The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-06
Right Rev. James Davis Of Davenport
Explains Regulations for tho
Catholics Of Davenport
Diocese.
OBSERVANCE OF FAST
Those Who Arc Exempt From obIIaa.
tlon-Cathollcs Urged to
Attond All Lenten
Devotions.

The Rt. Rev. James Davis Of Day.
onport. issues the following rules for
lent to be observed by the members of
the Catholic churches throughout his
diocese:
1. Ash Wednesday falls on the Sth
day of March.
2. According to the common law
OF the church, all the days Of lent
are fast days, except the Sundays.
3. All persons who have completed
their twenty-f1rst year unless legiti-
mateiy dispensed, are obliged to keep
the fast.
fast days Is not to be taken till about
noon.
8. Custom allows a cup of coffee,
tea or chocolate, with a small piece
OF bread, without butter, to be taken
In the morning.
6. In the evening a collation., not
exceeding the fourth part Of an ordi-
nary meal, is allowed
7. The use of flesh meat and fish
Is not allowed at the same meal dur
ing lent. not even on Sundays.
The following persons are exempt
from the obligation Of fasting:
Persons under twenty-one years of
age: persons having reached the age
OF sixty years; those who are engaged
IN hard work; the sick and GONZALES
cent: those, who through weakness,
cannot fast without serious injury to
their health; mendicants, who cannot
count on regular meal ALI thus ex.
cused from fasting are not restricted
to the use of flesh meat at only one
meal on the days On which it is al
lowed. Those who entertain any rea-
sonable doubt about their obligations
TO fast Or abstain, ought to apply to
their pastors for advice or dispen-
sation. The following dispensations
are granted:
!. The use Of flesh meat is permit
ted during lent at all meals on Sun
days, and once a day at the principal
meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs
Gays and Saturdays, with the excep-
ton Of the Saturday in ember week
and in holy week.
2. The use of butter, cheese, milk,
and eggs is permitted every day in
lent; the use of lard and drippings
IS also allowed in the preparation of
permitted food.
8. Those for whom the hour of
noon, may be, an inconvenient time
for the full meal or dinner, may in
vert the order and take their COLA
ton at noon, and their full meal or
dinner in the evening.
The time in which the faithful
must comply with their Easter duty
extends in this diocese from the first
Sunday in lent to holy trinity Sunday,
both days included.
In virtue of special faculties, given
in letter of the Sacred Congregation
Of the Propaganda to the Ordinaries
Of the United States on the 18th Of
March. 1895, and renewed in 1905, per-
mission to eat meat at one meal on
days of abstinence is granted to all
laborers.
From this permission, however. are
excluded all Fridays in the year, Ash
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of
holy week, and the vigil Of Christ
mas. 1t should be remembered that OH
those days on which the use of meat
Is thus allowed, fish and flesh meat
cannot be eaten at the same meal.
This permission to eat meat on GER
tain days OF abstinence extends not
only to the laborers themselves, but
also to their families, so that every
member Of their families participates
in the privilege Of the indult.
Pastors will exhort the faithful to
attenQ inc leHteH ueSolloHS, WHICH
shall be held on Wednesdays and Fri
days, every week, in all parish
churches, and also in the out mis-
sions on other days selected by the
pastors. The usual devotions for
Wednesdays are: The recitation Of
the rosary, sermon or short instruc-
ton, and benediction OF the most
blessed sacrament, and for Fridays,
tho stations or "Way OF the Cross"
followed by benediction Of the most
blessed sacrament.
Faithfully in Christ
JAMES DAVIS,
Bishop of Davenport.