The Irish standard., 1908-03-07
the LEN1EN FAST
Regulations of the Archdiocese
Of St. Paul
For Year 1908, Ending April 10,
Easter Sunday.

excused or dispensed, are bound in con-
science, under the penalty of grievous
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
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. authorizes the taking in the
morning cup Of coffee, tea or choco-
late, with small piece Of bread.
| Theolosians 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 incon-
venience towards the middle of the
day, the order Of repasts may be re-
versed, the meal or principal repast be-
ing taken in the evening, and the COL
lation at an earlier hour.
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 Ember Week and the Sat-
urday of Holy Week.
The use Of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays. Fridays. the Saturday
Of Ember Week and the Saturday Of
Holy Week: on other days, outside Of
Sundays, it is forbidden at all rspasts,
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 Sun
days.
| Persons legttimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting,
may use flesh meat at all meals on
whatever day there is a general per-
mission to use it at the principal re-
past.
From the precept Of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the ago of.twen-
ty-one years or over the age Of sixty:
the infirm and the convalescent: wom-
en- bearing or nursing children; those
engaged in hard labor or other .dutie.
exhaustive Of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to pro-
cure for the principal repast a SUM-
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 arc so situated ais not to
be able to procure for themselves alb
stinence food.
In VIRTUE of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States per-
mission is granted to working people,
to use meat on all days Of Lent. with
the exception Of Fridays, Ash Wsdnes-
day. the Wednesday and Saturday of
Holy Week
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish at the
same meal ,,..
Where the wage Garner. in virtue Of
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.
When doubt exists as to whether
ones condition or circumstances allow
exemption from the precepts of fast
ing and abstinence. counsel should b,
asked from confessors or pastors who
are the authoritative Interpreters of
the law, and who even are empowered
in special cases for good and sufficient
reasons, indicated or suggested in
Catholic theology. to commute the pre-
cepts of fasting and abstinence to 9th
er penitential works.
In enjoinlng upon the faithful the
precepts Of fast and abstinence, Holy
Church is mindful of the evangelical
laws Of self-denial. of which the Savio,
and His apostles were, by example and
by word, most eminent teachers. With.
out self-denial there is no Christian.
Fifty. Indeed, without self-denial there
Is no natural morality. The man whc
has not acquired by habit the powe,
of self-restraint will not be victorious
over sin amid the storms and tempta.
tions Of life which all are compelled tc
encounter.
The devotion of the WAY Of tn,
Cross will be observed. if at all nos.
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