The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-07
Rules Laid Down for Guidance
of Faithful During Next
Forty Days.
SEASON PROCLAIMED From
CATHOLIC CHURCH AFFAIRS
Special Services Will BE Held
Wednesday and Friday
Evenings.

| Catholic cathedral and IN ST GaJrlck )
church Sunday. as well as in the Epis-
copal houses Of worship. the customary
Lentcn regulations were called to the
attention Of the congregation. Several
pastors of the city made the Lentcn
season the subject of their morning dis
courses.
In st. Mary's cathedral the Rev. w,
X. Ryan said the S clock mass The
Rev. Father ID. Kiclv olliciaIed at the .
O clock mass. The high mass was eel
cbrated by the Rev. Father Lawrence
Alt. The Rev. Father W. X. Ryan
preached on Lenten penance at the ! j
o clock mass. At vcspers the Rev. D.
| kiclY officiated and preached on the
Decay of Faith
The Regulations
The following Lonten regulations
were announced;
All The days Of Lent except Sunday.
arc fast days OF obligation.
| All persons under Il years or over SO
years OF age. those who are engaged i'll
hard labor. the sick and convalesccnt,
and those who cannot fast without injury
| TO their health arc exempt from the OBJ
! legation of fasting.
All bound ia keep the fast shall take
but one fun meal a. day, except on sun
days
The meal permitted on fast days should
be taken about noon,
a collation. is permitted in the even
! ing.
Voniently he taken about noon, the order
may he inverted. that the collation.
| may be taken about noon and the dim
ncr in the evening.
General usage has made 1t lawful TO
take IN the morning n Cup OF coffee, tea
or chocolate. with small piece OF bread;
Necessity and custom haYS ;,a6 auth2r'TSd in zSd
preparation OF all permitted foods.
By dispensatiou. the use OF flesh meats
! is permitted at all meals OF sundays
on Mondays. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. with the exception OF Ember
Saturday. the last Saturday in Lent
| Persons exempt from the obligation OF
fasting may partakc Of flesh meats at
all meals on days when the use of meat
is permitted at the principal meal.
Flesh meat and iish 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 i'll Lent
BY virtue Of an lndult granted by the
| Holy See, March 10. 1895, workingmcn
and their families arc allowed the use
OF flesh meat once day on all the fast
and abstinence days throughout tile gear.
with the exception OF all Fridays, Assn
Wednesday. the Wednesday and Satur-
day OF Holy Week, and the vigil OF
| chris mas. JnoSe VINO are exempt from
the obligation OF fasting are permitted
| to use meat more than once day on
| all days except those before mentioned
namely Fridays. Ash Wednesday, the
and the vigil of Christmas. Those who
avail themselves of this lndult are not
permitted to use flesh meat and fish al
| the same meal. and are earnestly cN
horted TO perform some other act OF NOR
tficaton. such rs abstinence from in
toxicating liquors.
The Paschal time extends from the
first Sunday Of Lent until Trinity sun
day. inclusive, during which time al
| Catholics who have attained The proper
age arc bound to receive holy communion
worthly.
To afford the faithful opportunities OF
gaining the graces Of the Lenten season.
| IL is hereby ordered that In addition to
the usual Sunday devotions,. Lentcn eN-
week in all the churches OF the arch
diocese TO which are attached the resi-
dent pastors. On one Of the evenings
an instruction is 10 be given; on the
other. the stations OF the cross, Permis-
! sion Is hereby given for benediction oi
/ the blessed sacrament on both even
Llngs On Good Friday the devotion ot
| the way of the cross shall be given twice
i'm all parish churches, once during the
afternoon and then again in the even
Ing, The afternoon service Is lor tne
| children. though grown people. especial
" the old. and those who cannot attend
In the evenings. should not be excluded
| from IT,
| the children. It should not begin before
! $50 p. m, thus giving them time TO reach
the church after the closing of The
schools
Tho exercises on Good Friday after
noon shall consist OF the stations OF the
cross. with the singing In English OF
! a verse OF tho Stabat Mater between eacli
| station: a short sermon on the passion
and death Of our Lord. and the reading
OF the prayer TO the 1lve wounds.
strongly recommend all who have pas
toral charges of souls that whercve,
it is possible the children be brought
/ to their respective parish churches on
| every Friday afternoon during the Len
ten season for the devotion oI the way
OF the cross, and short sermon Telat-
ine to the passion OF our Lord, Whcr-
ever this is donc permission Is gwen to
T, have bcnedlction oil The blessed sacta, ,
| n,ent at The afternoon service as well
as al the evening service. With the e2-
ccption. Of course, of Good Friday
The faithful are reminded that besides
| The obligations Of fasting imposed by the
| church. tho season OF Lent should DC
in a very special manner a time for
earnest prayer Of sorrow for SIN, oi
abstcntion from amuScmentS. which. not
sinful in themselves. arc permitted dar-
! Ing other portions OF the wear. and OF gen.
crous almsglvinG TO the poor.
TO comply Witn the dgErcc OF coiS9i6n snG ShlPn
| will ba taken up on the nrst Sunday OF
Lent at all the masses and at NespcrS
for the missions among the indians and
negroes.
I,enten Services.
at ST. Mary's during Lent there Will
be services Wednesday and Friday even
ines of each week at which the instruc-
tions and the stations Of the cross re-
ferrcd 60 will be The special exercises,
| The hour for the beginning of these
services is $50 o clock.
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