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For Lent, ashes Wednesday and 7 Fridays without meat - Newsday

The meatless Friday custom goes back to the time of Jesuss cruxifiction 2,000 years ago and is meant to commemorate his death on the cross, said the Rev. Patrick Flanagan, chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John&#x