DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 8, 21 February 1901, Page 6

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

Whilst the law of the Lrnten fat-t remains in full vigor the following regulations are made in virtue of powers received from the Apostolic See and by special indult granted to all the bishops of New Zealand on the l.'nh March, 18<)8, for ten years :— 1 Flesh meat in allowed at dinner on all days in Lent except Wednesdays and Fridays, the Saturday in Ember Week (March 2), and the Monday in Holy Week. „.„.... 2 On fasting days a little refection is allowed in the morning and a collation in the evening, at which (except on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday) butter, cheese, and milk, in moderation, may be 3. Eggs may be used at dinner on all .days except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. . 4. Lard and dripping may be used instead of butter whenever butter is allowed. . 5. Fish and flesh meat cannot be used at the same meal during 6. Persons who are not bound to fa^t may eat flesh meat at erery meal on those days on which flesh meat is allowed at the principal meal. . 7. There is neither fast nor abstinence on Sundays in Lent. 8! Persons not twenty-one years old, as well as those advanced in old' age, and all those who are unable to fast on account of sickneffl or hard labor, etc , are exempted from the general obligation of fasting. ... . , , 9 We hereby authorise pnesta having care of souls, and confessors to grant to the faithful such further dispensations as may be deemed necessary according to the circumstances of each All who have arrived at the years of discretion are bound to co to Communion within Easter time, which in this diocese commences on Ash Wednesday and ends on the octave of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul.

A collection for the Seminary Fund will be made on the second Sunday in Lent, where a priest officiates, and in other churches as soon after as possible The collection for the Pope will be made in each church on come Sunday before the end of September next and lor the Aborigines and Holy Places on some convenient day. *k MICHAEL VERDON, Bishop of Dunedin.