The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-05
Lenten REGULATIONS.

l. All the days of Lent, except Sun
days, are Fast Days of obligation.
.. All persons under u years or over
60 years of age, those who are engaged
in hard labor, the sick and GONZALES
cent. and those who cannot fast with
out injury to their health. are exempt
from the obligation of fasting,
8. All bound to keep the fast shall
take but one full meal a day. except
on Sundays.
4. The meal permitted on Fast Days
should be taken about noon.
.. A collation. is permitted in the
evening
6, When the principal meal cannot
conveniently be taken about noon. the
order may be inverted, so that the col
latiOn may be taken about noon and
the dinner in the evening.
I. General usage has made it law
full to take in the morning cup of
coffee, tea or chocolate, with a small
piece of bread.
s. Necessity and custom have au-
thorized the use of lard instead of but
ter in the preparation of all permitted
foods.
9 By dispensation. the use of flesh
meats is permitted at all meals on
Sundays and once a day at the princi-
pal meals on Mondays, Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays, with the
exception of Ember Saturday. the last
Saturday in Lent.
10. Persons exempt from the obliga-
ton of fasting may partake of flesh
meats at all meals on days when the
use of meat is permitted at the prin-
cipal meal
II. Flesh meat and fish are not to
be used at the same meal during Lent,
even on Sundays.
- The use of butter cheese. milk
and eggs is permitted every day in
Lent.
80 BY virtue of an Indult granted
by the Holy See. March 10, 1895. work.
ingmen and their families are allowed
the use of flesh meat once a day on all
the fast and abstinence days through
out the year, with the exception of all
Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the Wednes
day and Saturday of Holy Week, and
the vigil of Christmas. Those who are
exempt from the obligation of fasting
are permitted to use meat more than
once a day on all days except those be-
fore mentioned. namely. Fridays Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and Sat
urday of Holy Week. and the vigil of
Christmas. Those who avail them
selves of this Indult are not permitted
to use flesh, meat and fish at the same
meal. and are earnestly eXhorted to
perform some other act of mortifica-
ton. such as abstinence from intOXi-
eating liquors.
IA. The Paschal time extends from
the first Sunday of Lent until Trinity
Sunday, inclusive, during which Time
all Catholics who have attained the
proper age are bound to receive Holy
Communion worthily.
10 To afford the faithful oppOrtu-
mites of gaining the graces of the Len
ten season, it is hereby ordered that in
addition to the usel Sunday devotions,
Lenten exercises be held on two even
ings of each week in all the churches
of the Archdiocese to which are at
tached the resident pastors. On one
of the evenings an instruction is to be
given: on the other. the Stations of the
Cross Permission is hereby given fOl
BenedictiOn of the Blessed Sacrament
on both evenings. On Good Friday the
Devotion of the Way of the Cross shall
be given twice in all parish churches.
once during the afternoon and then
again in the evening. The afternoon
service is for the children though
grown people, especially the old, and