The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-18
LENT REGULATIONS
Bishop Brondell Issues the Annual
Decree for the Season.
DlsPENSATION FOR WORKERS
For Those Who VIII Keep Lent This
IL a Good Thing to Paste
In Their Hats, for
Reference.


der that those who wish to keep the
holy season may know just what the
rules and regulations are, the following,
issued by Bishop Brondell of Helena.
will be interesting. The regulations
were read last Sunday morning in st.
Paurs church. and are in substance
Identical with those of former years,
except as to the. dispensation to the
working people, as promulgated in the
concluding clause:
The fast of Lent obliges all who have
completed Il years of age. Children
over years are bound by the law of
abstinence.
Every day of Lent, except Sunday, Is
a fast day, on which but one full meal
is allowed and the use of flesh meat is
forbidden.
BY an Indult Of Aug. g. 1887, the use
OF flesh meat, eggs and white meats is
allowed at every meal on Sundays, as
well as at the principal meal on Mon
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days, Saturdays of the Ember days and
Holy week excepted. But the use of
both flesh meat and fish together at
the same meal is forbidden during the
whole of Lent. The use of white meats
and eggs is tolerated on all the days of
Lent at the evening collation. and at
the principal meal on those days on
which the use of flesh meat is forbid
denim the morning a small piece of
bread is allowed with cup of coffee,
tea, chocolate, or some similar drink.
When the principal meal cannot be
taken at noon, the order may be in
verted, and the collation. taken in the
morning and the dinner in the evening.
Lard or grease, commonly called fat,
may be used in preparing the lawful
ViNtuqla Those 0f the faithful who
exempt from fasting, may eat flesh
more than once a day. the days on
which the use of flesh meat is permit
ted.
The rule of fasting would be broken
by taking the full meal any consider
able time before noon without sufficient
cause.
The following persons are dispensed
from both fast and abstinence: The
sick, the conyalescent and delicate wo-
men, who are pregnant or nursing.
United States soldiers. by special con-
cession Of Pope Plus TX. of blessed
memory, have only six days of abstin-
ence, to-wit: Ash Wednesday, the
three last days Of Holy Week, the Wig
Ills of the Assumption and of Christmas.
The following persons are dispensed
from the fast: Those over 60 years of
age, persons of delicate constitution,
those engaged in hard labor and all
who by fasting would be rendered un-
able to discharge the duties of their
employment.
The time Of performing the Easter
duty of Confession and Holy Com
munion commences on the first Sunday
of Lent and ends on Trinity Sunday.
On the first Sunday of Lent the
church collection will be made for the
Indian and colored missions, and on the
second Sunday for the st. Joseph soci-
ETY., established for the maintenance of
sick priests, according to the DEGREES
of the third Baltimore Council
BY authority from the Holy See.
granted January goth, 1885, we dispense
the faithful from the obligation of the
law of abstinence on all the Saturdays
of this year which are not fast days.
We exhort the faithful to supply by
other good works whenever they are
dispensed from the general rule.
BY letters from Rome, dated March
10, 1895, we received the faculties to
dispense from the law of abstinence in
favor of workingmen and their families
where there is difficulty to observe the
common law. This dispensatlon does
not include Fridays and Ash Wednes-
day, the Holy Week and the Vigil of
Christmas. Those who are obliged to
fast can Sc this dispensation only at the
principal meal, and the use of flesh
meat and fish at the same meal remains
prohibited.
In granting this dispensation, we adj
wise those who make use of 1t to make
up by some other good work, for in
stance: to abstain from intpxiea ting
drinks. ... ......... .-.-
Given at Helena, the 14th day of Feb
ruary, A. ID. 1896.
JOHN b. BRoNDEL,
V. Day. Gee. Bishop of Helena.