DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 27 February 1908, Page 21

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

We"under.sta m d.-that the Very Rev. Dean Burke is Expected to arrive in the Bluff on next Monday. - ' The Very Rev. Father x O'Connell,' of Carlton, Victoria, who had been on a visit to New Zealand, -left by the ', Maheno ' for Melbourne on Sunday. . Tne series of missions, conducted by the Rev. Fathers Hunt and Campbell, C.SS.R., in the Lawrence parish, were brought to a close on Sunday evening in St. Patrick'© Church, Lawrence, when Roy. Father Hunt delivered, tne closing "sermon to a crowded congregation, which included many non-Catholics. At the close of - the ceremonies ' Monsignor O'Leary thanked the Redemptorist Fathers for the splendid work they had ■ done in the parish. Rev. Fathers Hunt" and Campbell have returned to Ballarat. Rev. Father McDermott, C.SS.R 1 ., is" at present giving a mission in the.Riversdale parish, and Rev. Father Creagh, C.SS.R., in Cromwell. LENTEN REGULATIONS. Whilst tha laws of the Lenten Fast remains in full vigor, the following regulations are made in virtues of powers received from the Apostolic See and by special indulfc granted to all the Bishops of New Zealand on the 15th March, 1898, 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) fiuttcr, cheese, and milk in moderation may be used. , .-,;->• 3. Eggs may be used at -dinner on all .days except Ash Wednesday and Gcod. Fraday. •. . 4. Lard and dripping may be used as a condiment instead of butter on all ..days " except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. . ,^ - - ~^~-***3> '.*. * 5. Fishi and flesh "meat -cannot be used -at-^fche -- same meal during Lent. ..Jj: __ -y : _ ~ 6. Persons! who are nofc bound^H^ast- may 'ta?*e at all meals the kinds of food that" are' allowed at the' chief meal. 7. There is neither fast" nor .abstinence on St. Pat- . rickl's Day (17th March). ' ' .. 8. We hereby authorise con p es~ors, and priests hav- • ing care of souls, to grant to th 3 faithful such further disipensations ' as may be d.em'ed- necessary according, to the circumstances of each case. , 9. Persons. ntft 21 ye.u : s old, as well as. those advanced in old| age, and all pexsons. who^are- uniahjle to fast on account of sickness or "bard -labor,. ..etc., are exempted" from the general obligation of fasting. All who have arrived at, the years of discretion .ire . 'bound to- go to Holy Communion within .Easter time, '- which in- -this -Diocese commr.nces on Ash Wednesday and ends on -the -octave, of the Feast'- of SS". -Peter, and Paul. A collection for ihe Seminary Fund will be "made on 'the second- Sunday in Lent in-, every church, where a .priest officiates, -and 1 in , all, other churches on some Sunday during Lent. The faithful are earnestly solicited to contribute generously to this fund. '. ' . The collection for the Pone will be made in each church on some Sunday before the end .of - September next, and for the Aborigines and Holy'JPlaces. on sojae • convenient day. ►{« MICHAEL VERDON, _ .. . Bishop of Dunedin. Dunedini, 2nd February, 1908. , ■ . -