Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-16
Catholic Church Lenten Regulations
of the Diocese of Fargo
FOR THE YEAR 1916.

Wednesday, the first day of Lent,
will fall on the eighth day of March.
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of
grievous 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 morn
ing OF a cup of coffee, tea or choco-
late, with a small piece of bread.
Theologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight
ounces. The solid food taken in the
morning should not exceed two ounces.
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious in
convenience towards the middle of the
day the order of repast may be re-
versed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember Week March
1sth) and the Saturday of Holy Week
april 22nd).
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Satur-
day of Ember Week and the Saturday
of Holy Week; on other days, outside
of Sundays, it is forbidden at all
repasts, except the one meal or prin-
cipal repast.
The use of lard, however, is per-
mltted at all times in the preparation
of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal ever on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or
dispensed 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
repast.
From the precept Of fasting are
excused: Those under the age of
twenty -one or over the age of sixty,
the inlirm and the c~onvalescent;
women bearing or nursing children;
those engaged in hard labor or other
duties exhaustive of physical strength
those who from poverty are unable to
procure for tina principal repast a
sutficiency of nutritive food.
When a doubt exists as to whether
ones condition allow exemption from
the precepts of fasting and abstinence,
%counesl should be asked from confess
sors or pastors who are authoritative
interpreters of the law, and who ever
are empowered in special cases for
good and sufficient reasons, indicated
and suggested in Catholic theology, to
commute the precepts Of fasting and
abstinence to other penitential work.
During Lent pastors will hold
special exercises of devotion in their
separate churches at appointed times.
instruction of practical character upon
Christian duties, the nature of the
sacraments, and the preparation for
their reception should be given or
these occasions.
In virtue Of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by a
Pontifical Indult, permission is grant
ed to working people, to use meat
on all days of Lent with the exception
of Fridays, Ash Wednesday, and We'd
nesday and Saturday Of Holy Week.
The dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the
day.
The usual prohibition remains
against the use Of flesh meat and fish
at the same meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue
of the indult uses meat, all the men,
bers of the household may likewise
use it. The Church does not wish to
impose upon the household the incon-
%vience of double cooking. But in
cases of this kind, those members of
the household who may be bound by
the precept of fasting, are allowed
the use of meat only at their princi-
pal repast.
From the precept of abstinence
from flesh meat are excused: The
young under the age of seven; the
sick those who are so situated as not
to be able to procure for themselve.
abstinence food.
Whatever collection is taken up in
the churches on Good Friday is, as
usual according to a letter of the