Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-02-29
How Catholics of
Santa Fe Diocese
Will Observe It.
BEGINS NEXT WEDNESDAY
Archbishop Does Not Make
Any Changes in Rules for
Forty Days Penance.

ians. Most Reverend Peter Bourgade
archbishop of Santa Fe, has prepared
. list OF lenten regulations for the
guidance of Catholics in the archdio
lcese under his jurisdiction which EN-.
| braces New Mexico and Arizona.
The rules for the proper observance
Iof the forty days Of sack cloth and
Iashes preceding Easter will be an.
nounced from the pulpits of every
Catholic church throughout the en-
tire world tomorrow. The following
are the regulations for the Santa Fe
diocese:
Lenten Regulations.
Lent. this year. commences on the
| ith day Of March.
|. All the days of Lent, Sundays
excepted. are Fast-days of obligation
for all persons who have completed
their twenty-first year Of age, and not
|entered upon their sixtieth yet, and
who are not, for just causes. excepted
Tor dispensed.
2 All persons who do hard labor
the sick, the convalescent, those with
ia weak constitution, and in general all
who cannot fast without a grievous
detriment to their health or occupa.
tions, are excepted from the obligation
of fasting.
3. Flesh-meat can be eaten at all
meals by those who for whatever rea-
ohable cause, are excused from fast.
ing, Such days as those who must fast
are permitted TO eat It once.
t. The principal meal should be
taken at or about noon with no restric.
|tion as to the quantity of food to be
taken; the collation. at about the usual
time for supper or the evening meal;
this latter should be light rejection
by no means to exceed one half of the
food eaten at the principal meal.
S. Fish, during Lent, may be eat.
en by all and at all meals, even at the
collation.; but it is strictly forbidden
to use hesh-meat and fish at the same
meal. This restriction applies to all
days of Lent, even Sundays, as also
to Ember days and vigils with fast;
in fact, to all days throughout the year
that are of fast by precept of the
church 1t binds all, even those not
obliged to fast, and has not been re.
versed by any indult heretofore grant.
ed There is but one exception to 1t,
and it is in favor of the persons who
are permitted, not by Indult but on ac.
count of sickness, to eat meat on days
of fast. These, and no others, are al.
lowed to eat meat and fish at the same
meal. IS. c. Poenit, die 9 Jannarii,
1S99.)
6. Whenever any doubt arises in
their mind concerning the sufflciency
of the reasons for exemption, the faith
full should consult their pastors or
confessors, to whom we delegate the
faculty of dispensing for just causes,
but individually each one Of their sub
jects or penitents, imposing some aims
or penance, or prayers as compensa.
ton
Moreover, by virtue of an Indult
from the Holy See, for the United
States august 8, 1887 the following
are granted, viz:
/. The use of flesh.meat is permit
ted to all, during Lent, at all meals
on Sundays but at the principal meal
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursday and
Saturdays, except the second and last
Saturday of Lent.
2. The use of eggs and white.
meats--milk, cheese, butter-is per-
mitted to all at the principal meal and
is even tolerated at the collation., OIL
all days Of Lent.
8. Persons who are obliged to fast
may take In the morning, coffee, tea
or chocolate made with water, and al
so a small morsel of bread.
4. When the principal meat cannot
for some reasonable cause, be eaten
about the middle of the day, as direct.
ed by the present usage, it Is allowed
to invert the order by taking the COLA
tion in the morning and dining In the
evening
s. The use of lard and dripping is
allowed in preparing the permitted
ailments, even for the collation..
w.
Another Indult from the Holy See,
for ten years, in favor Of the work
ingman in the United States, authoriz-
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