Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-18
Regulations For the Observance
81 Lent in the Diocese ef
Davenport, A. D. 1894

ct Lent In the Diocese ST
Davenport, A. D. 1894
] | Ash Wednesday falls on the
18th of February.
Q All the days of Lent are
fasting, except the Sundays.
B. All persons who have COM
;pleted their twenty first year, UNI
less legitimaley dispensed, are
Obliged to keep the fast. Custom
allows cup of coffee, tea or cho-
colate, with a small piece of bread
to be taken in the morning. Ia
the evening a collation. not ex-
G seaing the fourth part of an
ordinary meal is allowed.
4 By dispensation, the use of
| h-sh-meat is allowed at the prin-
cipal meal ON Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thnrsdaya and saturdays, except
the Saturday in E,nbar week and
the Saturday in Holy Week.
5 The usa OF flesh meat 10 not
allowed at the same meal during
Lent
6 AN under twenty-one years
of age, those who are engaged ia
hard work, the sick and convales-
cent. and persons Who cannot fast
without serious injury to health,
are exempt from the fast Per-
sons excused from fasting on ac-
count of tender age, hard labor,
and sickness, are not restricted to
the use of fl .sh- meat at only one
mt,al on the days on which it ia
allowed Those who entertain
any reas ,na',le doubt about their
!ohliga oas to fast or abstain
ought 10 apply to their pastors for
advice or dispepsatiop.
Z. The time for fulfilling the
Paschal duty is extended in this
diocese from the first Sunday in
Lent to Trinity Sunday.
La virtue of spacial faculties
Civ n in q letter Of the Sacred
Congregation of Propaganda to
the Osdinaries of the United
-tases on the 18th of March, 1895,
hereby grant to all laborers in
this diocese permission to eat
meat at one meal on days of abb
stinence.
From this permission, however,
are excluded all FRIDAYS in the
year, Ash Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday of Holy Week, and tha
j Vigil of Christmas. 1t should
also bs remarked that on those
days on which the use If meat is
thus allowed, fish and flesh can
not be elten at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on
certain days OF abstinence extends
not only to the laborers Them
| selves, but also to their family, so
thet every member OF their family
p anticipates =, the privilege Of
the indult.
! Those who make use of this
: dispensation are earnestly ex-
; |horted to perform some other
work of penance on those days,
snch as ebstaining from the use of
Intoxicating drink or some orther
act Of modification.
Pastors will please read and ex-
plain the above regulations to the
faithful before the beginning of
|, Lent. This holy season should
be faithfully observed by Catho-
lies, and in order to promote the
spirit of panance and prayer pc
culiar to the time, they should he
invited whenever it is practicable,
to attend in church the extra de-
votional services which are earn
os.lv recommended to be held at
least twice q week. and which
might consist, on Wednesday of
the recitation of a part of the
Rosary, practical instruction and
the Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament; on Fridays, the APP
E propriate exercise would be the
Stations Of the Cross.
| most earnestly call the atten-
tion of passions to the second chap.
. ter Of Ill. Plenary Council OF
Baltimore ODE Matrimonii Sac
rements," and especially to decree
/, 1873 on page 67 which treats of
7 mixed marriages. These marri-
ages, SO opposed to the spirit of
the Church and so detrimental to
religion, ara becoming more fire.
quent every day to the great dam
age of souls, if not to their etern
al loss; and pastors should show
their zeal in this important mat
l ter by complying with the above
5 mentioned decree, 80 that by their
frequent and earnest exhortations
they may, at least, lessen the
number. Please announce to the
people, frequently, the necessity
of giving timely notice, about two
or three weeks in advance, to the
effect that they intend to contract
such marriage, and that they