Can I Eat Meat At Midnight?

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1813437' date='Mar 21 2009, 07:12 PM']anybody?[/quote]

It's not. Abstaining from meat is obligatory. Fasting is required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

[url="http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm"]http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm[/url]

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1813359' date='Mar 21 2009, 04:40 PM']In general the Church sees the day beginning and ending at midnight.

"In law, a day is understood as a period consisting of 24 continuous hours and begins at midnight unless other provision is expressly made." (Can. 202 §1)

However, the liturgical celebration of major feasts begins at first vespers.[/quote]
THats just what I said - church time

[MissyP89]

I gave up sweets, and will totally be having a cookie after midnight tonight.

[ardillacid]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1813441' date='Mar 21 2009, 06:19 PM']It's not. Abstaining from meat is obligatory. Fasting is required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

[url="http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm"]http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm[/url][/quote]
Thanks, that's what i've always thought

[Brigid]

for fasting/abstaining purposes, I follow the midnight-to-midnight rule. I gave up facebook for lent, and it's sunday morning, so here I am. it evens out; tomorrow after midnight I won't get on because it's monday.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1813441' date='Mar 21 2009, 06:19 PM']It's not. Abstaining from meat is obligatory. Fasting is required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

[url="http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm"]http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm[/url][/quote]
Oh!
Well that's news to me.
I guess fasting can't hurt though, right?

[Winchester]

It's not under pain of sin, though.

[i]After [/i]midnight might be an issue.
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[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1813895' date='Mar 22 2009, 04:27 AM']Thanks, that's what i've always thought[/quote]


You were right.

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' post='1814049' date='Mar 22 2009, 03:49 PM']Oh!
Well that's news to me.
I guess fasting can't hurt though, right?[/quote]

I think a lot of people get fasting and abstinence confused, or think they mean the same thing. I had one woman once try to tell me that when the Church says to abstain during Lent it meant abstain from sex. Obviously, fasting isn't a bad thing. I tend to do it most Fridays during Lent when I'm not preg or nursing (haven't done that in awhile though ). It's just not required every Friday.

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1813359' date='Mar 21 2009, 04:40 PM']In general the Church sees the day beginning and ending at midnight.

"In law, a day is understood as a period consisting of 24 continuous hours and begins at midnight unless other provision is expressly made." (Can. 202 §1)

However, the liturgical celebration of major feasts begins at first vespers.[/quote]

Which is rooted in the Jewish/Eastern understanding that a day begins and ends at sunset.

[T-Bone _]

I work Friday graveyard shift--I eat lunch after midnight, and have meat. Thursday nights, not so much...

[ardillacid]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1814095' date='Mar 22 2009, 03:57 PM']You were right. [/quote]

If I had a dime for each time I heard that!

[Lil Red]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1814936' date='Mar 23 2009, 01:41 PM']If I had a dime for each time I heard that![/quote]
+J.M.J.+
you'd have 10 cents?