Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-11
OFFICIAL RULES
FOR LENTEN FAST
Orders From Cardinal Gibbons Re-
tain Wednesday Abstinence
URGES CONSERVATION OF FOOD
Novena 10 Honor Of Our Lady of
Lourdes Ends Today Distribution
OF Ashes Next Wednesday.


IN the official regulations for the
observance Of Lent, issued yesterday
by Cardinal Gibbons, Wednesday is
retained as a day of fasting and alb
stinence, and the recent publication
OF the report that the Pope had made
Saturday the day of fast and absti-
nence instead of Wednesday are not
borne out
Flesh meat and fish are allowed at
the same meal, however, as was stat
ed in connection with the news from
Rome Of the changes. For the first
time the Cardinal states in the Lenten
rules that modification regarding
food not only will be a spiritual sacri-
fee, but also will be cooperation
with the government in the conser-
yatiOn of foods that are now so bad
~ needed to win the war
In the Baltimore Catholic Review
the editor published statement
showing the Lenten fasts and absti-
nences. The statement says:
The general laws of the church in
regard to fasting and abstinence have
been modified and changed Hence
forth the use Of fish and flesh meat
may be had on days on which meat
is allowed by general law or particu-
lar indult
A day of fasting is not to be also
a day of abstinence, except Ash We'd
nesday, the three days of the Ember
Weeks, the ewes of Pentecost, As
sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
All Saints Day and Christmas On
these days and ewes meat is not al
lowed and the taking of only one full
meal is permitted.
Owing to an indult which has OF
recent years been granted to the
United States, and which indult has
not been abrogated, Wednesdays and
Fridays during Lent are to be observ-
ed as heretofore Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays of Lent are
to be merely days of fasting, with the
exception of the Ember Saturday On
Holy Saturday the fast ceases at
noon
All Fridays outside of Lent are days
of abstinence simply. There is to be
no fast or abstinence on Sundays and
holidays of obligation which may fall
on Friday. And if the ewes of festi-
walls on which fasting and abstinence
would be of obligation fall on Sun
day the obligation of fasting and alb
stinence lapses altogether for that
year,
The officials regulations as issued
by the Cardinal are, in part, as-fol-
lows:
All the faithful who have complet-
ed their twenty-flrst year, unless ex-
empt by dispensation or some other
legitimate cause, are bound 10 OBJ
serve the fast of Lent
The following persons are exempt
from obligations of fasting: Per-
sons under q years of age. the sick.
nursing women, those who are oblig-
ed to do hard labor, and those who,
through weakness, cannot fast with
out great prejudice to their health
BY virtue of an indult to the United
States the following special dispensa-
tions are granted:
The Wednesdays and Fridays OF
Lent are days OF fasting and absti-
ncnce. The use OF flesh meat is per-
mitted at meals on Sundays and once
day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays. with the eXcep-
ton of the second and least Satur-
days of Lent. Flesh meat and fish
may be used at the same meal dur
ing Lent
The use of butter, cheese, milk and
eggs is also permitted every day in
Lent
BY virtue of an indult granted to
us by the Holy See March Is. 1895.
and renewed until March 10, 1925. we
permit to all workingmen and their
families the use of flesh meat once a
day on all fast days of Holy Week
and the eve of the year, with the eS-
ception of Fridays. Ash Wednesday,
the Wednesday and Saturday Of Holy
Week and the even Of Christmas.
Those who are exempt from the OBJ
legation of fasting are free to take
meat more than once on the days
mentioned.