The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-02-10
Regulations to Be Observed By
All Good Catholics
BISHOP JAMES TROBEC
The St. Cloud Prelate Issues His An
nual Address to His People
Relative to Lent

people relative to the observance O
Lent:
All the days of Lent, the Sunday
excepted, are days of fast.
The precept of fast restricts tn,
use of food, at one full meal toward,
the middle of the day, and COLLATION.
in the evening not exceeding thu
} fourth part of a meal-custom, how
ever, authorizing the taking in the
morning of cup of coffee, tea OF
chocolate, with small piece of bread
For the collation. theologians allow
solid food to the amount of eight
ounces. The solid food taken i'm the
morning should not exceed two
ounces.
When the full meal or princial re-
past cannot be taken without serious
Inconvenience toward the middle of
the day, the order of repast may be
reversed, the full or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour of the
day.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sunday, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember Week and the
Saturday of Holy Week.
The use of flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals on Wednesdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays of Ember
Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week; and on other days, outside of
Sundays, it is forbidden at other re-
pasts outside the one full meal.
The use of lard is permitted at all
times in the preparation of food.
Both fish and and flesh meat cannot
be taken at the same meal even on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting
may use flesh meat on whatever day
there is general permission to use
it at the principal meal.
From the precept of fast are ex-
cused: Those under the age of TWEEN
ty-one years or over the age of sixty;
the infirm and the convalescent: wo-
men bearing or nursing children: per-
sons engaged in hard labor or other
d t es exhaustive of physical
strength; persons who from poverty
are unable to procure for the princi-
pal meal suficiency of nutritive
food.
From the precept of abstinence
are excused: The young under the
age of seven years; the sick; persons
who are so situated as not to be able
procure for themselves abstinence
food.
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by
recent Pontifical Indult, permission
is granted to working people" to
use meat on all days of Lent, with
the exception of Fridays, Ash We'd
nesday, the Wednesday and the Sat-
urday of Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three meals in the day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue
of the Indult, uses meat, all the MEM
bers of his household may likewise
use it. The church does not wish to
impose upon the household the in
convenience of double cooking. But,
in cases of this kind the members of
the household who are bound by the
precept of fast, are allowed the use
of meat only at their principal meal.
The Sovereign Pontif exhorts, all
who make use of the privileges of the
Indult to be still mindful of their
duty to practice self-denial; and he
counsels that instead of the abstin-
ence from meat some other sacrifice
of bodily comfort be practiced, the
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggesting
as such sacrifice abstinence from
intoxicating drink.
The days of fast and abstinence oc-
curing outside the Lenten season
during the year are the Ember days
and the Vigils of Holy Days. The
Vigil will be: The Vigil of Pente-.
cost, that of the Assumption, that Of
All Saints and that of Christmas.
All Fridays are, of course, days of
abstinence.
The Pontifical Inpult. of which we
have spoken, exempts working peo-
pie" from abstinence on Vigils and
Ember days, eqcept when such Vigils
and Ember days fall on Friday; and
on such days the Indult also exempts
from abstinence, in the same 'condi-i
tions as for the Lenten Season, the
members of the household of the
wage Garner.
F Pastors will make to their fiocks in