Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-19
THE RULES FOR LENT
Bishop Cosgrove Issues Regula
tions for Observing Season.
IN EFFECT IN DAVENPORT DIOCESE
Lent Begins February 25, Ash Wednes-
day, and Continues Until Easter Sun
day, April 12-Forty Days of Fast
MISREPRESENTATION to Laborers.

Rt. Rev. Henry Cosgrove, bishop of
the diocese of Davenport of the Cath
Ole church, which includes the three
Ottumwa churches, has issued his rules
for the obervance of lent in the do
cese. Lent will begin on February 25,
one week from next Wednesday, and
ends on April ~, Easter day. The
regulations for the observance of the
season, as issued by Bishop Cosgrove,
are a follows:
Ash-Wednesday falls on February %.
All the days of Lent are fasting, except
the Sundays.
All persons who have completed their
twenty first year, unless legitimately dis
pensed, are obliged to keep the fast. Gus
tom allows cup of coffee tea or choco-
! late, with a small piece of bread to be
taken in the morning. In the evening a
collation. not exceedinGkahe fourth part Of
an ordinary meal is Ned.
BY dfspensation, the use of fesh-meat is
allowed at the principal meal on Mondays
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. ex-
cept the Saturday in Ember week and the
Saturday in Holy Week.
The use Of fish and fesh-meat is not al
. lowed at the same meal during Lent
All under twenty-one years of age those
who are engaged in hard work. the sick
and ~convalescent, and persons who cannot
fast without serious injury to health, are
exempt from the fast Persons excused
from fasting on account of tender age,
hard labor, and sickness are not restricted
to the use of fesh-meat at only one meal
on the days on which it is allowed. Those
who entertain any reasonable doubt about
their obligations to fast or abstain ought
to apply to their pastors for advice or dis
pensation.
The time for fulfilling the Paschal duty
Is extended in this diocese from the first
Sunday in Lent to Trinity Sunday
In virtue of special faculties given in a
letter Of the Sacred Congregation of Propa-
ganda to the Ordinaries of the United
States on the March 10, 1895, i hereby
grant to all laborers in this diocese per-
mission to eat meat at one meal on days
of abstinence.
From this permission, however, are ex-
ciuded all Fridays in the year, Ash We'd
nesday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week
and the Vigil of Christmas 1t should also
be remarked that on those DAYS on which
the use OF meat is thus allowed, fish and
flesh cannot be eaten at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on certain
days of abstinence extends not only to the
laborers themselves, but also to their fam
lily, so that every member of their family
participates in the privilege of the imdult
Those who make use of this DISPENSE
ton are earnestly exhorted to perform,
some other work of penance on those days.
such as apstalhihg from the use OF intoXi-
catins drink OF some other act OF NORTH
cation.
PASTORS WI! please read and explain the
ABOVE regulations TO the faithful before be
ginning of Lent. This holy season should
be faithfully observed by Catholics, and
IN order 10 promote the spirit OF penance
ana prayer peculiar TO the time, they
. siiouiu pe invited whenever II is practical
PIE 10 atteH' IN ehurch the extra Devotion
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