The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-02-24
TOMORROW Will
BE ASH WEDNESDAY,

The Lenten season commences to-
morrow-Ash Wednesday--and the
day is so called because the principal
liturgical service is the blessing and
distribution of ashes at the morning
services in all Catholic churches
throughout Christendom. The ashes
are from the palms left over since the
previous Palm Sunday. From time
immemorial ashes have been regarded
az symbolical of penance, of repent
ance. And at the distribution there
of the sacred minister repeats the
solemn words of of Holy Writ: IRE
member man, thou art but dust, and
into dust thou shalt return.'
The observance of the Lent is of
ancient origin, dating back to the time
of the Apostles, in commemoration of
the Savior's fast of forty days. Now
as the Sundays are not included in
counting the forty days before East
er the previous Wednesday is always
taken as the first day of the Lenten
season.
Father Meehan will conduct sercices
in st. Paul's Catholic church tomor-
row at clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Following are the regulations for
Lent, isued by Rt. Rev. Thomas rGace,
Bishop of this diocese:
l. All the days of Lent, except
Sundays, are fast days of obligation.
2. All persons under twenty-one
years or over sixty years of age,
those who are engaged in hard labor,
the sick and convalescent and those
who cannot fast without injury to
l,o,r e. Al -
legation of fasting.
3. All bound to keep the fast shall
make but one full meal day, except
on Sundays.
A. The meal permitted on fast
days should be taken about noon.
5. 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
collation. may be taken about noon
and the dinner in the evening.
Z. 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
butter, in the preparation of all per-
mitted foods.
8. By dispensation, the use of
flesh meats is permitted at all meals
on Sundays and once a day at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, with the
exception of Easter Saturday and the
last Saturday of Lent.
10. Persons exempt from the obi
CATION of fasting may partake of
flesh meat at all meals on days when
the use of meat is permitted at the
principal meal.
IL. 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.
13. By virtue of an indult grant
ed by the Holy See, March Is, 1895,
workingmen and their families are al
lowed the use of flesh-meat once a
day on all the fast and abstinence
days throughout the year, with the
exception of all Fridays, Ash We'd
nesday, the Wednesday and Saturday
of Holy Week and the Virgil of
Christmas. Those who are exempt
from the obligation of fasting are
permitter to use meat more than once
day on all days, except those be-
fore mentioned, namely, Fridays, Ash
Wednesday, the Wednesday and Sat
urday of Holy Week and the Virgil of
Christmas. Those who avail them
selves of this indult are not permit
ted to use flesh-m meat and fish at the
same meal, and are earnestly exhorted
tc perform some other act of mortifi-
cation, such as abstinence from in
toxicating liquors.
IA. The Paschal time extends from
the first Sunday of Lent until Trinity
Sunday, inclusive, during which time
all Catholics who have obtained the
proper age are bound to receive Holy
Communion worthily.
Is. To afford the faithful oppor-
tunities of gaining the graces of the
Lenten season, it is hereby ordered
that, in addition to the usual Sunday
devotions, Lenten exercises be held
or two evenings of each week in all
churches of the diocese to which are
attached resident pastors. On one of
the evenings an instruction is to be
given, on the other, the Stations of
the Cross; and permission is hereby
given for Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament ON both evenings.
Is. The faithful are remined that
besides the obligation of fasting inn
posed by the church, the season of
Lent should be in very special man
ner time of earnest prayer of sor-
row for sin, of abstention from
amusements, which, not sinful in
themselves, are permitted during 9th
er portions of the year, and of gener-
Gus aims giving to the poor.
IL. To comply with the decree of
the Third Plenary Council of Balti-
more, collection will be taken up on
the first Sunday of Lent at all the
masses, and Vespers for the missions
among the Indians and negroes.
William Knight, former resident