thanks. I did not know that. I just had a Big Mac.
Nothing wrong with that! Nothing at all. There was a time when the majority of the world's population was illiterate. The only way to drive home a message was from the pulpit and enacting regulations that kept them aligned with their faith. Today, the majority of the world's population is literate. So much so, they consider themselves 'literati' and philosophers who can decipher scripture without a magisterium.
You must decide this for yourself. That is what VCII said. And what you choose to do, you do out of personal love for Christ, not because it was imposed on you. Do you see the difference in thought, here? No problem eating a Big Mac and making some other personal sacrifice out of love and respect. What has happened over these past decades is that everyone remembered it was now okay to eat meat on Fridays but forgot about choosing to make a personal sacrifice. It's all about choice. Only you can make that and must do so in your heart; not in a public forum.
God's blessings on you, Johngrace. (PS - one of my best friends in HS had Grace as a last name).