Those crazy Catholics...

#1

Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:02am

I guess it is okay to bend the rules so we can have a Happy St. Pat's. Just don't make a habit of it...


Wouldn't giving up Corned Beef on St. Patrick's Day be even more of a sacrifice? I don't get the logic...
Corned Beef not a Sin!

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#2

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:13am

I still want to know what happened to the people who were sent to Hell (or was it Purgatory?) for eating meat on a Friday, before the restriction was lifted except during Lent.

"St. Patrick would take to drink in heaven if he thought we weren't eating meat on his feast day," Reynolds joshed.

Is that what St. Patrick's Day celebrates, the day he sent the vegetarians out of Ireland?

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#3

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:14am

What would Patrick do if the Church said you couldn't DRINK on his day?

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#4

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:15am

Weep. And send a plague.

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#5

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:24am

I will eat corned beef and drink, but I won't watch my Lord of the Dance DVD. That should be enough.

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Posted: 3/16/06 at 3:42am

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#7

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 9:32am

but don't you DARE let those Queers march in that parade....oh no....sinners. But go ahead and eat meat on Friday which is not allowed.......

damn hypocrites...........

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#8

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:19am

I think my favorite part of that article was the very last sentence: "Even Christ liked to live it up at times, Donovan said. 'What would Jesus say? He turned the water into wine.'"

As a good little Irish girl and a recovered Catholic, that's what I love about my heritage- we've managed to combine religion and alcohol. It's even an integral part of Mass! Can you imagine if Jesus had turned water into whiskey? Although I'm a little surprised that more Catholics aren't just eating the corned beef without the dispensation. For an Irish Catholic, nothing goes with corned beef, cabbage and beer like a side of guilt.

#9

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 11:49am

"Even Christ liked to live it up at times, Donovan said. 'What would Jesus say? He turned the water into wine.'"


Oh dear.

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#10

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:18pm

This dispensation for Corned Beef on a Lenten Friday has always puzzled me...doesn't it sound like folks are being told that they should show faith,committment and sacrifice during Lent--unless it interferes with a party?

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#11

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:26pm

That's not it at all. It means that we follow this symbolic sacrifice as a Lenten remembrance, however, there are times when we stop to also remember (in celebration) someone who was a hero to an entire nation. The complete directive also suggests that the Friday remembrance should be observed in some other meaningful way.

#12

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:27pm

That's Catholicism, beacs.

#13

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:29pm

but dont they still have snakes in Ireland?
He didnt really rid the country of them, then, did he?
Is that why the pied piper had to rid them of rats after that? How short-sighted!

<== irish catholic.

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#14

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:32pm

I don't like corned beef (except on a Rueben) so I won't transgress tomorrow. I'd kill for a jelly bean though.

#15

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:34pm

Interesting, Bluemoon. I was raised as a Catholic and they never explained that part of it.

Out of curiosity, is this dispensation give at other times on Fridays in Lent for a similar honor?

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#16

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:38pm

I asked for dispensation on St. J. Beans Day last month and was turned down flat. I guess I didn't put enough cash in the second collection basket

#17

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:47pm

SOMMS, you would have had better luck with St. LL Bean Day.

Beacs - yes, often Italian communities will ask for a dispensation for the celebration of St. Joseph's Day on March 19. The practice or non-practice of abstainence is left up to the local bishop, not Rome. This is why - contrary to popular belief - the observance is not some 'go to hell' type of deal. It's just a meaningful observance. South and Central American Catholics abstain from only beef, for example, not fowl.

#18

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:48pm

Isn't a St. Joseph's Table supposed to be meatless? We've had them at different workplaces on non-Fridays and we've always beeen told to bring a meatless dish. I've been told it's more a Sicilian tradition than a general Italian one.

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#19

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:51pm

Not if you want to ask for a dispensation. Depends on what is a meaningful celebration for you.

(crap, I've got to stop using that word, 'meaningful'. It's becoming meaningless)

#20

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:18pm

In the past I have had to ask for dispensation from the Bishop for conferences and special events that I have conducted on Fridays and when meat was being served. You gotta love the Northeast for that. I was literally almost lynched 18 years ago when I unwittingly had chicken served for a luncheon. I'm from North Carolina where Catholics are .01 percent of the population. But, ask me about the protocol involved in a Baptist Potluck and that's a different kettle of Brunswick Stew.

#21

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Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:27pm

Regional and national differences ARE funny. At the Catholic high school where I work the cafeteria served chicken salad along with tuna salad on Ash Wednesday. The problem was that the kitchen staff is all from Peru where chicken isn't counted as 'meat' for abstainence purposes. When someone mentioned that they were serving meat, the cook said, "What meat? I don't see no meat. All I see is chicken!" The priest who celebrated the school mass was behind me in the line and said, "Oh, hell, let's all be Hispanic for the day and eat chicken. I declare a dispensation for the chicken salad."

#22

re: Those crazy Catholics...

Posted: 3/16/06 at 2:33pm

The Bishop of Omaha would not grant a blanket dispensation, but Cardinal George did here.