....the feast day of eostre....

 ..... i was wondering what the origins of eating fish and not eating meat were....
as ever the internet guys help out and have also helped me have a little look at the origins of easter... there's a lot to it.....

in relation to the fish issue i thought i'd go straight to the people who would know
the web site Catholic Answers says:
The law of abstinence requires a Catholic 14 years of age until death to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in honor of the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. Meat is considered to be the flesh and organs of mammals and fowl. Also forbidden are soups or gravies made from them. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles and shellfish are permitted, as are animal derived products such as margarine and gelatin which do not have any meat taste.
and
Because Christ sacrificed His flesh on Good Friday, we abstain from eating flesh.

being a good faithful atheist i wanted to discover that easter had its origins in some pagan or at least non christian festival..... the name “Easter” was likely derived from Eostre, the name of the Anglo-Saxon lunar goddess, as was as the name for the female hormone estrogen. Eostre’s feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox — a similar calculation as is used for Easter among Western Christians. On this date the goddess Eostre is believed by her followers to mate with the solar god, conceiving a child who would be born 9 months later on Yule, the winter solstice which falls on December 21st.
http://atheism.about.com/od/easterholidayseason/p/PaganChristian.htm


and what of all the other stuff that has morphed into all things easter
On the surface, Hot Cross Buns seem entirely Christian. After all, they have a cross right on them. Like the Christmas tree, however, they are overtly distained in the scriptures. Hot Cross buns, or “bouns” as they were called in Rome, were made round as a symbol of the sun in the Eos celebration (Eos being the daughter of the sun and goddess of the dawn). The “cross” inscribed on it was not the cross of Jesus but a “solar cross.” The buns were taken home after the fertility rituals and hung in the house for good luck
http://heathensguide.com/04/23/an-atheists-easter-origins-and-myths/
...there's lots more on this web site about such things as the easter bunny! very interesting

....pass me another chocolate egg