The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-18
BISHOP OUTLINES
LENTEN DUTIES
TO CATHOLICS
DURING LENTEN SEASON
PUBLISHED BY BISHOP
READ In CHURCHES SUNDAY
LENT COMMENCED WEDNESDAY
AND WILL LAST UNTIL EAS-
TER SUNDAY, APRIL A.

In all Catholic churches in this do
cese the rules and regulations outlin-
ing the duties that are recommended
to the observation of Catholics during
the Lenten period as prepared by Rt.
Rev. Bishop James Trobec of St.
Cloud were read Sunday to the men,
bers of the congregations of this do
cese. Lent commenced Wednesday,
and lasts until Easter Sunday, April
fourth.
The instruction issued by the Bish-,
op were as follows:
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday,
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of
grevious sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
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, how
ever, authorizing the taking in the
morning of a cup of coffee, tea or.
chocolate, with a 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 oun-
ces.
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.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
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 use of flesh meat, therefore, is
forbidden at all meals on Wednesdays
Fridays the Saturdays of Ember week
and the Saturday of Holy week; and
ON other days, outside the 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 meats cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept 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.
From the precept of fast are ex-
cused: Those over the age of sixty;
the infirm 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 for the princi-
pal meal a sufficiency of nutritive
food.
From the precept of abstinence are
excused: the younger under the age of
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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 by a
recent Pontifcal Indult, permission is
granted to working people" tie usa
meat on all days of Lent, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
the Wednesday and 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 at.
the same meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue
of the Indult, uses meat, all the mem
bers of his household may likewise
use it. The church does not wish to-
impose upon the household in the in.
convenience of double cooking. But, I'M
cases of this kind, the members Of
the household who are bound under
the precept of fast, are allowed the
use of meat only at the principal meal
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who makes 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 absti-
nence from meat some other sacri-
flee OF bodily comfort be practiced,
the Sovereign Pontiff himself suggest
ing as such sacrifice, abstinence from
intoxicating drink.
The days of fast and abstinence oc-
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