On Mar 12, 1:39*pm, Ran e at Arabian Knits >
wrote:
> In article >,
> *Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
> > What I don't get is calling a meat-free diet a fast. *It triggers a
> > language barrier inside my head like calling flesh cut from the bones of
> > an animal that happens to be a fish not meat.
>
> * *The fast is from meat and there are days within the season that are
> strict fasts. *It is shorthand. *As for the fish counting, it has to do
> with the language canon law was written in, actually. *Meat meant land
> animal. *Technically, frogs, snails and insects are licit for abstention
> days.

And, for Roman Catholics in the area downriver from Detroit, by
special dispensation: muskrat

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Cindy Hamilton