Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-10
News of the Churches in Newark---Services Arranged for Sunday
RULES RLENTEN
SEASON ANNOUNCED
Catholics Must Fast on All Week
Days from Ash Wedness
day to Easter.

day to Easter.
Rt. Rev. John j. O'Connor, bishop oi
the Roman Catholic diocese of New
ark, today announced h list of resu-
lations for the Lenten season. Lent
VIII begin on Ash Wednesday,, Feb
ruary q. The regulations are:
"All the week days of Lent, from
Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, are
fast days Of precept on n meal, with
the allowance of a moderate collation.
in the evening.
THE church excuses from the obliga-
tion of fasting, but not OF abstinence
from flesh meat, except in special
cases of sickness. tho inirm. those who
are attaining their growth. those who
duties are of an exhausting or labori-
GUS character, women bearing or nurs-
ing infants and those who are en-
feebled by old age.
Dispcnsations for this Diocese.
1.-THE following dispensations are
granted for this diocese:
1.-The use of flesh meat is permitted
at every meal on the Sundays of Lent
and at the principal meal on Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday n Saturday, with
the exception of Ember Saturday and
Holy Saturday.
1.-THE use of eggs and milk. butter.
cheese and the like is allowed every
day at the principal meal and at the
evening collation..
"A email piece Of breaS with a cup
OF coffee, tea, chocolate or similar drink
may be taken in the morning.
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the principal meal at nooi. 1t is lawful
10 invert the order and take the COLA
ton In the morning M the dinner in
the evening.
"Drtppings and lard may be used in
the preparation OF food.
ION Sunday there is neither fast nor
abstinence, but 1t is not allowed to eat
fish and flesh meat at the same meal
OF any day during Lent.
Those who are not obliged to fast
may partake Of flesh meat at every
meal on a day when, by pecial indult,
tleshment is permitted at the princi-
pal meal.
Special Permission for ToiIers.
by special indult of the Holy See,
dated March, 1900, the bishops of the
United States are empowered for ten
years to dispense from the common
law of abstinence, when they Judge 1t
expedient. We, therefore, permit work.
ing people. who cannot easily avoid
flesh meat, to use it once a day on all
abstinence days throughout the year,
with the exception, however, of all
Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Wednesday
and Saturday Of holy week and the
Vigil of Christmas.
This disp~ensation is granted to
working people, anu the members of
their families share in it, but 1t does
rot exempt from fasting Were such an
obligation exists, nor does it permit the
use of fish and flesh meat at the same
meal,
When fiis faithful avaif themselves
cf, this indult. tn V should perform
81 ne penitential work as q substitute
fc9 the d~ispenaation enjoyed. A most
useful and coinrnendable custom is that
a. abstaining. especially during Lent,
from stimulants in honor Of the sacred
thirst of our Divine Saviour.
Empowered 10 Dispense.
An priests exercising the faculties
on this diocese are empowered to grant
sliepensations from the precept OF fast
and abstinence in particular cases and
for sufficient cause.
IA plenary Indulgence has been con-
coded by the holy see to all the faithful
of this diocese, who, Oh the feast of st.
Patrick or within the octave, receive
with proper dispositions the sacrarnents
of perance n the blessed eucharist,
end visiting a church or chapel, offer
prayers to God according to the inten-
ton of the Holy Father and for the
propagation of the faith.
"The holy oils will be ~consecrated at
the cathedral on Holy THURSDAY, April
4, at 10 a. M, and distributed at 2
%. m.
I'm accordance with the direction of
the third plenary council of Baltimore
"a collection will be taken up in all the
churches of this diocese on the first
sunday of Lent in aid of the propa-
cation of the faith n of the Indian
and colored missions.
with the view of encouraging this
~salutary work of mercy, and of ami
mating the Christian zeal OF the faith
full for the salvation of perishing souls,
our Holy Father has benigniy granted
"a plenary indulgence to all who. having
contritely confessed and worthily re-
ceived holy communion On that day.
devoutly visit a church in which the
collection is made. assist at the SER
nor and the other observances Of
divine worship that may be celebrated
on that occasion, and offer prayers for
the propagation Of the faith and the
intention OF the sovereign pontin.
I'm compliance with the command OF
u Holy Father in his brief Of De-
cember, 1887. a collection for the Holy
Land will be taken up In all the
churches of this diocese either On Good
Friday or on the third Sunday after
Easter his year.
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