The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-12
THE CHURCH'S GREAT FAST.
LENTEN OBSERVNNCES WILL BE
ANNOUNCED TO-DAY.

ing-Thc Services in the Episcopal
Churches The First Baptist
church 10 Bc He-opened Next sun
day by Dr. Hawthorne of Nash
NiIIc-Duny street Congregation
Expects to Occupy ITS Sew Church
Next MOnth-Ncw brotherhood in
the Presbyterian Church.
This week brings the beginning of Lent,
the great fast of the church. From Ash
"Wednesday until Easter. which this year
comes on April .. the Roman Catholic and
Episcopal Churches will observe the weeks
with services in commemorauon of Christs
forty days andNhshts ia the wilderness,
Ia all of the Roman Catholic churches
OF the Savannah diocese tho regulations
for Lent promulgated by Bishop Becker
Will be read to-day. In MS letter 20 the
clergy, the bishop says:
by the command of the Third Plenary
Council Of Baltimore, a collection Is to be
taken up in all The churches on The first
Sunday Of Lent, for the missions among
the Indians ana co.ored people.
1--WE require all OF our clergy 10 remind
their hocks 60 give literally for this good
work, and to forward the amount 20 our
vicar general in Savannah. They should
also read the general regulations for the
observance of the Lenten period on each
Sunday during Lent.
"Ali the week days Of Lent from Ash
Wednesday to Easter Sunday are fast days
of precept on one meal with the allow
ance Of a moderate collation. in the even
ing.
The church excuses from the obligation
of fasting (but not Of abstinence from
nesh-meat except in special cases of SICK
ness the inhrm, those who are attaining
their growth, those whose duties are of
an exhausdng or laborious character, Wo-
men in pregnancy. or those nursing IN
fants, and all who are enfeebled by ola
age.
The following dispensations are granted
for this diocese by the authority of The
holy see:
The use of flesh meat is allowed at every
meal on The Sundays of Lent, and al the
principal meal on Monday Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday Olmber Saturday
and Holy Saturday excepted
The use of eggs and food made of milk
is allowed every day at the principal meal
as also at the collation..
small piece of bread, with a cup of
coffee. tea or chocolate may be taken in
the morning.
Where it is not convenient to take The
principal meal at noon. it is lawful to IN
vert the order and take a collation. sn the
morning and dinner in the evening.
Dripping and lard may he used IN pre-
pairing food.
on Sundays there is neither fast nor
abstinence, but fish and flesh must not pe
used at the same meal
Those who are exempt from the precept
of fasting may eat meal az 'he llree
meals on meat days
BY a special indult granted to the pishop
of The United States FOR ten years. dating
from March Is 1896 working people, VINO
cannot easily observe the common law or
the church. are dispensed from the oblt-
cation of abstinence on all days OF the
year. except Fridays, ASH WEDNESDAY
Holy Week and Chris tmas eve. rms as
peusation does not exempt from the addi-
tional obligation of fasting, where such
exists. nor does 1t authorize the use OF
fish and flesh at the same mea! II in
cIudes however, not only the individual
workmen in whose favor IL Is granted, but
all the members of their families as We'll
In return it is expected that those who
avail of this indult will endeaVor TO enter
into the spirit of the holy season OF Lent
by voluntary acts of modification and pen
ance A most useful and commendable
custom is that of abstaining during Lent
from stimuants, in honor of the Sacred
Thirst of our divine Saviour.
The paschal time extends from the first
Sunday of Lent til Trinity Sunday, dur
ing which time all Catholics who have
attained the use of reason are bound TO
prepare themselves TO receive worthiy the
holy communion The holy season of Lent
is a proper time also, for children 10 so
10 their first confession, which they ought
10 do generally when about years of age.
Parents should see to this.
The services for the Cathedral congrega-
tion during Lent wiz be as follows;
Wednesday evening. at 5 o'clock, Rosary.
sermon and benedicUon. Friday evening
at S. stations of the cross. on Sunday even
iugs during Lent. there VIII be discourse
after Nespers on What the Catholic
Church Teaches"
At St. Patricks and Sacred Heart
Churches the Lenten services will be as
they have been heretofore.
In Inc Episcopal Churches The fast viii
he observed with all the solemnity with
which il is observed in the Roman Catho-
lie Church. Al St. Johns, services viii be
held on Ash Wednesday at II O'Clock in the
morning, and 4;3O o'clock in the afternoon,
and during Lent every afternoon at 4.@
O'Clock At Christ and St Paufs
Churches the usuaF Lenten services will
be held.