The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-02-28
RULES OF LENT
TO Be OBSERVED
INSTRUCTIONS AS ISSUED FOB
MEMBERS OF EPISCOPAL
AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES

Since Lent started on Wednesday o
: this week, services in the Episcopa
and Catholic churches have been hel,
every day and both the morning an,
afternoon services have been well at
} tended.
| Instructions for Lent, as issued fo
memoirs of the EDiscopalian and Ca.
tbolic denominations are as follows
An the days of Lent, except Sun.
day, are Fast Days OF Obligation.
All who have completed their
twenty year, and have not begun
their sixueth. are bound to keep the
fast unless legitimately dispensed.
All who are bound to keep the
fast shall take but one full meal a
day. except on Sundays.
THE meal allowed on fast days is
not to be taken until about noon.
When the principal meal carnot
be taken at noon, the order may be
| inverted, then the collation. may be
taken about noon ana the dinner in the
evening.
"A small reIreshment commonly
| called collation., is allowed In the eve
! ming. No general rule as 10 the
! quantity of food permitted at this time
is or can be made. But the practice
of good Catholics Is never to let II ex-
coed the fourth part OF an ordinary
meal
In this diocese. bread. butter,
cheese, milk, Eggs and all kinds o.
fruits, vegetables ana fish are allowed
by dispensation, the use OF meal
is allowed at any time on Sundays and
once day on Mondays, Tuesdays.
Thursday and Saturdays. with the ex-
ception of Ember Saturday March 81
and Holy Saturday April 100.
ON days, Sundays included, whzr
permission is granted to eat meat
flesh and fish shall not be. used at the
same meal.
General usage has made it lawful
to take cup of coffee. tea or thir
chocolate and a cracker or small piece
| OF bread in the morning.
Necessity and custom have author.
lied the use of lard another fat rem
dered from any kind OF meat, instea,
Of butter, in preparing fish, vegetables
etc.
The following persons are exemp'
from the obligation of fasting. AL
under twenty-one years of age, O.
who have begun their sixtieth year
+, the sick pregnant or nursing women
those who are Obliged TO do hard Ii
Dor; also those who through weak
ness, cannot fast without prejudice
their health.
BY virtue of the indult, granite
for ten years by the Holy See, 10 II
bishops in the United States. workme
and their families are hereby Above
the use of flesh meat on all the fas
days throughout the year, with the ex
eeption of all Fridays, Ash Wednes
day, the Wednesday and Saturday
Holy Week and the Visil of Christmas
Those who avail themselves of thi
dispensation are not allowed TO ca
fish and flesh meat at the same mea
and they are eXhorted to perform som
other acts of modification aud pen
ance, in accord with the spirit of tht
Holy Season Of Lent A most usefu
and commemorate custom is that
abstaining during Lent from stimu
lants, in honor OF the Sacred Thirst OF
our Divine Lord
Good Friday Rules.
1T is recomm ended that on Good
Friday the faithful abstain from the
use of nil. butter and eggs.
All who entertain any reasonable
doubt about their obligation 10 fas,
or abstain should apply to their con
| fessor for advice or dispensation.
TO afford the faithful more album
dant opportunity TO gain the graces OF
the Lenten season, it is hereby or
| dered that in addition 10 the usua
| sunday devotions, Lenten exercises be
held ON two evenings of each week In
| every church where it is at all pos
sihle, and that after the Stations o.
| the Cross for appropriate instruction
or benediction OF the Blessed Sacra-
Iment, be given. An instruction mus
be given at least on one of the twS
| evenings. Ore Of the Lenten sermons
should DE on marriage
The faithful are reminded that be-
sides the obligation of fasting i'm
posed by the church, the season O
Lent should he in a very. special man
ner time for earnest prayer. or sor
row for sin, Of abstentiion from al
amusements, which. not sinful Il
themselves, are permitted during 9th
err portions of the year. and of geneY
Gus almsgiving to the poor
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