[Salvation]

**The US bishops have made many mistakes, but they cannot be blamed for the liturgy changes in other countries!**

That’s right, but the local bishops in Spain can answer for their misinterpretations.

Look up eating meat on ALL Fridays....it was not changed by Vatican II.

[Former Fetus]

The Spanish exemption from not eating meat of Fridays is pre-Vatican II. I remember being very little and my mom telling us that it had something to do with the number of soldiers Spain sent on some Crusade. I don't know if she was right, but everybody I knew ate meat on Fridays... except Good Friday.

I think I've told this before in FR, but once I was spending Holy Week at my grandparent's farm (I loved riding my horse to the services!) and I was dreading my grandma's version of catfish stew. She knew how much I disliked it, so she checked with her parish priest, and bought me a lobster tail instead. I was shocked, how can anybody even think on eating lobster on Good Friday? I ran from the house, jumped on my horse and it was way after dark before I dared to return. I found out there had been people looking for me, my grandma had been crying her eyes out, and the cat had got the lobster. It was a long time before I spent Holy Week with them at the farm again.