Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1881-02-28
The Lenten Season.

Arrangements fer services-Public Adj
dresses Suitable to the seuson-Lenten
Regulations.
Lent begins Wednesday. Every Wednes-
day evening in Lent there will be a united
service at Trinity church. On the first of
these evenings Bishop Williams will preach.
The programme is further as follows:
March 9.-Rev. G. H. B. Tremaine. Subject ::
"Christianity in Business"
Mare March 1smRev; E. s. Lines Subject Chris
March g. Rev Joseph Brewster Subject
March 3o,-Rev. E. E. Beardsley, D. D. Subject :
christianity in the Family"
April s-Rev. Edwin Harwood, D. D. Subject
| God"
At st. Paul's church the services will be as
follows:
l Ash "Wednesday. : Morning prayer and Sermon
TaesSsg Thursday.
| Saturday O'Clock p. Wednesday, Friday, 9
O'Clock a. m Friday, 1880 p. m. Evening prayer and
Passion Week. - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Good Friday.-Morning prayer and sermon at 1880
| a. M Evening prayer, O'Clock p.
Confirmation. = Sunday before Easter, April 10,
10 a. m.
Easter Day.-Early service, $50 a. m Service with
| sermon and holy communion, 1880 a. m. sunday
Upon the evenings Of Monday, Tuesday Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday in Passion Week, at 73e there
will be short services in Trinity church. with brief
addresses by two of the clergy Of the city, each eve
ming There also to be daily prayers at O'Clock
in the afternoon until further notice.
AT st Inomas on ,o Ash Wednesday there VIII be
afternoon, evening prayer at o'clock. Friday
short lecture at 5 O'Clock During lent. until Pas
zion Week, morning prayer Wednesdays and Fridays
saturdayxt O'Clock with short lecture at the
Friday evening service Passion Week, service
st. Johns Episcopal church, Rev. Mr.. TremAine-
Services Wednesday and Friday at a. and every
service at 7:30 p Holy Week. every morning at
O'Clock and every afternoon at o'clock. There will
be confirmation Sunday before Easter in the even
ing. Sunday, the holy communion. Services at the
dT IN March Sn a sn6 ! the ss
$3.50 On the first Sundays in the month at 1885,
Morning and evening, regular service at 1880 and
Church of the Ascension-Ash Wednesday, morn
ing prayer and ante-communion at O'Clock. Even
ing prayer at O'Clock. Friday March 4th, evening
prayer at O'Clock.
ST. Luke's church-services Sunday morning and
evening will be at the usual hours Friday evenings
at 7:30 O'Clock. The Sunday evening services will
The Bishop of Hartford has sent to the
Roman Catholic clergy of this diocese the
following letter.
Rep Dear Ssr-The regulations Lent for this do
eese continue the same as formerly. viz:
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, falls on the
ID Of March All the week days Of Lent are fasting
days of obligation meal only; custom. how
ever has authorized the of slight collation. in
morning. though the fast also implies abstinence.
yet by dspensation the use of flesh meat is allowed
at all times Sundays and at the principal meal on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays of
Lent. Besides lard, the fat rendered from any kind
of meat may be used in preparing food day in
This dispensation is also extended to TIE days
Of abstinence and fast days throughout the Eggs
butter and cheese are permitted at the collation.,
provided that the laws of quantity be Observed hes
and fish, however, not allowed at same meal.
Women pregnant or nursing, the sick, the aged and
feeble, children under twenty years old and those
whose employment is of laborious and exnausting
character excused from the obligation Of fasting,
but not from that of abstinence.
The usual evening counting Of the rosary of the
Blessed Virgin stations of the cross and benedic
ton of the blessed sacrament are recommended.
You viii exert every effort to inspire your people
with penitential spirit urging them to ny from sin
occasion and eonsecrate this holy to
prayer, works of pety and the frequentaton of the
sacramento without which the observance Of the
fast would be of little proht. & s&$ ~
Given at Hartford this 10th day of February. 1881.
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