Homily
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Why do we do that? Abstaining from meat
The Church asks all those between the ages of 14 and 60 to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent. Outside of the lentan season the USCCB has given us permission to eat meat on Fridays as long as we do some sort of act of penance in place of a meatless Friday.
Fridays are to be a day of penance as we recall our Lords Passion and Death on Good Friday. Food is often associated with our celebrations or moods. Thus the Church has asked us not to eat food that was connected with celebrations. Throughout most of history and the world meat was something reserved for royalty or celebrations. Thus, when the Church asks us to give up food it is to allow Friday to have a sense of penance attached to it. While lobster would technically qualify as fish, it would miss the point of penance. On Sundays we celebrate our Lord's resurrection and thus it is fitting that Sunday is a day of celebration.
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