[Sca-cooks] Lenten stufff, chickens, fish and vegetarians...

[Sue Clemenger]

Non-spined/invertebrates would include things like bivalves and crustaceans,
right?  That would give the eastern-rite folks some fishy things, for sure!
I'm not actually sure if I'm going to do the
Sunday-as-a-reprieve-from-fasting or not.  I'd like to see if I can do the
whole 40 days, since my persona is quite distinctly religious, enough so,
that I don't think I'd be fudging it for anything except dire need (illness
or some such).
--Maire, who finds it odd but amusing that *she* is deeply religious and
Sue, who pays the bills, is also deeply religious, but one is Catholic, and
the other, Wiccan <gggg>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Loidolt" <mjloidolt at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:10 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Lenten stufff, chickens, fish and vegetarians...


> Middle Eastern Lent, that is Orthodox Great Fast starts NOT on March 1st
but on February 27th, the Monday before Western Ash Wednesday...Rome and the
West counts the Sundays...the East does not...
>   Also bear in mind that for the West, one might be allowed fish or other
cold blooded animals on Fridays and so forth, not so in the East. According
to St. John Chrysostom in the 3rd.cent. "let no food derived from any spined
thing pass your lips on these days of the Great Fast..." "Keep with Joy and
Feasting the Day of Resurrection, let every Sunday be filled with joy, music
and feasting for all!"
>   So that even today in the Eastern Church, both Catholic and Orthodox,
one will find the observant faithful ABSTAINING from meat, but consuming
dairy and egg products on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and FASTING
from all animal products on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. While Sunday,
again being the Day of Resurrection, is forbidden to fast and so one might
enjoy non spined/invertabrates and dairy, as well as foods which might have
a meat broth or gravy but which is less than 1% of the dish.
>
>   Also, no chicken that I've raised has been vegetarian....they are among
the most aggressive omnivores I've come across, next to pigs, coons, and
teenage boys!!!
>
>   Abot Johann von Metten
>   medieval poultrier