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Offline HeidtXtreme

Working in a restaurant and meat on Fridays
« on: Yesterday at 07:38:30 AM »
I work in a place with meat… sometimes they have me prepare meat, and I end up doing it on Fridays sometimes. The food is always prepared for the same day, so the meat is consumed on that Friday. Is it a sin for me to prepare the meat given these circuмstances?
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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: Working in a restaurant and meat on Fridays
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 08:35:15 AM »
Quote from: HeidtXtreme on Yesterday at 07:38:30 AM
I work in a place with meat… sometimes they have me prepare meat, and I end up doing it on Fridays sometimes. The food is always prepared for the same day, so the meat is consumed on that Friday. Is it a sin for me to prepare the meat given these circuмstances?
No.

Not everyone is Catholic so they aren't all obliged to abstain from meat. Also if Catholics eat meat on Friday that's on them not you, even if V2 allowed eating meat if you do something else.

If you were cooking for guests it would be a different matter. But this is for your job/livelihood. It's not as if your job is required you to eat meat and sin.
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Working in a restaurant and meat on Fridays
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 10:19:59 AM »
Quote from: AnthonyPadua on Yesterday at 08:35:15 AM
No.

Not everyone is Catholic so they aren't all obliged to abstain from meat. Also if Catholics eat meat on Friday that's on them not you, even if V2 allowed eating meat if you do something else.

If you were cooking for guests it would be a different matter. But this is for your job/livelihood. It's not as if your job is required you to eat meat and sin.

Worst case scenario, if one accepts the post-Vatican II changes in the US, and it is a Friday of Lent, the eating of meat is only gravely sinful due to Church law and not divine law, and besides, they've already made up their minds that they are going to eat the meat, and they will remain in that mindset even if the owner of the restaurant backed you up in not furnishing material cooperation in their sin.  (And if they are of that mindset, that's the last time you'd ever see that customer.)
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Offline Seraphina

Re: Working in a restaurant and meat on Fridays
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 04:30:28 PM »
You are the one supposed to be abstaining, not the customers or proprietors of a restaurant where you work. Remember, there are even Catholics not obliged to abstain on most Fridays, for example, young children. Let it be more of a penance for you having to prepare the meat, smell it cooking, seeing others eating it while you abstain. The same would go for fasting. If it’s Ash Wednesday and you have to work, you not only must prepare meat and serve it to others, but you don’t get to eat something else instead. 
In case you think you need to quit, that is also off base. Most of us would have to join the strictest of enclosed religious orders to avoid exposure to others who do live according to the Catholic Faith. 
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