Why do you eat fish at Easter?

To the custom of abstaining from eating red meat during the Lenten period, Catholics can resort to consuming fish and shellfish.

But does it have any special meaning?

The Catholic portal ACI Prensa explains that the fact of consuming fish during the Lenten season is part of supplying red meat during the period of abstinence that Catholics and Christians carry out to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ.

According to the Code of Canon Law, “all the faithful, each in their own way, are obliged by divine law to do penance”, therefore, in current times, a way to live that sacrifice and walk the path that Jesus did fasting 40 days.

Eat fish

The fact of eating fish in this season is a Christian tradition that church leaders recommend to be observed every Friday of Lent, as well as the days of Holy Week, especially Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

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Christian culture points out that avoiding red meat and eating fish honors the death of Jesus.

For Catholics, more than the tradition of abstinence from eating meat, the recommendation is to replace that meat and eat fish or some type of shellfish; currently abstinence implies not only “depriving ourselves of meat but of other exquisite delicacies”such as fast food, sweets and other pleasant options, as a way to accompany Jesus on the way of the cross towards Resurrection Sunday.

In Ecuador, the Fanesca, the dish consumed at Easter, which brings together 12 grainsis accompanied with balacao or some type of dried fish, to comply with the tradition. (I)