The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
Regulations For Lent.


Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Hell
era, Mont, February, 1902.
/ The fast of Lent obliges all who
| have completed p years of age. Chill
drer over years of age 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.
8. BY an indult of Aug. 3. 1887, the use
Of flesh meat, eggs and white meats is
allowed at every meal on Sundays, as
wei, as the principal meal on Mondays,
| Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
! Saturdays of the Ember days in 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 meat
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
den In the morning a small piece of
! bread is allowed with a cup of coffee,
tea chocolate or some similar drink.
! When the principal meal cannot he
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
I victuals. Those of the faithful who
are exempt from fasting may eat flesh
meat more than once a day-the days
on which the use of flesh meat is per-
mitted.
4. The rule of fasting would be
| broken by taking the full meal any
! considerable time before noon without
sufficient cause.
). The following persons are dis
pensed from both fast and abstinence:
! The sick, the convalescent and delicate
women who are pregnant or nursing.
! United States soldiers. by special con-
! cession of Pope Plus TX, of blessed
memory, have only five days of alb
| stinence. to-wit: Ash Wednesday, the
/ two last days of Holy Week, the Vigils
os the Assumption and Christmas.
The following persons are dispensed
| from the fast: Those over so years of
! age. persons of delicate constitution
! these engaged in hard labor and all
who by fasting would be rendered un-
able to discharge the duties of their
| employment.
6. The time of performing the Easter
duty of confession and holy communion
] commences on the first Sunday of Lent
and ends on Trinity Sunday.
! = On the first Sunday of Lent the
/
| Indian and colored missions, and on
! tho second Sunday for the st. John So
ciety, established for the maintenance
of sick priests. according to the DEGREES
/ of the third Baltimore council.
s. BY authority of the Holy See,
granted Jan. 20, 1856. we dispensed the
J faithful from the obligation of the law
of abstinence on all the Saturdays of
! this year which are not fast days. By
! letters from Rome dated March Is, 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 COM
\ mon law This dispensation does not
1 include Fridays. Ash Wednesday, the
/ Holy Week and the Vigil of Christmas.
/ These who are obliged to fast can use
/ this dispensation only at the principal
/ meal. and the use of flesh meat and
4 fish at the same meal remains prohib-
/ tied We grant this dispensation and
we exhort the faithful to supply by
other good works whenever they are
dispensed from the general rule.
To obtain priests imbued with the
sacerdctal spirit we hereby order again
as the imperata during Mass the Ora
| ito Pro Proelatis," No. Z.
JOHN E. BRONDEL.
Bishop of Helena.
V. Day, Secretary.
Rev. Father AIKEN of Phi lipsburg and
/ Rev. Father Callahan are guests at the
residence of Bishop Brondel.
/ .
Henry. Sheehan has returned from an
! extended eastern and southern trip.
During his absence MIR. Sheehan was
at Arkansas Hot Springs. and while