LENTEN REGULATIONS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 263

LENTEN REGULATIONS

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

Whilst the law of the Lenten Fast remains in full vigor r the following regulations are : made in virtue of powers received from the "Apostolic See and by special indult granted to all tho Bishops of New Zealand, on Docember 1, 1908, for ten years. 1. Flesh meat is allowed at dinner on all days in Lent except Wednesdays and Fridays, the Saturday in Ember Week, 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 used. 3. Eggs may be used at dinner on all .days except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. 4. Lard and dripping may be used as a condiment instead of butter on all days except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. 5. Fish and flesh meat cannot be used at the same meal during Lent. 6. Persons who are not bound to fast, may take at all meals the kinds of food that are allowed at the chief meal. 7. There is neither fast nor abstinence on Sundays in Lent. • , - 8. St. Patrick's Day (Wednesday, March 17), being a privileged day, does not come under the law of fasting and abstinence. 9. eW.e hereby authorise priests having care of souls, and confessors, to grant to the faithful such further dispensations as may be deemed necessary according to tho circumstances of each case. 10. Persons not twenty-one years old, as well as those advanced in old age, and all persons who ar.e unable to fast on account of sicknefes or hard labor, etc., aro oxemptcd from the general obligation of fasting. All persons who have arrived at the years of discretion are bound to receive Holy 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 tho Seminary Fund shall bo made on the second Sunday in Lent in every church where a priest officiates, and in all other churches on some Sunday during Lent. The faithful are earnestly solicited to contribute generously to this fund. . . The collection for the Pope shall be made, in each church on some Sunday before the end of September next., and for the Aborigines and Holy Places on some Sunday bofore tho end of November. * MICHAEL VERDON, Bishop of Dunedin. February 1, 1909: