Northern Light
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2014
A lot of those food restriction disappeared about the time of Vatican II in the 1960s. Many people continue to give things up for Lent, but modern thinking encourages the idea of taking on a project, like working at a soup kitchen or something similar, as being more productive. Perhaps so, but the original idea was to give up something you liked as a penance to make you look more inwardly at your life.When did it become okay in the Catholic Church to eat eggs during Lent, as it is today? I looked but didn't find a date for the change.
It was sort of funny reading the lengthy speculations of various non-farm people on other sites as to what they did with all the eggs the hens wouldn't stop laying so they didn't rot - um, hatch them! It only makes sense to hatch out your chicks in the early spring.