Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-02-22

Official Regulations For Lent
I. Ash Wednesday falls on the 2Sth day Of
February.
2.An the days of Lent are fasting except til
Sundays.
All persons who have completed theil
twenty-frst year, unless legitimately dispen sed
be Obliged 10 keep tho fast. Custom allows
cup of coffee, tea or chocolate with small
piece of bread to be taken in the morning. IL
the evening collation. not exceeding the fourth
part Of An ordinary meal is allowed
By dispeusation, the use of flesh meat Is IL.
lowed at the principal meal on Mondays, Tues
days. Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday in Ember week and the Saturday in
holy week.
S. The use of fish and flesh meat is not al.
lowed at the same meal during Lem.
All nnde, twenty-ons years of age, those who
are engaged in hard work, the sick and oonva-
lescent aud persons who cannot fast without
serious injury to health are exempt from the
fast Pers,ns excused from fasting on account
Of tender age hard labor or sickness, are not
restricted to use of flesh meat ct only one mea
on the days on which it is allowed.
Those who entertain any reasonable
doubt about their obligation to fast OF
abstain ought to apply to their pastors for ad-
vice or dispensation.
7. The time for fulfilling the Paschal duty
il extended in this diocese from the first Sun
day in Lent to Trinity sunday.
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of the sacred Congregation of Propaganda Il
the Ordinaries Of the United States on the 18th
of March 1885, for ten years. hereby grant TO all
laborers in this Diocese permission to eat meat
at one meal on days of abstinence.
From hia permission, however, are excluded
oil Fridays in the year, Ash Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, of Holy week and
the Vigil of Christina II should also b. r.
marked that on those days on which the use Of
meat il thus allowed fish and tiesh meat cannot
be eaten at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on certain days
of abstinence extends not only t. tho lsborers
Themselves but slso TO their families 90 that
every member of their family participates in
enc privilege of tho indult.
Those who make use of this dispensation are
| earnestly exhorted to perform some other work
or penance on tho,e 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 or
the Gross. Because drunkenness 10 such
whitening scourge and counts Its victims b,
many Thousands on i's extirapation depend
the Blessings of health, the happiness of homes
AMI the salvation of many souls.
Hence the choicest self-denial for the Hol,
Season is to mako in your heart and carry on,
10 practice the following promises:
1. To abstain from all intoxicating drink.
during Lent.
2. To keep out of tho saloon.
Z, To say one Our Father and three Hail
Marys every day for tns suppression of Intern
rerance.
Pastors will please read and explsin the abov,
regulations 10 the faithful before the begin:
ning of Lent. This holy season should b!
s-'thfully observed by Catholics, and in orde
- -n'rit Of penance and prsye
10 Ptohote sne +. --'d DO invites
peculiar to the time. they sho..-
whenever Il 10 practicable to attend in churct
the extra devotional service. which are earnest
~ recommended to be held at least twice q
week. and which might consist, on Wednesday,
of the recitation of q part of the Rosary. . pras
tical instruction and the benediction of The
Blessed Sacrament; on Fridays the appropriate
exercise would be the Stations of the Cross.
| HENRY COsanove,
February H. 1900