Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-27

ME. Lane intends that the company
by him shall after time
be fit for actual service.
THE LENTEN SEASON.
Be gins on Wednesday-Rules for OBJ
servance by Catholics.
Next Wednesday is the beginning of
the Lenten season, the period when
self abnegarion begins. The Ro-
man Catholic world especially
will observe Lent as has been
the custom for centuries and
Bishop Cosgrove has formulated and
caused to be disseminated a set of
rules which will be read in all the
Roman Catholic churches in this do
cese next Sunday. The bishop has al
ways been strong advocate against
the evils of intemperance and he takes
occasion to make mention of it in the
rules which follow:
Wednesday, the beginning of Lent,
falls on the 2Sth of February this year,
one week from yesterday, and the
rules will be read in the Catholic
churches next Sunday. They are as
follows:
1. Ash Wednesday falls on the 2sth
of February.
2. All the days of Lent are fasting,
except the Sundays.
3. All persons who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast. Custom allows cup of COT
fee, tea or chocolate with small piece
of bread to be taken in the morning.
In the evening collation. the fourth
part of an ordinary meal is allowed.
4. BY dispensation, the use of fresh
meat is allowed at the principal meal
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, except the Saturday in, En-
Der week and the Saturday in Holy
week.
5. The use of fish and flesh meat is
not allowed at the same meal during
Lent.
6. All under twenty-one years of
age, those who are engaged in hard
work, the sick and convalescenr and
persons who can not fast without Sc
rious injury to health are exempt from
the fast. Persons excused from fast
ing on account OF tender age, hard la
Dor or sickness, are not restricted to
use of flesh meat at only one meal on
the day on which it is allowed. Those
who entertain any reasonable doubt
about their obligation to fast or alb
stain ought to apply to their pastors
for advice or 'dispensation.
z. The time for fulfilling the Pas
chal duty is extended in this diocese
from the first Sunday in Lent to Trim
it. Sunday.
In virtue of special faculties given
in a letter of the Sacred Congregation
of Propaganda TO the Ordinaries of the
United States on the 18th of March,
1895, for ten years, hereby grant TO all
laborers in this diocese permission to
eat meat at one meal on day of absti-
nence.
From this permission, however, are
excluded all Fridays in the year, Ash
Wednesday, Wednesday, Friday aud
Saturday in Holy week and the Vigil
of Christmas 1t should also be re-
marked THAI on those days on which
the use of meat is thus allowed, fish
and flesh cannot be eaten at the same
meal.
This permission to eat meat on GER
tain days of abstinence extends not
only to the laborers themselves but
also to their family, so that every
member of their family participates
in the privilege of the adult.
Those who make use of this dispen-
sation are earnestly eShorted to per-
form some other work of penance on
those days.
The best modification for Lent is to
abstain from the use of Intoxicating
drinks in honor of the Sacred Thirst
and Agony of our Lord on the Cross,
Because drunkenness is such wither-
ing scourge and. counts it's victims by
many thousands on it's extirpation de
ponds the blessings of health, the hap.
piness of homes, and the salvation Ct
many souls.
Hence the choicest self-deniaF fol
the Holy season is to make in youl
heart and to carry out in practice the
following promises:
l.. To abstain, from all intoxicating
drinks during Lent.
2. To keep out of the saloon.
3. To say one Our Father and three
Hail Marys every day for the suppress
sion of intemperance.
Pastors will please read and explain
| the above regulations to the faithful
before the beginning OF Lent. Ihl:
holy season should be faithfully OBJ
served by Catholics, and in order IL
| promote the spirit of penance anc
prayer peculiar to the time. the,
should be invited, whenever it is prac
ticable, to attend in church the extra
devotional services which are earnest
ly recommended to be held at leas
twice week, aud which might con
sist, on Wednesdays of the recitation
of part of the Rosary, a practical in
struction and the benedic1ion of tn,
Blessed Sacrament; on Fridays the APP
propriate exercise would be the Sta
tons of the Cross.
Henry Cosgroye.
Bishop of Davenport.
"He that seeks finds" He that take:
Hoods Sarsaparilla finds in its us'
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