Although the scriptures tell us that Friday was very definitely not the day of the week on which Christ was crucified, nevertheless each Friday, many Catholics will eat fish rather than meat supposedly in remembrance of the Friday crucifixion. Roman Catholics in the United States and the UK are no longer required by their church to abstain from meat on Fridays, except during Lent, but many still follow the custom of fish on Friday.
It seems probable that this idea came from our pagan ancestors, and is just another attempt by Christians to muscle in on a pagan rite. The name Friday comes from the pagan goddess of fertility “Freya”, and fish was regarded as being sacred to her, being a well known fertility symbol. Fish, you may have noticed have a very high fertility rate, and would therefore be an ideal candidate, some fish producing as many as 9,000,000 eggs. The Romans were also in on the act as their fertility goddess was Venus who also happened to believe that Friday was sacred, and guess what, her symbol was the fish. It seems likely that the two goddesses were actually the same originally.
Are Catholics really taught that they should eat fish on Friday for the right reasons!
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