The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03

lowing regulations will be observed in
the Diocese of Helena:
Flesh meat may be used at all meals
on Sunday and once each day at the
principal meal on the following days:
On all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs
days.
On all Saturdays. except Saturday of
Ember week and Holy Saturday.
Flesh and fish are not allowed at the
same meal, even on Sundays. But by
virtue of an Indult of the Sacred Peni-
tertiary, dated Jan. 8. 1899. persons dis
pensed from abstinence, on account of
sickness. are free to eat flesh meat and
fish at the same meal on fast days.
Custom tolerated by the Church per-
nlits coffee, tea or chocolate, with a
small piece of bread, to be taken in
the morning.
Cuctom allows the use of eggs. but
ter, cheese and milk, at the evening
collation..
The use of lard and drippings is per-
mitted in the preparation of abstinence
food
When the principal meal cannot be
taken at midday, it may be taken in
the evening and the collation. in the
morning.
The following persons are not obliged
to fast, viz: the sick and those in fee
bic health; women nursing children:
all who are engaged in laborious and
exhaustive occupations; the young who
have not completed their twenty-first
year, and those who have reached the
siXtieth year of their age.
Those who are excused from fasting.
on account of age or hard labor, may
use flesh meat more than once on the
days on which it is allowed.
90 n,,r
Plus TX, the soldiers and sailors in
the United States service have only
six days of abstinence during the year.
viz: Ash Wednesday,, the last three
days of Holy Week, the Vigil of the
Assumption Of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and the Vigil of Christmas. This
dispensation does not exempt from the
law of fasting
BY another Indult of the 18th of
March, 1895, the Holy See has given,
for ten years to the Bishops of the
United States the faculty of dispensing
in favor of working people, from the
law Of abstinence on certain days.
By virtue of this Indult and dispen-
sation of Lent working people are per-
mitted to use flesh meat once a day
on all fast and abstinence days of the
year. except Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
Wednesday an Saturday in Holy Week
and the Vigil of Christmas.
The above dispensation is granted
not only to working men and women.
but also to their entire families.
1t is eminently in accordance with
the spirit of the Church, that all those
who use the dispensations from the
fast and abstinence should supply, in
part, the spirit of penance by prayer.
and almsdeeds; by avoiding all public
shows, parties and amusements. and
by abstaining from all Intoxicating
beverages.
The Reverend Pastors will, with their
usual zeal, afford every opportunity
and faculty to their people of comply
ing with their religious obligations dur
ing the Holy Season.
The time of fulfilling the Paschal
duty extends from the first Sunday Of
Lent to Trinity Sunday both included.
The annual collection for the Indian
and Negro Missions, will be made in
all the churches of the diocese on the
first Sunday of Lent The proceeds
will be forwarded as soon as possible
to the Chancellor.
Our Holy Father, the Pope. has en-
joined that a collection be made in the
various churches on Good Friday. or
some other convenient day. for the
Holy Places in Palestine in care of the
Franciscan Fathers, These collections
as well as others mentioned in the
Statutes of the Diocese, should be an
nounced one or two Sundays in adj
vance
During the month of March. after the