(March 4, 2017 at 9:00 am)Redoubtable Wrote: When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday the Church in many places usually removes the obligation to abstain from meat for that day.
I find the Church's practices on fasting and abstinence during lent to be totally absurd. Did you know that eating meat on a Friday in Lent or not fasting on Good Friday or Ash Wednesday is a mortal sin that will by itself send you to Hell under Catholic teaching? Imagine what that conversation in Hell might be like:
Damned Soul 1: "So What are you in for?"
Damned Soul 2: "Rape and murder primarily, you?"
Damned Soul 1: "Ate a ham sandwich on a Friday in Lent."
And Good Friday gets a little problematic when one realizes scripture records Jesus being crucified the first time on Thursday . . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
