The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-27
Regulations From 1t. Rev. Bishop
Davis Of Davenport Were Read
Sunday in Catholic
Churches.
sTRICTEsT OBSERVANCE
Regulations Laid Down do Not Diff
fer From Those Of Past Years
Vigil Lasts for For.
~ Days.

The lenten season will open Wednes-
day of this week, which is Ash We'd
nesday. In Catholic churches Of the
city Sunday the regulations for the
observance of lent in the diocese OF
Davenport as sent out by Rt. Rev.
James Davis, were read:
Ash-Wednesday falls on the frst day
of March
According to the common law of the
church, all the days OF Lent are fast
days, except on Sundays
+ All persons who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the Fast
The one full meal permitted on fast
days is not to be taken till about noon.
Custom allows a cup OF coffee, tea
or chocolate, with small piece OF
bread, without butter, to be taken in
the morning.
In the evening collation. not ex-
ceeding the fourth part OF an ordinary
meal is allowed.
The use of flesh meat and fish is not
allowed at the same meal during Lent,
not even on Sundays
The following persons are exempt
from the obligation Of fasting. So
Persons under twenty-one yearsS OF
age: persons having reached the age.
Of sixty years; those who are engaged
in hard work: the sick and GONZALES
cent; those, who through weakness,
cannot fast without serious injury to
health; mendicants who cannot count
on regular meal. All thus excused
from fasting are not restricted to the
use of flesh meat at only one meal on
the days on which it is allowed. Those
who entertain any reasonable doubt
about their obligations to fast or abb
stain ought to apply to their pastors
for advice and dispensation.
The following dispensations are
granted
/. The use of fesh-meat is permit
ted during Lent at all meals on Sun
days. and once day at the principal
meal on Mondays. Tuesdays Thursdays
and Saturdays, with the exception OF
the Saturdays in Fmber Week and
Holy Week.
2. The use OF butter, cheese. milk
and eggs is permitted every day in
Lent. the use of lard and drippings
is also allowed in the preparation of
permitted food.
8. 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 extends
in this diocese from the first Sunday
in Lent to Holy Trinity Sunday, both
days included.
In virtue OF special faculties given
in letter of the Sacred Congregation
of the Propagand to the Ordinaries
/ of the United States on the 18th of
March, 1896, and renewed in 1905. per-
mission to eat meat at one meal on
days of abstinence is granted TO all
I laborers.
4 From this permission, however, are
7 excluded all Fridays in the year. Ash
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of
/ Holy Week. and the Vigil of Christ
mas. 1t should also be remarked that
on those days on which the use of
meat is thus allowed, fish and flesh
cannot be eaten at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on GER
1 tain days Of abstinence extends not
only 70 the laborers themselves, but
also to their families so that every
member Of their families participates
/ in the privilege of the indult.
Those who make use OF this disDen-
sation are most earnestly exhorted to