The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-17
LENTEN REGULATIONS OF THE
ARCHDIOCESE OF ST. PAUL,
FOR THE YEAR 1917.

In this year of grace, 1917, Ash
"Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will
be the 21st day of February.
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty of
grievous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
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,
however, authorizing the taking in the
morning of a cup of coffee, tea or
chocolate, with 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
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 3rd)
and the Saturday of Holy Week
(April 7th).
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, hawever, is per-
mitted at all times in the preparation
of food.
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taken at the same meal, even on Sun
days.
Persons legitimately excused Or
dispensed 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
twenty-one years or over the age of
sixty; the infirm 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 re-
past a 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 remains
against using flesh meat and fish a
the same meal.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue o
the Indult, uses meat, all the member
of the household may likewise use it
The Church does not wish to impos
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 us
of meat only at their principal repas