The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-02-18
LENTEN
REGULATIONS
Bishop Trobec Announces the
Regulations for the St.
Cloud Diocese.

Regulations for the St.
Cloud Diocese.
The following neutrality-suspicious. for
the diocese of St Cloud have been is
sued:
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of gre
vious sin, to observe the Lenten regu-
lations.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, are days of fast.
The precept of fast restricts the use
of food to one full meal towards the
middle of the day, and collation. in the
evening. not exceeding the fourth part
of a full meal-custom, however, auth
orizing the taking in the morning of a
cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, with
small piece of bread.
For the collation. theologians allow
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 re-
past cannot be taken without serious
Inconvenience towards the middle of
the day, the order of repasts may be
reversed, the full meal or principal
repast being taken in the evening and
l the collation. at an earlier hour of the
day.
The use of flesh meat ls allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Saturda avs, except the Saturday Of En-
Der week and the Saturday of Holy
week.
The use of flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals on Wednesdays,
Fridays, the Saturday of Ember week
and the Saturday of Holy week; and on
other days, outside Of Sundays, it is
forbidden at other repasts out side the
fone full meal. -. --5.s s--- ..
- 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 Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting may
use flesh me ats on whatever day there
is general permission to use it at the
principal meal.
From the precept OF fasts are excused:
Those under the age of twenty
years or over the age of sixty: the in
firm and the convaiescent; women bear.
ing or nursing children; persons en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive of physical strength; per-
sons who from poverty are unable to
procure for the principal meal sufi-
cheney of nutritive food.
From the precept of abstinence 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 food.
In the virtue of che authority con.
coded to Bishops in the United States
by a recent Ponti6cial Jndult, permits
sion is graoted to working people" to
use meat on all days of Lent, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
and the Saturday of Holy week.
The dispensation from abstinence ex-
tends 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, Ia virtue OF
the Indult, uses meat, all the members
of his household may likewise use it.
The church does not wish to impose
upon the household the Inconvenience
of double cooking. But in cases Of
this kind, the members of the house.
hold who are bound by the precept oil
fast are allowed the use of meat only
at their principal meal.
The Sovereign Pcntiff exorts all who
make use of the privileges of the Indul1
to be still minful of their deniel; and
he counsels that instead of the abstin
ence from meat some other sacrifice o.
bodily comfort be praoticed. the Sow
ereign Pontiff himself suggesting al
such sacrifice abstinence from intoxi
eating drink.
The days of fast and abstinence &C
touring outside the Lenten season dur
ing the year are the Ember days aut
the Vigils will be: The Vigil of Pente
cost, that Of the Assumption, that o
All Saints and that OF Christmas.
4 All Fridays are, of course, days o
abstinence.
i The Pontffcal Induit, of which W,
have spoken, exempts working PEG
pic'' from abstinence on vigffs AMI
Ember days, except when such Vigil
!. and Ember days fall on Friday; and OF
, such days the Indult also exempts from