Editing Lollardy (section)

=== Catholic practices ===
Lollards did not observe [[fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church]]. In [[heresy]] proceedings against [[Margery Baxter]] it was presented as evidence that a servant girl found [[bacon]] in a pot of [[oatmeal]] on the first Saturday of [[Lent]]. Non-observance of dietary restrictions was used as evidence of heresy in another [[Norfolk]] case against Thomas Mone, where it was alleged that a piglet was eaten for [[Easter]] dinner when eating meat was forbidden.<ref>{{cite book |last=Woolgar |first=C. M. |publisher=Yale University Press |title=The Culture of Food in England, 1200–1500 |date=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeKoCwAAQBAJ |page=29|isbn=9780300181913 }}</ref>

Special vows were considered to be in conflict with the divine order established by Christ and were regarded as [[Anathema#Catholicism|anathema]].<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Gasse| first = Roseanne| title = Margery Kempe and Lollardy| journal = Magistra| access-date = 30 May 2017| date = 1 January 1996| url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-894819351.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830102446/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-894819351.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 30 August 2017}}</ref>

Lollards had a tendency toward [[iconoclasm]].{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Some Lollards believed work was permissible on Sundays.<ref name=aston />