The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-27
the lENTEN SEASON.
Annual Announcement of lenten Req.
vlatiQnS for Roman Catholics,

Annual Announcement Of lenten Req
uiatioas for Roman Catholics,
The season of Lent began Wed
nesday and the annual announce
ment of regulations for Roman
Catholics was read in all churches
last Sunday. The instructions were
as follows:
During the approaching Lent, by
special induit of the holy father, the
following regulations will be OBJ
served:
Fresh meats will be used at all
the meals on Sunday. and once each
day at the principal meal on the
following days:
On all Mondays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays; on all Saturdays, ex-
cept Saturday of Ember-week and
Holy Saturday.
Flesh and fish are not allowed at
the same meal.
Custom, tolerated by the church,
permits coffee, tea OF chocolate with
a small piece of bread, to be taken
in the morning. Custom allows the
use of eggs, butter, milk, etc., at the
evening collation..
The following persons are not
Obliged to fast, viz: The sick and
those in feeble health, ONE nurs-
ing children, all who are engaged
in laborious and exhaustive occu-
pations, the young who have not
completed their twenty-frst year.
and those who have reached the
sixtieth' year of their age.
Those who are excused from fast
ing on account of their age or hard
labor, may use flesh meat more than
once on the days on which it is al
lowed. All who are exempt from
the laws of fasting should endeavor
to perform during Lent some other
acts of piety or charity.
BY an indult of the 18th of March,
1895, the Holy See has given for ten
years to the bishops of the United
States the faculty of dispensing in
favor of the working people from
the Jaw of abstinence on certain
days. BY virtue of this indult and
dispensation of Lent working peo-
pie are permitted 10 use flesh meat
once a day on all fast and abstinence
days of the year, except Fridays, Ash
Wednesday, Wednesday and Satur-
day in holy week and the vigil of
Christmas.
The above dispensation is grant
ed not only to workingmen and wo-
men. but also to their entire fami-
lies. All persons 90 disposed are ad-
vised to do some other work of pen-
ance or self-deuial.
1T is a frequent item of news that
certain tradesmen are aroused over
some proposed Legislation which
will in some way affect their line, of
business. There is food for thought
in such items: The first question IL
As to whether e6ngfeas Or a state
legislature will be led to make laws
which are unjust, all things toneid-
cred, to any particular class of bus
mess men. 1t Is true that all law
works. a hardship to some one. Law
IL Made to prevent murder, burg.
larry, theft and the thousand other
wrongs. This kind of law: may re-
strain certain individuals. from do
ing things that are unjust, and il
just because in the interest of thu
great majority. IT often happen'
that when a 1eg;islaaive body seek
to remedy an 'e1h, those who ar
profting by the evil rise up an.
seek by all means in their power t
defeat Legislation which will re
strait, them from preying upon tn
continuity. Such opposition i
prompted by selfishness. La,
sh6ald be always in the interest c
>1absolute justice and right SO far a
lis possible. and when legislator
act from that point of view the pre-
ence of a paid lobby must indica'
only evil. It is to be noted that tn
evils which reap the largest rev
nues from the life blood of the pc
pie are most active and most will
ing to spend money to defeat legi
lation intended. to restrain the
work. - ~"
THE MEsABA ORE remarks IN;
"there are some things in favor !,
county division, and one of them
that the ranges would he. relieve
of Duluth, which is becoming mo
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