Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-02-07
GAS FRANCHISE IS UP LENIEN REGULATIONS
BISHOP TRoBEC OF ST. CLOUD
DIOCESE GIVES OUT RULES
'~F 5< FOR LENT
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Fe

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb
-ruary 5. All the faithful, unless le9lt-
| imately excused or dispensed, are
bound in conscience, under the penalty
| of grevious sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations. %. i
All the days Of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, are days Of fast.
The precept Of fast restricts the use
Of food to one full meal towards the
middle of the day, and a collationNAin 7
the evening not exceeding the fourths
part of a meal-custom,. however, gu:
thorizes the taking in the morning of
cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, with
a small piece of bread.
For the collation., theologians allow
solid food to the amount Of ounces.
The solid food taken in the morn
=! ing should not exceed two ounces.
! When the full meal or principal r.
past cannot be taken without serious
| inconvenience towards the middle pf
the day, the order Of repast may pc
reversed, the full or principal repast
| being taken in the evening and the col
| lation at an earlier hour Of the day.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sunday and at the prinace'ltt
+, pal meals on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday Of Ember week and the Sat
urday Of Holy week. L
The use of flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals on Wednesdays,
Fridays, the Saturday, of Ember week
and the Saturday Of Holy week; and
on other days, outside Of Sundays, it is
forbidden at other repasts outside the
| one full meal. Il
The use of lard is permitted at AL
times in the preparation Of food. ~
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sum
days. -. - s&s. = ,. SSs
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 meal.
From the precept Of fast are ex-
cused: Those under the age Of u
years or over the age Of 60; the infrla
and the convalescent; women bearing
or nursing children, persons engaged IN
hard labor or other duties exhaustive
to physical strength, and persons WHIP
from poverty are unable to procure fer
the principal meal a sufficiency Of n4-
tritive food.
From the precept Of abstinence aTe
excused the young under the age Of
seven years; the sick; persons who are
! so situated as not to be able to procure
for themselves abstinence food. ~
| In virtue Of the authority conceded
recent Ponti6cal Indult, permission is
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meat on all days of Lent, with the ex-
ception Of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and the Saturday OF
Holy week.
The dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three meals Of the day.
The usual prohibition remains against
using flesh meat and fish at the same
meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue of
the Indult, uses meat, all the members
Of his 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, the members of the house
hold are bound under the precept of
fast, are allowed the uses Of meat only
at the principal meal.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who make use Of the privileges Of the
Indult to be still mindful of their duty
to practice lf-denial; and he counsels
that instead Of abstinence from meat
some other sacrifice Of bodily comfort
be practiced, the Sovereign Pontiff
himself suggests as such sacrifice,
abstinence from Intoxicating drink.
! The days Of fast and abstience oc-
curing outside the Lenten season dur
ing the year are the Ember days and
the Vigils of Holy days. The Vigils
will be: The Vigil Of Pentecost, that
! Of the Assumption, that Of All Saints
and that Of Christmas.
All Fridays are, of course, days Of
abstinence except when a Holyday OF
obligation falls on a Friday-then
there is no fast nor abstinence.
The Pontifcal Indult, Of which we
have spoken, exempts 'working
people, from the abstinence Of Vigils
and Ember days, except when such
Vigils and Ember days fall on Friday;
and on such days the Indult also
J. exempts from abstinence, in the same
J condition as for the Lenten season the
} members of the household of the wage
Garner.
) Pastors will make to their focks in
the usual terms due announcement of
approaching Ember days and Vigils-
adding to such announcements state
ment Of the privileges given by the
Indult to working people,
{ When doubt exists as to whether
ones condition or circumstances allow
exemption from the precept of fast and
! abstinence, counsel should be asked
from confessors or pastors, who are
the authoritive Interpreters Of the law,
and who are even empowered, in
special cases, for good and sufficient
reasons, indicated in Catholic theology
to commute the precept of fast and
abstinence to other penitential work.
! In enjoining upon the faithful ar
abstinence, Holy Church makes a prac.
:tical application Of the evangelical Law
j Of self-denial, of which the Savior
land his apostles were, by example and
j by word, such eminent teachers. With
out self denial there is no Christianity
I Indeed, without self-denial there is No
natural morality. The man who has