Good Friday
 

My mother would never let us eat meat on a Good Friday. Fish was fine, but no meat. Its over 20 years since she died, but I still try and keep to that rule, more out of respect to her than for any religious observance.

Also, the parish priest would never allow the parish club to open on a Good Friday. It didn't stop the hardened drinkers, who used to meet up in the pub down the road!

I was just wondering if anybody else still sticks to those rules?

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although i was never baptised, my gran and mum where both Catholic (my mum wasn't a practising one) me and my sis used to have to go to church on Sundays and where always made to eat fish EVERY Friday, i was saying to my lad on Monday night that i was going to get some fish for dinner Friday, it's funny what sticks in your head isn't it

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was brought up not to scran meat on Good Friday, still don't.

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Not being a Catholic, never had any dietry restrictions.

What we always did as a family on Good Friday was go for a walk.

A marathon of a walk.

A route march over moor, fell, or nab.

Very happy memories of those Good Fridays.

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what baffles me is the fact that kids don't know anything about Easter other than they get eggs....i had to explain to my mates girls the other day about Jesus dying on the cross and rising again, they didn't have a clue, what miffs me off is that they learn about Judaism, hinduism etc in school but what about Catholicism and Christianity? they do absolutely naff all on that subject and that really pees me off

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Sadly they can probably fully explain every other religion's high days and holidays, other than Christianity's.

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Not being particularly religious we have no special associations or traditions & pretty much eat what we feel like.

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I think that the requirement to not eat meat on any Friday was dropped some years ago - it is probable that the original requirement resulted in the creation of "butter pies".

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Your quite right Barrie the no meat no Friday rule was dropped by the Catholic Church years ago, but I still keep to it most of the time, and most certainly on Good Friday

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What is the logic behind obeying what a chap in a frock tells you not to eat:confused:

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no chap in a frock told me, me mam did.

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Probably the same logic in listening to the crap dished up on conspiracy websites;)

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i was brought up C of E ... dad cooked dinner on good friday .. he fried the fish cos i wouldnt eat it if my dad hadnt cooked it :D.. and then open a tin of salmon and salad for tea... never eat meat on good friday ... mind you mum & dad were from northern ireland and brought up presbyterians ...

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unless theres only fish fingers in teh freezer i will be having my usual chicken madrass on friday with a beer.

the amount of crap iv had to drum out of my kids head about jesus that they have been told at school is ridiculous

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Catholics are not the only Christians to observe days of fasting and abstinence . The Eastern Orthodox Christians and Anglican Christians , according to the Book of Common Prayer , have their days for fasting and abstaining from certain foods . It follows on from Jesus' teaching on fasting .

I think you will find that all the main world religions practise fasting in some form or other e.g. Ramadan for Muslims , and certainly in Buddhism .

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Might be being ignorant here, but what is fish if it is not meat.
Seeing as some vegitarians will not eat meat but will eat fish am i to beleaive that fish are vegetables???? It's something that has always struck me as strange. :confused:
I'm also certain that no matter what i eat it won't make a differance in the great scheme of things. :D:D:D:D

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Whats always struck me as strange also Alan, is how the day came to be called Good Friday?:confused: was J.C. some kinda masochist?:confused:

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You shud up cashy nout wrong with a guy who can turn water into wine and cater for fife thousand using five loaves and two fishes:D

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My mum doesnt go to any shops on Good Friday, she doesnt think that it is right to have them open.
She told me earlier that she thought Good Friday is more important than Easter Sunday to her.

I will be eating fish tomorrow, something that we were brought up on so just carried it on. May even go to church with my Mum.....................if its raining! :D

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Looks like you've been drinking some of that water Jay. :D:D:D:D

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Na Alan mine cost a bloody fortune mate:D

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Obviously Easter is dictated by 2 factors;

1. Cadbury's production schedule
2. How soon after Christmas, Tesco can get the Eggs on the Shelf.

The variation in the dates is dictated by how long Cadburys shutdown over Christmas as this directly effects Tesco's ability to start planning their advertising.

Just my humble opinion. :D:D:D:D:D:D

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Even as a kid, I used to think that Easter Eggs were a big con. All wrapping and very little chocolate.

But it was always nice to get them!

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i just had a bacon butty feel guilty now! im a protestant but went to church till I was 15 and now feel very very bad!! would love the long walk like garinda but unfortunatley Im stuck in work till 5.30.... oh well....

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Ah ! You're doomed .:eek::D

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:evil::evil::D

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I too was brought up not to eat meat on Good Friday . Mum passed away 24yrs ago but I still abide by what she taught me . What I do not understand though is the atheist amongst us who still buy Easter eggs and Christmas presents.....puzzling

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i suppose death isnt too big a deal if your going to be coming back a few days later ;)

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cut the grass day and early night as a marathon weekend ahead;):D

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Probably the same reason we still call the days of the week the names we do...habit.

Not many of us believe in Anglo-Saxon, Roman, or Norse gods. Though we still adulate and honour their names daily, through usage.

;)

What I find odd and puzzling, are Christians who don't follow God's law to the letter, as given to them in the Bible.

Deuteronomy 22:22 "If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die."

Leviticus 20:10 "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death."

Proverbs 6:32 "But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself."

Leviticus 21:9 "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire."

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 "If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity."


:rolleyes:

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:D.. I knew a landlord of the park inn who managed to do that for about 15yrs ..:D

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Been a fishy Friday with Mrs H and the girls being leftfooters. However, I've kept to my Good Friday tradition by going out and getting ratted. Sadly, not the Wellsprings as it used to be in the late 60's on Good Friday afternoon, but still kept the faith! :thepint:

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...and of course, any Christian with a rebellious offspring has a duty in the Bible to kill them.

Exodus 21:17 "He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death"

Deuteronomy 21: 18-21 "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die"

Ludicrous? Of course. But there are supposedly intelligent people amongst us who use similar biblical quotes to justify their abhorrance of gay people.

Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."

Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

So next time someone tells you that homosexuality is wrong because it is condemned in the Bible, ask them why they didn't slay their child when it misbehaved!

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thought this would maybe help get one or two of you into the reason for the weekend ;)

YouTube - The McKameys - A Borrowed Tomb

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Only in America! Surprisingly, "The McKameys" have never made it big in the UK. I don't think they'd get past the first verse before the audience collsapsed in hysterics! Looks like Victoria Wood in one of her sketches. :):):)

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Yes, when it comes to religious crimes, and their punishments, there's not a great difference between all those faiths who were founded in the Middle East, Judaism, Islam...or Christianity.

;)

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Hell playing by those rules the population would be very thin on the ground:D