Can Catholics eat eggs and bacon on Good Friday?

Answer 1

Roman Catholic AnswerNot exactly. There are numerous exceptions. But, yes, on the whole, it is Fridays that Catholics are supposed to perform some penance, and the normal penance for centuries has always been abstaining from meat. Paul VI reaffirmed this in his 1966 Apostolic Constitution Paenitimini (see link below) and resolved a number of longstanding problems with Feast days (such as Christmas) that supersede Friday abstinence.

The general rule is that Catholics should abstain from meat on Fridays. However, local ordinaries can request an indult (exception) from the Vatican exempting them from this requirement. However, all Catholics should do some form of penance or service on Fridays. In early years of the Church meat was considered a luxury and the common folk ate fish which was cheaper and more readily available. For those of means giving up meat was a sacrifice. However, today seafood is often more expensive than meat. To go out and eat a big dinner of shrimp or lobster sort of misses the point of Friday abstinence.

Answer 2

My mother was raised as a Methodist, in a strongly Methodist family - her father taught Sunday School in the Methodist church. They did not eat meat in Good Friday, and we certainly didn't, she was raising us in the Lutheran Church.

Answer 3

Roman Catholic AnswerCatholics are not supposed to eat meat, including chicken on any Friday on the year that is not a Solemnity unless they live in a nation that the Holy See has granted an indult to, in which you may give up something else outside of Lent, on Fridays.

Answer 4

Eggs are fine, bacon not. Bacon is a meat and Catholics age 7 and over must abstain from meat on all Fridays during Lent.

Answer 5

Yes.

- hroth

Answer 6

Yes.