The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-18
REGULATIONS FOR
LENTEN SEASON
ARE ANNOUNCED
To Be Read at All Masses
on Sunday Morn-
ing.
BISHOP O'CONNOR
TELLS OF RESTRICTION
Complete Schedule of What Is
Allowed and What Is
Forbidden.

The Lenten regulations will be read
in all the Roman Catholic churches in
the diocese at all the masses next SUM-
day. The Rt. Rev. John j. O'Connor,
bishop of The diocese, announced the
regulations today. They are as fol-
lows:
All the week days of Lent, from Ash
Wednesday to Easter Sunday, are fast
days of precept on one meal, with the
allowance of a moderate collation. in
the evening.
The church excuses from the obliga-
ton of fasting (but not of abstinence
from flesh meat, except in special cases
of sickness), the infrm, those who are
attaining their growth; those whose
duties are of an exhausting or labori-
Gus character, women bearing or nurs-
ing infants, and those who are en-
feebled by old age
The following dispensations are
granted for this diocese:
The use of flesh meat is permitted at
every meal on the Sundays of Lent, n
at the principal meal on Monday, Tues
day, Thursday and saturday, with the
exception of Ember Saturday and Holy
Saturday.
The use of eggs and milk. butter,
cheese and the like is allowed every
day at the principal meal, and at the
evening collation..
A small piece of bread with a cup of
coffee, tea, chocolate or similar drink,
may be taken in the morning.
When it is not convenient to talk the
principal meal at noon 1t Is lawful to
invert the order, and take the collation.
in the morning and the dinner in the
evening.
Drippings and lard may be used in
the preparation of food.
On Sunday there is neither fast nor abb
stinence, but it is not allowed to eat fish
and flesh meat at the same meal on any
day during Lent.
Those who are not obliged to fast may
partake Of flesh meat at every meal on a
day when, by special indult, flesh meat Is
permitted OF the principal meal.
By special indult OF the holy see, dated
States are empowered for ten years to
dispense from the common law of absti-
hence when they Judge it expedient. We
therefore permit. working people, who can
not easily abstain from flesh meat to use
It once a day on all abstinence days
throughout the year, with the exception,
however, of all Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
Wednesday and Saturday of Holy Week,
and the vigil of Christmas.
This dispensation is granted to working
people, and the members Of their families
share in ii, but ii does not exempt from
fasting where such an obligation exists, nor
does it permit the use of fish and flesh meat
at the, same meal.
When the faithful wall themselves of this
indult, they should perform some peniten-
Ntial work as a substitute for the dispensa-
ktfon enjoyed. A most useful and COM
mendable custom is that OF abstaining, ses-
pecially during Lent, from stimulants In
honor of the sacred thirst of our divine
Saviour.
All priests exercising the faculties of this
diocese are empowered to grant dispense
tons from the preeept OF fast and alb
stinence In particular cases and for suffi-
cient cause.
A plenary indulgence has been conceded
by the holy see to all the faithful of this
diocese. who. on the Feast of st. Patrick
or within the octave. receive with proper
dispositions the sacrament of penance and
the blessed eucharist, and visiting a
church or chapel, offer prayers to God
according to the intention of the holy
father, and for the propagation of the
faith.
The holy oils will Re consecrated at the
cathedral on Holy Thursday. April s, at 10
a.. m. and distributed at 2 p. m.
In ace ordance with the direction of the
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, a COL
lection will be taken up in all the churches
Of this diocese on the first Sunday in Lent,
IN aid Of the propagation of the faith Of the
indian and colored missions.
tory work OF mercy. and of animating the
Christian zeal of the faithful for the sal
walton of perishing souls, our holy father
has benig1ly granted a plenary indulgence
to all who, having cOntritely confessed and
worthily received holy communion on that
day, devoutly visit a church in which the
collection Is made, assist at the sermon
and the other observances of divine wor-
ship that may be celebrated on that occa-
sion, and offer prayers for the propagation
of the faith and the intention of the SOW
ereign pontiff.
In. compliance with the command of our
holy father in his brief of December, 1887.
a collection for the Holy Land will be taken
up In all the churches of this diocese either
On Good Friday or or the third Sunday
after Easter this year.
Reverend rectors are requested to send
the above collection to Rev. chancellor as
soon as possible.