Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-22


the diocese of Davenport, the following
regulation for the observance of Lent.
which begins Wednesday, have been
received by the pastors OF the churches
here from Bishop Davis:
/. Ash Wednesday falls on the
twenty-first day of February !.
g. According to the common law OF
the church, all the days OF Lent are
fast-days, except the Sundays.
8. All persons who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
mately dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast.
a. The one full meal permitted on
fast days Is not to be taken TILL about
noon.
S. Custom allows cup of coffee, tea
or chocolate, with small piece OF
bread, without butter, to be taken IN
the morning. sE
6. In the evening, ia collation. not ex-
ceeding the fourth part OF an ordinary
meal Is allowed.
I. The use OF fiesh-meat and fish is
not allowed at the same meal during
Lent, nor even on Sundays.
The following persons are exempt
from the obligation Of fasting: e
Persons under twenty-one years OF
age: persons having reached the age
of sixty years; those who are engag-
v ed in hard work; the sick and con-
valescent; those, who through weak
ness, cannot fast without serious in
jury to health; medicants who cannot
count on regular meal. All thus
excused from fastipg are not restrict
cd 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 obliga-
lions to fast or abstain ought to apply
to their pastors for advice or dispen-
sation.
The following dispensations are
granted:
/. The use of fiesh-meat Is permit
ted during Lent at all meals on Sun
days, and once a day at the principal
meal on Mondays, Tuesdays Thurs
days and Saturdays, with the excep-
ton of the Saturdays in Ember 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 inconvepient 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 ex-
tends In this diocese from the first
Sunday In Lent to Holy Trinity Sun
day, both days included.
In virtue of special faculties given
in letter of the sacred congregation
of the propaganda to the ordinaries
Of the United States on the 18th day
of March, 1886, and renewed in 1905
permission to eat meat at one meal
on days of abstinence Is granted to
all laborers. *#
From this permission, however, are
excluded all Fridays in the year, Ash
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Of
Holy week, and the vigil Of Christmas.
It 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. 49,
This permission to eat meat on GER
tain days of abstinence extends not
also to their families so that every
member of their families participates
in the privilege of the indult.
Those who make use of this dis
pensation are most earnestly exhort-
ed to perform some special works OF
penance, such as abstaining from the
use of intoxicating drink or some other
act of modification.
Let all pray earnestly. not alone
during Lent, but at all times and sea-
sons for the suppression of intem-
perance
The class of crime that degrades our
people. the quarrels and acts Of vio-
Ience. which occupy the attention Of
our civil tribunals, are all traceable to
drunkenness.
For the correction of this evil let us
endeavor by united action to promote
the temperance societies already es-
tablished in ssany parishes, and to