Can You Eat Meat On Good Friday?

Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

Good Friday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum.

Good Friday is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday, and Black Friday.

In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, the Service of the Great Three Hours’ Agony is held from noon until 3 pm, the time duration that the Bible records as darkness covering the land to Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross.

However, communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries.

Can You Eat Meat On Good Friday?

Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, and sacrificed his flesh for their sins.

Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services.

The tradition of not eating meat on Good Friday and opting for fish instead goes back for centuries and according to Roman Catholic customs, Christians refrain from eating the flesh of warm-blooded animals on this Friday.

So the decision of either eating or refraining from eating meat on Good Friday largely depends on the denomination of Christianity one belongs to.