A "mad experiment" that explored morality

[Gob]

[Timster]

I'm thinking a nice Zin... keeping with the whole water into Wine theory...

[Sean]

What is the appropriate alcohol to go with Crucifiction?

BTW, is "Crucifiction" what athiests believe happened on Good Friday?

[loCAtek]

It doesn't mean alcohol either. It was the unfaithful, who got busted on that.

Catholics can't drink alcohol on Good Friday? Bzzzzzz! Wrong answer. Citation on that one or did you pull it out of your arse?

Do really think that Ireland would be a Catholic country if they were not allowed to drink alcohol for one full day every year?
The pubs there are closed (by law) on Good Friday so every bugger spends the day with a day-pass on the trains, which can still legally sell alcohol.

Very well:

The Catholic Church treats Good Friday as a fast day, which in the Latin Rite ..... on Good Friday by law. The buying and selling of alcohol is prohibited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

[Sean]

Just as I posted. Well done!

Now show me where it says that the consumption of alcohol is prohibited...

[loCAtek]

Why else do you think the pubs are closed?

Only the Irish drink on Good Friday

[Sean]

Again, the article states that the pubs are closed on Good Friday as the sale of alcohol is (as I have already stated) prohibited in Ireland on that day. Mind you, at least one exception was made last year...

I'm still waiting for the bit that informs me that alcohol is prohibited to Catholics on Good Friday.

Good luck with that!

[loCAtek]

Well, I guess if you can't buy and you already have it, you can booze all you want,'eh?

Who am I to say?

[Sean]

Well you seem to consider yourself an authority on the subject (and many others you know just as little about). I simply asked you to back-up your assertion.

Can you?

If not, a simple "Well bugger me, I was mistaken! Thanks for the info." (or words to that effect) is the thinking person's response.

[Crackpot]

the answer? Bitter wine.

[dales]

Grape Juice (that is what is served during communion service) to remember His blood shed for our sins.

[The Hen]

Grape juice you say? I had a lovely Sauvignon Blanc from the Little Black Stone range. That saw me right from Good Friday to ANZAC Day.

[dgs49]

The Catholic Church does not drink "grape juice" on Good Friday, or at any other time. Sacramental wine is wine.

As for whether a good and religious Catholic would be shopping on Good Friday, I don't think there are any prohibitions, it's just bad form.

I can see a whole bunch of reasons why an atheist - ethical or not - would NOT steal groceries under the circumstances described. What with cameras surrounding us and the ever-present possibility of being caught coming out of the store, it would be very foolish regardless of the lack of visible oversight.

[Big RR]

Actual, most of the times I've been to a RC church the wine was not served to the public at all, it was drunk by the priest celebrating the mass and only the bread was served, but I have seen times where wine was served to the public as well. Generally, wine is served by the catholic (RC and orthodox) and some older protestant (Lutheran, anglican/episcopal) churches, while many other protestant denominations choose to serve grape juice (while others serve wine; I once had a very good cab served in a California UCC church). My understanding is that many of the denominations which do not require wine celebrate the communion as a feast of remembrance, while those requiring wine have a belief in the transubstantiation (e.g. RC) or consubstatiation ( e.g. Lutheran) of the communion elements

[Sean]

You're right Big RR. In the RC church wine is only given to the communicants on special occasions. I've never known it to be anything other than wine though...

[Long Run]

Computer glitch leads to supermarket free-for-all
* * *
Supermarket owner Glenn Miller was initially furious over the incident, fearing that thousands of dollars of groceries might have walked out the door. But after reviewing the shop's security footage during the weekend his mood had mellowed.

"I can certainly see the funny side of it ... but I'd rather not have the publicity, to be honest. It makes me look a bit of a dickhead."

Irony is good for the soul.

[Scooter]

You're right Big RR. In the RC church wine is only given to the communicants on special occasions.

I think it depends a lot on local custom, and it 's a lot more common now than it used to be to offer the cup routinely (at least in North America, don't know about elsewhere).

[loCAtek]

Found it;

Fasting The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th Birthday [Canon 97] to the 59th Birthday [i.e. the beginning of the 60th year, a year which will be completed on the 60th birthday] to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The Church defines this as one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal in quantity. Such fasting is obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The fast is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which could be considered food (milk shakes, but not milk). Alcoholic beverages do not break the fast; however, they seem contrary to the spirit of doing penance.

{url=http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm]The Holy Season of Lent
Fast and Abstinence.[/url]

Technically it is not a foul, but it is bad form.

[The Hen]

So what did you find?

[loCAtek]

from the link: . Alcoholic beverages do not break the fast; however, they seem contrary to the spirit of doing penance.