The Irish standard., 1906-03-03
REGULATIONS FOR LENT.

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letter Of Archbishop ireland to Clergy |
and laity.
The following letter on the Lenten
for the year 1906. has been |
addressed to the clergy and laity of |
the archdiocese Of st. Paul by Arch
bishop ireland, and will be read in all
the churches Of the diocese:
In this year Of grace, 1906, Ash
Wednesday, the first day Of Lent. will
be the 2sth day of February. 4
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in con-
science. under the penalty Of grievous
sin, to observe the Lenten regulations.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays ex-
cepted, are days Of fast.
The precept of fasting restricts the
use of food to one meal towards the
middle Of the day, and a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part Of an ordinary meal-custom,
however, authorizing the taking in the
morning of q cup Of coffee, tea or
chocolate. with small piece of bread.
Theologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight
ounces. The solid food taken in the
morning should not exceed two ounces.
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious inccn-
venience towards the middle Of the
day, the order of repasts may be re-
versed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
THE LENTEN ABSTINENCE.
The use of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the prin-
cipal meal on Mondays. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of E1nber Week March 10)
and the Saturday of Holy Week april
14).
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday
of Enber Week and the Saturday of
Holy Week; on other days, outside of
Sundays, it is forbidden at all repasts,
except the one meal, or principal re-
past.
The use of lard, however, is per-
mitted at all times in the preparation
of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the same meal, even on Sum
days.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting,
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is general per-
mission to use it at the principal repast
EXEMPTIONS FROM THE PRE-
cEPTs OF FAST AND ABB
sT1NENCE.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age Of twenty
one years or over the age of sixty;
the infirm and the convalescent; women
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties ex-
haustive Of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to pro-
cure for the principal repast a sufi-
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 Pontiicial 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 Saturdays of
Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in he day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
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 of
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.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who may make use of the privileges of
the indult to be still mindful OF their
duty to practice self-denial, and he
counsels that instead of the abstinence
from meat some other sacrifice of
bodily comfort be practiced, the Sow
ereign Pontiff himself suggesting as
such sacrifice abstinence from intoxi-
eating drinks.
Other days of fast and abstinence &C.
curing during the year are the Ember
days and the Vigils of certain festivals.
The Ember days are: Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday, March z, 9 and
10; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
June 6, and 8; Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, September 10, 81, %; We'd
nesday, Friday and Saturday, December
19, Fl, %. The Vigils are: The Vigil Of
Pentecost, June 2; that Of the Assump-