The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-08
THE RULES OF LENT
As Announced for the Archdiocese
of St. Paul
BY ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND
Ash Wednesday for This Year Falls
On February 12-Next
Wednesday,.


Wednesday,.
Lenten regulations for the archdiocese
OF st. Paul have been issued by Arch
bishop John Ireland, as follows:
III this year Of grace, 1902, the twelfth of
February will be Ash Wednesday, the first
day OF Lent. All the faithful, unless legiti-
mately excused or dispensed, are bound In
conscience, under the penalty of grievous sin.
to observe the Lenten regulations.
All days OF Lent. Sundays excepted, are
days OF rast. The precept of fast restricts
the use OF food to one full meal towards the
middle OF the day, and a collation. in the eve
ming not exceeding the fourth part Of a full
meal, custom, however, authorizing the TAX
ing IN the morning of cup Of coffee, tea or
chocolate, with small piece Of bread.
For the collation., theologians allow solid
food to the amount Of eight ounces. The solid
food taken in the morning should not eX-
coed two ounces.
When the full meal, or principal repast,
cannot be taken toward the middle OF the day
without serious Inconvenience, the order of
repasts may be reversed the full meal or
principal repast being taken In the evening
and the collation. at an earlier hour Of the day.
The use OF flesh meat Is allowed at all
meals on Sundays, and at the principal meals
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays, except the Saturday Of Ember week,
Feb q, and the Saturday Of Holy week.
March 20.
The use of flesh meat, therefore, is forbid
den at all meals on Wednesdays, Fridays,
the Saturday of Ember week and the Satur-
day OF Holy week; and on other days, except
Sundays, 1t is forbidden at all repasts except
the one full meal
The use Of lard is permitted at all times
in the preparation of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be taken
al the same meal, even on Sundays.
Persons legltimately excused or dispensed
from the precept OF fasting may use flesh
meat at adj meals on whatever day there is
q general permission to use it at the principal
Tepast
Exemptions.
From the precept OF fast are excused:
Those under the age of q years or over the
age OF 60; the infirm and the convalescent;
women bearing nursing children; persons
engaged in hard labor other duties exhaus-
i've Of physical strength; persons who, from
poverty, are unable to procure for the prin
cipaI meal a suftciency Of nutritive food.
FROM the precept Of abstinence are excused:
The young under the age of years; the
sick; persons who are situated as not to
be able to procure for themselves abstinence
food.
In virtue OF the authority conceded to bish-
ops in the United States by recent pontiftcal
1ndult, permission is granted to working peo-
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
Wednesday and Saturday Of holy week.
This dspensation from abstinence extends
to all three meals in the day.
fhe usual prohibition remains against using
flesh meat and fish at the same meal.
Where the wago-earner, in virtue of the in
dult uses meat. all the members of the
household may likewise it. The church
does not wish to imuose upon the household
the inconvenience of double cooking. But in
cases of this kind the members of the house
hold who are bound by the precept of fast
are allowed the use Of meat only at their
principal meal.
The sovereign pontff exhorts all who may
make use Of the privilege Of the indult to be
mindful of their duty to practice self-denial;
and he counsels that instead of the abstinence
from meat. some other sacrifice of bodily
comfort be practiced, the sovereign pontin
himself suggesting as such sacrifice abst-
nence from intoxicating drink.
Fast Days Outside of Lent.
Days of fast and abstinence falling outside
the Lenten season in 1902 are the Ember
days and the Vigls of holy days. The Ember
days will be Wednesday, Friday and Satur-
day, May 81, 90, "a; Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, Sept. II, 10, 20; Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday, Dec. II, 10, 20. The Vigils will
be: The Vigil Of Pentecost, May II; that of
the Assumption Aug. IA that of All Saints,
Oct. 81; and that of Christmas, Dec. "a All
Fridays of course days Of abstinence.
The pontifcal indult. Of which we have
spoken eiempts working people, from abb
stinence on Vigils and Ember days, except
when such Vigils and Ember days fall on
Friday; and such days the indult also ex
eInpts from abstinence, in the same condi-
tions as far as the Lenten season, the mem
bers Of the household Of the wage Garner.
Pastors will make to their focks in the
usual terms due announcements of approach
Ing Ember days and Vigls-adding to such
announcements statement of the privileges
given by the indult to working people"
When doubt exists as to whether ones
condition or circumstances allow exemption
from the precepts of fasting and abstinence,
counsel should be asked from confessors or
pastors, who the authoritative inter-
prefers Of the law, and who are even en-
powered. in special cases for good and sufE-
cient reasons, indicated and suggested in
Catholic theology, to commute the precepts
of fast and abstinence to other penitential
works
In enjoining upon the faithful fast and alb
stinence, holy church makes a practical ap
plication of the evangelical law of self de
NAL, of which the Savior and his apostles
WERE by example and by word most emf
trent teachers. Without self-denial there is
no Christianity. Indeed, without self-denial
there Is no natural morality The man who
has not acquired by habit the power Of self
restraint will rot be victorious sin, amid
the storms and temptations Of life which ali
men must encounter.
The observance Of fast and abstinence pre-
scribed by the church is taken by the world
as a public and fearless profession of Cath
Ollie faith. He who, without sufficient OBJ
vious reasons, eats meat or takes his usual
meals when abstinence fast is enjoined
is not accepted as a practical Catholic.
Let Catholics have the courage of self
denial for the sake of Christ and of their own
souls, and be on their guard lest by their acts
scandal be given, and the fair name of their
religion dishonored
During Lent pastors will hold at appointed
times in their several churches appropriate
exercises of devotion, and will give to the
faithful instructions of a practical nature
upon the articles of the creed, the COM
mardments and the sacraments.
The devotion of the Way of the Cross will
be observed. when possible, in all churches
and chapels, the Friday evenings through
cut Lent.
HAVE GIVEN LIBERAI4LY
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