WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 23

WELLINGTON

The following are the Regulations for Lent, which we make in virtue of special faculties received from the Holy See :— Ist.— We grant permission for tne use of fleshmeat, at dinner only, on all Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and 1 also on all Saturdays except one; that is the second Saturday during Lent, and Monday in Holy Week. . " — 2nd.— -Lard and dripping may be used after the manner of butter, at dinner, on days of Fast and Abstinence during Lent, and also throughout the year, with the exception of the first and last Wednesdays of Lent and Good Friday. . 3rd.— White meats— such as butter, milk, cheese — are allowed on all days at dinner and collation;, with the exception of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Milk is not allowed in tea, coTfee, or other beverage on Ash Wednesday and Good PYiday. Eggs are allowed on all days, at dinner, except on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. 4th. — For those who, though not bound to fast, are bound to abstain ;...the kinds of food which are allowed aft their chief meal to those who are bound to fast, aro - allowed at all, times to those who are not so bound. - " x

sth. — Fish and flesh are not allowed at the * same' meal during Lent.

There is neither fast nor abstinence on Sunday in Lent.

- His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. has caused St. Patrick's Day to be- no longer a fast day, in Australasia, or a day of "abstinence, unless it happens to fall on a Friday or during the Quatuor Tense. All wh6^ have completed their 21st 'year are bound to fast and abstain— unless excused _ by the state of their health or . the nature of their - employment—according to the regulations stated above; and all who have arrived at the use. of reason, though not bound to fast before the completion of .their 21st year, are nevertheless bound to abstain from the use of flesh meats on the days appointed— unless, exempted for,, .a legitimate cause, of. which the respective pastors, arc 1 the judges, - - _ All who have arrived at the years of discretion are bound- to go ,to Commuiflon within Easter .time, • which, 'in this diocese, commences on Ash Wednesday and ends on „ the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul. The collection for the Holy Father will take place on Good Friday. - , „ I The collection for the Seminary Fund will be held on Whit Sunday, or on the Sunday or Sundays following, when there are two or more ch«rchcs in the district. " >— . . -_--*„ -The collection for SI. ?<Mary's Orphanage, Stoke, and for the Holy Places in Palestine (^'"of collection for the former object and \ for ,the latter) will take place on, the first Sunday 1 in Ociober, or .on Sunday or Sundays following, when, there are two or more churches in the district.

The clergy are requested to read these Regulations from the several altars as -soon as possible,- and -to cause a copy of them, to be placed in a conspicuous place in their respectiva churches and chapels. * FRANCIS, Archbishop of Wellington. Wellington, February 3, '1907.