The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-04
LENTEN REGULATIONS
Bishop o'Reilly Has issued the Resu-
lations for Lent This
Year,

The following regulations for
Lent have been issued by
Bishop O'Reilly: In this year
of grace. 1913. Ash Wednesday,
the first day of Lent, will fall on Feb.
5. All the faithful. useless legitimately
excused or dispensed. are pound in
conscience, under the penalty of
g~rievous 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 a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of a meal-custom, however,
authorizing the taking in the morning
of a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with a small piece Of bread. Theo-
logians allow for the collation. solid
food to the amount of. eight ounces.
The solid food taken in the morning
should not exceed two ounce
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious in
convenience towards the middle of the
day, the order of repasts may be re-
Nersed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at al 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 (Feb, 16)
and the Saturday of Holy week
March 22).
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 Sun
days, it is forbidden at all repasts, ex-
cept the n meal or principal repast.
The use of lard, however, is permit
ted at all times in the preparation of
food. Both fish and flesh. meat cam
not be taken at the same meal, even
on Sundays. Persons legitimately ex-
cused or dispensed from the precept
OF Tasting, may use flesh meat at all
meals on whatever day there is a
general permission to use 1t at the
principal repast. +.
From the precept Of fasting are ex-
oused: Those under the age of II
years or over the age of so, the infirm
n the convaleScent; women bearing
or nursing children; those a 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 nutrf-
tive food. From the precept of abstin-
ence from flesh meat are excused: The
young under the age of q; 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 bv a
recent pontifical indult, permission is
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days Of Lent with the
exception of Fridays, Ash "wednesday,
and Wednesday and Saturday of Holy
week. The dispensation from abstin-
ence extends to all three repasts in
the day. The usual prohibition re-
mains against the use of flesh meat
n fish at the same meal.
When the wage Garner, in virtue of
the indult uses meat, all the members
of the 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, those members of the house
hold who may be bound by the precept
of fasting, are allowed the use of meat
only at their principal repast.