Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-03
LENTEN RULES
FOR CATHOLICS
RT. REV. JAMES DAVIS, BISHOP OF
DAVENPORT GIVES OUT REG
ULATIONS.

The following are the regulations
for the observance of lent by the
Catholics of the Davenport diocese as
published in the Catholic Messenger
under the official seal Of the Rt. Rev.
James Davis, bishop Of Davenport:
l. Ash Wednesday falls on the 4th
of March.
2. All the days of lent are fasting
except the Sundays.
3. All persons who have completed
their twenty-frst year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast Customs allows cup of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with small
piece of bread to be taken in the
morning. In the evening collation.
not exceeding the fourth part of an
ordinary meal is allowed
4. BY dispensation the use OF
f1esh-meat is allowed at the princi-
pal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday in Ember week and the Sat
urday in Holy week,
5. The use Of fish and fesh-meat
is not allowed at the same meal dur
ing Lent.
g. AL under twenty one years OF
age. those who are engaged in hard
work, the sick and convalescent and
persons who cannot fast without
serious injury 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 fesh-meat at only one
meal on the days on which it is al
lowed Those who entertain any rea-
sonable doubt about their obligations
to fast or abstain ought to apply to
their pastors for advice or dspen-
sation.
7. The time for fulfilling the
Paschal duty Is extended in this do
cese from the first Sunday in Lent
to Trinity Sunday.
In virtue of special faculties CIV
en- in letter Of the Sacred Congre-
cation Of the propaganda to the Or
dinaries of the. United States on the
18th of March, 1895, and renewed
in 1905, 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. 1t should also be remarked that
on those days on which the use Of
meat is thus allowed, fish and flesh
cannot be eaton at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on GER
tain days of abstinence extends not
only to the laborers themselves, but
also to their families, so that every
member OF their families participates
in the privilege Of the indult
Those who make use Of this dis
pensation are most earnestly exhort-
ed to perform some special works Of
penance, such as abstaining from the
use Of intoxicating drink or some
other act of modification.
Let all pray earnestly, not alone
during Lent, but at all times and
seasons for the suppression of intern
perance.
The class of crime that degrades
our people, the quarrels and acts Of
violence, which occupy the attention
OF our civil tribunals, are all trace.
able to drunkenness.
For the correction Of this evil let
us endeavor by united action to pro.
mote the temperance societies already
established in many parishes and to
create new temperate associations
wherever such do not exist in the
diocese and thus use all means In our
power to wash out this great re-
proach.
i During the holy season of lent, ex-
ira devotional services will be held
at least twice every week-on We'd
} nesdays and Fridays in all parish
churches and also in submissions on
other days selected by the pastors.
The usual devotion on Wednesday
consists In the recitation of part Of
the Rosary a short but practical in
struction. and Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament: on Fridays
the beautiful devotion Of the Stations.
or Way of the Cross" will be ap-
propriate.
Faithfully yours in Xto,
James Davis,
PiShOD Of DayaDnorf