The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
LENTEN SERVICES
REGULATIONS REGARDING THEM
IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
SERVICES AT CHRIST CHURCH
TO BE CONDUCTED AT NOON EACH
DAY BY EPISCOPAL CLERGY.

Rev. DIR. A. c. Bum to Speak of
"NIen Who Have Fought" and Rev.
VI. Campbell of The Lords Pray
er''-Choir Festival at 81. Johns
Church-Rev. BascOm Anthony to
Deliver Special Message TO Citi-
zens OF savannah-Rev. Samuel
Rrender, Former Rabbi, TO Preach
in Westminster Presbyterian
Church mt IL O'clock and in ED
worth Church at Night.
In the Roman Catholic churches the
following regulations will be read aft
er each service to-day
General Law: All the weekdays
OF Lent from Ash Wednesday to Eas-
ter Sunday are fast days of precept, on
one meal, with the allowance Of mod
crate cola ton in the evening. The
church excuses from the obligation of
fasting (but not of abstinence from
hesh-meat except in special cases OF
sfckness) the infirm. those who are at
tanning their growth. those whose du-
Ties are of an exhausting or labOrious
character, women in pregnancy or
those nursing infants, and all who are
enfeebled by old age"
The following dispensations are
granted for this Diocese by the author
ity of the Holy See:
The use of fish-meat IS allowed at
and at the principal meal on Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
(Ember Saturday and Holy Saturday
excepted).
"The use Of eggs and food made of
milk is allowed every day at the prin-
cipal meal, as also at the collation..
"A small piece OF bread. with a cup
of coffee, tea or chocolate, may be
taken in the morning.
Where It is not convenient to take
the principal meal at noon, it is law
full to invert the order. and take
collation. in the morning and dinner
in the evening.
Dripping and lard may be used in
preparing food.
"On Sundays there is neither fast nor
abstinence, but fish and flesh must not
be used at the same meal.
Those who are exempt from the pre-
cept of fasting may eat meat at the
three meals on meat days.
by a special indult granted to the
bishops of the United States for ten
years, dating from March Is, 1885,
working people, who cannot easily OBJ
serve the common law of the church,
are dispensed from the obligation Of
abstinence on all days of the year, ex-
cept Fridays Ash Wednesday, Holy
Week and Christmas Eve This dis
pensation does not exempt from the ad-
ditfonal obligation of fasting, where
such exists, nor does it authorize the
use of fish and flesh at the same meal.
1t includes, however, not only the in
dividual workmen in whose favor it is
granted. but all the members of their
famil!es as well. In return it is ex-
pected that those who avail of this
indult VIII endeavor to enter into the
spirit of the holy season of Lent by
voluntary acts of modification and
penance. A most useful and COM
mendable custom is that of abstaining
during Lent from stimulants, in honor
of the sacred thirst of our Divine Sa-
viour.
"The Pascal time extends from the
first Sunday of Lent till Trinity Sun
day, during which time all Catholics
who have attained the use of reason
are bound to prepare themselves to re-
ceive worthily the Holy Communion"
1t will be also announced that next
Sunday a collection will be made in all
the churches for missions among the
Indians and the colored people. The
regulations state: 1--WE require all of
our clery to remind their flocks to give
literally for this good work, and to for
ward the amount to the rector of the
Cathedral in Savannah. They should
also read the general regulations for
the observance of the Lenten period on
each Sunday during Lent"