The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-03
HEAD OF WINONA DIOCESE
SENDS WORD TO PRIESTS.
Method of Observance of the Forty
Days, Beginning March /, Is
Outlined in Document Prepared
for Rt. Rev. Heffron; Members
Of the Catholic Church Are Ap.
prised of Regulations.

Winona, February 23.-Father f.
T. English, secretary to and on be-
half of Bishop p. r. Hebron has pre-
pared the Lenten regulations of the
diocese of Winona for the year 1911
and they will be placed in the hands
OF the priests of the diocese within
the next few days.
All important dates during the
Lenten period are given and the
method of observance is plainly de-
fled for the Catholic people
The following are the regulations:
in this year of grace. 1911, Ash
Wednesday, the first day of Lent,
will be the first day of March.
All the faithful. unless !egitimately
excused or dispensed. are bound in
conscience. under the penalty Of
grievous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
All Days for Fast.
"All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted are days of fast
THE precept of fasting restricts
the use of food to one meal towards
the middle of the day, and cola.
ton in the evening not exceeding
the fourth part of an ordinary meal
custom, however, authorizing the
taking in the morning of cup of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with a
small piece of bread
''Thcologians allow the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight
ounces. The solid food taken in the
morning should not exceed two
ounces.
When the meal or principal re-
past cannot be taken without seri-
Gus Inconvenience towards the mid
die Of the day, the order of repasts
may be reversed, the meal or prin-
cipal repast being taken in the even
ing, and the collation. ut an earlier
hour.
The Lenten Abstinence.
The use of flesh meat is allowed
at all meals on Sunday, and at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tues.
days, Thursday and Saturdays, eX-
cept the Saturday of Ember Week
tMarch ID and the Saturday of
Holy Week april 49,
The use of flesh meat is forbid.
den on Wednesdays, Fridays, the
Saturday of Ember Week and Sat.
urday of Holy Week: on other days,
outside Of Sundays, it is forbidden at
all repasts, except the one meal or
principal repast.
The use of lard, however, is per-
mitted at all times in the prepare
ton Of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot
BE taken at the same meal even on
Sundays.
Persons legtimately excused or
dispensed from the precept Of fast
ing, may use flesh meat at all meals
on whatever day there is general
permission to use it at the principal
repast.
There Are Exemptions.
From the precept of fasting are
excused: Those under the age of
twenty-one years or over the age
of sixty; the infrm and the conval-
escent; women bearing or nursing
Dor or other duties exhaustive of
physical strength; those who from
poverty are unable to procure for
the principal repast n sufficency of
nutritive food.
From the precept of abstinence
from flesh meat are excused: The
Young under the age of seven years;
l,a .alr
as not TO be able to procure for
themselves abstinence food.
People Who Work Hard.
I'm virtue of the authority conced-
cd 10 bishops in the United States
by recent Pontifical indult, permits
sion is granted to working people"
TO use meat on all days of Lent,
with the exception of Fridays. Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and the
Saturday of Holy Week
This dispensation from absii-
hence extends to all three repasts in
the day.
"The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal
where the WaSo-earner, IN virtue
of the indult, uses meat, all the
members of the household may like
wise use it. The church does not
wish to impose upon the household
the inconvenience of double cooking.
But, in cases of this kind, those
members of the household who may
be bound by the precept of fasting,
are allowed the use of meat only at
their principal repast. :.
1.-The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who may 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
abstinence from meat some other
sacrifice of bodily comfort be prac-
ticed, the Sovereign Pontiff himself
suggesting as such sacrifice absti-
hence from intoxicating drinks
Other Days Of Abstinence.
"Other days of fast and abstinence
occurring during the year are the
Ember days and the yigils of Ger.
tain festivals The Ember DAYS