The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-03-11
.Eepten Regulations.

as promulgated by ArchDisnop lreland:
All the faithful, unless legitimately ex-
cused or dispensed, are bound in conscience,
under the penalty of grievous sin, to observe
the Lenten regulations.
All days Of Lent, the Sundays excepted,
are days Of fast. The precept of fasting re-
stricts the use of food tor one meal toward
the middle of the day and collation. in the
evening not exceeding the fourth part of an
ordinary meal-custom, however, authoriz-
ing the taking in the morning of a cup of
coffee, tea Or chocolate with small piece Of
bread Theologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight ounces. The
solid food taken in the morning should not
exceed two ounces. When the meal or prin-
cipal repast cannot be taken without serious
inconvenience toward the middle of the day,
the order of repasts may be reversed, the
meal being taken in the evening and the CO.
llation at an earlier hour.
The use OF flesh meat is allowed at all meals
on Sundays and the principle meal on Mon.
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
except Saturday of Ember week March I3)
and Saturday of Holy week (April I7.) The
use of flesh meat is forbidden on Wednesdays
Fridays, Saturday of Ember week and Sat-
urday of Holy week; and on other days, out
side of Sundays, it is forbidden at all repasts
except the one meal of principle repast. The
use of lard, however, is permitted at all times
in the preparation of food Both fish ard
meat cannot be taken at the same meal, even
on Sundays. Persons legitimately excused
or dispensed from the precept of fasting may
use flesh meat at all meals on whatever days
there is general permission to use it at the
principle repast.
From the precept of fasting are excused:
Those under the age of twenty-one years or
over the age of sixty; women bearing or nurs-
ing children. those engaged in hard labor or
other duties exhaustive of physical strength.
those who from poverty ale unable to pro-
cure for the principle repast suficiency OF
nutritive food.
From the precept of abstaining from flesh
meat are excused: the sick: those who are so
situated as not to be able to procure for them
selves abstinence food.
In virtue of the authority conceded to Bis
hops in the United States by recent ponti-
hcal indult, permission is granted to s'work-
ing people" to use meat on all DAYS of Lent,
with the exception of Fridays, Ash Wednes-
day, Wednesday and Saturday of Holy week.
This dispensation from abstinence ex-
tends to all three repasts in the day. The
usual prohibition remains against using flesh
meat and fish at the same meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue of the
indult, uses of meat, all the members of the
household may likewise use it. The church
does not wish to impose upon the household
the inconvenience of double cooking. But,
in case of this kind, those members of the
household who may be bound by the precept
their principal repast.
The sovereign pontiff exhorts all who may
make use of the privileges of the indult to be
still mindful of their duty to practice self-de-
NAL, and he councils that instead OF the abb
stinence from meat some other sacrifice of
bodily comfort-for instance, abstinence
from Intoxicating drink-be practiced.
Other days of fast and abstinence occurr-
ing during the year are the ember days and
the vigils of certain festivals. The ember
days are: Wednesday, Friday and Satur-
day, June 9, II and I2;, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday, Sept. IS, II and IS; Wednes-
day, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1917 and IS
The vigils are; The vigil of Pentecost, June
S. That of the Assumption, Aug. ID That
of All SAINTS, Oct. 81. and that of Christmas,
Dec.25.
All Fridays are, of course, days of absti-
nence. The abstinence which formerly was
obligatory on Saturdays has been dispensed
with by apostolic favor to the faithful of the
United States.
The pontifcal indult, of which we have
spoken, exempts working people" from the
abstinence on vigils and ember days, except
when such vigils and ember days fall on Fri