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Yes, what is a sav? I remember years ago Catholics always ate fish on Fridays but for some reason they stopped doing that. I never heard that they had to eat fish on good Friday. Is that for Catholics too?
 
My daughter is an Anglican priest and she doesn't eat fish on Good Friday or any other Friday for that matter.
 
Many years ago my Mother invited the local catholic priest to dinner, we had a lovely roast of beef & vegs and we were enjoying it until she remembered it was friday and catholics don't eat anything but fish, specially a priest. he was good about it and thoroughly enjoyed his meal, he was a priest with a difference , he owned a Zephre with a Jaguar engine, the spelling of Zephre looks wrongs feel free to correct me
 
Born a Catholic but will eat anything on Fridays if Im hungry enough. Could never understand why not.
but saw this one "Some say it was because the church was trying to support the fishing industry when times were tough. The church was trying to keep fishermen ‘afloat’ .
 
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Phantom said:
Melbourne tv morning show presenter was at Royal Melbourne show eating a battered sav this morning (Good Friday ???)

tut tut tut
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I am not familiar with Sav, but I love fish, don't do battered though;) Faves are Red Snapper, Trout, Steelhead, and some Cod, all Wild Caught though.
 
I think people miss the point about Good Friday.

On the Christian calendar it is a day of fasting, not feasting.
The feast day is Easter Sunday which commemorates the Resurrection.

Somehow, the eating of fish and the abstaining from meat has become entrenched in the general culture.

My sister in law will not eat meat on Good Friday simply because her mother never served it when she was a girl.
She is Christian by baptism only and does not practise any other Christian disciplines.
She would not think twice about sitting down to a lavish feast of expensive seafood, including lobster, prawns and shellfish on this day of fasting.

On the other hand, yesterday we ate a luncheon of bread rolls with tinned salmon, cheese and salad and for the evening meal we had the leftovers padded out with fried egg, bacon, some reheated baked potatoes and a bit of chicken reheated in gravy. My conscience is not troubled by the bacon and the chicken.

In any case, to each his or her own conscience. There are too many people judging the actions of others. Who really cares that a couple of TV presenters were publicising junk food on a public holiday ? They do it all the time because they are paid to do it. In effect they are junk food pimps. That is more the worry than the fact that they were doing it on Good Friday.
 
rkunsaw said:
I remember years ago Catholics always ate fish on Fridays but for some reason they stopped doing that. I never heard that they had to eat fish on good Friday. Is that for Catholics too?
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It used to be that Catholics couldn't eat meat on any Friday of the year. Since I was raised as a Catholic, my mother would make meatless spaghetti, fish, potato pancakes, anything that wasn't meat.

Seems like it was 1966 when all that changed, and now it's only no meat on Good Friday. You never had to eat fish at all, you just couldn't eat meat. http://rediscover.archspm.org/belonging/topic.php?id=7192
 
SeaBreeze said:
It used to be that Catholics couldn't eat meat on any Friday of the year. Since I was raised as a Catholic, my mother would make meatless spaghetti, fish, potato pancakes, anything that wasn't meat.

Seems like it was 1966 when all that changed, and now it's only no meat on Good Friday. You never had to eat fish at all, you just couldn't eat meat. http://rediscover.archspm.org/belonging/topic.php?id=7192
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I think you could eat anything on a Friday as long as you abstained from eating something else
(think I chose Tripe (grin)
 
Phantom said:
I think you could eat anything on a Friday as long as you abstained from eating something else
(think I chose Tripe (grin)
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You made that one up Phantom.
When I was teaching in the catholic school the rule was no meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Fridays on Lent.
The kids would forget and order a corn beef sandwich at the canteen at the wrong time and would get a surprise cheese or salad sandwich instead. The canteen mums policed the rules very strictly.
 
I'm talking post Vatican II also.
I think you might be thinking about the practice of giving something up for Lent.
That is/was a purely personal decision.

Our minister gave up coffee one year but his missus says he's never allowed to do that again. :lol:
 
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