The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-03-02
REGULATIONS FOR LENT.
Read in the ca,hor,e ohur che. last sunday

Read in the Catholic ChuT ches last sunday.
The following regulations for Lent
for the Catholic diocese were read in
all the churches last Sunday morning.
All the week days of Lent from Ash
Wednesday, which occurred this week
to Easter Sunday are fast days Of
precept on one meal, with the allow
ance of moderate collation. in the
evening
The church excuses from the obliga-
tion of fasting (but not of abstinence
from flesh meat, except in special
cases of sickness), the infirm. those
who are attaining their growth, those
whose duties are of an exhausting or
laborious character, women bearing
or nursing infants, and those who are
enfeebled by old age.
| By authority of the Holy See Ind.
Aug 3, 1897, for ten years., the fol-
lowing dispensations are granted for
TThis diocese:
First-The use of hesh-meat is per-
mitted at every meal on the Sundays
of Lent, and at the principal meal on
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day with the exception of Ember
Saturday and Holy Saturday.
Second-The use of eggs, and milk,
butter, cheese and the like, is allowed
every day at the principal meal, and
at the evening collation..
Third-A small piece of bread with
a cup of coffee, tea, chocolate or SINH
lar drink may be taken in the morn
ing.
Fourth-When it is convenient to
take the principal meal at noon, it is
lawful to invert the order, and take
the collation. in the morning and the
dinner in the evening.
Fifth-Dripping and lard may be
used in the preparation of food.
Sixth-On Sunday there is neither
fast nor abstinence; but it is not al
lowed to eat fish and fesh-meat at the
same meal on any day during Lent.
| Seventh-Those who are not obliged
to fast may partake of flesh meat at
every meal on day when by special
Indult, fiesh-meat is permitted at the
principal meal.
Eighth-By special indult of tn,
Holy See, dated March 10, 1895, tn,
bishops of the United States are EN-
powered for ten years to dispense from
the common law of abstinence whel
they judge it expedient. Hence the,
permit working people, who canno
easily abstain from fiesh-meat, to us,
it once day on all abstinence day
throughout the year, with the excep
tion, however, of all Fridays AS
, Wednesday, Wednesday and Saturda
of Holy Week, and the Vigil of Christ
mas
This dispensation is granted t
: working people, and the members o
their families share in it, but it doe
not exempt from fasting, where sucl
an obligation exists, nor does it per
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the same meal.
When the faithful avail themselve
of this Indult, they should perform
some penitential work as substitute
for the dispensation enjoyed. A mos
useful and commendable custom i
that of abstaining, especially, during
Lent, from stimulants, in honor o
the Sacred Thirst of our Divin
Saviour
Ninth-The time for fulfilling tn
Easter precept Of Communion in thi
diocese extends from the first Sunda,
in Lent to Trinity Sunday inclusive
All the faithful are exhorted to en-
ter into the spirit of this holy season
which is a special time for prayer
sorrow for sin, almsgiving and morti
fication Those particularly who can
not fast are recommended to max,
suitable compensation by more libera
aims to the poor and other gooC
works