Show News Catholic Church I By LENT BEGINS Ash was the beginning of the Holy Sea son of Lent in all of the Catholic Churches of the These forty days the days of fast and made by the Prophets in the Old But more we remember the days of prayer and penance made by the Saviour prior to public These are the rules of fast and abstinence for all All those who have reached the age of 21 and all who have not yet reached the age of 59 arc bound under pain of mortal sin to No one is excused except upon permission of a parish priest or The fast now means one full meal a permitting two other meals which together are not greater than one full It means that there is to be no eating between arc permitted for fruit And most important is the fact that meat is permitted only once a There is no longer any special law about There is no change in the present law which requires abstinence from flesh meat on Ash and all day on Holy Every Catholic is obliged to go to confession to receive Holy Communion at least once during the Lenten-Easter This season extends from March 10 to June 16 Catholic people of the arc urged to attend daily Mass at each fo receive Holy Communion daily or to go to confession to attend the Lenten Stations of the Cross on Friday evenings at along with Benediction of the Blessed Sacra and a sermon on the 1 acter of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Catholics are also requested to deny themselves such gum de also entertainment and Christ said to people of his You Do You Will All LIW wise These words apply today more c than Blessed Ashes were distributed on Wednesday at the Parish Church at a.m. also at in the evening at devotions The blessed Ashes are burned Palms from the previous paU They arc blessed at Mass on Ash Wednesday in Roman Catholic Churches of ne Lent is a time to take inventory It is a cleaning up All nun are and all owe Almighty God a tremendous Lent h the time to Last week Father and John and Louise Campbell journeyed to Father visited with and and Campbell visited relatives in Featured in the Life of Christ series on Sunday over and the Ave Maria Hour was the Death of John the chapter Next week the chapter will be beginning the public Life of The Altar Society met Monday evening at the pans were completed for the St. Pat-rick's Day Dinner to be held at the Frontier Grill from to p.m. The held their so-cial meeting of the month Tues 1 day evening at the A lovely 1 evening was enjoyed by some 30 The was presented by the Refreshments were served to all Wednesday evening the Men's I Club met after devotions to their plans for the dinner on St. Patrick's After and the business the men enjoyed the rest of the evening playing Confessions are heard on from to p.m. All' are urged to come on Confessions are also heard Sunday before Masses Sunday mornings are said at Bw and at The church is open daily a.m. to p.m. for tho-who to make a visit to tl Blessed One mav the light a private visits and recite prayers at any |