Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-03-02
RULES FOR
L[NTEN SEASON
ARE ISSUED
Prepared by Bishop Schinner of
the Superior Diocese and to
be Read in the Churches
Next Sunday.

The rules and regulations to be fol-
lowed in the Catholic churches and
homes during Lent have been prepar-
ed by Augustin F. Schinner, bishop
of the Superior diocese, and will be
read at the Catholic churchnext Sun
day morning by the pastor Ash-Wed-
nesday, the first of Lent, will fail
upon March 1st. Easter will come at
the end of forty days penitental sea-
son on April 16.
The regulations for the period are
as follows:
1. All the days of Lent, Sunday
excepted, are fast days Of obliga-
ton on which but one full meal is
allowed.
2. The use of flesh-meat is allow
ed, by Apostolis dispensation, at the
principal meal only, on all days ex-
cept Wednesday and Friday, and al
so Saturday of the or ember week
and Saturday of Holy week. Those
who are exempt from fasting may
more than once partake of flesh-meat
on days not enjoining abstinence
8. The use of eggs, butter, milk
and cheese is by custom allowed thru
out Lent, and also the use of lard in
stead of butter in the preparation
of food
4. Fish and flesh-meat are not per
mitted at the same meal.
s. A cup of tea with a little milk |
and small slice of bread may be |
taken in the morning, and a collation. |
Or repast in the evening, but this re |
past should not exceed the fourth |
part Of an ordinary meal Or eight |
ounces.
Besides Lent there are during the
year the following days of fast and
abstinence
l. Wednesday, Friday and Satur-
day of every ember week.
The vigils of Penticost, of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, |
of all Saints, and of Christmas, like
wise the Fridays in Advent; fast and
abstinence is recommended on the
Saturday during the octave of St
Peter and ST. Paul, or on the Satur-
DE- assefore the feast if it falls on |
Saturday.
8. All Fridays during the year /
are days of abstinence from flesh |
meat; on Saturdays the use Of flesh |
meat is allowed again for this year,
by Apostolic dispensation, except in
case a fast falls on Saturday
strictly bound to this fast; those
only are exempt from fasting (tho |
not from abstinence) who are under
the age of twenty-one and such per
sons as are sick, infirm, GONZALES
cent, or otherwise of a delicate con
stitution, or whose strength is i'm
labor. Such as are seriously sick
are also exempt from abstinence
Those who entertain any reasonable |
doubt about their obligation to fast |
Or to abstain ought to have recourse |
to their respective pastors for ad
vice or dispensation.
By virtue of special faculties grant
ed by the Holy See, we also dis
pense from the law of abstinence all |
Iaborers, and we permit them the |
use of flesh-meat at all meals on al |
days, with the exception of the Fri |
days during the entire year, Ash |
Wednesday, the Vigil of Christmas, |
and those days Of Holy week on which |
the other faithful are not dispensed. |
This .dispensation is so to be un-
derstood that at the common meal the
whole family may avail itself Of the i
However, it is never |
allowed to eat fish and fleshmeat |
at the same meal
The faithful without exception should