Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-02-18
REGULATIONS.
OF the Diocese Of St. Cloud
for the Year
# 1898.

All the faithful, unless legiti-
mately excused or dispensed, *re
bound in conscience, under the
penalty of g,ievious sin, to OBJ
serve the Lenten regulations.
All the days of Lent, the Sum
days excepted, are days Of fast.
The pr, cept of fasting restricts
the use of food to one meal towards
the middle of the day, and a colla-
ton in the evening not exceeding
the fourth part of an ordinary
meal-custom, however, a 'thoriz.
ing the taking in the morning of a
cup Of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with small piec o! bread.
Theologians allow for the COLA
ton solid food to the amount Of
eight ounces. The solid food
taken IN the morning should not
exceed two ounces.
When the mel or principal re.
past cannot be t,ken without scri-
Gus inconvenience toward. the
middle of the day, the order of re-
past may be reversed, the meal or
principal repast being taken in the
evening, and the collation. at an
earlier. hour.
The use of flesh meat is allowed
at all meals on Sundays, and ut the
princi,, al.meal on Mondays, Tues
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
except the Saturday # Ember
week March g., and the Satur.
day Of Holy::week april 81.
The use of flesh meat is for.
hidden on Wednesdays, Friday,
the S.tu. day of Ember week and
the Saturday of Holy week. o"
other days, outside Of Sundays, it
is forbidden to all repasts, except
the one meal or principal repast.
The use of lard, however, is per-
mitt,d all times in the preparation
of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot
b., taken. at the same time, even on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or
dispensed from the precept offast'
ing, may use flesh meat at all meals
on whatever day there is general
permission to use it at the prin.
cipal repast.
From the precept of fasting are
excused: Those under the age of
twenty.one years or over the age
ofsixty; infirm and the GONZALES
cent; woman bearing or nursing
children; those engaged in hard
labor or other duties exhaustive of
physical strength; those who from
poverty are unable to procure for
the principal repast sutficlency
of nutritive food.
, From the pr ecept of abstinence
from flesh m. at are excused: The
young under the 4ge Of seven
years, the sick; those who are SO
situated as not to be able to pro.
cure for themselves abstinence
food.
In virtue of the authority con.
coded to Bishops of the United
States by recent Political In.
dult, permission is granted to
working people" to use meat on
all days of Lent, with the exception
of Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the
Wednesday and the Saturday of
Holy week.
This d,spensation of abstinence
extends to all three repasts If the
day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
Where the wage.earners, in
virtue of the indult, uses meat, all
the members of the household may
likewise use it. The church does
not wish to impose upon the house.
hold the inconvenience of double
cooking. But, in cases of this
kind, those members Of the house.
hold who may be bound by the
precept Of fasting are allowed the
use 0 f meat only at their principal
repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts
al who NAV make use of the priv.