The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01
OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST
PAUL, FOR THE YEAR 1918.

OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST.
PAUL, FOR THE YEAR 1918.
In this year of grace, 1913, Ash We'd
nesday, the first day of Lent, will be
the 9Th day of February.
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of griev-
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 collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of an ordinary meal-custom,
authorizing the taking in the morning
of cup of coffee, tea or chocolate,
with small piece of bread.
Theologians allow for the collation.
solid food to the amount of eight
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morning should not exceed two ounces.
When the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious in
convenience towards the middle of
the day, the order of repasts may be
reversed, 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 February
18th and the Saturday of Holy Week
March 22nd.s
! 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 repasts,
except the one meal, or principal re
past.
The use of lard, however, is permit
ted 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 or
whatever day there is 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 age of twenty-one
years or over the age of sixty; the in
firm and the convalescent; woman
bearing or nursing children; those en-
gagged in hard labor or other duties
exhaustive of physical strength; those
who from poverty are unable to pro
cure for the principal repast a sufi
cient 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
abstinence food
Special Exemption for "Working
People,"
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by a
recent Ponifical Indult, permission is
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent, with excep
tion of Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the
Wednesday and the Saturday of Holy
Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the day
The usual prohibition remains
against using flesh meat and fish
at the same meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue oi
the indult, uses meat, all the mem
bers of the household may likewise
use it. The Church does not wish tt
impose upon the household the incon
venience of double cooking. But In
cases of this kind, those members ot
the household who may be bound by
the precept of fasting are allowed the
use of meat only at their principa
repast.
i The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al
who may make use of the privileges
of the indult to be still mindful ot
their duty to practice self-denial, ant
he counsels that instead of the abstin
ence from meat some other sacrifice
of bodily comfort be practiced, the
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggesting
as such sacrifice abstinence from in
toxicating drinks.
Days of Fast and Abstinence Outside
the Lenten Season.
Other days Of fast and abstinence
occurring during the year are the En-
ber days and the Vigils of certain
festivals. The Ember days are: Wed
nesday, Friday and Saturday, Febru
ary 18th, 14th and 18th; Wednesday
Friday and Saturday, May 14th, 18th
and 18th; Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, September 18th, 18th and
goth; Wednesday, Friday and Satur
day, December 18th, 18th and 10th
The Vigils are: The Vigil of Pente
cost, May 10th; that of the Assump
tion, August 18th: that of All Saints