The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-02-22
THE LENTEN RULES.
Arch Bishop Katzer Sends His Annual
Letter In Regard to the
Lenten Season.
MANY FESTIVALS OBSERVED

Inc use OF meal on saturday Is AI1O"6u
by Apostolic Dispensation-Meat to Be
Eaten But once q Day on Other Days
Bishop Nicholson Has Not as Yet Issued
ANY Letter TO the Churches in Regard to
the Lenten Season.
Lent begins Feb. %, and prepare
tons for the fast are being made in
church as we'll as state. Merchandise
brokers report large advance orders
for salt fish for delivery during Lent.
In church good stores, the display of
wax candles that filled the windows
from Epiphany until last week, has
given place to pictures of the Last
Supper and of Gethsemane.
Archbishop Katzer has issued his
annual Lenten letter of rules for the
observance by members of the Catholic
church. The instructions will be read
to the congregation by the clergy of
the archdiocese on Sunday, Feb. IS.
Bishop Nicholson has not yet issued
his Lenten pastoral for the guidance
of the people of the Episcopal faith in
the diocese of Milwaukee, but will
probably do so next week, after his re-
turn from the east.
Archbishop Katzer's Lenten letter
conveys nearly the same instructions
as that of last year. It is as follows:
1. Ali days of Lent, Sundays ex-
cepted, are fast days of obligation on
which but one full meal is allowed.
2. The use of flesh meat is allowed
by apostolic dispensation, at the prin
cipa1 meal only, on all days except
Wedr esdays and Fridays and also
Saturdays of the second or ember week
and of holy week. (Those who are ex-
empt from fasting may more than once
partake of flesh meat on days not en-
| joining abstinence).
3. Theuse of eggs, butter, milk and
cheese is by custom allowed through
Lent and also the use of lard instead
of butter for cooking.
4. Fish and flesh meat are not per-
mitted at the same meal.
| S. A collation. or repast may be
taken in the evening, but it ought not
to exceed the fourth part of an ordinary
meal, and cup of coffee or tea with a
little milk and small slice of bread
may be taken in the morning by those
who need it.
| Besides Lent there are during the
year the following days of fast and
abstinence.
1. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
of every ember week.
2. The vigi1s of Pentecost, the AS
sumption of the Blessed Virgin, of All
Saints and of Christmas; likewise the
Fridays of Advent; fast and abstinence
is recommended on the Saturday dur
ing the octave of ST. Peter and ST.
Paul or on the Saturday before the
feast if it falls on Sunday.
| 3. All Fridays during the year are
days of abstinence from flesh meat; on
Saturdays. the use of meat is allowed
again this year by apostolic dispense
ton, except in case feast day falls on
| Saturday.
Ali must consider themselves strict
1y bound to this fast; those only are
exempt from fasting, though not from
abstinence, who are under the age of
Fl, and such persons as are sick, infirm,
| conva1escent or otherwise of delicate
constitution, or those whose strength
is impaired by old age, nursing or by
hard labor. Such as are seriously sick
are also exempt from abstinence.
| Those who entertain any reasonable
doubt about their obligation to fast or
to abstain, ought to have recourse to
their respective pastors for advice or
| dispensation.
By virtue of these special faculties
granted by the holy see, we also dis
pense from the law of abstinence all
all those that perform physical labor,
and we permit them the use of flesh
meat once during the day on all days,
with the exception of Fridays during
the entire year, Ash Wednesday, the
vigil of Christmas, ana those days of
| the holy week on which the other faith
full are not dispensed. This dispersal
ton is so to be understood that at the
common meal the whole family may
avail themselves of the dispensation.
| However, it is never allowed to eat fish
and flesh meat at the same meal.
| Moreover, the faithful ought to per-
form some other works of penance,
e. e., abstain from Intoxicating drinks
on the days on which they make use of
this dispensation. Likewise, all that
eat flesh meat on the Saturdays during
the year are counse11ed to do other
good works, e. g., give aims for the
grace of that dispensation.
The annual collection for the Negro
and Indian missions will be taken up
on the first Sunday in Lent