The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1901-02-22
FORTY OAYS-N|GHTS
The Bishops Regulations for Observing
Lent During the Forty Days and
Nights.
Committee Passed Through Mitchell to
Investigate the Insane Asylum at
YaDktOn.
Flremsn Gave a Successful Dancing Party
and Cleared a Good Snug Sum Of
Money.
THE LENTEN SEASON.
How the Forty Days and Nights are
to be Observed by the Catho-
lie Church.

lie Church.
Bishop O'GUrmsn, of Sioux Falls, has
Issued ms Instructions for the observ
ance OF Lent, uica beg AN Wednesday
Following l. portion of lhe message
sent 10 tne q urch people:
Ia this yea VI grace, 1891, the TWEEN
tieJh Gay VI February VIII DC ASH Wed
nssuay, The b 81 day OF Lent.
All tic lA,. fuL, unless legltimatalv
excused u dispensed, are bound in con
sclehcS, unGei eue penalty Of grevlUus
slA, 10 ooaetfe the Lerten regulations.
All the d! Lent, the Sundays ex
cep-ed, >;e ua5a o fast.
Inc pteue pc u fast restricts the use
OF foua u oLe full meal towards the mid
Gle ol Inc uay, and L COLLATION. a the ev-
eDihg not exceeding he fourth part OF
q tull meal-custom, however, author.
i2lng The taklug IN the moruing of ii cup
OF coffee, lea or chocolate, with small
piece OF bread
For the cuitation tbeologians allow
solid food to tue amount of elg ghtuuuces
Inc solid food taken Ia the morning
Should not exceed Two ounces.
Wnen the toll meal or principal re-
past cannot be taken without serious
lnconvenieuct towards the middle of
the day, Inc order of repasts may be
reversed, the full meal or principal re-
past being taken in the evening, and
the COLLATION. at an earlier hour Of the
day.
Inc use Of fl9sn meat is allowed at ali
meals on Sunuays, ana at the pri nci pal
meals on Monuays, Tuesdays, Thursday
an - IN S.4JI n #
Enber weeA March 2d}, and tne Satur-
Gay oi Holy week april 6sn
The use OF tl3sn meat therefore is for
bidden Ill ali meals on Wednesdays,
Fr1Cays, the saturday OF Ember week
ana ene Saturday of Holy week: ana
on other days, ou SIDE OF Sundays, IL Is
uroluden aI otner repas ts. outside the
one tail meal.
ihe Use oil lard is permitted at all
times iu me preparation OF foou.
BoGu iisIl ana flesh meat cannot be
taken q Tic same meal, even on sun
days.
Persons iegitlmately excused or dis
pensed tiun ane precepl OF fasting, may
use the tlesn meat at all meals on what
ever day Inere ls general permission
to use il at me principal meal.
From tne precept OF fast are excused:
Those undt the age of twenty-one or
over the age of sixty: the innrm and
the conv lecent; woman bearing or
nursing cnlidren: persons engaged in
hard labor or oLner duties exhaustive
OF physical strength; persons who from
poverty are unable TO procure for the
principal meal a sutficiency OF nutritive
food.
From the precept of abstinence are
excused: The young under the age OF
seven years: the SICK: persons who are
90 situate d as not TO be able to procure
for themselves abstinence food.
In virtue Of the authority conceded to
Bishops in the United States by re-
cent Pontlhcal Indult permission is
granted 10 working people" to use
meat on ali days OF Lent. with the ex-
ception OF Fridays, Ash Wednesday
The Wednesday and the Ssturd ay OF
Holy week ros dispensation from
| abs stineuce extends to all three meals
| in he day
The usual prohibition remains
! against using Il ,sn msat ana fish at the
same meal.
Where the wage Garner. in virtue ol
I-lhe-tnda+4. USES meat, all mem bers ol
his household may likewise use it. The
Church does not wish 10 impose upon
the household the venience o
double cooking. But, in cases of thi:
kind, the members of the house hold
who are bound by the precept of the
fast. are allowed the use of meat onl,
at their principal meal.
The Sovereign Pontiif exhorts ali VINO
make use of the privilege OF tt e lndul
TO be still mindful Of their duty tx
practice setf-deniaj: ard he counsel
that instead OF the abstinence from mea
some other sacrifice OF bodi V comfort b.
practiced, the Sovereign P,ntitf himse
suggesting as such sacrifice abstinenct
from Intoxicating drink.
The Ponti6cal Indult, of which
we have spoken, eXempts working
people, from abstinence on vigil
and Ember days, except when such Wig
lis and EN- GER days fall on Friday: anc
on such days, the Indult also ex
empts from abstisence, in the same con
ditions as for the Lenten season. tn,
members of the household OF the wage
Garner
Pastors will make to their tincks il
the usual terms due announcements o
approaching Ember days and Vigils
adding to such apnouncemenis q state
ment of the privileges given by the n
dult to working peoDleN
When doubt eXsists as to whethe
ones condition or circums' ances ALLOW
evemptiou from the precept Of fast an
abstinence, council should be aske'