Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — THE DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE [ARTICLE]

THE DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE

REGULATIONS FOR LENT. In accordance with faculties granted by the Holy See, the following are the Regulations for Lent for the Diocese of Fort Wayne. 1. AU the faithful, over twenlyone and under sixty years of age, are, unless legitimately dispensed, bound to observe the fast of Lent. 2. They are to take only one full meal a day, Sundays excepted. 3. The full meal allowed on fast days should be taken about noon. But if for any good reason, the principal meal cannot be taken at noon, it is permitted to take the collation at noon, and to put off the full meal till evening. _ 4. Both fish and flesh are not to be used at the same time, not even on Sundays. 5. A refreshment, commonly called a collation, is allowed in the evening. No general rule as to the quantity of food permitted at this time is or can be made; but the practice of the most regular Christians is never to let it exceed onefourth of an ordinary meal. 6. On account of the existence of such custom the church tolerates the use of bread, butter, eggs, cheese, milk and all kinds of fruit, salads, vegetables and fish at a collation. 7. For the same reason it is permitted to take in the morning some warm liquid as tea, coffee, or thin chocolate, with a little milk and a cracker, or a small piece df bread. 8. Necessity and custom have authorized the use of lard instead of. butter in preparing fish, vegetable?, etc. 9. By dispensation the use of flesh meat is allowed at any time on Sundays, and once a day on Mondays. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, excepting the second and last Saturdays in Lent. ; 10. The following are exen : • from the obligation of fasting: Those under twenty-one and those i over sixty years of age, the sick pregnant and nursing women, those who are obliged to labor hard, and all those who through weakness cannot fast without injury to their' health.

11. Persons dispensed from (the ■ obligatioh of fasting are not bound by the restriction of using meat at only one meal on days on which its use is granted by dispensation. 12. By virtue of an indult of the Holy See. granted February 25th, 1905, for ten years, we permit workingmen and their families the use of flesh meat once a day—and more than once a day in the case of those' who are dispensed from fasting—on all the fast days of abstinence throughout the year, with the exof all Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Wednesday and Saturday of Holy Week and the Eve of Christ-j mas. Those who avail themselves of this dispensation, are not allowed to eat fish and flesh at the same meal, and they are exhorted to perform Some other act of mortification, such i as reciting additional prayers, (the Rosany, tor example) abstaining : from intoxicating drinks, from the! use of tobacco, foregoing pleasures, amusements, etc. We recommend that the faithful, it St all possible, observe the rigorous abstinence at least bn Good Friday. ■ The Paschal rime during which . every practical Catholic is obliged ! •(> confess his sins and receive Holyj Communion. extends from the first I Sunday in Lent, March Ist, to Trinity Sunday, June 7th, both inclusive.i The annual collection for the Indian and Negro missions is to bei taken up on the first Sunday jn ' Lent. A plenary indulgence is grant-1 ed by the Holy Father to all that? contribute, if they receive worthilv the Seeraments of Penance and the! Blessed Eucharist on the Sunday on j which the collection is made, and. offer prayers according to his intenten. HERMAN JOSEPH. Bishop of Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne. Ind., Feb. 11, 1914.