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Posted: April 13, 2006 10:44 am
by buffettbride
springparrot wrote:buffettbride wrote:
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I
know that.
But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over.
(Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
Posted: April 13, 2006 10:47 am
by comemonday
buffettbride wrote:springparrot wrote:buffettbride wrote:
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I
know that.
But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over.
(Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
I thought Good Friday was the day Jesus was crucified? That's why everything used to be closed from 12-3.
Posted: April 13, 2006 10:50 am
by springparrot
buffettbride wrote:springparrot wrote:buffettbride wrote:
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I
know that.
But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over.
(Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
Maybe the same reason Catholics got to eat meat on St. Patrick's day this year???
Posted: April 13, 2006 10:55 am
by kitty
buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
Posted: April 13, 2006 10:59 am
by Moonie
The general law of the Church is that abstinence be observed on every Friday of the year (Code of Canon Law, can. 1252),
but gives authority to the conference of bishops to substitute another form of penance (esp. works of piety and charity) for the Friday abstinence rule (can. 1253).
Thus the U.S. Conference of Bishops has permitted the substitution of other forms of penance on Fridays of the year except in Lent.
In Lent the general law of Friday abstinence is upheld, in the U.S. as elsewhere.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:03 am
by buffettbride
kitty wrote:buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
I could be bass-ackwards that's for sure.
I think I always understood it as it happened on Thursday, thus making it Holy Thursday. I guess what makes me think that is tonight after Holy Thursday mass, people stay at the church in shifts (at least at my parents Episcopal church) watching from Thursday evening through Easter Sunday to 'guard the grave.' I know that's not the right terminology.
My facts could definitely be wrong.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:03 am
by Moonie
kitty wrote:buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
Originating in the fourth century of the church, the season of Lent spans 40 weekdays beginning on Ash Wednesday and climaxing during Holy Week with Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Good Friday, and concluding Saturday before Easter.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:03 am
by kitty
"The date of the crucifixion is now marked as Good Friday, and the resurrection celebrated as Easter."
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:06 am
by buffettbride
Y'all are making my head hurt.
So did He die today or is He gonna die tomorrow?
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:07 am
by ph4ever
buffettbride wrote:Y'all are making my head hurt.
So did He die today or is He gonna die tomorrow?
so now you're confused too
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:09 am
by kitty
buffettbride wrote:Y'all are making my head hurt.
So did He die today or is He gonna die tomorrow?
he dies tomorrow....today is Holy Thursday because it is the last supper.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:09 am
by Moonie
springparrot wrote:
Maybe the same reason Catholics got to eat meat on St. Patrick's day this year???
the church says to choose your own penance for all Fridays. Abstain form meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
If Catholics abstained from meat on celebrated Saints days, we'd be vegetarians...
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:14 am
by green1
LIPH wrote:tequilatom wrote:Got the Answer!!!
The Season of Lent
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Theme:
Retreating Into the Wilderness with Jesus
Dates:
Lent is a forty-day period before Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday. We skip Sundays when we count the forty days, because Sundays commemorate the Resurrection. Lent begins on 1 March 2006 and ends on 15 April 2006, which is the day before Easter.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent officially ends at sundown on 13 April (Holy Thursday), with the beginning of the mass of the Lord’s Supper.
Colors:
In most churches, the decorations are purple, the royal color, to prepare for the King. You can read more about color in worship
The East:
In Orthodox churches, this season is called the Great Lent. It begins on Clean Monday.
Special Days:
Ash Wednesday, 1 March 2006
The Annunciation, 25 March 2006
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So Lent ends on my birthday? Even more reason to celebrate.
So your birthday is tax day? I am so sorry. That is the one day that most Americans hate.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:17 am
by green1
buffettbride wrote:Y'all are making my head hurt.
So did He die today or is He gonna die tomorrow?
We count days based on hours. Yet the Jewish culture of the time of Jesus (and maybe still today, I don't know) counted any part of a day as a whole day. So Friday is day 1, Saturday is day 2 and Sunday the day he rose is day 3.
Posted: April 13, 2006 11:21 am
by buffettbride
kitty wrote:buffettbride wrote:Y'all are making my head hurt.
So did He die today or is He gonna die tomorrow?
he dies tomorrow....today is Holy Thursday because it is the last supper.
AHAAAAAAAAA!! That's the answer I was looking for. I knew there was an important event I was missing and that be the one.
Thanks kitty. It was seriously bugging me that I didn't have a clue and I SEND my kid to Catholic school.
Posted: April 13, 2006 6:20 pm
by tikitatas
I would NEVER question one of the Smiffers!
Posted: April 13, 2006 9:36 pm
by ph4ever
tikitatas wrote:I would NEVER question one of the Smiffers!
yea the thought of physical punishment inflected when I question Mom makes me go
Posted: April 13, 2006 9:39 pm
by SMLCHNG
ph4ever wrote:tikitatas wrote:I would NEVER question one of the Smiffers!
yea the thought of physical punishment inflected when I question Mom makes me go
@ both of you!
Posted: April 13, 2006 9:41 pm
by ragtopW
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