Thursday, March 24, 2005
Fishy Friday
Penance
1. An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing.
2. A sacrament in some Christian churches that includes contrition, confession to a priest, acceptance of punishment, and absolution. Also called reconciliation.
Yey, long long weekend, after a tough week, I think I deserve it! Picnic on Good Friday, and if you think it’s easy, well it’s not, but it should be a nice day at least.
Did you know that it is tradition to eat fish on good Friday? Well I knew this but didn’t think people upheld it.
After digging around and not finding much as to why this is, I asked the very smart academics at my work.
Apparently it is as a penance, because at a certain time in the churches history, when they were taking the odd thing written in the bible literally, somewhere in there it says something like:
So it was decided that everyone should give penance once a week by not eating meat on Fridays, all Fridays. It was further decided that people needed some protein to get through the day so Fridays were made fishy and then the monks apparently started a great business in fish farming. Somewhere along the way, Fishy Friday has mostly been dropped, except for Good Friday.
In other news
My sister had a dream that we went skydiving on her bday and then because I was phaffing about we missed her birthday party altogether.
My good run in friendly poker games came to an end the other night when I placed last, but my bad run in online poker games has also come to an end at the very same time placing 1st and 2nd in my last two games.
The clipsal is over and I got out almost unscathed. Msy got us into a mansion on the track on Sat which supplied free food, alcohol and cigarettes. Wasn’t pretty. The cars are very noisy and made me quite anxious, but then again that could have been the ten thousand red bull and vodkas I drank. ¶ 4:09 PM
Penance
1. An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing.
2. A sacrament in some Christian churches that includes contrition, confession to a priest, acceptance of punishment, and absolution. Also called reconciliation.
Yey, long long weekend, after a tough week, I think I deserve it! Picnic on Good Friday, and if you think it’s easy, well it’s not, but it should be a nice day at least.
Did you know that it is tradition to eat fish on good Friday? Well I knew this but didn’t think people upheld it.
After digging around and not finding much as to why this is, I asked the very smart academics at my work.
Apparently it is as a penance, because at a certain time in the churches history, when they were taking the odd thing written in the bible literally, somewhere in there it says something like:
those who don’t give penance will peril
So it was decided that everyone should give penance once a week by not eating meat on Fridays, all Fridays. It was further decided that people needed some protein to get through the day so Fridays were made fishy and then the monks apparently started a great business in fish farming. Somewhere along the way, Fishy Friday has mostly been dropped, except for Good Friday.
In other news
My sister had a dream that we went skydiving on her bday and then because I was phaffing about we missed her birthday party altogether.
My good run in friendly poker games came to an end the other night when I placed last, but my bad run in online poker games has also come to an end at the very same time placing 1st and 2nd in my last two games.
The clipsal is over and I got out almost unscathed. Msy got us into a mansion on the track on Sat which supplied free food, alcohol and cigarettes. Wasn’t pretty. The cars are very noisy and made me quite anxious, but then again that could have been the ten thousand red bull and vodkas I drank. ¶ 4:09 PM
