Posts Tagged ‘vigil’

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Meatless Friday
Guess what? It is already the first friday of the year. A tradition in the Catholic Church is to go to Mass on first friday. Another way of honour and mortification for our Lord is to abstain from meat on every friday. So make it meatless and a meatless friday by checking out the selections at CertifiedMeatless.com! Certified Meatless is a great source for all those meatless food needs! And everything at CertifiedMeatless is absolutely free of all landed slaughtered meat and their by-products! Sounds like a great insurance product if you want to be meatless!

Happy Eastern Christmas

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Happy Christmas to all the Oriental (Eastern) Christians who celebrate the joyous feast as per the Julian calendar. Today 7 January is 25 December on the old calendar. I am sure that yesterday was a Meatless Wednesday as is the custom for a meatless vigil. Also the eve of Epiphany is a Lenten meatless day in many Eastern cultures. Happy holydays!

Gearing up for Christmas

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

It is near the end of Advent. Christmas Eve is on Thursday. In the Eastern and Southern European traditions( Polish, Ukrainian, Italian,etc.) the Vigil or Wigilia is a dinner or supper that is a meal of abstinence. No landed meat or by products are on the table. In the Polish tradition, there are 12 courses of the meal. Seafood, fish, and vegetarian , and meatless dishes abound. But don’t forget the Oplatek! Check out our menu choices at CertifiedMeatless.com ! Prepare for the new-born King!