Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-10
|.LfNTEN REGULATIONS

Rules for Lenten 0bser-
vance in the Diocese Of
st. Cloud
All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted. are days ct fast.
The precept' of fast restricts the use
Of food to one full meal towards the
middle of the day, and COLLATION. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part OF full meal-oustom. however.
authorizing the taking in the morning
of cup of coffee. tea or chocolate,
with a small piece of bread.
For the collation. theologians allow
solid food to the amount of eight
ounces. The solid 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 repasts 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 Ia allowed at
all meals on Sundays and at the prin.
cipal meal on Mondays. Tuesday.
Thursdays and Saturdays, except 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, the Saturdays Of En-
Der Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week and other days, outside OF Sun.
days, it is forbidden at other repasts,
outside the one full meal.
The use Of lard IL 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 legitimatelv excused or dis
pensed from the preeept of fasting
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there Is general per-
mission to use it at the principal
meal.
From the precept OF fast are ex-
cused: those under the. age Of twen-
ty-one years or over the age of SIXTY ;;
thu infirm and the convalescent wom-
en- bearing or nursing children; per-
sons engaged in hard labor or other
duties exhaustive of physical strength
persons who from poverty are unable
to procure for the principal meal a
sufioiency of nutritive food
From the precept of abstinence are
excused: the young under the age of
seven years; the sick; persons who
bre so situated as not to be able to
procure for, .- themselves. abstinence
food.
In virtue of the authority conceded
TO Bishops in...1the United States by a.
recent Ponti6cal Indult, permission is,
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent. with the
exception Of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and the Saturday OF
Holy week.
This dispensation from abstinence.
extends to all three meals in the day.
The usual prohibition remains
againet using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal,
Where the wage. earners. in virtue
Of The Irdult, uses meat, an che mem
bers --of his household may likewise
use it. The church does not wish to
impose upon the household the incon-
venienee of double cooking. .. But, In
cases Of this kind, che members of the
household who are bound by the pre-
cept Of fast, are allowed the use Of
meat only at their principal meal.
--..Ther.-Sovereign---PontiH exhorts alb
who..make use Of the..ssprivileees..of the
Indult to be eti)l mindful of their
duty to practice self-denial; and he
counsels that instead of the abstinence
from meat some other sacrifice of bod
lily comfort be practiced, the Sovereign
Pontiff suggesting as such sacrifice
abstinence from Intoxicating drink.
The days OF fast and abstinence CO.
curing outside the Lenten Season dur.
ing the year are tho Ember days and
the Vigils of Holy days. The 7igils
will be: The Vigil of Psntecost.
that of the. Assumption, that of All
Saints, and that of Christmas.
All Fridays are, of course, days of
abstinence.
The Ponti6cal Indult, of which we
have spoken, exempts ''working
people, from abstinence on Vigils
and Ember days, except when snch
vigils and Ember days fall on Friday !;
and on such days the Indult also ex-
empts from abstinence, in the same