Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-26
LENTEN REGULATIONS
FOR THE FAITHFUL
BISHOP coNATY MAKES HIS AN
NUAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Ash Wednesday Falls on February %
and Begins the Period of Fast
ing-Dispensations and Exemp=
tions

Bishop Thomas James Conaty has an
rounced these regulations for Lent in
the diocese of Monterey and Los An
geles:
Ash Wednesday, the first day of
Lent, falls this year on the 2Sth of
February.
The faithful who are twenty-one
years old, are not exempt on account
of infirmity, hard labor or other griev-
Gus cause, are obliged to fast during
Lent:
1. All the days of Lent, except Sun
days, are fast days OF obligation
2. All persons under twenty-one
years or over sixty years of age, those
who are engaged in hard labor, the
sick and convaleScent, and those who.
cannot fast without injury to their
health, are exempt from the obligation
of fasting.
8. All those bound to keep the fast
shall make but one full meal a day,
except on 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
be taken conveniently about noon, the
order may be inverted, so that the col
lation may be taken about noon and the
dinner In the evening.
7. General usage has made it lawful
to take in the morning cup of coffee,
tea or chocolate, with small piece of
bread.
8. Necessity and custom have au-
thorized the use of lard instead of
butter in the preparation of all per-
mitted foods.
8. BY dispensation the use of flesh
meats is permitted at all meals on
Sundays and once a day at the princi-
pal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, with the exception
of Ember Saturday and the last Sat
urday of Lent.
TO- Persons exempt from the obli-
cation of fasting may partake of-f1esh-
meat at all meals on days when the
use Of meat is permitted at the prin-
cipal 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 III
Lent
49, BY virtue of an indult granted
by the Holy See. March 10, 1895. work
ingmen and their families are allowed
the use of flesh-nleat once day on all
the fast and abstinence days through
out the year. with the exception of all
Fridays, Ash "Wednesday, the Wednes-
day and Saturday Of Holy Week, and
the Vigil of Christmas Those who are
exempt from the obligation of fasting
are permitted to use meat more than
once a day on all days except those
before mentioned, namely, Friday, Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and Sat-
urday of Holy Week, and the Vigil of
Christmas. Those who avail them
selves of this indult are not permitted
to use fiesh-meat and fish at the same
meal and are earnestly eXhorted to-
perform some other act of modification,
such as abstinence from intoxicating
liquors.
IA. The Paschal time extends from
the first Sunday of Lent until Trinity
Sunday, inclusive, during which time
all Catholics who have attained the
proper age are bound to receive Holy
Communion Worthily.
10. To afford the faithful opportuni-
ties of gaining the graces of the Lenten
season. it is hereby ordered that in
addition to the usual Sunday devotions,
Lenten exercises be held on two even
ings Of each week in all the churches
OF the diocese to which are attached
resident pastors. On one of the even
ings an instruction is to be given on
the other the Stations of the Cross,
and permission is hereby given for
benedictlon of the blessed sacrament
on both evenings.
16. The faithful are reminded that
besides the obligation of fasting i'm
posed by the church, the season of
Lent should be in very special man
ner time of earnest prayer. of sorrow
for sin, OF abstention from amusements,
which not sinful in themselves are
permitted during other portions of the
year, and of generous almsglving to the
poor.
II, 10 comply with the decree of the
third plenary council of Baltimore, a
collection Will be taken up on the first
Sunday of Lent at all the masses and
Indians and negroes.