Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-21
.LENTEN RULES TO
Be READ TOMORROW
Priests Will Give instructions to
Parish Members Regarding
Annual Observance

In all the Roman Catholic churches
of the city the Lenten rules will be
read tomorrow. The rules as an
nounced by the Rt. Rev. John w
Shanahan, Bishop of the Harrisburg
diocese, for the season which begins
on next Wednesday, Ash Wednesday,
are as follows:
All the faithful who have completed
their twenty-first year, unless legiti-
mateiy dispensed, are bound to OBJ
serve the fast of Lent. They are to
make only one full meal day. The
meal allowed on fast days is not to
be taken till about noon.
A small refreshment, commonly
called collation.. Is allowed in the even
ing No general rule as to the guam
tity OF food permitted at this time is
or can be made. but the practice of
the most regular Christians is never to
let 1t exceed the fourth part of an or
dinary meal.
BY virtue of an induit of the Holy
See the following concessions in Lent
were granted temporarily;
(a) In the morning piece of bread,
not exceeding two ounces, with a drink
of coffee. tea or chocolate, or any SINH
(b) When the principal meal can
not be taken about noon, 1t Is lawful
to invert the order by taking the COL
lation in the morning and dinner in
the evening.
(c) In preparing fcad that is per-
mitted lard or fat may be made use of.
Cd Persons dispensed from the OBJ
legation of fasting are not bound by
the restriction of using meat only at
one meal on days on which its use is
granted by the dispensation. Those
who are obliged to fast are permitted
the use of meat only at one meal.
The following persons are exempt
from the obligation of fasting: Per-
sons under twenty-one years of age,
the sick, pregnant women, or those
giving suck to infants, persons oblig-
ed to do hard labor, and all who
through weakness cannot fast without
prejudice to their health.
By dispensation the use of flesh will
be allowed at all meals on Sundays,
and once day on Mondays Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. with the ex-
ceptions of the Saturday in Ember
week and the last Saturday of Lent.
The use of butter, cheese, milk and
eggs is also permitted every day in
Lent. The use of flesh meat and fish
at the same meal on any day, even
on Sunday, is forbidden
Abstain From IntoNcants
The praiseworthy custom Of abstain
ing from Intoxicating drink in honor
Of the Sacred Thirst of Our Lord, so
warmly recommended by the late Sow
ereign Pontiff, is suggested to the piety
of the faithful of this diocese as a
means of penance and merit during
the holy season of Lent.
The time for making the Easter
communion will date from the first
Sunday of Lent, March 1, till the Feast
of the Holy Trinity, June Z. both days
included. BY virtue of an indult of
the Holy See working people are per-
mitted for term of years, the use of
flesh meat on all days of fast and
abstinence throughout the year except
Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the We'd
nesday and Saturday of Holy Week
and the Vigil of Christmas. How
ever, 1T is forbidden to use flesh meat
and fish at the same meal. This con-
cession is made not only to working
people themselves but also to their
families and hence each member of
the family may enjoy the same privi-
lege. On fast days these working peo-
pie who are not exempt from the law
of fast on account of hard labor may
use meat only at the principal meal
on the day on which its use Is allowed
Those who make use of the above
indult are admonished to perform 9TH
er works of penance in place of the
abstinence from which they are dis
pensed.