OK, help me out here

I just looked up abstinence during Lent and this is what I found.
That's why, under current Church law, the days of abstinence fall during Lent, the season of spiritual preparation for Easter. On Ash Wednesday and all of the Fridays of Lent, Catholics over the age of 14 are required to abstain from meat and from foods made with meat So, I don't recall if I knew it was a requirement to give up meat. If I did know it, I've forgotten. I always thought the no-meat on Fridays was a chore. As a young bride, I served my in-laws a vegetable soup for dinner on a Friday. I was asked what the base of my soup was....chicken broth, I replied. Oh my.....

Whoa! Didn't know that. I'll have to pass that on to the rest of the family.

BTW, Jenise, the cashew cream sauce sounds delicious.

Actually, I was under the impression that the Vatican had ruled it was all right to eat meat on Friday. Am I wrong or did something change? I recall talking about the fact that we could eat meat on Fridays with friends and we all wondered what else was going to be OK that was not before. To be honest, our entire family is Catholic, I was raised to be a good Catholic girl, but now that we are where we are in life, we don't practice anymore, so I am out of the loop. There were too many contratictions for us. It gave our family balance for the growing up years with children, however, and I am sure that balance is still working for us, somehow. Bravo for you MIke, for being a good dad and leading your children along a good path.

Actually, I was under the impression that the Vatican had ruled it was all right to eat meat on Friday. Am I wrong or did something change? I recall talking about the fact that we could eat meat on Fridays with friends and we all wondered what else was going to be OK that was not before. To be honest, our entire family is Catholic, I was raised to be a good Catholic girl, but now that we are where we are in life, we don't practice anymore, so I am out of the loop. There were too many contratictions for us. It gave our family balance for the growing up years with children, however, and I am sure that balance is still working for us, somehow. Bravo for you MIke, for being a good dad and leading your children along a good path.

Vatican II Council changed the rules this way: You no longer had to abstain from meat on Friday, so long as you fasted or sacrificed in some other way. Except for Lent where the rules are as stated above.

If I recall correctly, before Vatican II every Friday of the year was a day of fast and abstinence (no meat or meat products, but fish OK), as was the entire Lenten period, starting with Ash Wednesday.

-Paul W.

If I recall correctly, before Vatican II every Friday of the year was a day of fast and abstinence (no meat or meat products, but fish OK), as was the entire Lenten period, starting with Ash Wednesday.

-Paul W.

You remember correctly Paul.