The cultural group that I feel I belong to is the Catholic religion. My mother and grandmother raised me as a Catholic and I regularly attended Sunday church until I graduated from high school. I no longer attend church on a regular basis, but I do go to church on Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. The food-related practice associated with the Catholic religion that I will discuss is not eating meat on Fridays during the Lent season and fasting during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Even though I do not attend church on a regular basis, I do still observe the tradition of not eating meat on Fridays during Lent and eating only one full meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Some Catholics still observe Lent by not eating meat during the full forty days. The purpose of Lent is to be a season of fasting, self-denial, Christian growth, penitence, and simplicity. Lent is the 40-day season before Easter, not including Sundays, lasting from Ash Wednesday until the end of the......
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