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SECOND PRECEPT OF THE CHURCH. « TO FAST AND ABSTAIN ON THE DAYS APPOINTED. 'We give thanks to Thee, 0 Holy Lord, Father Almighty, Eternal God, who by this bodily fast extinguishes!; our vices, elevateat our understanding, and bestowest on us virtue and its rewards.' (From the Preface in the Mass for the Lenten Season.) i U'urd ... keeping from — anything whatever, food, amusement, etc. f " * | Doctrinal ... keeping from the une of fleshmeat on certain days ; but not changing: in any way the number of mealrf. ( Tbe (Jhurch commands it lor certain grave and salutary purposes, ana binds all who Have come to the use of r-ason. I \ In the Old Testament God commanded Adam to abstain from one kind of fruit. J i Noah to eat meat with blood. <j n the ql(jq l( j T es t amen t (j 0( i f or bade -I The Jews to eat certain meat, as pork, hare, crow, etc. Daniel, the Seven Machabees. I ( Samuel to take wine. ( In the New Testament the Apostles forbade the eating of any food that had been used in pagan worship. g ( Our own evil inclinations and humors become more disposed to evil by indulgence in eating and 0 \ drinking. 2 [ To mortify the flesh < To check them, it is useful and often necessary, to weaken the body. 5 j ) Fleshmeat is very feeding and strengthening. Keeping from it weakens the body, and so the passions. j§ MOTIVES v (We like good food, and fleshmeat : to keep from it, is to check our inclinations and oontrol them. <J I ( Every act of denying our humors is a pain or punishment to vs — a penance. ( To satisfy God for sin ■ Every act which costs us pain or trouble, or a penitential act, merits grace and glory, and is ( satisfactory to God. ( . p, „ ( through love of our Lord, Who suffered for us, and satisfied for our sins, on Good Friday. days ' i! ' ver y * naa y | except when Christmas Day comes on a Friday. I The Sundays in Lent ; and all fasting days, unless leave be given to eat meat on them. I a mortal sin, every tivie we eat meat wilfully, except it be a mere trifle — Cooks, who taßte food which they are preparing, GUILT commit no sin. ( a vernal sin, if we take only a trifling quantity. ( in taking only one full meal in the twenty-four hours, and that not till about midday ; in this is theettenc* MEANING . .It consists \ of fasting. I in keeping from fleshmeat on those days. ( The Church of God commanding it, according to the teaching and example of our Lord and the Apostles. ) Matt. ix. 15. ' The bridegroom shall be taken away, and then they shall fast.' He Himself fasted forty days. authority < M&u vi , When thou faßtest,f aß t e st, appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father.' ( Acts xii.-xiv. The Apostles fasted before giving Paul and Barnabas their mission ; and before ordaining priests. [ to be taken not earlier than about midday. I a collation, or small supper, of not more than eight ounces, in the evening ; the order or dinner and oollation , / may be inverted. conditions ...une mea < CUB t om a ii OwßO w8 something to drink, and about two ounces of bread without butter, as a slight breakfast, j Drinks, unless very feeding, do not break the fast, and a trifle of bread for health's sake is not forbidden. ( Fish is never allowed at the sawn meal with fleshmeat on fasting days. eP Sb ct \ w k° aye reac^ e( i tne a ? e °f twenty-one years, until they have arrived at sixty years. .2 J Who are not excused for some justj ust cause. "jo 1 | to take a second full meal. •2 . . It is a mortal sin and breaks the fast %to take, in the morning as much as in the evening oollation. OBLiG ion |to a j ce &t var j OUB times, food equal altogether to the collation. i pmall quantities of food, at other than the fixed times. „ J It is a venial sin to take ' forbidden kinds of food in small quantities at collation. Ab to flesh or eggs it "" en ) I more easily becomes mortal. If once the fast is broken mortally, the precept ceases for that d»y, and there can be no further sin of fastbreaking that day I If a person cannot fant on one meal, he is still bound to abstain ; and vice vena. , j, t If a perhon ct ttainlii cannot fdht or abstain, he is e ronpted • if there be any doubt, he must ask his confessor 1 for a n i\pen\tit ton i *' *"" ' and ih is better und more becoming to ask in all cases. j , the .-X k. deluate : woimn in childbirth or nursing ; those engaged in works of great charity. [_ EXCUM.-i | Inn- ) ihe j/oor, who seldom can get a meal of any kind. bility^i wires and chddrtn against the violent will of the father. ( persons in public institutions ; soldiers, sailors, etc. j physical — those who are ordinarily considered laborers, workmen, artizans, or any one having great bodily labor Labor t-H-'t I l teachers, clergy, etc, who cannot keep their health, or do their duty satisfactorily, even though ' in ( ll " I the exhaustion be as much mental as physical. From Carr's Lamp of the Word.

Lenten Dispensations. I'OR THE DIOCI'SH OK AUCKLAND. In virtue of the Indult granted for ten years to the Bishops of Australasia by the Holy Father Pope Leo XIII., November 18th, 1898. The Bishops of New Zealand, in Synod assembled decree that as far as possible, uniformity in the law of fasting according to the precept of the Church be observed. — At't* and Decrees, Provincial Synod. a. Fasting and abstinence dispensed on all Sunday. b. At dinner, on all days of Lent, excepting Wednesdays and Fridays, Ember Saturday and the Monday of Holy Week, the use of flesh meat is allowed. c. At the morning and evening repast, excepting Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, butter, milk, cheese, lard and dripping are allowed in moderate quantity. d. At dinner also, excepting Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, eggs, butter milk, cheese, lard, and dripping may be used. By special privilege of the Holy See the fast U dispensed on St. Patrick's Day. When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday, or one of the Ember days, the abstinence must be observed. The time for f ul&lling the Easter duty begins ou Ash Wednesday, and ends on July 6th, the octave day of the Feast of SS. Pete l and Paul, Given at Bißhop's House, Ponsonby, Auckland, ►f GEO. M. LENIHAN, Bishop of Auckland.

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