The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-03-06
In the Archdiocese of st. Paul
as Well as the Other
49,. Dioceses.
ALL MUST KEEP THE REGULATIONS.
The Observance is Taken as a
Public and Fearless Pro-
fesSiOn of Faith.

oS1OACS, uuuCA lA0 PoudAty VI 614CVouh
sin, to observe the Lenten regulations
All days of Lent, the Sundays exc.
cepted, are days of fast.
The precepts Of fasting restricts the
use of food to one meal towards the
middle of the day and collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of an ordinary meal-custom, how.
ever, authorizing the taking in the
morning Of a cup of coffee, tea Or choco.
late, 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 principal repast
cannot be taken without serious incon.
venience towards the middle Of the day
the order of repasts may be reversed
the meal being taken In the evening
and the collation. at an earlier hour.
The use of flesh meat Is allowed al
all meals on Sundays, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays, except Sat-
urday of Ember week March 13), and
Saturday of Holy Week april 10.
The use Of flesh meat is forbidden on
Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturday of EN-
Der Week and Saturday of Holy Week;
and on other days, outside of Sundays
it is forbidden at all repasts, except the
one meal or principal repast.
The use of lard, however, is permitted
at all times in the preparation of food
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting may
use flesh meat at all meals on what
ever days there is a general permission
to use it at the principal repast.
From the precept Of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age Of twenty
one years or over the age Of sixty 1.-THE
intirm and the convalescent; women
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged In hard labor or other duties ex-
haustive Of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to pro-
cure for the principal repast a suf-
ticiency of nutritive food.
From the precept of abstaining from
flesh meat are excused: The young
under the age of seven years; the sick;
those who are so situated as not to be
able to procure for themselves absti-
nence food.
In virtue Of the authority conceded
to shops in the United States by a re-
cent Pontiflcal Indult permission is
granted to working people" to use meat
On all days of Lent with the exception
Of Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Wednesday
and Saturday Of Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence ex.
tends to all three repasts Of the day.
The usual prohibition remains against
using flesh meat and fish ct the same
meal.
Where the wage Garner, in virtue Of
the indult, uses meat, all the members
of the household may likewise use IT,
The church does not wish to impose
upon the household by the Inconvenience
of double cooking. But, In es Oh
this kind, those members OF the house
hold who may be bound by the pre-
cept of fasting, are, allowed the use Of
meat only at 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-denial, and ne counsels
that instead of the abstinence from meat
some other sacrifice of bodily comfort
for instance abstinence from Intoxicating
,drink-be practiced.
Other days of fast and abstinence &C.
curing during the year are the Embe1
days and the Vigils of certain festivals
The Ember. days are: Wednesday, Fri
day.. and Saturday June 9th, 18th and
18th; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
September 18th, ;, n and 18th; Wednes-
day Friday and Saturday December 18th
18th, and 18th. The Vigils are: The
Vigil of Pentecost;; June 9Th; that Of the
Assumption. August 18th; that Of All
Saints, October 31st; and that of Christ
mas December Oath.
ALL Fridays are, of course, days OF alb
stinence. 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 En-.
Der days, except when such Vigils and
.Ember days fall on Friday.
Pastors of parishes will make to their
aocks in the usual terms due announce.
ments of approaching EmDer days and
Vigils-adding to those announcements
a statement of the privileges given by
the Indult to working people"
When doubt exists as to whether
ones conditions or circumstances allow