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We're not supposed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Meat is allowed every other day except during certain days of Holy Week. The reason we don't eat meat on Fridays is because it was on a Friday that Jesus was killed (or at least the feast day of that occurance is on a Friday). You don't eat meat as a sign of respect for the passing of Christ. Meat is considered a good meal where fish is just a meal to get by on. It's like half-ass fasting when you eat fish instead of meat on Lenten Fridays. You are supposed to fast all-the-way an hour before all masses and from noon to 3 pm (the three hours it took Jesus to die) on Good Friday. Fish isn't considered meat for some reason even though it is an animal. Fish is also approapiate since Christ fed fish to his followers and called his disciples to be "fishers of men". Fish have been the symbol of Christ for a long time.
"If home is where the heart is, then I got evicted this week (Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains)"
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