The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-25
REGULATIONS
LETTER OF THE MOST REVEREND
ARCHBISHOP.


excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty OF grlev-
GUS sin, to observe the Lenten regula-
tions
The Lenten Fast.
All the days of Lent, the Sundays
excepted, 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, how
ever authorizing the taking in the
morning cup of coffee, tea or choco-
late, with small piece of bread.
Theologians 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
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
The Lenten Abstinence.
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 March
11th), and the Saturday of Holy Week
april 15th)
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 re-
pasts, except the one meal, or princi-
pal repast.
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 legitimately 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.
Exemptions From the Precepts of Fast
and Abstinence.
From the precept of fasting are ex-
cused: Those under the age of TWEEN
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 duties
exhaustive of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to pro-
cure for the principal repast a suf-
ficiency 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 are so situated as not to be
able to procure for themselves absti
nence food
Special Exemption for "Working
People,"
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by 9
recent Pontifcal Indult, permission is
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the ex
ception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
the Wednesday and the Saturday oi
Holy Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the
day.
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish al
the same meal
Where the wage-earner, in virtue O.
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 O
this kind, those members of the house
hold who may be bound by the pre-
cept of fasting are allowed the use O
meat only at their principal repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al
who may make use of the privileges o
the indult to be still mindful of thei
duty to practice self-denial, and h
counsels that instead of the abstinenc,
from meat some other sacrifice of bod
lily comfort be practiced, the Sovereign
Pontiff himself suggesting as such sat
rifice abstinence from intoxicating
drinks.
Days of Fast and Abstinence Outsid
the Lenten Season.
Other days of fast and abstinence OF
curing during the year are the En-
ber days and the Vigils of certain fes
tivals. The Ember days are: Wedne;
day, Friday and Saturday, March Stl
10th, 18th; Wednesday, Friday an
Saturday, June 7th, 9th, 10th; Wedne!
day, Friday and Saturday, Septembe
2Oth, 22d, 23rd; Wednesday, Frida
and Saturday, December goth, 22t
23rd. The Vigils are: The Vigil {
Pentecost June 3rd; that of the Al
sumption, August 14th; that of A
Saints, October 31st, and that Of Chris
mas, December 23d.