Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-02-12
REGULATIONS FORIENTEN PERIOD
Rules To Be Followed By Good Catholics
IN The Archdiocese.

The following regulations for Lent
| issued by the Chancellor OF the Arch
| diocese OF Baltimore, have been giveT
out at St Mary's x. g. Church, th'
Rev. Father Thomas G. IIanley, rector
Ash Wedns sday. The first day q
Lent. falls on the 18th day of Febrn
airy.
/. All ths faithful who have com
pleted their twenty. first year, unless
exempt by dispenastion or some oihel
legitimate cause, are bound to observe
the fast of Lent.
2. They are 10 make one meal only
day, except on sundays.
3. A small refreshment, commonly
called collation., is permitted in the
evening.
4. The following persons are exempt
from obligations of fasting: Persons
under twenty-one years ef age. The
sick, nursing women. those who are
Obliged 10 do hard labor, and those
who through weakness cannot fast
without great prejudice TO their health.
5. The faithful are reminded that,
besides the obligations of fasting inn
posed by the church, this holy season
OF Lent should be, in an especial man
ner, time of earnest prayer. of sor-
rows for sins. of seclusion from the
world and its amusements,a and of gen
erous alms-giving.
BY virtue of an indult to the United
States. dated August J, 1881, and re-
newed for ten years, May 20, 1897, the
following special dispensations are
granted:
]. The use of ilesh-meat is PERMITTED
at all meals ON Sundays and once a
day on Mondays. Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays, with the excep-
tion of the second and last Saturdays
of Lent. But flesh-meat and fish are
not To be used at the same meal dur
ing Lent, even on Sundays.
2. The use of butter, cheese, milk
and eggs is also permitted every day
in Lent.
3. 1t is allowed in the morning to
take some warm liquid, as tea, coffee
or thin chocolate, made with water,
and with this liquid mouthful of
bread.
A. Those for W hom the hour of noon
may be an ineonvenient time for din
ner may invert the order and take
their collation. in the morning and
their dinners III the evening.
5. The use of hog $ lard or drippings,
instead of butter, is authorized in
preparing permitted food.
6. Persons exempt from the obiiga-
ttion of fasting are free to take meat
more than once on those days when
its use is granted by dispensation.
By virtue of an indult granted to
us by the Holy See March 10, 1898,
and renewed until March 10, 1915, we
permit to all workingmen and their
families the use of fesh-meat once a
day on all fast days and abstinence
days throughout the year, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
and Saturday of Holy Week and the
Eve of Christmas.
Those who are exempt from the OBJ
legation of fasting are free to take
meat more than once on the days mem
toned. Those who have availed them
selves of this indult are not allowed to
use flesh-meat and fish at the samt
meal, and they are earnestly eXhorted
to perform some other act CT mortifi-
cation such as abstinence from intoNi-
eating liquors.
The Paschal time extends from the
first Sunday of Lent till Trinity sun
day, during which time all Catholics
who have attained the proper age are
bound to receive worthily the Holy
Communion. The holy season of
Lent is very proper time for chill
dren to make their first communion,
which they ought to do generally at
about the age of seven years. Parents
should see To this
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