FYI – Abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday and the Friday’s of Lent: WHY? In Old Testament times animal sacrifices were penitential offerings. If you had a sin to confess and do penance for, you would choose an animal whose size might be commensurate with the severity of your sin. You would take that animal to the temple, kill it, drain its blood, and then burn it as an offering. This was all done very publicly. There was no other way to atone for sins at that time. Catholics abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on the Fridays of Lent because those are penitential days and the ultimate sacrifice for our sins has been offered. Jesus was killed, His blood let, and He offered Himself for our sins. We do not eat the flesh of the animals that would have been sacrificed for the reparation of sins because no other physical sacrifice or bloodletting is necessary. The Lamb of God, the ultimate sacrifice, takes away the sins of the world and we have forgiveness of sins through Him. We honor His sacrifice by abstaining from meat.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:53:07 +0000
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