Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-22
LENTEN

Stanley Has Issued the Regu-
lations to Govern the Members Of
the Catholic Church During the
Lenten Period. ::
The Lenten regulations of the diocese
Of Fargo for the year 1901 are:
In this year of grace, 1901, Ash Wed
nesday, the first day of Lent, OCCURS Feb.
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All the faithful, unless legitimately ex-
cused or dispensed, are bound in con-
science, under the penalty of ~grievous
sin, to observe the Lenten regulations.
. THE LENTEN FAST.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays ex-
cepted, are days of fast.
The precept of fasting restricts the use
of food to one meal toward the middle of
the day, and a collation. in the evening
not exceeding the fourth part of a meal;
custom, however, authorizing the taking
In the morning of a cup of coffee, tea or
chocolate, with a small piece of bread.
~Theologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight ounces.
The solid food taken in the morning shall
not exceed two ounces.
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious incon-
venience towards the middle of the day,
the order of repast may be reversed, the
meal or principal repast being taken in
the evening and the collation. at an ear
lier hour.
THE LENTEN ABSTINENCE.
The use of flesh meat. is allowed at all
meals on Sundays, and at the principal
meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, except the Saturday of
Ember Week March p and the Saturday
of Holy Week april g.
The use of flesh meat is forbidden on
Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday of
Ember Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week; IN other days, outside OF Sundays,
it is forbidden at all repasts, except the
one meal or principal repast.
The use of lard, however, is permitted
at all times in the preparation of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sun
days
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting, may
use flesh at all meals on whatever day
there is a general permission to use it at
the principal repast.
EXEMPTIONS FROM THE PRECEPTs OF FAs
AND ABSTINENCE.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age of 81 years
or over the age of 60; the intirm and the
c~onvalescent; women bearing or nursing
children: those engaged in hard labor or
other duties exhaustive of physical
strength: those who from poverty are
unable to procure for the principal repast
a sufficiency of nutritive food.
From the precept Of abstinence from
flesh meat are excused: The young un-
der the age of seven years; the sick;
those who are so situated as not to be
able to procure for themselves abstinence
food.
spEc1AL EXEMPTION FOR WORRYING PRo-
PIE
T., xs,t,,o ~f thc auth orstr ron~nIal t~
bishops of the United States by a recent
pontifical indult, permission is granted
to working people" to use meat on all
days of Lent with the exception Of Fri
days, Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday
and Saturday of Holy Week.
This d~ispensation from abstinence ex-
tends to all three repasts in the day.
The usual prohibition remains against
the using of flesh meat and fish at the
same meal.
Where the ~wage-earner, in virtue of
the indult, uses meat, all the members
of the household may likewise use it.
The church does not wish to impose
upon the household the Inconvenience of
double cooking. But in s OF this
kind those members OF the household
who may be bound by the precept OF
fasting are allowed the use Of meat only
at their principal repast.
The sovereign pontif exhorts al who