Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-03-13
Regulations for Lent.


In this year of grace, 1889, Ash We'd
nesday, the first day of Lent, falls on
the 9th day of March.
All days in Lent, Sundays excepted,
are days of fast.
All the faithful, unless legitimately
dispensed, arc bound to observe the fast
of Lent.
The law of fasting restricts the taking
of-food to one full meal toward the mid
die of the day, and in the evening to a
collation. not exceeding the fourth-part
of an ordinary meal, and excludes both
from the full meal and the collation. the
use of flesh-mest, eggs, and white meats,
milk, butter, cheese, etc.,
BY apostolic dispensation the follow
ing special privileges are granted to the
faithful in the United States.
/. The use of flesh-meat is permitted
at the principal meal on Mondays, Tnes-
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, with
the exception of Ember-Week, March
16th,) and Holy Saturday, april Goth, }
Fish and meat, however, are not to be
used at the same meal.
2. The use of eggs and white meats
(milk, butter, cheese, etc. is permitted
on all days of Lent, whether at the prin-
cipal meal or at the collation..
8. A cup of tea, coffee, chocolate, OF
other similar drink, with morsel of
bread. or a cracker, may be taken in the
morning.
4. When the principal meal cannot
without difficulty be had toward the
middle of the day, the order of the re-
pasts may be changed-thc collation.
taken in tie morning, and the dinner, or
full meal, in the evening.
5. The use of lard or dripping is per-
mitted in preparing food.
6. Persons legitimately dispensed from
the law of fasting may use fiesh-meat at
all the meals on whatever days there is
general permission for its use ut the prin-
cipal meal.
The precept of fasting is binding under
pain of grevious sin.
The following class of persons are dis
pensed from obligation of fasting: Per
sons under the age of twenty one years;
those who have attained to the age of
sixty; the inirm; those who are engaged
in hard labor or exhausting duties; wo.
men who are in state of pregnancy, or
are nursing children. Those who excuse
themselves or seek exemption from this
obligation, should satisfy their consci-
ences that their indisposltion to fasting
is owing to real inability and not to a
spirit of self-indulgence. In all cases of
doubt they should advise with their pas
tor, and all who are exempt, should en-
deavor to supply as far as they can for
the non-observance of the fast by other
penitential restrictions and should in
common with others devote themselves
to prayer and recollection, and to the
acts of sorrow and compunction for sin,
agreeably with the spirit of the church
in this holy season.
The precept of abstinence from flesh
meat is binding on all children under
the age of seven years and the sick ex-
cepted.
BY special apostolic indult the use of
tlesh-meat is again allowed on Saturdays
throughout the year, except when a fast
day falls On Saturday
Pastors will hold special services of
devotion in their several churches at ap-
pointed times during Lent. Instructions
of practical character upon the Chris
tan duties, the nature of the sacraments
and the preparation for their due recep-
ton should be given on those occasions.
The devotion of the Way of the Cross
will be observed in all the churches and
chapels, when it is possible to do so, on
the Friday evenings throughout Lent.
I JOHN IRELAND,
Archbishop of st. Paul,
administrator Apostolic of the Vicariate OF
Northern Minnesota.
q st. Paul, Feb. 21st, 1885,