The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-05
Catholic Parishes Of City Get An
nua| Letter From Archbishop
Messmer Next Sunday
GENERAL OBSERVANCE URGED
Usual Provisions Are Made For the
Observance of the Lenten Season in
all Catholic Parishes of the
Milwaukee Diocese

! Priests in charge of the various Ca
ltholic Parishes in Kenosha have re
ceiyed letter from Arch Bishop Mess
NEE of the Milwaukee diocese in which
he lays down the annual rules to govern
Catholics during the Lenten season.
The Lenten regulations are as fol
/ lows:
| |. All Fridays and fast days during
the year are days Of abstinence from
flesh meat. On Saturdays, which by
law are also days Of abstinence, flesh
meat is allowed by Apostolic indult at
all meals, unless they happen to be fast
days.
2. The following are last days Of
obligation. All days Of Lent Except
Sundays; the Ember days; the Vigils
or Ewes of Pentecost, of the Assump-
ton B. v. NJ, Of All Saints, and Of
Christmas; lastly, the Fridays Of Ad-
vent
On fast days only one full meal
day is allowed to persons obliged to
fast. But indult and custom allow,
coffee, tea, chocolate, with piece Of
bread in the morning, and the use Of
eggs, butter, milk, ETC., in the evening.
For sufficient reason the collation.
Qunch) may be taken at noon and the
dinner or principal meal in the evening
By Apostolic indult flesh meat is al
lowed only at the principal meal on
all week days during Lent, except
! Wednesdays and Fridays and the Sat-
urdays in Enber week March 14) and
Holy week april 49, On fast days,
flesh meat and fish (including oysters,
crabs, frogs, turtles, etc. are never al
lowed at the same meal, a rule which
applies even to the Sundays in Lent
and to all persons otherwise excused or
dispensed from the law of either alb
stinence or fast, excepting only those
who on account Of weakness of their
stomach or by the DOCTORS prescription
need flesh and fish at the same meal.
But meals may always be prepared
with the drippings Of either fat or lard.
Persons excused from fast may use
| flesh meat more than once on the days
when it is allowed at all.
8 Catholics having attained the
sufficient Use Of reason are bound by the
law Of abstinence But when it is eth
| er physically or morally impossible to
observe the law, or when it would en-
tail serious difficulties they are excused
from it.
| In virtue of the apostolic faculties
granted us by the Holy See we hereby
delegate pastors to dispense, in each
single case from abstinence the men
actually engaged in threshing as well
as the farmer families at whose place
threshing is going on.
4, Catholics having completed their
twenty first year of age, are bound to
fast But the causes of excuse just
mentioned in regard to abstinence, ap-
ply also to the law of fasting. Hence
the church ordinarily e1empts from
fasting the sick and those in feeble
health (Whether by sickness or old agel
women nursing children; all who are
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engaged in laborious and exhausting
occupations. Persons in doubt whether
they are excused or not should consult
their confessor or pastor for advice or
dispensation.
In virtue of an apostolic indult we
permit Workingmen and their families
the use Of flesh meat at the principal
common meal en- all fast days and alb
stinence days throughout the year, with
the exception of all Fridays, Ash Wed
nesday. the Wednesday and Saturday
of Holy Week, and the Eve Of Christ
mas.
! 5. Persons excused or dispensed
from the law of fast or abstinence
ought to perform some other good
works Of piety and charity in the spirit
Of Christian penance and qualification.
Hence the pious custom of giving Len
ten aims. REDEEM thou thy sins with
aims, and thy iniquities with works Of
mercy dan. iv. 24). Also the Gus
tom Of abstaining from Intoxicating
drinks, of staying away from theaters,
dances, card parties and other profane
amusement, etc.
S. G. Messmer, Archbishop.