Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-14
LENTEN

LENTEN REGULATIONS.
Bishop Stanley of Fargo has issued
the following regulations regarding
Lenten observance:
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of griev-
ious sin, to observe the Lenten regu-
lations.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, + days of fast.
The precept Of fasting restricts the
use of food to one meal towards the
middle of the day, and a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part OF a meal-custom, however, au-
thorizing the taking in the morning
a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, with
a small piece of bread.
T~heologians allow for a 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 in
convenience towards the middle Of the
day, the order of repast may be re-
versed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
The S of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays. and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday Of Ember week (Feb. s22nd)
and the Saturday of Holy week March
29th).
The use of flesh meat is forbidden on
Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday Of
Timber week and the Saturday of Holy
week; on other days outside of Sun
days it is forbidden at all repasts, ex-
cept the one meal Or principal repast.
The use OF lard, however, is per-
mitted at all times in the preparation
Of food.
Both fish and flesh meats cannot be
taken at the same meal sven on Sun
days.
Persons legitibately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting,
Eiay Use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general per-
mission to $ it att the principal re-
past.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age Of q
years or over the age of GO; the infrm
and the convalescent; 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 suficiency Of nutri-
tive food.
From the precept of abstinence from
flesh meat + excused: The young
under the age of Z years; the sick;
those who are so situated as not to be
able to procure for themselves abstin-
elce food.
In virtue of the authority conceded
to bishops in the United States by a
recent pontificial indult, permission is
granted to working people to use
meat on all days of Lent with the .ex-
ception Of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
and Wednesday and Saturday of Holy
week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends 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 Garner, in virtue of
the indult, uses meat, all members Of
the household may likewise use it.
The church does not wish to impose
upon the household the inconvenience
OF doubling cooking. But in cases of
this kind, those members of 1.-The house,
hold who may be bound by the pre-
cept of fasting, r allowed the use OF
meat only at their principal repast.
The sovereign pontif exhorts all
who may make use Of the privilege of
the indult to be still mindful of the
duty to practice s%elf-denial, and he
counsels that instead Of the abstinence
from meat, some other sacrifice of bod
lily comfort be practiced, the sovereign
pontiff himself suggesting as such sac
ritce abstinence from Intoxicating
drinks.
JOHN STANLEY,
Bishop Of Fargo.
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