Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-27
5l LEI Il SEASON !, !: !. J.
Regulations for Observance Given
''*> BY Bishop TrobeC.

1 IL IL =
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.
All the faithful unless .legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound 10
conscience, under the: penalty Of
greivous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations. IT,. :.
All the days Of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, are days of last. i
The precept of fast restricts the
use Of food to one full meal towards
the middle of the day, and cola.
tion in the evening not exceeding
tho fourth part of q full meal
custom, however, authorizing the
taking in the morning OF cup OF
coffee, tea or chocolate. with small
piece ofbread.
| For the collation., theologians al
low solid food to the amount OF
eight ounces. The solid food taken
in the morning should not exceed
two ounces.
When the full meal or principal
repast cannot he taken without seri.
GUS Inconvenience, towards the mid
die OF the day. the order of repasts
may be reversed, the full meal or
principal repast being taken in the
evenipg, 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 meal on Mondays, Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, ex
cept the Saturday OF Ember Week
and the Saturday of Holy Week.
The use OF flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals Oh Wednes-
days, Fridays, the Saturday of EN-.
Der Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week, and on other days, outside OF
Sundays, it is forbidden at other re-
pasts, outside 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 at the same meal, even on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or
dispensed from the precept OF fasting
' may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general per-
mission to use it at the principal
meal.
From the precept Of fast are ex-
cused: Those under the age OF tven-
ty-one years or over the age ofsixty,
the infirm and the aIescent; NO.
men bearing ornursing children; per-
sons engaged in hard labor or
other duties exhaustive of physical
!, strength; persons, who from poverty
are unable to procure for the prin-
cipal meal a sufficiency of nutritive
food.
! From the precept of abst inence
are excused: The young, under the
age OF seven years; the sick; persons
who are so situated as not to be able
to procure for themselves abstinence
TODD.
In virtues OF the authority conced-
ed to Bishops in the United States
by a recent Pontifical Indult, per.
mission is granted to working peo-
ple'' to use meat on all days OF Lent,
with the exception OF Friday, Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and the
Saturday of Holy Week.
| This dispensation from abstinence
to all three meals in the day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
! Where the wage-earner, in virtue
of the Indult, uses meat, all mem bers
+ OF his household may likewise use it.
; The church does not wish to impose
upon households 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 meatat
their principal meal. The sovereign
Pontiff exhorts all who make use of
the privileges Of the Indult to be
still mindful Of their duty to practice
self denial; and he counsels that in
stead of the abstinence from meat
some other sacrifice of bodily COM
fort be practiced, the Sovereign Pom
tiff himself suggesting as such eacri-
fee abstinence from Intoxicating
drink.
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