The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-19
RULES FOR LENT.
Archbishop Katzer's Letter to Re.Diocese
Of Milwaukee ON Lenten Ohservances

Archbishop Katzer's Letter to Re4Diocese
of Milwaukee ON Lenten Ohservances
The full text of Archbishop Katzer' S
communication to the archdiocese of
Milwaukee giving the regulations for
the Lenten season is as follows:
/. All the days of Lent, Sundays
excepted, are fastOdays of obligation,
on which but'one full meal is allowed
.. The use of flesh meat is allowed,
by apostolic dispensation, at the prin-
ciple meal only, on all days except
Wednesdays and Fridays, and also
Saturday of the second or ember week
and OF holy week. (Those who are ex-
empt from fasting may more than once
partake of flesh meat on days not en-
joining abstinence.)
8. The use of eggs, butter, milk and
cheese is by custom allowed through
out Lent, and also the use of lard in
stead of butter for cooking.
4. Fish and flesh meat are not per-
mitted at the same meal.
5. A collation. or repast may be
taken in the evening, but it ought not
to exceed the fourth part of an ordin-
airy meal, and cup of coffee or tea
with little milk and small slice Of
bread may be taken in the morning by
those who need it.
BESIDES Lent, there are, during the
year, the following days of fast and
abstinence:
1. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
of every ember week.
2. The vigils of Pentecost, of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, of
Saints, and Of Christmas, likewise the
Fridays in Advent; fast and absti
nence is recommended on the Saturday
during the octave of st. Peter and ST.
Paul, or on the Saturday before the
feast if it falls on Sunday.
All Fridays Fast Days.
8. All Fridays during the year are
days of abstinence from flesh meat; on
Saturdays the use of flesh meat is al
lowed again for this year, by apostolic
dispensation, except in lease fast day
falls Saturday.
strictly bound to this fast; those only
are exempt from fasting Though not
from abstinence who are under the
age of 81, and such persons as are sick,
in firm, convalescent, or otherwise of a
delicate constitution, or whose strength
is impaired by old age, nursing, or by
hard labor, Such as are seriously sick
are also exempt from abstinence.
Those who entertain any reasonable
doubt about their obligation to fast or
abstain ought to have recourse to their
respective pastors for advice or dispen-
sation.
Laboring People Exempt.
BY virtue of special faculties granted
by the holy see, wealso dispense from
the law of abstinence all those that
perform physical labor, and we permit
them the use of flesh meat ohce during
the day on all days, with the exception
of the Friday, during the entire year,
AshWednesday, the vigil of Christmas,
and those days of the Holy week on
which the other faithful are not dis
pensed. This dispensation is so to be
understood that at the common meal
the ewho1e family may avail itself of
the dispensation. However, it is never
allowed to eat fish and flesh meat at
the same meal.
Moreover the faithful ought to per-
form some other works of penance, e.
g. abstain from intoxicating drinks, on
the days on which they make use of
this dispensation. Likewise, all that
eat flesh meat on the Saturdays during
the year are counseled to do other
good works, e. g., give aims, for the
grace of that dispensation.