The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-03-04
LENTEN REGULATIONS OF THE
ARCHDIOCESE OF ST. PAUL FOR
THE YEAR 1916.

THE YEAR 1916.
In this year of grace, 1916, Ash Wed
nesday, the first day of Lent, will be
the Sth day of March.
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 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 or
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 the meal or principal repast
cannot be taken without serious in
convenience 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 col
lation at an earlier hour.
The Lenten Abstinence.
The nse of flesh meat is allowed at
oil Ic nd OF DYin
cipal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except the
Saturday of Ember Week March 18)
and the Saturday of Holy Week (April
22).
The use of flesh meat is forbidden
on Wednesdays, Fridays, the Saturday
Of Ember Week and the Saturday of
Holy Week; on the other days, out
side of Sundays, it is forbidden at all
repasts, except the one meal, or prin-
cipal 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 meal, even on Sun
DAYS j
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 twen-
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 suf-
ticiency 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 a
recent Pontifical Indult, permission is
granted the working people" to use
meat on all days of Lent, with the eX.
ception 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 remains
against using flesh meat and fish at
the same meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue oil
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 house
hold who may be bound by the precept
of fasting are allowed the use of meat
only at their principal repast.