If you are over 65 can you eat meat on Friday during lent?

Roman Catholic AnswerYou have two things confused: Friday abstinence, and Lenten fasting. Friday abstinence is not eating meat. In the United States, the Bishops have requested a dispensation so that people can choose some other penance outside of Lent, other than not eating meat, but everyone must still abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent. This has no upward age limit, you must abstain from meat on Fridays until the day you die.

Fasting if where you only have one full meal during the day. Current Church regulations stipulate that fasting is only required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (although it is a healthy spiritual practice at other times, as well). The law of fast only binds through your 59th year. So, if you are over 60, you are not bound by Church law to fast (although you still may) but you are still bound by abstinence.