This year, I gave up meat for Lent. As it is Friday, Church law would normally require abstinance from meat anyway. However, today is the Solemnity of the Annunciation, and on solemnities we are not bound by the law of abstinance. It also seems appropriate to suspend my personal fast to celebrate the Incarnation. Since today we celebrate the moment that God took on flesh, I think it proper that some sort of flesh be involved in our commemoration of it. So at lunch today, I intend to order a meat dish.
The question is, which meat would be most appropriate? I'm leaning toward beef, mainly because I could never associate Christ with a chicken, and it would feel tacky to celebrate this Jewish rabbi by eating pork. I don't think they serve lamb at Patrick's.
