Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-03-02
LENT STARTS
ON WEDNESDAY
REGULATIONS OF SEASON
READ IN CATHOLIC
CHURCHES

w
fast of the Lord. Regulations for the
Lenten season of 1922 were received
by local Catholic church for the La
Crosse diocese last Sunday and were
read to the various congregations. The
Catholic churches during Lent will
hold special services each morning
and several evenings week st.
Johns Episcopal church, the Protest
ant and Lutheran churches will also
observe the season.
Each morning at ST. James church
Rev. FIR. e, p O'Toole will hold
mass at 1880 o'clock. Two evening
services will be held each week. one
on Friday and another on Sunday at
1880 AT st. Mary's church there are
to be held two morning passes and
evening services on Wednesday, Fri
day and Sunday. st. Michael's church
holds morning masses at 500 a. m.
and evening services Friday and Sun
day.
AT st. Johns Episcopal church holy
communion was held Wednesday at
1880 and $50 a. m. and an evening
service and prayer at Ais D. m. On
Sundays during the season communion
will be held at 1880 a. M, the church
vice and prayer at 11:00 and the
evening prayer and sermon at 4:3O
O'Clock. On each Tuesday communion
viii be held at 1880 a. m. and on We'd
nesday at 900 a. m. On Wednesday
there is also an evening prayer and
sermon at 415. Communion is held
each Thursday at 1880 a. m. and on
Friday an evening service is to be
held regularly at 1880 p. m. The
holy week program will be announced
later
The following Lenten regulations
for the Lacrosse diocese were read in
the Catholic churches last Sunday:
THE law of Abstinence forbids eat
ing meat or the juice of meat: but not
eggs, milk and its products. and any
SeasoningS from the fat of animals"
BY this last is meant what are usual
~ called the "drippings" from animal
rat and lard used to season the meals,
especially vegetables. Drippings are
the LIQUID drops from heated fat or
lard
"rhe law of fasting demands that
only one. full meal day be takent
but IL does not forbid taking some
food morning and evening. provided
the amount and quality of the food be
observed according to the approved
custom and indult ALLOW coffee. tea.
chocolate with piece OF bread in the
morning, and eggs, butter, milk. etc.
in the evening.
1T is not forbidden to tata meat
and fish at the same meal, or to inter
change the dinner with the evening
collation." One is free, even without
special reason to take the collation. or
light luncheon at noon and the dinner
or principal meal in the evening.
The law of abstinence alone must
be observed on all Fridays"
The law of both abstinence and fast.
must be observed on Ash Wednes-
day the Friday and Saturdays of Lent,
the Ember Days and the vigils of PEN
tecost, Assumption of the Mother of
God, All Saints. and Christmas BY
papal indult for the United States we
transfer the Lenten Abstinence from
Saturday to Wednesday, so that for us
during Lent the Wednesdays are
neatless days, while ON Saturdays
meat Is allowed, except Ember Satur-
Say (March I'D and the forenoon of
Holy Saturday.
1.-THE law of fast alone holds for all
other days Of Lent
'On Sundays and Feastdays of obli-
cation the law OF abstinence and fast.
Or of fast alone ceases, except on feat
days during Lent: nor are vigil fasts
to be anticipated. 1t also ceaser on
Holy Saturday after Noon.p When
ever outside of Lent a feast of obli-
cation falls on Friday or any fast
day, meat and full meals are allowed
on that day. In virtue of an apostolic
indult we hereby grant the same priv
ilege to those paris les where the feast
of the Patron Saint (titular) OF the
parish church is observed with sol
emnity and a. large concourse of peo-
! pie on the proper day assigned in the
Ordo. In this case. however. the SOL
emnity cannot be transferred to the
Sunday following.
by the law of abstinence are bound
all those who have completed their
seventh year of age"
"By the law of fast all are bound
who have completed their twenty-first
year of age, until the beginning of the
sixtieth year OF age"
"Feastdays as we'll as the days of
abstinence and fast must be reckoned
from midnight to midnight"
The new law fixes the Paschaltime
from Palm Sunday till Low Sunday.
but 1t grants bishops the power of ex-
tending the time so as TO make it run
! from tie fourth Sunday of Lent untif
United States Pope Plus VIII is 1890
Sranted the privilege Of extending this
time still more by making IL TO begin
on the first Sunday OF Lent. We here
by profit by this privilege so that the
faithful of this Diocese will be able
TO make their Easter Communion this
year any time from Sunday, March ;.
until Sunday, June IL.
In order that all may clearly under
stand the obligation OF the fast and
abstinence prescribed by the Church
OF God, we all few explanations.
L. When IT is either physically or
morally impossible to observe the law.
or when it would entail serious diff.
culties, persons are excused from IL.
The Church ordinarily exempts from
fasting the sick and those in feeble
health; women nursing children:
those engaged in laborious and ex-
hausting occupations Persons i'm
doubt whether they are excused from
fast or abstinence or both should con-
suit their confessor or pastor for
advice or dispensation.
2. Persons excused from fast NAV
use heshmeat more than once on the
days when il Is allowed at all. wheth-
or. In ~. anfoid. 10 tl.t e....a..