[cayuga]

I remember those days, and some of the Friday dinners. Fish sticks, canned salmon patties, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, or the rare fish fry from one of the Polish bars in town. A simpler time.

[TruthWillWin]

“Abstinence from eating meat”. Glad that was clarified, was getting worried.

[Ann Archy]

I’ve been doing this for a while now....it focuses on what happened that Good Friday.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'd be fibbing if I said I like fish...or have ever liked fish.But as a small show of gratitude to Jesus for what He suffered on my behalf I'd surely do it.I remember meatless Friday's well and didn't like them.But now that I have a better understanding I'll have a much better attitude.

[al_c]

It’s my understanding that the Friday sacrifice never really left. We’ve still been required to make some sort of sacrifice each week ... whether fasting or some other sort.

[yarddog]

One thing I never understood about the meatless Fridays, was that eating fish is no sacrifice at all. In fact I prefer a lot of fish to just about anything.

When I was in grad school, the only time I would eat in the cafeteria (I lived off campus)was on Fridays because they had several kinds of fish including shrimp. Yummy.

[JoeFromSidney]

I never gave up on "fish on Friday," not even after Vatican II. It's sometimes difficult to find a meatless meal on Fridays, but usually I can manage.

The Engineers Club still serves clam chowder at lunch every day, along with another soup, and the Friday special is always a fish sandwich. Both are popular, even among non-Catholics.

[Señor Zorro]

Yeah, but eating fish is eating meat. It isn’t like fish are some sort of swimming, aquatic vegetables.

[FrdmLvr]

Having read the article, and many of the responses, I have yet to see “meatless Fridays” referred to properly. It’s considered and called “fasting”, abstaining from meat on Fridays is called fasting.

[ctdonath2]

1 Timothy 4:1-4
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For EVERY CREATURE OF GOD IS GOOD, and NOTHING TO BE REFUSED, if it BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING ...

[allmendream]

Reminds me of a joke my grandmother told me.

A Protestant moved to a Catholic neighborhood and would fire up the BBQ and throw on some steaks every Friday evening.

His neighbors were having trouble enjoying their fish while smelling the scent of sizzling beef. So they got together and came to him and convinced him that the thing to do would be to convert to Catholicism.

He went to a Priest and the Priest pronounced over him “You were born Protestant, you were raised Protestant - but now you are Catholic.” Everyone was happy.

Then next Friday they all smelled sizzling beef from his place again, they gathered around as he was smiling at his BBQ just in time to see him pull a steak off the grill and say...

“You were born a cow, you were raised a cow - but now you are a FISH!”