The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-07
OBSERV VANCE
OF LENTEN
m s 8
!. SEASON 8.

! Catholic church, as we'll as In tne
Episcopal church, the customary
Lenten regulations were called To the
attention of the congregation Sunday.
Tho Regulations.
The following Lenten regulations
were announced:
All the days of Lent, except Sunday.
are fast days of obligation
All persons under Il years or over
| 60 years OF age. those who arc en-
gagged in hard labor. the sick and con"
ya!escent and those who cannot fast
without injury to their health. are cX-
cmpt from the obligation of fasting.
| All bound TO keep the fast shall take
but one full meal day. except on
! Sundays
The meal permitted on fast days
| should be taken about noon.
A collation. Is permitted in the even
ing.
When the principal meal cannot
conveniently be taken about noon. the
| order may be inverted. so that the
| collation. may be taken about noon
| and the dinner in the evening
General usage has made Ii lawful
to take in the morning cup of coffee.
tea or chocolate, with small piece
OF bread
Necessity and custom have author
lied the use of lard instead OF butter
in the preparation of all permitted
foods.
BY dispensation, the use OF flesh
meats is permitted at all meals Oh
Sundays and once a day at the prin.
cipal meals on Mondays. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, with the
exception Of Ember Saturday, the last
Saturday of Lent.
Persons exempt from the obligation
Of fasting may partake of flesh meats
at all meals on days when the use Of
meal.
Flesh meat and fish arc 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
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
throughout the year. with the excep.
ton OF all Fridays. Ash Wednesday.
the Wednesday and Saturday OF Holy
Week, and the vigil OF Christmas.
Those who are exempt from the obli-
cation OF fasting are permitted to use
meat more than once a day on all
days except those before mentioned.
namely: Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the
Wednesday and Saturday of Holy
Week and the vigil OF Christmas
Those who avail themselves of this
IDdult are not permitted to use flesh
meat and fish AT the same meal, and
are earnestly eXhorted to perform
some other act of modification, such
as abstinence from intoxicating liq-
uors.
The Paschal time extends from the
first Sunday OF Lent unti Trinity
Sunday, inclusive, during which time
all Catholics who have attained the
proper age are bound TO receive holy
communion worthily.
To afford the faithful opportunities
OF gaining the graces Of the Lentcn
season. it Is hereby ordered that In
addition to the usual Sunday deyo~
tions, Lenten exercises be held on
two evenings each week in all the
churches OF the archdiocese to which
are attached the resident pastors. On
one of the evenings an instruction is
to be given. on the other. uhe sta
tons OF the cross Permission Is
hereby given for benedlctlon 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 even
ic ho
children though grown people, es-
pcIally the old. ad those who cannot
attend in the evenings, should not
be excluded from It.
AS the service in the afternoon Is
for the children. 1t should not begin
before 80 p. M. thus giving them
time to reach the church after the
closing OF the schools
The exercises on Good Friday after
noon shall consist of the stations OF
the cross. with the singing In Eng
lish of a verse OF the Stabat Mater
between each station; n short ser
| mon on the passion and death OF our
Lord, and the reading OF The prayer
to the five wounds ] strongly rec
ommend all who have pastoral
charges OF souls that wherever II is
possible The CnlluTen be Drought TO
their respective parish churches on
every Friday afternoon during the
Lcnten season for the devotion of the
way Of the cross. and short sermon
relating to the passion OF our Lord.
Wherever this is done permission Is
given to have benediction OF the bles-
Sod sacrament at the afternoon SER
Vice, as well as at the evening ser
vice, with the exception. OF course.
OF Good Friday.
The faithful are reminded that be-
sides the obligations OF fasting i'm.
posed by the church, the season of
Lent should be in very special man
ner time for earnest prayer. Of
sorrow for sin. of abstention from
amusements, which. not sinful In
themselves. are permitted during
other portions Of the year, and OF
| generous almsgivinG TO the poor.
To comply with the decree OF the
| third plenary council Of Baltimore,
collection will be taken up on the first
Sunday of Lent at all the masses and
at vespers for the missions among
the Indians and negroes.