Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
LeNTEN REGULATIONS.

Very Rev. Jos. Fox, administrator Of
the Green Bay diocese has issued the
following regulations for Catholics
! during Lent which were read in all
| churches of that denomination last Sun
/ day The Lenten season opens tomor-
row and lasts for period of forty days
/. All Fridaysfnd fast-days duriog
! the year are days of abstinence from
/ flesh meat. On Saturdays, which by
| law are also days OF abstinence, flesh
meat is allowed by Apostolic indult al
all meals, unless they happento be fast
days.
/ ,. The following are fast digs OF
I obligation: All days of Lent Except
/ Sundays: the Ember-oays the Vigils
or ewes OF Pentecost, OF the Assumption
! B. V. NJ. of All Saints, ard of Christ
mas; lastly, the Fridays oi Advent.
On fast-days only one full meal day
| is allowed TO persons obliged TO fast.
! But indult and custom allow coffee. tea,
| chocolate, with piece of bread in the
morning, and the use OF eggs, butter,
| milk, ETC., In the evening. For sufficient
reason, the collation. luncb) may he
taken at noon and the dinner or princi-
| pal meal in the evening.
By Apostolic indult hesh-meat is al
lowed on Y at the principal meal on all
week days during Lent except Wednes-
| days end Fridays and the Saturdays in
| Ember week Feb. p and Holy Week
| April y. On fasi-days, flesh meat and
| fish including oysters, crabs. frogs,
/ turtles, etc. are never allowed at the
| same meal. a rule which applies even
! to the Sundays in Lent and to all per-
sons however otherwise excused or dis
pensed from the law of eitherabstinence
or fast. But meals may always be pre-
| pared with the drippings OF either fat or
| lard.
Persons excused from fast may use
/ flesh meat more than once on the days
| when it is allowed at all.
| 3. Catholics having attained the
| sufficient use of reason are bound by
/ the law of abstinence. But when it is
] either physically or morally impossible
to observe the law, or when it would
/ entail serious difficulties, they are ex-
! cused from it.
! 10 virtue of the Apostolic faculties
granted us by the holy See we hereby
delegate pastors to dispense, in each
/ single case, from abstinence the men
actually engaged in threshing as well
as the farmer families at whose place
threshing is going on.
4. Catholics having completed their
| twenty-frst year Of age, are bound to
fast. But the causes of excuse just
mentioned in regard to abstinence
apply also to the law of fasting.
Hence the Church ordinarily exempts
from fasting the sick and those in feeble
health whether by sickness or old agel
| women nursing children: all who are
engaged in laborious and exhausting
occupations. Persons in doubt whether
they are excused or not, should consult
their cOnfessor or pastor Tor advice OF
| dispensation.
10 virtue of an Apostolic indult we
permit workingmen and their families
| the use of flesh meat at the principal
common meal on all fast days and ahsti.
nence days throughout the year, with
the exception of all Fridays, Ash
| Wednesday, the Wednesday and Satur
day of Holy Week and the Eve Of
| Christmas.
! 3. Persons excused or dispensed
from the law of fast or abstinence ought
TO perform some other good works Of
piety and charity in the spirit of Chris.
tian penance and specification. Hence
the pious custom of giving Lenter
Aims. Redeem thou thy sins with
aims, and thy iniquities with works Of
mercy" Dan. iv, "A. Also the custom
of abstaining from intoxicating drinks
of staying away from theaters, dances
card parties and other profane amuse-
ments, etc.
Jos. J. Fox. Adm.
Green Bay, Wis, Feb. 18th, 1904.
N. B.-1. The collection for Indian
and Negro missions and the Propa ga
tion of the Faith is to be taken up or
! the first Sunday of Lent.
, A box or basket may be conven-
iently placed in the church. where the
| faithful can leave their Lenten Aims OF
their contribution for the Holy Land
| ION Good Fridav)