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Meat Friday: Thanks, St. Joseph

A Pillar explainer

The Pillar
Mar 15, 2021
∙ Paid

Friday, March 19 is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. It’s also a Friday in Lent — which usually means no meat.

At The Pillar, we have heard from a lot of Catholics in the past week, all with the same question: “Can we eat meat on St. Joseph’s Day?”

Of course, we could just tell you the answer. But we decided to write a whole explainer instead.

Grilling ribeyes…

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