The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST
PAUL FOR THE YEAR 1914.

In this year of grace, 1914, Ash
Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will
be the 25th day of February.
All the faithful, unless legitin ately
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 a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of an ordinary meal-custom
however, authorizing the taking in the
morning of cup of coffee, tea OF
chocolate, with a 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 theSmeal 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 March 7th)
and the Saturday of Holy Week
april 11th).
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Satur-
day 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 prin.
cipal 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 Sum-
days.
pensed from tho 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.
T1-a.., 49, ,,,oooD+ of foct;no ora ov-
cused: Those under the age of TWEEN
ty-one years or over the age of sixty;
the infirm and the convalescent;
women bearing or nursing children;
those engaged in hard labor or other
duties exhaustive of physical strength;
those who from poverty are unable
to procure for the principal repast a
sufficiency 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 them
selves abstinence food.
Special Exemption for "WorI<lng
People,"
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by a
recent Pontifical Indult, permission is
granted to working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and the Saturday of
Holy Week.
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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 of
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 of
this kind, those members of the
household who may be bound by the
precept of fasting are allowed the use
of meat only at their principal repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts all
who may make use of the privileges
of the Indult to be still mindful of
their duty to practice self-denial, and
he counsels that instead of the alb
stinence from meat some other sacri-
fee of bodily comfort be practiced,
the Sovereign Pontiff himself suggest
ing as such sacrifice abstinence from
intoxicating drinks.
Days of Fast and Abstinence Outside
the Lenten Season.
Others days of fast and abstinence
occurring during the year are the EN-
Der days and the Vigils of certain
festivals The Ember days are: We'd
nesday, Friday and Saturday, March
4th, 9Th and 7th; Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday, June 3rd, 5th and 9Th;
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
September 18th, 18th and 10Th; Wed
nesday, Friday and Saturday, Decem-
Der 18th, 18th and 18th. The Vigils
are: The Vigil of Pentecost, May
30th; that of the Assumption, August
14th; that of All Saints, October 31st;
and that of Christmas, December oath.
All Fridays are, of course, days of
abstinence The abstinence which
formerly was obligatory on Saturdays