Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-02-20
LENTEN REGULATIONS
BISHOP BUSCH ISSUES RULES FOR
THE OBSERVATION or:
-~ LENT

All the week days of Lent, from Ash
Wednesday to noon on Holy Saturday,
are fasting days Of precept.
Wednesdays and Fridays (by spec
ial indult) and Ember Saturday (Feb-
ruary 2s) are days Of fast and abstin-
ence. :
On Sundays in Lent there is neither
fast nor abstinence.
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The law of fasting ordains that only
one full meal a day may he taken eth
er at noon or in the evening with
small portion Of food in the morning
and moderate collation. at lunch or
supper according to the time selected
for the principal meal.
At breakfast, small piece Of bread,
with a cup Of coffee, tea, chocolate or
cocoa may be taken.
At dinner, there is no restriction ex-
cept that imposed by the virtue of
temperance and the spirit of the peni-
tential season. The use of fish and
flesh at the same meal on fast days and
on Sundays in Lent is no longer forbid
den. +
At lunch or supper a moderate col
lation without meat is allowed.
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On days Of fasting and abstinence,
wednesdays and Fridays and Ember
Saturday. the use Of meat and of broth
from meat, is prohibited; otherwise the
regulations are the same as on days of
fasting only.
Drippings and lard may always be
used in preparing food:
The Church excuses from the .obliga-
tion of fasting:
/. All under twenty-one and over
fifty mine years Of age, irrespective of
their physical condition.
2. All whose health would be serious-s
ly impaired, or who would be prevented
by fasting from properly performing
their ordinary duties. Consequently
the sick, convalescents, persons with
weak constitutions, those whose work
is of laborious and exhausting char
acter, women in delicate health and con-
dition are not obliged to observe the law
Of fasting.
The Church excuses from the obliga
tion of abstinence:
l. All children under the completion
Of their seventh year. !
2. All who by reason of sickness and
precept. -*<
3. By a special indult granted to the
Bishops Of the United Stats a. II dated on
March Is, 1895, working people, who
cannot easily observe the common law
of the Church are: dispensed from the
obligation of abstinence (but not fast
ing) on all days Of the year except
Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the Wednes-
day in Holy Week, the forenoon of Holy
Saturday and Christmas Eve. This dis
pensation includes not only the individ-
ual workingman in whose favor it is
granted, but all members Of his family
as we'll.
The Church expressly recommends
that all who for any reason are excused
or dispensed from fasting or abstinence
should practice modification in eating
and drinking according to- their ability.
They should also substitute for the fast
some pious work such as attendance at
the Lenten devotions and the Stations
Of the Cross and Almsgiving to the poor.
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Those who. doubt whether they are ex-
cused from the observance of fasting or
Of abstinence should consult their con-
fessor, who is the proper Judge in such
questions and is also empowered in in.
dividual cases to dispense from fest or
abstinence for valid reasons. -
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By special Indult the time for coma
plying with the precept Of Paschal Com.
munion extends from the first Sunday
in Lent to Trinity Sunday, inclusively.
JOS. F. BUSCH,
a.. Bishop of st. Cloud.
= st.. Cloud, Mimi, Feb. 9th, 1920.
By Order of the Rt. Rev. Bishop.
.T: c. Thiebaut, Chancellor.