The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-21
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Lenfen Regulations
Diocese Of Salt Lake

At all the masses next Sunday the following
regulations for Lent viii be published: Next Sunday
will be Quinquagesima Sunday, and the Wednesday
following will be the first day of Lent Ash Wednes-
day:
l. All the days of Lent except Sundays are fast
days of obligation.
.. All persons under 81 years or over 60 years of
those, who engaged in hard labor, the
and convaescent and those who cannot fast without
injury to their health, are exempt from the obiga
ton of fasting.
3. All bound to keep the fast shall make but one
full meal day, except Sundays.
4. The meal permitted on fast days should be
taken about noon.
5. A collation. is permitted in the evening
6. When the principal meal cannot convenient
be taken about noon, the order may be inverted so
that the collation. may be taken about noon and the
dinner in the evening.
l. General usage has made it lawful to take in
the morning cup of coffee tea or chocolate, with
small piece of bread.
s. Necessity and custom have authorized the
use of lard instead of butter in the preparation of all
permitted foods.
By dspensaton the use of flesh meats is per
mtted at all meals on Sundays once day.at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays with the exception of Ember Saturday
and the last Saturday of Lent.
TO- Persons exempt from the obligation of fast
ing may partake of flesh meat at all meals on DAVIS
when the of is permitted at the principal
meal.
H. Flesh meat and fish are not to be used at the
same meal during Lent, even on Sundays
r. The use of butter, cheese, milk and eggs is
permitted every day in Lent
l3 BY virtue of Indult granted by the HOLY
See March Is 1895 workingmen their families are
allowed the use of flesh meat a day on all fast
and abstinence days throughout the year, with the
exception of all Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the
Wednesday and Saturday of Holy Week and the Vigil
of Christmas. Those who are exempt from the OBJ
legation of fasting permitted to use meat more
than once day on all days except those before men
toned, namely, Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the
Wednesday and Saturday of HOLY Week and the
Vigil of Christmas. Those who avail themselves of
this Indut are not permitted to use flesh meat and
hsh at the same meal, and earnestly exhorted TO
perform some other act OF notification such as alb
stinence from Intoxicating liquors
a. The Paschal time extends from the first Sun
day of Lent until Trinity Sunday, inclusive during
which time all Catholics who have attained the propz
err age are bound to receive Holy Communion worth
lily
10 To afford the faithful opportunities of gaining
the graces of the Lenten season. is hereby ordered
that in addition to the Sunday devotions Len
ten exercises be held two evenings each week in
all the churches of the diocese which are attached
resident pastors On of the evenings an instruc-
ton is to be given the other the Stations of the
Cross, and permission is hereby given for the Bene-
dction of the Blessed Sacrament on both evenings.
On Good Friday the Devotion Way of the Cross
shall be given in all parish churches in the evening
l. SCANLAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake
Salt Lake City, Feb q.