Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-02-15
LENTFN REGULATIONS
Lent Began Ash Wednes-
day, Feb. l3, and Closes
Easter Sunday

Lent began on Ash Wednesday, Feb.
13 All the faithful, unless ltgiti.
mately excused or dispensed, are bound
in conscience, under the penalty of
grievous sin. to observe the Lenten
regulations.
All the days of Lent. the Sundays ex-
cepted. are days of fast.
The precept ct fast restricts the use
of food to one full meal towards the
middle of the day. aud q COLLATION. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of q full msal-custom, how.
ever. authorizing taking In tho morn
ing Of q cup OF coffee tea or choco.
late. with a small piece of bread.
For the collation. tneologians 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 bo 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 tho collation. at an earlier hour
of tho day.
The use Of flesh meat is allowed at
ali meals on Sundays. and at the prin.
oipal meal on Mondays. Tuesdays,
Thuredays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember Week and the Sat-
urdsy Of Holy Week.
The use of flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals ON Wednes-
days, Fridays. the Saturday of En-
ber Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week: and on other days, outside Of
Sundsyr, 1t is forbidden at other re-
pasts, outside the one full meal.
The use OF lard is permitted at all
times In the preparation of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot he
taken at the asme meal, even on Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept Of fasting
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is q general per.
mission to use it at the principal
meal.
From the precept of fast are ex.
cused: Those under the age of 21
years or over the age of 90; the
infirm and convalescent women bear.
ing CT nursing children; persons en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive of physical strength: per-
sons who from poverty are unable to
procure for the principal meal q
suf6ciency of nutriti7e food.
From the precept Of abstinence are
excused: the young under age of syv.
en- years the sick; persons who are
situated as not to be abls to- procure
for themselves abstinence food.
In virtue of authority conceded to
bishops in the United States by a re.
cent Pont16cal lndult, permission is
granted to working people to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the ex.
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
tbs Wednesday and the Saturday OF
Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three meals in tho day.
The usual prohibition remains
against Using flesh meat and fish al
the same meal
Where the age-earner, in virtue o1
the Indult, uses meat, all the mem
bers of his household may likewise uss
it. The church does not wish to i'm.
pose upon the household the incon.
venlnce of double cooking. But, In
case of this kind, the members uf the
household who are bound by the pre-
cept of fast. are allowed the use o1
meat only at their principal meal.
The Sovereing Pantiff exhorts all
who make use of the privileges of the
Indult to be still mindful of their duty
to practice self-denisl; and be coun
sells that intsead Of the abstinence
from meat some other sacrifice of bod
lily comfort be practiced, the Sovereign
PoDtiff himself suggesting as euch
sacrifice the ab2tlnence from intox
icating drink.
The days OF fast and abstinence oc.
curing outside the Lenten Season dur.
ing the yea: are the Ember daye.
The Vigils will be: The Vigil OF
Pentecost, that of the Assumption,
that of All Saints, and t hat of Christ.
mas.
Ali Fridays are, of course, days OF
abstinence.
The Pontitioal Indult, Of which We
have spoken, exempts "workine
people, from abstinence Vigila and
Ember days, except when such Vigile
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