Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-02-06
Rcsulatsns for the cbse',.yanee
Of Lent.

4 4. ANU w clleSuAy ldtlS OH tIle lZIn
day of February.
,. All the days of Lent are fast
days except the Sundays.
3. All persons who have completed
their twenty first year, unless !egiti-
mately dispensed, are Obliged to keep
the fast. Custom allows cup of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with a small
piece OF bread TO be taken in the mort
aug. In the evening collation. not
Exceeding the fourth part of all or
dinary meal is allowed.
4. by dispensdtion, the use of flesh
meat is allowed at the principal meal
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays ard
Saturdays, excep. the Saturday i'm En-
Der week and the Saturday in Holy
week
5. The use of fish and II ssh meat is
mot allowed at the same meal during
I Lent.
| All under twen'y-one years of
lage. those who are engaged in hard
work, the sick and convalescent and
persons who cannot fast without seri-
GUS !rjury to health are exempt from
the fast. Persons excused from fast
ing on account of tender ago, hard
!, labor or sickness, are not restricted to
nseof flesh-meat at only one meal on
the day OH which it is allowed. Those
, u ron 1, 3.,,, Az
about their obligation to fast or alb
stain ought to apply to their pastors
for advice or dispensation.
:. The time for fulfilling the Pas
chal duty is extended i'm this diocese
from the first Sunday in Lent to Trim
ity Sunday.
In virtue of special faculties given
IN letter of the Sacred Congregation
of Propaganda to the Ordinances of the
United States on the 18th day of
March, 1895, for ten years, | hereby
grant to all laborers in this Diocese
permission to eat meat at one meal on
days of abstinance.
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 ne
marked that on those days on which
the use of meat is thus allowed fish
and flesh cannot bs 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
member of their family participates in
the privilege of the indult
Those who IN AXE use of this dispen.
sa'lon 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 intoxic ating
drinks in honor Of the Sacred Thirst
and Agony CT our Lord on the Cross.
because drunkenness is such a wither-
many thousands on ITS extlrpation de-
ponds the blessings of health, the
happiness OF homes and tho salvation
of many souls
Hence the choicest self-denial for
the Holy Season is to make in your
heart and to carry out in practice the
following promises:
I. To abstain from all intoxicating
drinks during Lent.
3 To keep out of the saloon.
3 10 say one Oar Father and three
Hail Msrys every day for the
suppression of Incompetence
Pastors will please read and {, plain
the above regulations to TIE f. thrn
before the beginning of Lint. This
holy season should be faithfully OBJ
served by Catholics, and in orGer to
pro note the spirit of penance and
prayer peculiar to the tin e. they
should be invited, whenever it is prac-
ticdbie to attend in church tie extra
devotional services which are earnest
ly recommended To be held 1T least
tWice e week, and which might consist
on Wednesdays of the recitation OF a
part of the Rosary, practical instruc-
ti,n and l,enedictlon of tie Blessed
Sacrament: on Frid avs the appropriate
exercise would be the Stations of the
Cross.
an very de irOus that every priest
in the diocese will, as soon as possible,
have the Association of the lropaga-
ton Of the Faith regularly established
in his congregation, III conformity
with the circular sent to each one,
dated May 20, 1898. In those parishes
liz which it has not yet been est ablished
the collection for the Propagation Of
the Faith will be taken up on the first
Sunday of Lent, as has been done in
former years. hope this collectit n
will be earnestly recommended on the
previous sunday, and the emount sent
to Reverend Henry Maniett, of stuart,
Iowa, Hho has been appointed Dioces-
an Director. For any information as
to the establishment of tie Assc cia-
ton, please write TO him. Those who
have not yet sent In their Seminary
collection will please do so without
unnecessary delay, SO that the an,u |
report may be made out.
HENRY CnSGRnyE