{"id":202,"date":"2014-03-07T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=202"},"modified":"2015-08-25T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T02:09:20","slug":"lenten-links-more-strategizing-for-meatless-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/03\/lenten-links-more-strategizing-for-meatless-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Links – More Strategizing for Meatless Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Taylor Marshall has some good suggestions for going meatless without losing your mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My favorite quote:<\/p>\n

Nothing says \u201cpenance\u201d like fish-sticks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So true.\u00a0 So very true.<\/p>\n

Now let me be a tiny bit contrary, and give you a little encouragement on the penitential living.\u00a0 Marshall writes:<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, Joy and I prayed about it and switched our family over to meatless Fridays all year long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I agree: Decisions to take on greater penance for your family than the Church requires should be made prayerfully.\u00a0 If you have one of those extenuating circumstances that makes abstaining particularly penitential (example: seafood allergy), discern carefully.\u00a0 But for most of us average Catholics . . . it\u2019s not that big of a deal.<\/p>\n

Especially, especially, if you do like the US Bishops have allowed for now, and leave yourself the emergency back-up plan of substituting another penance outside of Lent, going meatless all year is fairly straightforward. Now I know you have that one friend who was scarred by eating tuna noodle casserole every Friday of her life until she finally saved up enough money to get her own apartment.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be that way.\u00a0 Our Friday menu list:<\/p>\n