Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-17
AIsxanoria Gazeftr.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB. II, 1904.
LENTEN REGULATIONS ISSUED.


During Lent, which begins today,
Ash Wednesday, the Catholics of Vir-
ginia will be guided by the following
regulations, which have just been issued
by Bishop Van de Vyver:
Ash Wednesday, the first day of
Lent falls this year on February 18th.
|. All the faithful who have completed
their twenty-frst year are, unless legiti
mately dispensed, bound to observe the
fast of Lent.
2. They are TO take but one meal a
day, excepting Sundays.
8. The meal allowed on fast days is
not to be taken till about noon.
4. A small refreshment, commonly
called collation., is permitted in the even
ing.
5. The following persons are exempt
from the obligation Of fasting: Persons
under twenty-one years of age, the sick,
nursing women, those who are obliged
to do hard labor and those who, through
weakness cannot fast without great pref
udice to their health.
6. The faithful are reminded that,
besides the obligation of fasting imposed
by the church, this holy season of Lent
should be, in an especial manner, time
of earnest prayer, of sorrow for sin, OF
seclusion from the world and its amuse-
ments and of generous almsgiving.
7. The Paschal time extends from
the frst'Sunday in Lent till Trinity sun
day, during which time all Catholics who
have attained a fitting age are bound to
receive worthily the Holy Commun-
ion
U.-By virtue of an indult to the
limited States, dated August 3, 1887,
the following special dispensations are
granted:
l. The use of flesh meats is permit
ted at all meals on Sundays and once a
day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, with the exception ofthe
second and last Saturdays of Lent. But
flesh meat and fish are no. to be used at
the same meal during Lent, even on Sun
days.
3. The use of butter, cheese, milk
and eggs is also permitted every day In
Lent.
g. 1t is allowed to take in the morn
ing some warm liquid, as tea, coffee or
thin chocolate, made with water, and
with this liquid a mouthful of bread.
4. Those for whom the hour OF noon
NAV he AN inconvenient time for dinner
NAV invert the order and take their COL
lation in the morning and their dinner
in the evening.
5. The use of hogs lard, or dripping,
instead of butter, is authorized in prepar-
ing permitted food.
6. Persons exempt from the obligation
of fasting are free to take meat more than
once on those days when its use is grant
ed by dispensation.
III.-By virtue of an Iindult granted
to us by the holy see March 10, 1895, we
permit to all workingmen and their small
families the use of flesh meat once day
on all fast days and abstinence days
throughout the year, with the exception
of Fridays, Ash Wednesdays, the We'd
nesday and Saturday of Holy Week and
the eve of Christmas.
Those who avail themselves OF this in.
dult are not allowed to use flesh meat
and fish at the same meal, and they are
earnestly exhorted to perform some other
act of modification, such as abstinence
from intoxicating liquors.
The reverend pastors are reminded
that on the first Sunday in Lent the col
lection for the Indian and cOlored mis-.
sions is to be taken up in all the churches
throughout the diocese.