Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-11
LEN I REGULATIONS
RULES DIFFER BUT LITTLE
FROM THOSE OF LAST
YEAR.
Announcement of Regulations issued
by Bishop Henry Cosgrove of the
Davenport Diocese Will Be Made in
Catholic Churches February II.

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three Catholic churches in this city,
the rules and regulations recently is
sued by Bishop Henry c. Cosgrove, OF
the Davenport diocese, governing the
period of lent, will be announced and
read by the local pastors. According
to the statement of Very Rev. Father
F. W. Hoppman, rector of st. Mary S,
the rules are almost identical with
those issued last year.
The regulations as published by
Bishop Cosgrove are as follows:
Ash Wednesday falls on February
All the days of Lent are fasting ex-
cept the Sunday.
All persons who have completed
their etwenty-frst year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed are obliged to keep
the fast. Custom allows a cup Of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with a small
piece of bread to be taken in the
morning. In the evening a collation.
not exceeding the fourth part of an
ordinary meal is allowed.
BY dispensation the use of flesh
meat is allowed at the principal meal
on Mondays Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturdays, except the Saturday in En-
Der week and the Saturday in Holy
week.
The use Of fish and flesh meat is
not allowed at the same meal during
Lent.
Those Exempt.
All under twenty-one years of age
those who are engaged in hard work,
the sick and conyalescent, and persons
who can not fast without serious in
jury to health, are exempt from the
fast. Persons excused from fasting on
account of tender age, hard labor and
sickness are not restricted to the use
of t1esh-meat at only one meal on
those days on which it is allowed
Those who entertain any reasonable
doubt about their obligations to fast
or abstain ought to apply to their
pastors for advice or dispensation.
The time for fulfilling the Paschal
duty is extended in this diocese from
the first Sunday in Lent to Trinity
Sunday.
In virtue of special faculties given
in a letter of the sacred congregation
of propaganda to the ordinaries of the
United States on March Is, 1895, I
hereby grant to all laborers in this
diocese permission to eat meat at one
meal on days of abstinence.
From this permission, however, are
excluded all Fridays in the year, Ash
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of
Holy week, and the Vigil of Christ
mas. It should also be remarked
that on those days on which the
use Of meat is thus allowed, fish
and flesh can not be eaten at the same
meal.
This permission, to eat meat on Ger
: Aiy to the Iaborers themselves, but
also to their family, so that every
member of their family particle
pates in the privilege of the adult.
Those who make use of this dispen-
sation are earnestly eXhorted to per-
form some other work of penance on
those days. such as abstaining from
the use of Intoxicating drink or some
other act of modification.
Season Should be Observed.
Pastors will please read and explain
the above regulations to the faithful
before the beginning of Lent. This
holy season should be faithfully OBJ
served by Catholics, and in order to
promote the spirit of penance and
prayer peculiar to the time, they
ticable to attend in church the extra
devotional services which are earn
estly recommended to be held at least
twice a week, and which might con-
sist on Wednesdays of the recitation
of part of the Rosary, practical
instruction and the benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament; on Fridays. the
appropriate exercise would be the Sta
lions of the Cross.
The first Sunday in Lent is the day
appointed for a special collection to
be taken up in all the Catholic
congregations of the United States
In behalf of the propagation of the
faith, which collection, l hope will
be recommended the Sunday previous,
and the amount taken up forwarded
to Rev. Geo. Giglinger as soon as pos
sible.
Those who have not yet sent in the
seminary collection will please do SO
without unnecessary delay, so that
the annual report may be made out.
Henry CoSgrove,
Bishop of Davenport.
February 5, 1904.