Why don catholics eat meat on Fridays?
Catholic’s don’t eat meat on Friday. To commemorate Jesus’ sacrifice on Calvary on the first Good Friday, by giving up some worldly pleasures on that day. Most people prefer meat, which is why it is a sacrifice On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics between 14 and 59 are obliged to fast as well as abstain from meat. On other Fridays in Lent, Catholics, from 14 to the end of their lives, are bound to abstain from meat. The general law of the Church is that abstinence be observed on every Friday of the year (Code of Canon Law, can. 1252), but gives authority to the conference of bishops to substitute another form of penance (esp. works of piety and charity) for the Friday abstinence rule (can. 1253). Thus the U.S. Conference of Bishops has permitted the substitution of other forms of penance on Fridays of the year except in Lent. In Lent the general law of Friday abstinence is upheld, in the U.S. as elsewhere. Individuals may, of course, be dispensed by the local bishop for good and
