I recall hearing stories from my grandparents before they passed in the 1980’s about the pre-Vatican II period (before 1962) when they had very strict Lenten practices as laid down by the Irish Catholic Bishops at the time, including a “hard fast” on Fridays during Lent and also, there was a huge list of foods that Catholics were not allowed at all to eat during Lent - I briefly went to a Convent school in my Primary years and we saw how the Nuns still carried this out in our school
I recall hearing stories from my grandparents before they passed in the 1980’s about the pre-Vatican II period (before 1962) when they had very strict Lenten practices as laid down by the Irish Catholic Bishops at the time, including a “hard fast” on Fridays during Lent and also, there was a huge list of foods that Catholics were not allowed at all to eat during Lent - I briefly went to a Convent school in my Primary years and we saw how the Nuns still carried this out in our school
