The Irish standard., 1907-02-16
The .LENTEN FAST.
Regulations Of the Archdiocese
Il. Of St. Paul
For Year 1907, Ending March
81, Easter Sunday.

( the 18th day OF February.
All tho faithful, unless legltinately
excused or: dispensed, are bound in con-
I science. under the penalty Of Erievous
( Sin, to observe the Lenten regulation.
All the days Of Lent, the Sundays ex-
cepted, are days Of fast.
The precept Of fasting restricts the
,lse Of food to one meal towards the
middle of the day, and collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part Of an ordinary lneal-custo1n,
however, authorizing the taking in the
morning Of cup Of coffee, tea or choc-
olate, with a 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 repaat
cannot he taken without serious moon
vei.ience towards the middle of the
day, the order Of repasts may be re-
versed, the meal or principal repast be-
lation at an earlier hour.
The use Of flesh meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the priv
s cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday Of En1ber Week (February
2srd). and the Saturday of Holy Week
(March 3oth)
The use Of flesh meat is forbidden
OH Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday
of Ennber Week and the Saturday of
4 Holy Week; on other days, outside OF
+ Sundays, il is forbidden at all repasts,
except the one meal, or principal re-
past.
The use Of lard, however, js per-
lnitted at all times in the preparation
Of food.
Both fish and flesh meat cannot be
taken at the .elne meal, even on Sun
clays.
Persons legitmately excused or dis
pensed from the precept OF fasting.
B may use flesh meat at al meals on
whatever day there is Il general per-
mission to use it at the principal re-
past.
From the precept of fasting nre eN-
cused: Those under the age Of twen-
ty-one years or over the age Of sixty;
the infirm and the convaIescent; won,-
Ell bearing or nursing children; those
engaged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive Of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable TO pro-
cure for the principal repast Il suffi-
/; cheney of nutritive food.
From the prccept 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
he able to procure for themselves abb
stinence food.
III virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by a
recent Pontifical 1ndult, 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 Saturday of Holy
wesk.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the
e day.
The usual prohibition remains
u against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
3& Where the wsge-e Garner, in virtue oil
4. the indult, uses meat all the members
Of the household may likewise Use 1t
The Church does not wish to impose
Upon the household tho inconvenience
OF double cooking. But in cases ot
this Kind, those members of the house
hold who may be bound by the preoept
II at fasting, are allowed the use Of meat
rs n only at their principal repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al,
who may make use Of the privileges
III Of the indult to be still mindful al
~ their duty to practice self-denial, ant
sS he counsels that instead Of the absti.
nerrcs from meat some other saorifice
OF, bodily comfort be practised, tht
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggesting
~ such yacrifoe abstinence from in.
toxicating liquors.
Other days Of fast and abstinence
occurring during the year are the En-
s. Der days and the vigils OF certain fes.
rivals. The Ember days are: Wed
Ms nesday, Friday and Saturday, Fsbruar.
goth, 22nd, 23rd. Wednesday, Frida,
and Saturday. May 22nd, Gath. 25th
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Sep
tenber 18th, goth, 21st; Wednesday
Friday and Saturday. December 18th
Goth, 21st. The vigils are: The vigi
aS of Pentecost, May 18th; that OF thu
lsss Ss Assumption, August 14th: that Of AL
Saints, October 31st, and that O.
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