AM']I would like to say that I always remember to abstain from meat or do some other form of penance but I can rarely remember to do so. Or I remember after a meal. Does anyone have a good suggestion to jog my memory?
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You're in the same boat as me, my friend.

I'm just going to go meatless all year from now on, because I struggle with the "substitution" -- and have yet to come up with a consistent one that I can remember. I think I remember things best when I'm a creature of yearlong habit.

[philothea]

[quote name='lifescanticle' date='Jan 18 2006, 06:30 AM']I would like to say that I always remember to abstain from meat or do some other form of penance but I can rarely remember to do so. Or I remember after a meal. Does anyone have a good suggestion to jog my memory?
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Hmm.

Try rearranging or putting away things the night before? Wear something special?

Making yourself give up something worse/more difficult for the rest of the day -- as soon as you realize you forgot -- can be a good motivation to remember in the future.

[sweetpea316]

[quote name='sweetpea316' date='Sep 26 2005, 11:47 AM']This is something I'd like to start doing.... 

But, as a curious little not yet Catholic like myself...what is the significance of it? Just so that I'm not doing it 'just because', but know the reason behind it. 
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Still wondering... can someone explain?

[Krostandt]

Yes. On Fridays and Wednesday, I refrain from all animal products, except fish. As I mentioned in a nother thread, the fast is the easier part. Supplimenting your spiritual live is the difficult part.