Moderate Your Meat

Posted on February 23, 2008
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‘Tis again the season of LENT—it officially kicked off on Ash Wednesday 6 February and will culminate on Easter Sunday, 23 March. Lent, for most Christians, is the 40 days liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. During Lent, 2 days are days of fasting—Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, while all other Fridays are days of abstinence.

Current fasting practice in the Roman Catholic Church binds persons over the age of 18 and younger than 59 to eat only one full meal on that day, but may eat two smaller meals as necessary to keep up one’s strength. The two small meals together must sum to less than the one full meal. On days of abstinence, the person must not eat meat or poultry.

These dietary restrictions may have been relaxed a bit, like substituting abstinence with acts of kindness or acts of mercy. They are no longer mandatory and under the threat of mortal sin. Anyway, we have our choices.

Yesterday, Friday, caught me in McDonald’s eating…what do you think? Do not judge a book by its cover, or so they say. Do not judge the sandwich that you see, do not judge anything that meets the eye. Anyhow—who are we to judge? Do not just see—look, and look again. Again and again, I have questions:

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Would I be better off on Fridays of Lent, not eating meat or poultry, but eating the most delicious prawn thermidore? or a Caesar’s salad?

Would I be better off on Fridays of Lent, not eating meat or poultry, but being blind to the needs of my suffering neighbor, being insensitive to the plight of the children on the streets, the homeless?

Would I be better off on Fridays of Lent, not eating meat or poultry, oblivious of the current issues that burden our coutry today? oblivious of our leaders who plunder our country?

The choices that we make are ours alone. As I mentioned in an earlier post, what our country needs is a spiritual revolution, others say a moral revolution—a change in our hearts, to see the light and follow it, to do what is right, to folow the rules, in obedience to the teachings of our faith. And everything else will follow. In the meantime, I will be vigilant wth what is happening nowadays—KNOW THE TRUTH!

And yes, I confess, I was in McDonald’s with BA Friday evening, before making the rounds of the noise barrage that were scheduled in Ateneo, Miriam and UP, our last point. I was BA’s photographer this time, as he joined the other UP students shout their slogans.

I was eating a Fillet o’Fish sandwich! Thank you.

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Comments

8 Responses to “Moderate Your Meat”

Kyels on February 23rd, 2008 1:55 pm

Everyone is seriously on the move of ousting Mrs. Arroyo, noh?

Anyway, moderating the intake of meat whether it’s the LENT season or is better because it can reduce the possibility of getting Gout attack.

;D
Em Dy on February 23rd, 2008 10:15 pm

I’ve been having Burger King’s Big Fish for the last 3 Fridays of lent. Check out my list of meatless options here.
ba on February 23rd, 2008 11:30 pm

You were my photographer, I was your driver. Hahahaha
sasha on February 24th, 2008 3:36 am

Lent is here na nga, tita. And it is earlier than usual. Anyway, I really wish the truth will prevail.

Happy weekend, tita!
dimaks on February 25th, 2008 4:22 pm

on top of all, may the genuine truth surface.

i like these lines:

“Would I be better off on Fridays of Lent, not eating meat or poultry, but being blind to the needs of my suffering neighbor, being insensitive to the plight of the children on the streets, the homeless?”
Toe on March 1st, 2008 1:00 pm

We practiced abstinence yesterday. But we had seafood buffet at Sunway for dinner… hahahaha…. bad!
vk on March 5th, 2008 3:32 am

oo nga, last bday of bernie n nena her neice….feb. 6, ash weds…...loto ko nga schweinebraten…....a whole meat from pig….

ay naku, sabi ko,,,,sorry po, ash weds. kumain ng karneng baboy…...

ikaw nga ano?....nice pics, of you here…..lol
alan jr. on June 4th, 2008 6:14 pm

Anong age po bang bawal kumain ng meat kapag friday ng lent?