The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-31


conscience, under the penalty of
grievous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, are days of fast.
The precept of fasting restricts
the use of food to one meal towards
the middle of the day, and COLA
ton in the evening not exceeding
the fourth part of an ordinary meal
custom, however, authorizing the
taking in the morning of a cup of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with 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 re-
! past cannot be taken without serious
Inconvenience towards the middle of
the day, the order of repasts may be
reversed the meal or principal re-
past being taken in the evening, and
the collation. at an earlier hour
The use of flesh meat is allowed
at all meals on Sundays, and at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, eX-
cept the Saturday of F"ber Week
February 15) and the Saturday of
Holy Week March 22).
The use Of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Satur-
day of Ember Week and the Satur-
day of Holy Week; on other days,
outside of Sundays, it is forbidden
at all repasts, except the one meal
or principal repast.
! The use of lard, however, is per-
mitted at all times in the prepara-
! ton of food.
! Both fish and flesh meat cannot
be taken at the same meal, even
on Sundays.
Persons lesitimately excused or
dispensed from the precept of fast.
ing, may use flesh meat at all meals
on. whatever day there is a general
permission to use il at the principal
repast
! From the precept of fasting are
Excused: Those under the age of
twenty-one years or over the age of
sixty; the infirm and the GONZALES
cent; women bearing or nursing chill
dren; those engaged in hard labor
tor other duties exhaustive of physi-
cal strength; those who from pow
erty are unable to procure for the
principal repast sufficiency of nu-
tritive food.
From the precept Of abstinence
| from flesh meat are excused: The
young under the age of seven years !:
| the sick; those who are so situated
as not to be able to procure for
themselves abstinence food
! In virtue of the authority conced-
| ed to bishops in the United States
! by a recent pontifical indult, permits
sion is granted to working people
to use meat on all days of Lent,
with the exception of Fridays. Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and the
Saturday of Holy Week.
This dispensation from absti-
nence extends to all three repasts
in 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 the household may like
wise use it. The church does not
wish to impose upon the household
the inconvenience of double cooking.
But, in cases of this kind, those
members of the household who may
be bound by the precept of fasting,
| are allowed the use of meat only
at their principal repast.
| The sovereign pontiff eXhorts all
who may make use of the privileges
tof the indult to be still mindful of
their duty to practice self-denial, and
he counsels that instead of the alb
stinence from meat some other sac
rifice of bodily comfort be practiced,
| the sovereign pontiff himself sug-
costing as such sacrifice abstinence
from intoxicating drinks.
1 Other days of fast and abstinence
occurring during the year are the
Ember days and the Vigils of Ger.
tain festivals. The Ember days are
"Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
May IA. 16 and II; Wednesday, Fri
day and Saturday, September II,
10 and 20; Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, December II, 10 and 20.
THE Vigils are: The Vigil of Pente-
cost, May 10; that of All Saints,
October 81. and that of Christmas,
! December "a.
All Fridays are, of course, days
CT abstinence. The abstinence which
formerly was obligatory on Satur-
days has been dispensed with by
lapcstolic favor to the faithful of
the United States.
The pOntifical indult, of which we
have spoken, eXempts working PEG.
pie" from the abstinence of vigils
and Ember' days, except when such
Vigils and Ember days fall on Fri
day.
Pastors will make to their focks
in the usual terms due announce
ments of approaching Ember days
and ViSils-adding to such announce
merits statement OF the privileges
gwen by the indult to working
people.
| When doubt as to whether ones
condition or circumstances allow ex-
empton from the precepts of fasting