The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-03-02
LENTEN

1 lHt OIAO liS ItN iNSuldbIOIic biN
were read in all the Catohlic churches
Of the diocese of Sioux Falls Sunday,
Ash Wednesday falling this year on
March /:
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty OF grew
ious sin, to observe the lenten regula-
tons.
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 a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of an ordinary meal-custom, how
ever, authorizing the taking in the
morning of a cup of coffee, tea or choc-
olate, with a small piece OF bread.
Theologians allow for 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 repast
cannot be taken, without seriou in
convenience, toward the middle of the
day, the order of repasts may be re
versed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of ember week and the Sat
urday Of holy week.
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Satur
day of ember week and the Saturday
Of holy week; on other days outside
of Sundays, it is forbidden at all re-
pasts, except the one meal or prin-
cipal repast.
The use Of lard, however, is per-
mitted at all times in the preparation
of food.
Both FISH and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on u
days.
Persons legitimalely excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting,
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general GER
mission to use it at the principal re-
past.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age of twcn-
ty-one years or over the age of sixty;
the infirm and convaleScent, women
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive of physical strength, those
who from poverty are unable to pro-
cure for the principal repast a suiii-
cheney of nutritiye food.
From the precept of abstinence from
flesh meat are excused: The young
under the age of seven years; the sick;
those who are so situated as not to
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~stinence food.
BY virtue of the authority conceded
to bishops in the United States by a
recent pontificial indult. permission is
granted to working people to use
meat on all days of lent, with the eX-
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday.
the Wednesday and Saturday of holy
week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the
day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and FISH al
the same meal.
Where the -wage-earner, in virtue OF
the indult, uses meat, all the members
of the household may likewise 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 house
hold who may be bound by the pre-
cept of fasting, are allowed the use Of
meat only at their principal repast.
The sovereign portitf eXhorts all
who may make use of the privileges
of the iDdult to be still mindful OF
their duty to practice sef-denial, and
he counsels that instead of abstinence
from meat some other sacrifice OF
bodily comfort be practiced, the SOW
ereign pontiff himself suggesting as
icating drinks.