The words of the day are “brother and sister.”  We would expect that the reading for today would be fasting since this is Meatfare Sunday.  And true, the topic of our reading of 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2 is eating meat, the very thing that we will abstain from throughout Great Lent. However, our reading is about eating “meat offered to idols” in pagan temples.  This is not our question but a question for the Gentiles in the Roman Empire.  The reason we do not eat meat in Great Lent has to do with the disciplines of repentance and control of the passions.  It would seem that the passage, therefore, has no application to us in the 21st century. However, we might…