Catholic Vegetarians & Vegans

I sort of suspected that but are there any books or sources you can refer us to research regarding the topic?

Hi,
There is a new thread about Romans 8:19-22 at Sacred Scripture.
Please visit http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=396562.
There is also a poll to take!

Hi,
Please visit another new thread http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=396562 about Romans 8:19-22. I think we should be doing something to alleviate the suffering of God's creatures (including animals). There should be a poll also to take. Thanks!!

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum. (I'm not a total vegetarian I eat a bit of meat. I know that my body is designed to eat plant based foods, I'm planning to go on the preventative gerson therapy for 12 weeks though to clean out my body.

I have a recipe to share with you all. I tried this soup and it's the most filling soup I've had in my Life! The amount in this recipe is tripled the regular one to make it for the entire family.

Hippocrates Soup Recipe Dr. Max Gerson The Gerson Therapy Equipment Use 4-quart stainless steel pot Assemble the following vegetables Cover with pure quality water (see pure water) Ingredients 3 medium celery knob or 9-12 stalks of celery 3 medium parsley root – if available Garlic as desired 6 small leeks (if not available, replace with 6 medium onions) 4 ½ pounds tomatoes or more 6 medium onions 3 pounds of potatoes A little parsley. Directions 1. Do NOT peel any of these special soup vegetables 2. Wash and scrub them well 3. Cut them coarsely 4. Simmer them slowly for 2 hours 5. Then put them through a food mill in small portions 6. Only fibers should be left 7. Vary the amount of water used for cooking according to taste and desired consistency. 8. Keep well covered in refrigerator no longer that 2 days 9. Warm up as much as needed each time 10. DO NOT MICROWAVE THIS SOUP, AS IT WOULD DESTROY ALL OF THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE. Note: For recipes that call for soup stock, use the liquid from this special soup.

This recipe is very good, it takes a while to prepare but it's worth it if you want your taste buds to go wild. What's great about it too is that it detoxes your kidneys, and it throws away all the unneeded sodium chloride that has accumulated in your body over the years AND on top of all that, this soup is alkaline!

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum. (I'm not a total vegetarian I eat a bit of meat. I know that my body is designed to eat plant based foods, I'm planning to go on the preventative gerson therapy for 12 weeks though to clean out my body.

I have a recipe to share with you all. I tried this soup and it's the most filling soup I've had in my Life! The amount in this recipe is tripled the regular one to make it for the entire family.

Hippocrates Soup Recipe Dr. Max Gerson The Gerson Therapy Equipment Use 4-quart stainless steel pot Assemble the following vegetables Cover with pure quality water (see pure water) Ingredients 3 medium celery knob or 9-12 stalks of celery 3 medium parsley root – if available Garlic as desired 6 small leeks (if not available, replace with 6 medium onions) 4 ½ pounds tomatoes or more 6 medium onions 3 pounds of potatoes A little parsley. Directions 1. Do NOT peel any of these special soup vegetables 2. Wash and scrub them well 3. Cut them coarsely 4. Simmer them slowly for 2 hours 5. Then put them through a food mill in small portions 6. Only fibers should be left 7. Vary the amount of water used for cooking according to taste and desired consistency. 8. Keep well covered in refrigerator no longer that 2 days 9. Warm up as much as needed each time 10. DO NOT MICROWAVE THIS SOUP, AS IT WOULD DESTROY ALL OF THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE. Note: For recipes that call for soup stock, use the liquid from this special soup.

This recipe is very good, it takes a while to prepare but it's worth it if you want your taste buds to go wild. What's great about it too is that it detoxes your kidneys, and it throws away all the unneeded sodium chloride that has accumulated in your body over the years AND on top of all that, this soup is alkaline!

what a cool idea! Do you have a link to one of these that you could PM me? I'd like to check it out!

It's getting to be crockpot time up here too! (well, actually it's been cold for a while up here, but it's good to have a reminder!

morningstar farms has a good one... i serve it with a mushroom cap and sliced bell pepper......
but the chilis black bean one is good too.......

Feast and Fast it has more to the title.. its a book about fasting/feasting and food rules in the Middle Ages.
available form the medieval book and cookbook specialist Poison Pen Press, and probably from others as well

I've just come across this interesting piece: http://www.interfaithfamily.com/holi...er_Seder.shtml
Well, to be honest, it's not interesting at all except for the somewhat perplexing fact that with Rabbi Lieberman there's a Jew who writes about the New Testament apparently without knowing the New Testament at all. It's positively hilarious! That's what he says:

"Among the many problems of assuming the Last Supper was a Passover seder is the fact that this would place Jesus' trial and execution on the first day of Passover. The Gospel writers may have intended to implicate Jewish officials in the death of Jesus and by having them so involved on one of their most sacred calendar days would have furthered the polemical anti-Jewish ends for which they may have been striving when the Gospels were compiled after the death of Jesus."

Well, that's exactly what the Gospel writers haven't done and this brings us back to the question orginally raised by BillCherry. Because Mark, who seemingly places Jesus crucifixion on the full-blown first festival day, takes care to note down the following:
"14:1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 2 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
So much for Lieberman's attempt at the thesis that the Synoptics wanted to stress the cruelty of the Jews by making the latter deliberately choose the festival day for the crucifixion to make a scene! To the contrary, Mark tells us that that was the thing the Jews were keen on averting!

It would, indeed, be strange if Mark tells us(as he seemingly does) that Jesus was crucified on the first feast day but lets us eavesdrop likewise on an interview between the Jews where they express their purpose to kill Jesus before the feast starts! Therefore this is a little positive evidence to show that Mark really goes hand in hand with John in the matter of dates.

Otherwise 14,1-2 does not make much sense. If I would force myself to try and get any polemical content out of this passage it would be this: that the ruling Jewish class was afraid of the mass of pious Jewish people who would have made an uproar against their impious politics desolating sacred feasts if Jesus had been crucified on that feast. So this rather seems to justify Jesus strident accusations against the Jewish ruling class of his days. - In this light it would be a nonsensical anticlimax if Mark would go on to show that the crucifixion somehow had to take place on the sacred feast despite the best humane and religious efforts, of those who plotted the crucifixion, to have the sad mess done earlier with.

Hey, everyone! I've always been a non-meat type of person, although I've always eaten meat. As a kid, I would rather have a second helping of pasta than one helping with meat balls.

In High School, a science teacher told us why she was a vegetarian. I was intrigued with the idea, but never took the official step until now (and believe me, "now" is *way* past high school!)

I just got my blood work back and I have high cholesterol and high triglycerides. That was the impetus I needed to go "as vegan as I can" except for fat free yogurt, occasionally.

From a spiritual standpoint, I'm just realizing that perhaps I can actually say that I have always felt "called" to be a vegetarian. I do feel better and I am eating less additively.

Praise God for veggies! (We need a veggie smilie on here. Hey, they have a pizza....)