We chose to challenge ourselves by giving up fish as well as the flesh of land animals. Traditionally, fish is not considered meat for fasting purposes. Here’s Katie’s explanation of the Catholic tradition of Lenten fasting. Catholics fast during Lent, not only from meat on Fridays, but h...
Protestant and Greco-Roman Catholic Teachings on Meats Since the New Testament complements the Old, and warns against uncleanness and unclean creatures, how have certain Protestant and Greco-Roman Catholic theologians justified the position that it is acceptable to consume biblically unclean animals? Alt...
This confession often was on Good Friday, so that people would be shrived, or made clean of sin, for the high holy day of Easter--the one day a year on which most people took Communion. “To make it a good confession, it has to be complete. You can’t leave anything out,” Janz...