The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-12
ANACONDA NEWS.
REGULATIONS FOR LENT.
Rules By Which Catholics Will
Be Governed.
ORIGIN OF ASH WEDNESDAY,
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Remember That Thou Art Dust, and
Wilt to Dust Return"-Day Will
Be Marked by Special
Services.
OF ASH WEDNESDAY

Next Wednesday the ed, will be Ash
Wednesday, the first day Of Lent, which
il generally observed by the Catholics,
Epscopalians and other religious denom-
nations. The day is marked by special
religious services and is considered one of
: the most important days of the year.
Ash Wednesday is named from a GUS
tom in the Western church of sprinkling
ashes on the heads of penitents admitted
to penance on that day. The origin of this
ceremony is generally attributed to Greg
ory the Create According to the present
rite in the Roman Catholic church, the
ashes are consecrated on the altar,
sprinkled with holy water, signed with the
cross and then strewn on the heads of the
clergy and people, the priest repeating.
.tMemento quod cinis es; ct in cinerem re-
verteris' (Remember that thou are dust.
and wilt to dust return.
Every year before Lent the bishop of the
diocese issues regulations for the time of
Lent These regulations are usually read
in the parish church on the Sunday morn
Ing preceding Ash Wednesday.
This morning the pastoral letter from
Bishop Brondell of Helena will be read in
regulations prescribed for Lent are as fol-
lows
1.-THE fast of Lent obliges all who have
completed q years of age. Children over
years of age are bound by the laws of alb
stinence.
Every day Of Lent, except Sunday, is
fast day, on which but one full meal is
allowed and the use of flesh meat is for
hidden.
"By an indult Of Aug. g. 1887, the use of
flesh meat. eggs and white meat is allow
ed at every meal on Sundays, as well as
the principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, Saturdays of
the Ember days and Holy week excepted.
But the use of both flesh meat and fish to-
gether at the same meal is forbidden dur
ing 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 forbidden.
In the morning a small piece of bread is
allowed with a cup of colIee, tea, choco-
late or some similar drink. When the
principal meal cannot be taken at noon
the order may be inverted and the COLA
ton taken in the morning and the dinner
in the evening. Lard or grease, commonly
called fat, may be used in preparing the
lawful victuals. Those Of the faithful
who are exempt from fasting may eat
flesh meat more than once day, the
days on which the use of flesh meat is
permitted.
1.-The rule of fasting would be broken by
taking the full meal any considerable
time before noon without sufficient cause.
1.-THE following persons are dispensed
from both fast and abstinence: The sick,
the convalescent and delicate women. who
are pregnant or nursing. United States
soldiers, by special concession of Pope
Plus TX. of blessed memory, have only six
days of abstinence, to-wit: Ash Wednes-
day the three last days of Holy week,
the Vigils of the Assumption and of
Christmas.
The following persons are dispensed
from the fast: Those more than 60 years
of age, persons of delicate constitution,
those engaged in hard labor and all those
who by fasting would be rendered unable
to discharge the duties of their employ
ment.
1.-THE time of performing the Easter duty
of confession and holy communion COM
mences 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 Sun
day for the st. Joseph society," esta blished
for the maintenance of sick priests, ac-
cording to the DEGREES of the Third Balti-
more council. s
by authority from the holy see. grant
ed Jan. 90 1886. we dispense the faithful
from the obligation of the law of absti-
nencei on all the Saturdays of this year
which are not fast days. 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 dispensa-
ton does not include Fridays, Ash We'd
nesday, the Holy week and the Vigil of
Christmas. Those who are obliged to fast
can use this dispensation only at the prin-
cpal meal and the use of flesh meat and
fish at the same meal remains prohibited.
We grant this dispensation, and we exhort
the faithful to supply by other good
works whenever they are dispenses from
the general rule"