The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-03-06
RULES
are ! |. ISSUED BY
DIOCESE HEAD
Rt. Rev. James McGolrick,
Bishop of Duluth Promul-
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gates Usual Regulations.

gates Usual Regulations.
All the Faithful Unless Legitimately
Excused or Dispensed Are Bound in
Conscience to Observe Lenten Code
Under Penalty of Grievous Sin.
Ash Wednesday this week marked
the beginning of Lent.
For the next forty; days UP to East
er Sunday there will be fasting,
special religious service and a general
relaxation from social pastime. While
the Lenten season is observed more
trictly by the Catholic and Episcopal
hurches, it is observed as a time of
.uiet by practically every one so far
IS social activities are concerned.
Lent is observed very closely by
he Catholic church and rules laid
down by the church authorities are
followed strictly. RI: Rev. James Nc
Golrick, bishop of the diocese of Du-
uth, has issued the following rules
20 be observed by the members of his
diocese:
"All faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of
'grievous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
Cali the days of Lent, Sundays ex-
,epted, are days of fast.
"The precept of fast restricts the
Use of food to one meal toward the
middle of the day, and a collation. in
he evening not exceeding one-fourth
part of full meal-custom, however,
authorizing the taking in the morning
Of cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
With small piece of bread.
Lenten Fast.
"For the collation. theologians allow
:olid food to the amout of eight
ounces. The solid food taken in the
morning should not exceed two
ounces.
"When the full meal or principal re-
past cannot be taken without con-
:iderable inconvenience toward the
middle of the day, the order of repart
may be reversed, the full meal or
principal repast being taken in the
evening, and the collation. at an earlier
hour of the day.
Lenten Abstinence.
"The use of flesh meat is allowed at
Ill meals on Sunday, and at the prin-
>ipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, March Z,
md Holy week, April 4.
''The use of flesh meats therefore is
.orbidden at all meals on Wednesdays,
Fridays, the Saturday of Ember
week and Holy week; and on other
days, outside of Sunday, it is forbid
den at other repasts except the full
meal.
Exemption From Precepts.
"From the precept Of fast are ex-
cused: Those under the age Of q
and more than 60 years of age, the in
firm and the convalescent; women
bearing or nursing children; persons
engaged in hard labor or other hard
duties exhaustive of physical
strength; those, who from poverty are
unable to procure at the main meal a
sufficiency of food.
"From the precept of abstinence
are excused: The young under the
age of years; the sick; those who
are unable to provide for themselves
abstinence food
Special Exemption.
Gin virtue of the authority conceded
to bishops of the United States by a
recent pontifical indult, permission is
granted to working people to use
meat on all days Of Lent, with the ex-
ception of Friday, Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and the Saturday Of
Holy week.
"This dispensation from abstinence
extended to all three meals 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 men,
bers of his household may likewise
use it. The church does not wish to
impose upon the households the in
convenience of double cooking. But
in all cases of this kind, the mem
bers Of the household who are bound
by the precept of fast, are allowed
the use of meat only at their 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 self-denial; and he
counsels that instead of the abstin.
ence from meat some other sacrifice
Of bodily comfort be practiced, the