Downriver Lenten specialty…muskrat?
On Fridays during Lent, Catholics around the globe abstain from meat other than fish. Except for downriver, where an age-old dispensation allows the consumption of muskrat.
On Fridays during Lent, Catholics around the globe abstain from meat other than fish. Except for downriver, where an age-old dispensation allows the consumption of muskrat.
Excerpt:
A 2002 archdiocesan document on Lenten observances, in addition to outlining the general laws of fast and abstinence, says, “There is a long-standing permission — dating back to our missionary origins in the 1700s — to permit the consumption of muskrat on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent.”
The prospect of eating muskrat, a foot-long rodent, might be less than appetizing to some, but to many people downriver it’s part of Lenten life.
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