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“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” Hillaire Belloc

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Fish and Friday

The website Catholic Vote has an article which gives is 5 reasons we should eat fish on Friday.  I'm skeptical about some of the reasoning...

For instance:

There is an ancient Jewish custom to eat fish on Fridays because God created fish on the fifth day, man on the sixth day, and then rested on the seventh day–the Sabbath.

 According to Genesis, "God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of crawling living creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw that it was good, and God blessed them, saying: Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth."

So eat up! Sea monsters are on the menu! And chicken.


 In this ancient custom, the eyes of the fish staring at us from the table are also a reminder of God’s eternal omniscience. I'm not seeing it...


Jesus IS a fish -
The fish symbol or “Jesus fish” is one of the earliest Christian symbols. In Greek, the word for fish, “ΙΧΘΥΣ” is an acrostic for “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” 



About the only thing I know about the "Jesus Fish" is that people who have one on their car are crumby drivers.

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