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Same with abstaining from certain foods, ie. no meat on Friday and that sort of thing.

The tuna fish business made a fortune from cathoics. Remember we couldn't eat before HC? The forced fast started at midnight until after we came home from Sunday mass. Control using doctrines of demons.

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My Mom said when she was a girl they didn't have canned tuna so their Friday meal was sometimes canned peas mixed with hard-boiled eggs. Yuck! I think with a meal like that I would have rather gone without dinner.

When I was a kid I remember giving up things for Lent but I never was told why, nor what was the point other than that's what Catholics do. I gave up bubblegum one time and the Easter Bunny included a big box of it in my Easter basket. Talk about confusion!