The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-28
REGULATIONS FOR
LENTEN SEASON
TOMORROW IS ASH WEDNESDAY,
THE BEGINNING OF LENT, AND
BISHOP o'RIELLY ISSUES the
REGULATIONS FOR MEMBERS
OF FARGO DIOCESE.

Today is shrove Tuesday and to
morrow Ash Wednesday. the ibeginnin.
or Lent. The season of special reli,e
ious observance will be generally oh
served by Fargo church people, espec
tally of the Catholic, Episcopal ans
Lutheran churches.
Bishop O'Rielly has issued the fol.
lowing regulations for the Fargo do.
cese:
In this year of grace, 1911, Ash Wed.
nesday, the first day of Lent, will fall
on March l.
i All the faithful, unless legitinately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of grey
lous sin, to observe the Lenten regu-
! lations.
] All the days of Lent, the Sundays
| excepted, are days of fast.
| The precepts of fasting restricts the
use of food to one meal towards the
middle of the day, and a collation. lin
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of meal-custom, however, au-
thorizing the taking in the morning of
a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, 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 serious incon-
venience towards 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 early 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 (March ID
and the Saturday at holy week (April
15.)
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday
of Ember week and the Saturday of
Holy week; on other days. outside of
Sundays. it is forbidden at all repasts,
except the one meal or principal re-
past
Theuse of lard, however, is permitted
at all times in the preparation of
food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting,
may use flesh meat at all meals on |
whatever day there is a general per-
mission to use it at the principal re- |
past
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age of 21 years |
or over the age of go, the infirm and |
the convalescent; women bearing or |
nursing children; those engaged in |
hard labor or other duties exhaustive |
of physical strength; those who from |
poverty are unable to procure for the
principal repast a sufficiency of nutri- |
tive food
From the precept of abstinence from
flesh meat are excused: The young |
under the age Of Z; the sick; those who
are so situated as not to be able to
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
neat on all days of Lent with the ex-
,eption of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
Ind Wednesday and Saturday Of Holy
week.
The dispensation from abstinence ex-
ends to all three repasts in the
lay
The usual prohibition remains
Lgainst the use of flesh meat and fish
Ut the same meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue
II the indult uses meat, all the mem
'ers of the household may likewise
Use it. The church does not wish to
impose upon the household the incon-
renience OF double cooking. But i'm
ases of this kind, those members of the
household who may be bound by the
,recept of fasting, are allowed the use
# meat only at their principal repast
When a doubt exists as to whether
mes condition or circumstances allow
from the precepts of fast
ng and abstinence, counsel should be
sked from confessors or pastors who
re authoritative interpreters of the
aw, and who even are empowered in
special cases for good and sufficient
easons. indicated and suggested in
Catholic theology, to commune the pre-
epts OF fasting and abstinence to other
centennial works.
During Lent pastors will hold spec
al exercises of devotion In their sepa-
ate churches at appointed times. In
truction of a practical character upon
christian duties, the nature of the sac
'aments, and the preparation for their
should be given on these oc-
,asions.
Whatever collection is taken up in
he churches on Good Friday, is as
lsual according to a letter of the holy
ather, to be applied in the aid OF mis-
iions at Palestine
Given at Fargo, N D., Feb. 10, 1911.
James O'ReilIy