The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

eran and the Roman Catholic and in
all of these. special services will be
held Wednesday.
In Christ Church a service will be
conducted by the rector, Rev. Robo
White. at IL O'Clock. and another at
p. m. on succeeding days, except Sat
urday. when there will be no service,
a service will be held each day at 5
p. m. This is with the exception Of
Holy Week during which there will be
daily services. The Htany lectures will
be given on Wednesdays and Fridays.
At St Johns Church, where the
services will be conducted by Rev. c.
H. Strong, rector, on Wednesday there
will be morning service, penetential
Offering and sermon at IL O'Clock, and
evening prayers and an address at
4S0 O'Clock. During week days, with
the exception of Monday. a service
with address will be held at 4:S0
o'clock. Holy communion will be adj
miusstered Thursdays at IL o'clock.
and the confirmation class will meet
FlludN tIAiOOtlS al - y AfpAh-
At st. PauTs Church, Rev. ]. L.
Scully. rector. will hold an early cele-
bration at 1880 o'clock; morning pray
ers at II and litany service at S:15.
During the remainder of Lent with
the exception of Holy Week. mathis
Will be held on Wednesdays and Fri
days at 10 o'clock. and services on
Tuesday and Thursdays at 4:30. Even
ing services will be held on Wednes-
days and Fridays at Sis. Holy COM
munion will be administered Wednes-
day mornings at 1880 o'clock.
At the Lutheran Church of the As
Cension. Rev. DIT. w. G. Schaeffer Will
conduct a service Wednesday at 4:30
o'clock, and during the early weeks of
the season will hold a service a week,
each on Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock.
During the week preceding Holy Week
and during Holy Week the service will
he held daily. In St Paufs Lutheran
Church special services will be held
only during Holy Week.
In the Roman Catholic churches the
regulations for Lent will be read at
the services to-day. These provide
that in all churches of the diocese a
collection shall be taken up on the
first Sunday in Lent for the missions
among the Indians and colored people.
The clergy are required to remind their
aocks to give literally for this good
work and forward the amounts of the
collections to the chancellor of the do
cese.
The general law states that all the
weekdays of Lent from Ash Wednes-
day to Easter Sunday are fast days of
precept, on one meal, with the allow
ance of a moderate collation. in the
evening.
The church excuses from the obliga-
ton of fasting (but of not abstinence
from fiesh-meat except in special cases
of sickness) the infirm. those who are
attaining their growth, those whose
duties are of an eXhausting or labor
ious character. women in pregnancy
or those nursing infants. and all who
are enfeebled by old age.
The following dispensations are
granted for this diocese by the au-
thority of the Holy See:
The use of fish-meat is allowed at
every meal on the Sundays of Lent.
and at the principal meal on Monday.
Tuesday Thursday, and Saturday
(Ember Saturday and Holy Saturday
excepted).
The use of eggs and food made of
milk is allowed every day at the prin-
cipal meal, as also at the collation..
A small piece of bread. with cup
of coffee, tea or chocolate, may be
taken in the morning.
Where it is not convenient to take
the principal meal at noon it is lawful
TO invert the order. and take a COLA
ton in the morning and dinner in the
evening.
Dripping and lard may be used in
food.
On Sundays there is neither fast nor
abstinence, but fish and flesh must not
be used at the same meal.
Those who are exempt from the pre-
cept of fasting may eat meat at the
three meals on meat DAYS
BY a special indult granted to the
bishops of the United States for ten
years, dating from March 15 1895,
working people who cannot easily OBJ
serve the common law of the church
are dispensed from the obligation of
on all days of the year ex-
cept Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Holy
Week and Christmas Eve. This dispen-
sation does not exempt from the addi-
tionsl obligation of fasting, where such
exists. nor does il authorize the use
of fish and flesh at the same meal 1t
includes. however. not only the indi-
Vidual workmen in whose favor il is
granted. but all the members of their
families as well. In return ii is expect
ed that those who avail of this indult
viii endeavor 10 enter into the spirit
of the holy season of Lent by voluntary
acts of modification and penance. A
most useful and commendable custom is
that of abstaining during Lent from
in honor of the sacred
thirst of our divine Saviour
The Paschal time extends from the
first Sunday of Lent till Trinity Sun
day. during which time all Catholics
who have attained the use of reason
are bound to prepare themselves to re-
ceive worthily the holy communion.
The holy season of Lent is a proper
time also for children to go to their
first confession, which they ought to do
generally when about Z years of age.
Parents should see to this.
In the Cathedral of ST. John the Bap-
list at the early masses on Ash We'd
nesday, the ashes will be blessed and
among the congregation.
and a similar distribution will be made
al the evening service, consisting of
rosary. sermon and benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament, which win take
place at s o'clock. The service Of the
stations of the cross will be celebrated
on Fridays.
In the other Catholic churches SINH
lar services viii be held on Ash We'd
nesday. Special services for the re-
of the season win be announc-
I'd to-day.
An innovation in religious annals this
year is a recommendation that Friends,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Congrega-
lionalists observe Lent. The Twentieth
Century, National C0Snel raYnpafe-n