http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/03/17/st-pats-lenten-debacle.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/03/17/st-pats-lenten-debacle.html#comment-3659 CatholicSphere » Retro CatholicSphere: One Year Ago Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:55:35 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/?p=521#comment-3659 [...] St. Pat’s Lenten Debacle So, what’s the deal with the dispensations to allow the breaking of the traditional Lenten fast and abstinence in order to eat corned-beef and cabbage? [...] [...] St. Pat’s Lenten Debacle So, what’s the deal with the dispensations to allow the breaking of the traditional Lenten fast and abstinence in order to eat corned-beef and cabbage? [...]

]]> http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/03/17/st-pats-lenten-debacle.html#comment-188 Zenas Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:53:02 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/?p=521#comment-188 Personally, I think corned beef and cabbage is silly. I remember this same thing happening about six years ago, the last time St. Patrick's fell on a Friday. Nobody seemed to be making a big deal over it at that time, one way or the other. My reaction then was that even if eating corned beef was a "tradition" for the Irish, NOT eating it on Fridays of Lent was an older and more important tradition for them, which Irish Catholics should be used to by now. Personally, I think corned beef and cabbage is silly. I remember this same thing happening about six years ago, the last time St. Patrick’s fell on a Friday. Nobody seemed to be making a big deal over it at that time, one way or the other. My reaction then was that even if eating corned beef was a “tradition” for the Irish, NOT eating it on Fridays of Lent was an older and more important tradition for them, which Irish Catholics should be used to by now.

]]> http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2006/03/17/st-pats-lenten-debacle.html#comment-187 Adam Miller Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:05:06 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/?p=521#comment-187 Do only the Irish get this special exception clause or can the Italians lay claim to it as well (at least for the day)? Do only the Irish get this special exception clause or can the Italians lay claim to it as well (at least for the day)?

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