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In praise of meat-free Fridays for Lent

15 February 2023

3:26 AM

15 February 2023

3:26 AM

The bishop of Norwich, the Right Reverend Graham Usher, has suggested that Anglicans might like to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. We could eat fish instead, he says, in keeping with the tradition that is still observed by many Catholics, and was semi-observed by most Brits until about fifty years ago.

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