The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-02-14

esta blished a quarantine. The doctor
says that by reason of the isolation of
the dwelling the family have few visit
ors and he thinks there is no danger of
contagion. The little girl is not dan
gerously sick. r" T..
Lenten Regulations in Diocese of St. Cloud.
Ash Wednesday, the first day of
Lent, falls this year on Feb. 20. 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.
All days of Lent, Sundays excepted,
are days of fast. The precept of fast
ing restricts the use of food to one
meal toward the middle of the day,
and a collation. in the evening not ex-
ceeding the fourth part of an ordinary
meal-custom, however, authorizing
the taking of a cup of coffee, tea, or
chocolate in the morning, 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 should not exceed two
ounces. When the meal or principal
repast cannot be taken without serious
Inconvenience towards the middle of
the day, the order may be reversed,
the meal being taken in the evening.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
meals on Sundays and the principal
meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, except the Satur-
day Of Ember week, March 2, and the
Saturday of Holy week, April 8. 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
from the -precept Of fasting may use
flesh meat at all meals on whatever
day there is a general permission to
use it at the principal repast.
From the precept OF fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age of twenty
one years or over the age of sixty; the
infirIn and the convalesc women
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged in hard labor or other du-
ties exhaustive of physical strength;
those who from poverty are un-
able to procure for the princi-
pal repast a suficiency of nutri-
tive food. From the precept of absti-
hence from flesh meat are excused:
The young under the age of seven
years: the sick: those who are so stu
ated as not to be able to procure for
themselves abstinence food.
In virtue Of the authority conceded
to the bishops in the United States by
a recent pontifcal indult,~ permission
is granted working people" to use
meats on all days of Lent, with the ex-
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and Saturday of Holy
week. This dispensation from absti-
hence extends to all the repasts i'm the
day. The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at the
same meal. Where the ge-earner,
in virtue of the indult, uses meat, all
the members of the household may use
it. The church does not wish to i'm
pose upon the household the inconven-
fence of double cooking. But in cases
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 pontiff exhorts all
who may make use of the indult to be
still mindful of their duty to practice
self-denial, and he counsels that in
stead of abstinence from meat some
other sacrifice of bodily comfort be
practiced, the sovereign pontiff him
self suggesting as such sacrifice absti-
hence from Intoxicating drinks. -
- JAMES TRoBEC.