The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-10
LENTEN REGULATIONS.
Rules For the Faithful in the
Churches of the Arch-Di-
Geese of Baltimore.

Following are the regulations
for the Lenten period, which be-
gan on Ash Wednesday, as pre-
pared by the direction of Car
dinal Gibbons, aud read last
Sunday in every Catholic Church
in the Arch Diocese of BaltimOre:
Ash Wednesday, the first day
of Lent, falls on the eighth day
of March.
l. All the faithful who have
completed their twenty first year,
unless exempt by dispensatiOn or
some other Legitimate cause, are
bound to observe the fast of
Lent.
=. They are to make one meal
only a day, except on Sundays.
3. A small refreShment. com
monty called a collation., is per
mitted in the evening
4, The following persons are
exempt from the obligations of
fasting: Persons who are under
q years of age, the sick. nursing
women. those who are obliged to
do hard labor. and those who.
through weakness. cannot fast
without great prejudice to their
health.
). The faithful are reminded
that, besides the obligations of
fasting imposed by the church,
this holy season of Lent should
be, in an especial manner. a time
of earnest prayer, of sorrow for
sins, of secluSiOn from the world
and its amusements and of gen
erOus aims giving.
BY virtue of an induit to the
United States, dated August 3.
1887, and renewed for 10 years,
May %. 1897, the following
special dlSpensationS are granted:
l. The use of fish meat is per,
mitted at all meals on Sundays
and once day on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days. with the exception of the
second and last Saturdays of
Lent. But flesh meat and fish
are not to be used at the same
meal during Lent, even on Sun
DAYS.
.. The use OF butter, cheese,
milk and eggs is also permitted
every day in Lent.
3. 1t is allowed to take in the
morning some warm liquid, as
tea, coffee or thin chocolate, made
with water, and with this liquid
mOuthful of bread.
4. Those for whom the hour of
noon may be an announcement
time for dinner may invert the
order and their collation. in the
morning and their dinners in the
evening.
D. The use of hogs lard or
drippingS, instead of butter, is
authorized in permitted food.
8 Persons exempt from the OBJ.
legation of fasting are free to
take meat more than once on
those days when its use is granted
by diSpensatiOn.
BY virtue of an induit granted
to us by the Holy See, March Is.
1895. and renewed to March Is.
1915, we permit to all working
men and their families the use
of flesh meat once a day on all
fast days and abstinence DAYS
throughout the year, with the ex.
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednes
day, the Wednesday and Satur
day of Holy Week and the Eve
of Christmas.
Those who are exempt from the
obligation of fasting are free to
take meat more than once on the
days mentioned. Those who
avail THEMSELVES of this induit are
not allowed to use flesh meat and
fish at the meal, and they are
earnestly exhorted to perform
some other act of modification,
such as abstinence from intoxi-
eating liquors.
The Paschal time extends fir m
the first Sunday in Lent till
Trinity Sunday during which
time all Catholics who have at
tanned the proper age are bound
to receive worthily the Holy Com
munion. The holy season of
Lent is a very proper time for
children to make their first con
teSsion, which they ought to do
generally at about the age of
seven years Parents should see
to this.