Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

LENTEN

EGULATIONS

for the Diocese of San Diego 1939

The Lenten Fast begins on A~h ,vedne~day, Febru- ary 22, 1939, and ends on Holy Saturday, at noon, April 8, 1939. J THE GENERAL LAW OF FASTING .<\_'ill WHAT IT 11\IPLIES: (1) All days of Lent, except Sundays, are Fast days. (2) All persons who have completed their twenty-first year of age, and have not yet commenced their sixtieth year, and are not especially exempted or legitimately dispensed, are bound under pain of sin to fast. (3) Those obliged to fast are allowed one full meal which may be taken either at noon or in the evening. At this full meal they are allowed the use of flesh meat on all the days of Lent, except Wednesdays and Fridays, on the Sat- urday of Ember ·week, and on Holy Saturday before noon. Wednesday of Holy Week is not a day of abstinence. (4) Besides this full meal a collation or light lunch may be taken which. as a rule, should not exceed the fourth part of a full meal, about 8 ounces of food. (Flesh meat may not be used at this collation by those who are obliged to fast.) (5) In the morning a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate, with a piece of bread (not exceeding two ounces in weight) is allowed. (6) Milk, butter, eggs, and cheese, are allowed on all Fast Days at the principal meal and at the collation. (7) The use of meat and fish at the same meal is no longer forbidden. ( 8 ) Lard, suet or drippings may be used in the cooking and seasoning of foods on days of abstinence. Meat soups, however, cannot be taken on abstinence days. II. THOSE WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM THE LENTEN FAST: Cl) All who have not yet completed thei.r 21st year or who have commenced their 60th year. (2) The sick and the convalescent. (3) Those whose occupations are of a very laborious and exhausting nature and a serious tax on their physical strength. (4 ) Those to whom fasting would cause grave injury to health or interfere with their daily duties. (5) Women in ,delicate health and condition. (6) Those who, owing to their poverty, are unable to procure for their principal meal a sufficiency of food. All persons comprised in the classes just enumerated, being explicitly exempted from the law of the Lenten Fast. may, th erefore, eat flesh meat at ALL THE MEALS ON ALL THE. DAYS OF LENT, except on Wednesctays and Fridays and on Saturday of Ember Week, and on Holy Saturday up to noon. These days are days of strict abstinence for all the faithful over seven years Of age. Men serving in the Army and Navy, except when on a furlough, are allowed by Papai Indult to eat meat on a ll t h e days of the year except Ash Wednesday, Good F riday, th e forenoon of Holy Saturday and the Vigil of Christmas. By virtue of a special indult granted by the Holy See, working people and the members of their families may use flesh meat ONCE a DAY on all the fast and abstinence days of the year, except Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Saturday of Holy Week up to noon, and the Vigil of Christmas. On these last n amed days the abstinence is to be strictly kept by all. Th ose who doubt whether they are exused or not should consult their confessor for advice or dispensation, and those who desire exemption should obtl:l.in it from their regular confessor or p astor, who, alone, is authorized to judge as to the sufficien cy of the cause. Those who are excused from fast or a bstinen ce should practice penance and self-denial in some other way. - By order of the Most Reverend Bishop.

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,--- KeepPastor, Plea ToCatholics by Pope Parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe church, San Diego, yes- terday appealed to Pope Pius XII to countermand an order removing the Rev. Ramien Gobeo, A. R., from the past-Orage. This action followed a plea by 300 of the parishioners to the Most Rev. Charles ~rancis Buddy, bishop of the San Diego Catholic diocese Tuesday night and the presenting of a ~etition signed by 1500 persons ask1;11g the return of the Rev. Gobeo. Bishop Buddy explained that the Rev. Gobeo's removal was part of a l~rger readjustment throughout the diocese and was made in conjunc- ~ion with inclusion of the church in the San Diego diocese after its transfer from jurisdiction of the Augustine Recollect, of which order the Rev. Gobeo is a member. A cablegram signed by the presi- dents of seven societies of the church was sent to the Pope on be- ' half of "the Mexican Catholics of San Diego." It deplored 't'he unjust removal of the Rev. Gobeo who :for ~0 years sacrificed himself in build- ing ~P the spiritual welfare of the J Mexican colony in San Diego " "We humbly beg that your ·Holi- ness effect the return of the Recol- lect Augustinian (the Rev. Gc,,beo) to our pastorage," the message said. ·----

DEAR VOTER:

WE BELIEVE THE PRESENT CALIFORN IA CONSTITUTION PROV I DING FOR OUR SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SERVICES, ASS I STANC E TO THE AGEO AND THOSE NEEDING RELIEF WILL BE SERIOUSLY ~EOPAROIZED BY THE PASSAGE CF PROPOSITION #1. WE HAVE A STRONG FEELING THAT THESE I NTERESTS ANO THE INTERESTS OF MILLIONS OF EMPLOYED WORKERS WILL BE ENDANGERED BY THI S ACTION. WE URGE YOU TO VOTE AGAINST PRO POS ITI ON # I ON NOVEMBER 7.