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Children do not have to fast or obstain from meat on all the holy days but adults are suppose too. Most do not know that they can not eat meat on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday so that is why they do.

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I got the following from this website:

Lenten Fasting Regulations

DIRECTIONS
1) Abstinence on all the Fridays of Lent, and on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

* No meat may be eaten on days of abstinence.

* Catholics 14 years and older are bound to abstain from meat. Invalids, pregnant and nursing mothers are exempt.

2) Fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

* Fasting means having only one full meal to maintain one's strength. Two smaller, meatless and penitential meals are permitted according to one's needs, but they should not together equal the one full meal. Eating solid foods between meals is not permitted.

* Catholics over 18 but not yet 60 years are bound to fast. Again, invalids, pregnant and nursing mothers are exempt.

3) Friday Abstinence Outside of Lent.

It should be noted that Fridays throughout the year are designated days of penance. The Code of Canon Law states that Friday is a day of abstinence from meat throughout the year. The American Bishops have allowed us to choose a different form of penance rather than abstaining from meat, but there must be some form of penance, for this is the day we commemorate Christ's suffering and death. The bishops stress that '[a]mong the works of voluntary self-denial and personal penance...we give first place to abstinence from flesh meat' (Pastoral Statement on Fasting and Abstinence).

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That is all true but most elderly Catholics follow the no meat on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday and that is what I was taught and that is what I taught my children when I taught CCD for 14 years.

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I don't eat much meat but would on Holy Thursday and Saturday. I think this might have been a Vatican II change, or the American Catholic Bishops changed it.....I do try to fast on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday or at least light meals.

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Actually, this was interesting, I just read something that states Lent ends at dusk on Holy Thursday, beginning the Triduum and ending all masses until the Easter Vigil or Easter Sunday mass. And the reason for the Good Friday fast is 'anticipation' and also because the pius are supposed to fast every Friday, regardless of the Lenten season.

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Posted by MonkeyLuv

Actually, this was interesting, I just read something that states Lent ends at dusk on Holy Thursday, beginning the Triduum and ending all masses until the Easter Vigil or Easter Sunday mass. And the reason for the Good Friday fast is 'anticipation' and also because the pius are supposed to fast every Friday, regardless of the Lenten season.

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That is correct. That is why all churchs are bear after the Holy Thursday mass which is the mass where the priest (who is suppose to be Jesus) washes the feet of his apostles and then the body of Jesus is put into the repository where everyone can come and pray. Then the church and the alter is stripped bear for the coming of the Lord on Easter Sunday.

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we fast on good friday and we go and have easter dinner blessed on holy saturday. we never ate meet on holy saturday either but did on holy thursday . we dont eat meat during any friday during lent but this year i gave up meat totally during lent

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Posted by nylisa

That is correct. That is why all churchs are bear after the Holy Thursday mass which is the mass where the priest (who is suppose to be Jesus) washes the feet of his apostles and then the body of Jesus is put into the repository where everyone can come and pray. Then the church and the alter is stripped bear for the coming of the Lord on Easter Sunday.

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Oh I knew the bare altar etc (I lived in fear, as a child, of being chosen for the Washing of the Feet, and the entire Veneration of the Cross ) I just never knew that Lent ended on Holy Thursday.

It's funny, I always found Lent and subsequently Easter very depressing. The atmosphere was always so incongruous with how joyful it is supposed to be.

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I was chosen once years ago to have my feet washed. It me it was such an honor to be chosen. I agree with you about Lent being depressing but Easter Sunday to me is a total day of celebration and new bright light.