Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-13
LENTEN SEASON
IS OPENED
Forty Days of Abstinence
and Sacrifice.
NO PLEASURE OR MEATS
Society Will Have Rest from Pink Teas,
Receptions And Dances. Rules .
Governing the Season.

The lenten season opened yester-
day and for forty days will be OBJ
served in the customary manner
throughout the world. Communi-
cants have been enloined by their re-
ligious advisors on the proper regu-
lations for the governing OF their con-
duct. The letters set forth that Ash
Wednesday falls on Feb. 18th and
all days of lent are fast days except
Sundays
The rules are as follows:
All persons who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast. Custom allows a cup of tea,
coffee or chocolate, with small
piece of bread to be taken in the
morning. In the evening collation.
not exceeding the fourth part of an
ordinary meal is allowed.
BY dispensation, the use of flesh
meat is allowed at the principal meals
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, except the Saturday
in En- Der week and the Saturday of
Holy week.
The use of fish and flesh meat is
not allowed at the same meal during
| lent.
All under twenty-one years of age,
those who are engaged in hard work,
| the sick and convaiescent and per-
sons who cannot fast without injury
to health are exempt from the fast.
Persons exempt from fasting on &C
count of tender age, hard labor or
sickness, are not restricted the use of
flesh meat at only one meal on the day
ON whichit is allowed. Those who
entertain any reasonable doubt THAI
their obligation to fast or abstain
ought to apply to their pa .vrs for
advice or dispensation.
The time for fulfilling the Paschal
duty is extended in this diocese from
the first Sunday in Lent to Trinity
Sunday.
In virtue of special facilities given
in letter of the Sacred Congregation
of Propaganda to the Ordinaries of
the United States on the 10Th day of
March, 1895, for ten years, permission
is granted to all laborers in this do
,cese to eat meat at one meal on day
of abstinence.
From this permission, however, are
excluded all Fridays in the year, Ash
Wednesday, Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday of Holy week and the vigil
of Christmas 1t should also be re-
marked that on those days on which
the use of meat is thus allowed fish
and flesh caanot be eaten at the same
meal.
This permission to eat meat on GER
tain days of abstinence extends not
only to the laborers themselves, but
also to their family, so that every
family participates in the privileges
of the adult.
Those who make use of this dispen-
sation are earnestly exhorted to per-
form some other work of penance on
those 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 on the cross.
Because drunkenness is such wither-
ing scourge and counts it's victims by
thousands. On its eXtirpation depends
the blessings Of health, the happiness
Of homes and the salvation of many
souls.
Hence the choicest self-denial for
the holy season is to make in your
heart and carry out in practice the
following promises:
/. To abstain from all intoxicating
drinks daring lent.
z. To keep out of the saloon.
z. To say one Our Father and three
Hail Marys every day for the sup
preston Of intemperance.