Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-03-02
the lfNIfN RULES
REGULATIONS For the Do
cese of st.
Cloud


All the days of Lent. the Sunday!
excepted, are days CT fast.
The precept of fast restrict the us,
of food to one full meal towards thu
middle of the day, and collation. il
part of a full meal-cuetom, however,
authorizing the taking in the morning
of cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with small piece of bread.
For ths collation. theologians allow
ounces. The solid food taken in the
morning should not exceed two
ounces.
When the fell meal or principal re.
past cannot be taken without serious
the day, the order of repssts may be
reversed. the full meal or principa!
repast being taken IN the evening, and
the collation. at an earlier hour of the
day.
The use of flesh meat on Sundays,
and at the principal meal on Mon.
days. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sar ur-
days. except the Saturday of Ember
Week. and the Saturday of Holy week,
is allowed.
The use of flesh meat, therefore. is
forbidden at sll meals on Wednesdays,
Fridays. the Saturday Of Ember Week
and the Saturday Of holy Week; and
on other days. outside of Sundays, it
Is forbidden at other repasts, outside
tho one full meal.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, ever on Sun
DAYS.
Persons legittmately excused or dis
pensed from the precept 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 fast are ex-
cused: Those under the age of twen-
ty-one years or over the age of sixty !;
ths infirm and the convalescent wo.
men bearing or nursing children !;
persons engaged in hard labor or other
dnties exhaustive Of physical
strength: persons who from poverty
are unable to procure for the principal
meal a suff1ciency of nutritive food.
From the precept abstinence are
excused: The young under the age Of
seven years, the sick. persons who are
to situated az not to be able to procure
for themselves abstinence food.
In virtue of the authority conceded
TO Bishops in the United States by q
recent Ponti6csl Iudult, permission is
granted to working people, to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
and Saturday OF holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all meals in the day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
tho same meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue of
the Yndult, uses meat, all the mem.
bers of his household may likewise
use it. The church does not wish to
impose upon the household inconven.
ience of double cooking. Hut. in cases
of this kind, the members of the
household who are bound by the pre-
cept Of fast, are allowed the use OF
meat only at their principal meal
The Sovereign Pontif exhorts all
who make use of the privileges of the
Ipdult to be still mindful of their
duty to practice self.denial; and he
counsels tnat instead of the abstin
ence from meat some other sacrifice
of bodily comfort be practiced, the
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggesting
AZ such sacrifice abstinence from In
boxicating drink.
The DAYS Of fast and abstinence &C.
curing outside the Lenten Seaso IN dur
ing the year are the Ember days and
the Vigils of Holy days. The Vigils
viii be: The Vigil of Pentacost, that
of the Assumption, that of All Saints,
and that of Christmas.
All Fridays are, OF course. days OF
abstinence.
The Ponti6csl Indult, Of which we
have spoken, exempts working
people e. from abstinence on Vigils and
Ember DAYS, except when such Vigils
and Ember days fall on Friday and
snch days the Indult also exempts
from abstinence, IN the same condi-
tion as for the Lenten Season, the
members of the household Of the
wage Garner.
Pastors will make to their hocks in
tha usual terms due announcements Of
approaching Ember days and Vigils-
adding to such announcements state
ment Of the privileges by the Indult
to working people.
When doubt exists as to whether
ones condition or circumstances allow
exemption from the precept OF fast
and abstinence. counsel should be
asked from confessors or pastors, who
are the authoritative Interpreters OF
the law, and who are even empow,
cred, in special cases, for good and
Sufficient reasons, indicated in Catho-
lie theology, to commute the precepts
of fast and abstinence to other peni'
tentlaI work.
In enjoining upon the faithful fast
and sabstinence Holy Church makes
a practical application of the evangel'
icale, law of self denial, Of which the
Savior and his apostles were, by ex-
ample and by word, such eminent
teachers. Without self-denial there is
70 Christianity. Indeed. without SELF
denial there is no natural morality.
The man who has not acquired by
habit the power of self-restralnt VIII
not be victorious over sin, amid the
storms and temptations OF life when
ali men must encounter.
The observance Of the fast and az
stinsnce prescribed by the Cnurch Is
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