Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-02-17
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A CARD.

Mr.. HoLDEN:-Please do me the favor to &C.
knowledge through your paper the receipt of 500
from the Progress office, and $500 from Mr.. P. F.
Pescud, which was contributed from citizens of
Raleigh, to relieve the distress which was OCCASION
ed by the loss of my house by fire. No language
can command can adequately express my gratitude
for this kindness. l can only hope that NAV con-
tinue to conduct myself in such manner as shall
secure me the friendship and confidence of our ci
zens generally. A. HOLT
Raleigh, Feb. -, 1864.
LENr.-Rt Rev. Bishop LYNCH has issued the
following instructions for Lent to be observed by
the Catholics of the Diocese of Charleston:
CHARLESTON, S. c., 9th Feb, 1864
To the Clergy and Laity
Of the Diocese Of Charleston:-
The trying circumstances in which our county is
still placed require this year continuance of the
notifications Of the Discipline of the Church. as to
the observance Of Lent, which were published last
year..
In her power of weighing well such ever VARYING
circumstances, and Of prudently adapting her dsci-
pline in this and in other matters where change is
allowable to the varying strength of her children
IN her wonderful power of freely and fully doing
this without changing any of the principles or in
fringng any of the truths which she received from
her Divine Founder, and which it is her mission to
preach to every creature the Church gives evidence
alike of her Oneness and immutability, as the "pl
lar and ground Of truth, which ia one and the
same, and Of that Catholicity by which, having been
established for every age and nation she is in tho
words Of the APOSTLE "all things to all men," and
there can arise no condition of society in which the
necessities of her children are unknown to her. or
beyond her maternal soGctude.
The Penitential season of Lent commences this
year on Ash Wednesday, February 10, and closes
with Easter Sunday, March 81.
During this season, by the ancient laws and the
spirit Of the Catholic world the use Of flesh meat
cepted, was fast day on one meal generally to be
taken only after sunset The Church, acting on
the principle already stated, has variously modified
these regulations Of her Disciplined and in this DID,
cese we feel that the necessities and the difficulty OF
obtaining such articles of food as are ordinarily de-
sired in Lent call for special mitigation.
The use of the Flesh meat will therefore be al
lowed at the principal meal, and, the regulation es
to quantity Of food being OBSERVED at the collation.,
all the Fridays and Holy Saturday, which will re-
main and be kept as heretofore.
/ Besides the principal meal, which should not be
taken before midday, collation. not exceeding the
fourth of an ordinary meal is allowed, to be taken
in the evening. If however, the principal meal is
to be taken late in the afternoon, then the collation.
may be taken in the morning.
The usual causes exempt from fasting, viz: youth,
old age, hard labor; for females, pregnacy and
nursing. Those in the army or navy arc also ex.
empted. In cases Of doubt each one should con.
suit bis confessor.
While we are thus released from many of the
usual obligations of Lent, our Holy Mother, the
Church, exhorts US and expects US to make, IS it
were, some compensation, by more abundant chart
ty, according to our means to the poor who are on
every side Of us and by ervent and unceasing pray
er to God for speedy and honorable termination Of
the war, and the establishment of happy peace.
Given at Charleston, S. G., this 9Th Fe6, 1864.
t P. N. LYNCH, D. D.,
=. Bishop Of Charleston.