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can you eat meat on saturday after good friday

Yes—if you mean the Saturday after Good Friday , meat is generally allowed for Catholics because the no-meat rule applies to Good Friday itself and, in the usual Catholic practice, to other Fridays of Lent, not Saturday.

Quick rule

  • Good Friday: no meat for Catholics who are required to observe abstinence.
  • Saturday after Good Friday: meat is allowed; the abstinence rule does not continue into Saturday.

One caveat

If your own parish, local bishops, or personal devotion asks you to continue abstaining, you may still choose to do so, but that is not the standard Church requirement.

Plain answer

So, yes, you can eat meat on Saturday after Good Friday in normal Catholic practice.

If you want, I can also give you the rule for Holy Saturday vs. Easter Saturday , since people often mix those up.