The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-02-20
LENyEN REGULATIONS.
OF the Archdiocese of St. Paul for The
Year 1900.


In this year OF grace, 1904, Ash
Wednesday. the first day OF Lent, will
be the 18TH day OF February.
All .thc faithful. unless legitimately
| excused or dispensed are bound in
| conscience, under the penalty OF gricv-
Gus sin, to observe the Lenten regula-
tions.
All the days OF Lent, the Sundays
excepted, are days OF fast.
The p-ecept of fasting restricts the
USE OF food to one meal towards the
middle OF the day, and collation. in
the evening not c:s:es ling the fourl:
part OF an ordinary meal - custom,
however, authorizing the taking i'll the
morning OF cup of coffee, tea or choc-
olate, with small piece of bread.
Thcologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount OF eight
ounces. The solid food taken in tn,
morning should not exceed two
ounces.
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious ncon-
veniencc towards the middle OF the
day, the order of repasts may be re-
versed, the meal or principal rcpast be-
ing taken in the evening, and the COL
lation at an earlier hour.
The use OF flesh meat is allowed at
Ill meals on Sunday, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. except the
Saturday ci Embcr Week February
27th) and the Saturday of Holy Week
april 2nll.
The use OF flesh meat is forbidden on
Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday Of
Ember Week and the Saturday of Holy
Week; on other days, outside of Sun
days, it is forbidden at all repasts, ex
ccpt the one meal, or principal rcpast.
The use OF lard, however, is per-
united 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 legitimatcly excused or dis
penscd from the precept Of fasting,
| may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general per,
mission to use it at the principal re-
past.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cuscd: Those under the age of twenty
one years or over the age Of sixty; the
in6rm and the convalescent; women
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to- pro-
cure for the principal repast stuff
cheney of nutritive food.
From the precept Of abstinence 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 alb
stinence food.
In virtue OF the authority conceded
to bishops in the United States by
a recent pontifcal indult, permission is
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the ex.
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
the Wednesday and the Saturday O.
Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the day
The usual prohibition remain:
against using flesh meat and fish at the
same meal.
| Where the wage-earner, in virtue O
the indult, uses meat, all the members
of the household may likewise use it
| The Church does not wish to impose
upon the household the inconvenience
of double cooking. But in cases O.
| this kind, those members of the house.
| hold who may be bound by the precept
| of fasting, are allowed the use of meat
only at their principal repast
l The sovereign pontiff exhorts al