The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-13

be the 18th day of February.
All the faithful, unless le9imatel,
excused or dispensed, are bound t.
conscience, under the penalty of griev
Gus sin, to observe the Lenten regu
lations,
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. il
the evening not exceeding the fourth
part of an ordinary meal-custom
however, authorizing the taking in
the morning of a cup of coffee, tea OF
chocolate, with q small piece oil
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 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 fish meat is allowed at
all meals on Sundays, and at the
principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember Week (Fcb. 27th)
and the Saturday of Holy Week
(April 3rd)
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Satur-
day of Ember Week and the Saturday
of Holy Week; on the other days
outside of Sundays, it is forbidden at
all repasts, except the one meal, or
principal repast.
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 ameal even on
Sundays.
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensLd from the precept of fasting
may use flesh meat at all meals on
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
excused: Those under the age of
twenty-one years or over the age OF
sixty; the infrm and the GONZALES.
cent; women bearing or nursing chill
dren; those engaged in hard labor or
other duties exhaustive of physical
strength; those who from poverty are
unable to procure for the principal
rcpast sufficiency of nutritive food
From the preCept of abstinence
from flesh meats 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 "Working
People"
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by q
recent Pontifical Indult, permission is
granted the working people to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
the Wednesday and Saturday of Holy
Week
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in the
day.
The usual prohibition remain:
against using flesh meat and fish a
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 the principal repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al
who may make use of the privilege
of the Indult to be still mindful 0
their duty to practice self-denial, ant
he counsels that instead of the absti
nence from meat some other sacrific
of bodily comfort be practIced, th
Sovereign Pontiff himself suggestin
as much sacrifice abstinence fror
Intoxicating drinks.
Days of Fast and Abstinence outsd
the Lenten Season.
Other days of fast and abstinenc
occurring during the year are tn
Ember days and the Vigils of certai
festivals. The Ember days are
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Eel
oath, 26th and 9th; Wednesday, FIR
day and Saturday, May 26th, 2Sth an
29th; Wednesday, Friday and Satu
day. September 18th, 18th and 18th
Wednesday, Friday and Saturda.
December 18th, 18th and 18th. Th
Vigils are: The Vigils of Pentecos
May 22nd; that of the Assumption
August 14th; that of All Saint
October 31st; and that of Christina
December oath.