Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-02-12
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The following Lenten Regulations
for the Diocese Of st. Cloud, have
been issued: 1892 - "a *}t<5 B.. T%a,
Lent begins On Ash wedreedev. All
the faithful. unless legitimately ex
cused or dispensed, ARE bound in
under the penalty Of gre
vious Elm, to observe the Lenten regu-
letions. !
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 COLA
tion in the evening net exceeding
the fourth psrt--of full meal-cus-
tom, however. authorizing the tAkins
In the .-morninR 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 !
ouncse. The eolid 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 repast may be
reversed. the full meal or principal
repast being taken In the evening.
and the collation. at an earlier hour
Of the day.
The use of flesh meat Is allowed
at all meals on Sunday. and at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, ex-
cept the Saturday of Ember Week
and the Saturday Of Holy Week.
The use of flesh meat. therefore, Is
forbidden at all meals on Wednes-
days, Fridays. and Saturday of En-
her Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week; and on other days, outside Of
Sundays, it ia forbidden at other re-
paste. outside the one full meal.
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 preoept of fasting
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general per.
mission to use 1t at the principal
meal.
From the precept of fasts are ex-
oused: Those under the age of TWEEN
ty-one years or OVERTIME age of sixty
the einfirm and the convalescent
women bearing or nursing children
persons engaged in hard labor or other
duties exhaustive Of physical strength
tpersons who from poverty are unable
to procure for the principal meal q
sufdcienoy ofnutrttive food.
From the preoept of abstinence ar
excused: the young under the age o.
seven years.: tho sick- persons WIZ
are 30 situated ~ not to be, able &
procure for themselves abstinence
food. ..,.,..~., -. Il
In virtue Of tho authority conceded
to: Bishops In the Gated States by q
recent Poutifioal Indu1s lpermission II
}granted to 'tworhng people,; to us.
meat at al days at Lent. with tho ex.
lcepticn of .Fridays. Ash Wednesday
nd.thesa11&t,,s1aysofs a3e1y<E0spk. y
This :dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three meals in tho day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish al
the same meal.
where the wage Garner. in virtue
of the Indult, uses meat, all the
members of the household may like.
wise use it. The church does not
wish to impose upon the household
the Inconvenience Of double cooking.
But. in cases of this kind, the mem
bers of the household who are bound
by the precept of fast are allowed the
use of meat only at the principal
meal.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who make use of the privileges of the
Indult TO be still mindful of their
duty to practice self-denial: and he
counsels that instead of the absti-
nence from meat some other sacrifice
of bodily comfort be practiced. the
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggesting
as such sacrifice abstinence from in
toxicating drink.
The days of fast and abstinence &C.
curing outside the Lenten Season dur
ing the year are the Ember days and
the Yigils will be-: The Vigil Of
Pentecost, that Of the Assumption,
that of All Saints, and that of Christ
mas.
ALI Fridays are, of course, days of
abstinence.