Personnally I do not eat fish during lent... But I can you that a Georgian priest who is not a modernist at all told me that it was not incorrect... And he told me this was writtent in the Nomocanon... I could not check because I have no Nomocanon in French or English.
I would like someone to show me that it is canonically incorrect to eat fish during lent...
Priidite, poklonimsja i pripadem ko Hristu.
Νικολάος Διάκ wrote:He says that it is true, he has witnessed a number of Serbian bishops that eat sausages, steaks, etc. in Serbia, which he has visited many times in his life. As far as I know the Patriarch has only been accused of eating meat once since he was made a bishop and that was because he was served it, which is no sweat off my brow, to coin a phrase.
First your Godfather may have forgotten if these days were fast days or not...
After that, sometimes the Fathers also ate meat to be polite with their guests or with those who were offering them a meal... without knowing the fact. Finally, I see many serbs but it is the first time I hear this... I will check your information...
And I ask you to provide me the canon forbiding to eat fish during the lent...
Priidite, poklonimsja i pripadem ko Hristu.
Jean-Serge, I did concede that this may be a Serbian custom that like the Slava is a practice only of the Serbs. It is true that no monastic is supposed to eat meat, but if when you are fasting you are served non-fasting foods you eat what is put in front of you by your host, as not to offend them. What my godfather spoke of was eating of meat in situations outside of this rare exception.