The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-31
At. Rev. Bishop Davis of Davenport.
Has Sent Out Regulations Re-
sardins the Lenten
Season.
SEASON BEGINS ON FEB. o
Regulations Printed Below viii be
Read in Catholic Churches
Today Unless Deferred
by Pastors.

heSulatlonS lOr the observance OF
Lent have been issued by tie Right
Reverend James Davis bishop of the
Davenport diocese of the Catholic
church, and the faithful in the three
Catholic church of Keokuk will be adj
ised of each regulation at the services
today, unless the pastors may see fit
to defer reading the regulations until
next Sunday. The Lenten season be-
gins Ash Wednesday,, February 8, and
continues until Easter Sunday, March
~.
The Official Regulations.
The regulations for Lent as issued
by Bishop Davis are complete as fol-
lows:
/. Ash Wednesday falls on the 9th
of February.
2. According to the common law Of
the church, all the days of Lent are
fast days, except the Sundays.
3. All persons who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
nlately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast.
fast days is not to be taken till about
noon.
5. Custom allows cup of coffee,
tea or chocolate, with small piece of
bread, without butter, to be taken In
the morning.
Z. In the evening collation. not
exceeding the fourth part of an ordi-
nary meal is allowed.
8. The use of fesh-meat and fish is
not allowed at the same meal during
Lent, not even on Sundays.
Dispensations Granted.
The following persons are exempt
from the obligation of fasting:
Persons under twenty-one years Of
age; persons having reached the age
of sixty years; those who are en-
gagged in hard work; the sick and
convalescent; those, who through
weakness, cannot stand fast without
serious injury to health; mendicants
who cannot count on regular meal.
All those excused from fasting are not
restricted to the use of fesh-meat at
it is allowed Those who entertain
any reasonable doubt about their obli-
cations to fast OF abstain ought to
apply to their pastors for advice or
dispensation.
The following dispensations are
granted:
1. The use of hesh-meat is permit
ted during Lent at all meals on Sun
days, and once day at the principal
meal On Mondays, Tuesdays. Thurs.
days and Saturdays, With the excep-
ton of the Saturday in Ember week
and Holy week
2. The use of butter, cheese, milk
and eggs is permitted every day in
Lent; the use Of lard drippings is also
allowed in the preparation of permit.
ted food.
3. Those for whom the hour of
noon may be an inconvenient time for
the full meal OR dinner, may invert
the order and take their collation. in
the morning and their dinner or full
meal In the evening.
The time In which the faithful must
comply with their Easter duty ex-
tends IN this diocese from the first
Sunday in Lent to Holy Trinity Sun
day, both days included.
In virtue of special faculties given
In letter of the sacred congregation
of the propaganda to the ordinance 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 Christmas
1t should also be remarked that on