The U.S. Bishops made a big mistake and I still do not understand the reason for their logic behind this decision. A Catholic only needed to abstain from meat, how easy is that! It did not say that you had to eat fish. Growing up, my mother did not and still does not like fish. She forces herself to eat fish as an extra penance for Fridays. She always complained about the people lined up outside Chesapeake Bay Seafood House on Fridays during lent that they were not suffering because they liked fish.
The U.S. Bishops made a big mistake and I still do not understand the reason for their logic behind this decision. A Catholic only needed to abstain from meat, how easy is that! It did not say that you had to eat fish. Growing up, my mother did not and still does not like fish. She forces herself to eat fish as an extra penance for Fridays. She always complained about the people lined up outside Chesapeake Bay Seafood House on Fridays during lent that they were not suffering because they liked fish.