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From: Eve <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Lent and Friday Fish among the DS
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:06 -0400
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Thanks all for your replies - Interesting that your family comes from
Tscherwenka Marlene - where my mom's Dautermanns were from also.
I love hearing the different family memories.
Eve
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM, MARLENE WAGNER <>wrote:
> My Dad (also Lutheran) from Tscherwenka (Batschka) observed the same no
> meat on Good Friday tradition.
> His explanation also was that we could make that small sacrifice on the day
> that Christ sacrificed so much for humankind.
> I also noted that none of my American Lutheran friends observed this
> tradition, so I surmised that perhaps the more traditional German Lutherans
> upheld this tradition, which they may have brought with them when they set
> up their homes in the Austro-Hungarian
> Empire. Perhaps it goes back to the earlier time of the mid 1700's?
> I too uphold this tradition in honor of his beliefs.
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/10/09, Eileen Wilson <>* wrote:
>
> From: Eileen Wilson <>
> Subject: Re: [DVHH] Lent and Friday Fish among the DS
> To: ,
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:57 PM
>
> Eve, having also been raised as a Lutheran by my mom who was from the Ruhr
> Valley, I can say that we also didn't eat meat on Good Friday. She still
> observes that tradition.
>
>
>
> Eileen
>
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:44:53 -0400
> > From:
> > To:
> > Subject: [DVHH] Lent and Friday Fish among the DS
> >
> > I have a very strange subject/question. I know that traditionally
> Catholics
> > didn't used to eat meat on Friday (I am not sure if this is still
> followed)
> > - not sure if that only applied during Lent or all year. However, does
> > anyone know of this religious tradition in the Lutheran/Evangelical
> > community?
> >
> > Ever since I can remember (my family being Lutheran) mom has never allowed
> > meat served on Good Friday. I have also followed this tradition, but
> > noticed it wasn't observed by others at our church and I can remember
> being
> > "gently" teased about being Catholic. When I asked mom about
> this her
> > response was "Tati always said - Christ died for our sins on Good
> Friday,
> > the least we can do is give up meat on that one day of the year". So
> I'm
> > not sure if it was just observed in her home or others as well.
> >
> > Curious,
> >
> > Eve
> >
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