The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-09
FAST AND ABSTINENCE REGULA-
TloNS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF
ST. PAUL FOR THE YEAR 1918.

'iONo OF ! HE ARCHDlOCESE OF
ST. PAUL FOR THE YEAR 1918.
In this year of grace, 1918, Ash Wed
nesday, the first day of Lent, will be
the 18th day of February
All the faithful, unless legitimately
excused or dispensed, are bound in
conscience, under the penalty OF
grleVous 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 a collation. in
the evening not exceeding the fourth
pal of an ordinary meal-custom,
however, authorizing the taking in the
morning of a 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
The order of repasts may be re-
Nerscd, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour
The Lenten Abstinence.
The law of abstinence forbids the
partaking of flesh meat or broth made
from flesh meat; it does not forbid
the use of eggs, or products of such,
or condiments made from the fat of
animals.
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 February
23) and the Saturday of Holy Week
March 800.
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, out
side of Sundays, it is forbidden at all
repasts, 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 may be
taken at the same meal
Persons legitimately excused or dis
pensed from the precept of fasting may
use flesh meat at all meals on what
ever day there is a general permis-
sion to use it at the principal repast
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 entering their siXtieth
year; the inf1rm 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 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.
Both the law of fast and that of
abstinence cease Holy Saturday at
twelve o'clock midday.
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
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednes-
>dar, the Wednesday and Saturday Of
Holy Week
This dispensation from abstinence
cStonds to all three repasts in the day.
Where the wage-earner, in virtue of
tho Indult, uses meat, all the mem
bcr3 of the household may likewise
use it. The Church does not wish to
impose upon the household the incon-
venience 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
repGst.