Do you eat meat on Good Friday?

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I'm CofE.. also Spiritualist.
I was confirmed CofE of my own choosing ( only one in family).
I go to Church when l choose to..
But one thing I've never done since l was 11 is eat meat on Good Friday.( I know some Catholics don't eat meat on every Friday)

I'm never quite sure what spirituality is, but from observing people who seem to have it (ie that same Trappist friend) I've concluded that it grows out of routine and practice and a degree of self discipline.

Ah that makes sense now @DeanElderberry why shellfish is permitted in an otherwise vegan fast period… it’s super high in zinc, which is essential for immune system function… the ancients must have worked out there was something life sustaining in sea fruits 🦪 along with the symbolic reasons of shellfish not containing any blood. I actually caught covid for the first time a couple of weeks after I ran out of zinc supplements last autumn.

I'm a Christian (but not 'religious') and I eat meat whenever I want, including today. I don't believe following traditions reflects your heart. If it helps you mourn Jesus' death, go ahead, otherwise I'm not sure the point of it.

I will be attending a passion play today and tonight a reflective church service as these are what help me connect with Jesus' sacrifice.

We left our 10am (Aus) church service this morning, came home and fed our guests a delicious lamb dinner!
I get that there are traditions but nowhere in the Bible does it say you shouldn’t eat meat on Good Friday.

I'm an atheist, and didn't even know it was a Christian thing to not eat meat on Good Friday.

But coincidentally we are having fish tonight.

We always had fish growing up. For the first few years when I moved out, I had fish too. But eventually I just thought why on earth am I doing this.. now I eat what I like, when I like.

We have meat with at least 2 of our 3 meals per day. Atheists here and would not give a second thought to eating meat today - I've even had bovril on toast for breakfast so even if there was a bad place for those that eat meat today, I'm already on that train it would seem. I'll take my chances.

Ditto.

I don't eat meat on any occasion as we're vegetarian but if I did I would not eat meat on Good Friday. I think it's quite disrespectful to have a feast on that day.
Save the feast for Easter day.
I used to do a water fast on the Friday and Saturday and then prepare something nice for Easter.

(In fact, I believe English Catholics are invited to abstain from meat every Friday year-round, apart from Feast days in the liturgical calendar! The exception being during the period between Easter and Pentecost, when no fasting or mortification of any kind is allowed.)

Whilst it’s not forbidden as such to eat meat on Good Friday, it is clearly suggested that the cruxifiction, the day that Jesus is taken from us, is a day of fasting in Mark 2 18-20:

18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

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Its called Good Friday - I think - because of the greatest sacrifice made by Jesus in offering himself up to death in order for us all to have eternal life. His love is the greatest good that ever happened in the world.

Also - because it is the most holy day of the year for Christians, Good Friday probably originally meant Holy Friday.

My veggie hotel breakfast came without beans. I was most upset!

I’m Catholic, was lapsed now getting back into it, and I will eat anything in any day. I just cannot get into those kind of aspects of religion. Other people in family won’t be eating meat today, they likely won’t eat very much, and I respect that as their choice. I just choose differently that’s all.

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So what happened to everyone before Jesus came along to give eternal life??

It’s a normal day for those of us who don’t believe. A day off work for time with family, some nice food and drinks to enjoy the long weekend.

@KnittedCardi So what happened to everyone before Jesus came along to give eternal life??

That's discussed a couple of times in the Gospels and also in the first Epistle of Peter - basically, salvation spread out to all (since God is eternal - not limited to or constrained by time).

the gospel was proclaimed even to the dead, so that, though they had been judged in the flesh as everyone is judged, they might live in the spirit as God does 1 Peter

There are lots of splendid medieval images of this, the 'Harrowing of Hell'.

Grew up Catholic, no meat on Fridays.

No longer a believer but now a vegetarian so no meat any days 😬

Eat what I want on good Friday, meat if that's what I choose.

I don't think it's disrespectful to anyone to do so.

My late DM never cooked meat on GF (CofE) and we always had fish pie and I've always just continued to not eat meat on that day. It just doesn't feel right.