can we start eating meat at midnight?

[Anonymous]

since midnight its Saturday can we start eating meat at midnight?

[Anonymous]

What rules are you following? If this is lent related are you following the letter or spirit of the guidance? Unrelated, eating meat after midnight can’t be good for your digestion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What rules are you following? If this is lent related are you following the letter or spirit of the guidance? Unrelated, eating meat after midnight can’t be good for your digestion.

lent, but I go TO bed at like 3am

[Anonymous]

Yes. I go midnight to midnight. I stay up late, so ate a snack that happened to have meat (ok, it was leftovers from dinner) at 11:45pm last night.

[Anonymous]

Yes you can have your jumbo slice with pepperoni at midnight.

[Anonymous]

Is it really that hard to go one day without meat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it really that hard to go one day without meat?

It's not so hard, but observant Catholics like to know and follow the rules, without unnecessarily depriving themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it really that hard to go one day without meat?

It's not so hard, but observant Catholics like to know and follow the rules, without unnecessarily depriving themselves.

Skipping out on a midnight snack is...depriving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it really that hard to go one day without meat?

It's not so hard, but observant Catholics like to know and follow the rules, without unnecessarily depriving themselves.

You need to ask yourself first what is the purpose of that rule and then the answer to this question will be clear. The purpose of not eating meat is to fest, to cleanse. My family stop eating meat and all animal products for the entire lent (and no we are not vegitarians or vegans). This is just to fest, and to have more focus on spiritual life during this time.

[Anonymous]

I think you can define Friday however you want, as long as it's 24 hours.

So, if you wanted it to be like the Jewish Sabbath, or Sunday Mass, where the evening before counts, and eat no meat from sundown Thursday to sundown Friday, that's fine.

If you want to eat no meat from when you wake up for the day on Friday till you wake up for the day on Saturday? That's fine.

If you want to go midnight to midnight. That's fine.

-- Observant Catholic who really likes fish

[Anonymous]

Yes. That tricks God, just like an eruv made of fishing line does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. That tricks God, just like an eruv made of fishing line does.

hahahahahaha. love this. They are all around where I live and I laugh at how silly they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What rules are you following? If this is lent related are you following the letter or spirit of the guidance? Unrelated, eating meat after midnight can’t be good for your digestion.

Why would eating meat after midnight be bad for digestion?