Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-02-19
LENTEN REGULATIONS ISSUED:
BISHOP TROBEC MAKES KNOWN
THE RULES FOR oBsERv-
ANCE OF LENT

THE RULES FOR OBSERV-
ANCE OF LENT
bishop of this diocese, has issued the
following regulations for observance
by the people of Catholic faith. Lent
began Wednesday and continues until
Easter, which falls on April 4, this
year.
Following are the regulations:
Let begils on Ash Wednesday. All
the faithful, unless lcgitimatcly cx-
cqsed or dispensed, are bound in con-
science, under the penalty Of grievous
sin, to observe the Lenten regulations.
Tho. Lenten Fast =.
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 collation. in
the evening, not exceeding the fourth
part of meal-custom, however, au-
thorizing the taking in the morning
Of a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with small piece of bread. .
For the collation., theologians allow
solid food to the amount 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 serious
Inconvenience towards the middle of
the day, the order Of repasts may be
reversed, the full or principal repast
being taken in the evening. and the
collation. at an earlier hour Of the day.
Tho I.enton Abstinence
The use Of flesh meat, therefore, is
all meals on Sunday, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember week and the Sat-
urday Of Holy week.
The useof 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.
The use Of lard is permitted at all
times in the preparation of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precent 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.
Exemptions From the Precepts of Fast
and Abstinence
From the precept Of fast are excus-
ed: Those under the age of 81 years
or over the age of 60; the infrm and
the cOnvalescent; women bearing or
! nursing children; persons engaged in
hard labor or other duties exhaustive
Of physical strength; persons who from
poverty are unable to procure from the
principal meal suffciency Of nutri-
tive food.
From the precept Of abstinence are
excused the young under the age Of Z
years; the sick; persons who are SO
situated as not to be able to procure
for themselves abstinence food.
Special Exemption for Working People
In virtue of the authority conceded
to bishops in the United States by 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
! the Wednesday and the Saturday OF
Holy week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three meals Of the day.
The usual Prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish al
the same meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue OF
tire Idult, 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 who are bound under the precen
of fast, are allowed the use Of meal
only at the principal meal.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al
| who make use IF the privileges Of tn,
| Indult to be still mindful of their dut,
to practice self denial; and he coun
! sells that instead Of the abstinence
from meat some other sacrifice of bod
lily comfort be practiced, the Sow
| ereign POntiff himself suggesting a.
| such sacrifice, abstinence from intoxi
eating drink.
Days Of Fast and Abstinence Outsid.
Of the Lenten season
| The days Of fast and abstinence &C
curing outside the Lenten season dur
ing the year are the Ember days ant
the vigils of Holydays- The vigil'
will be: the vigil Of Penticost, thai
Of the Assumption, that of All Saints
and that Of Christmas.
All Fridays are, of course, days e1
abstinence except when Holyday OF
obligation falls on a Friday-then
there is no fast nor abstinence.
The Pontifica1 Indult, of which We
have spoken, exempts working peg