[Sca-cooks] Re: Lenten oils

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Rhiannon Cathaoir-mor said:
FYI, the Orthodox Catholic tradition rules out olives and olive oil for
lent.  Now, looking at the pre-Trent Roman Catholic Church, we see that it
is much less like what the RC Church has evolved into in modern times and
much more like the Eastern Orthodox traditions in both liturgy and custom.
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Thank you for the clarification/correction. I think though, that the
comments about the differance between how the Church treated butter
vs. olive oil and how it cause regional confrontation may not have
been talking about Lent, where both olive oil and butter are
apparently verboten, but for the less fast days. Does your referance
indicate which, if either, olive oil or butter were allowed on lesser
fast days?

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net