The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-02-16

.lenten Regulations
For the Year Of 191 81
Archbishop ireland Proclaims Fast
and Abstinence Days Of the Holy
season-Working People Are Ex-
empt-AiI Practical Catholics to OBJ
serve Rules Of Self-Denial-Those
Under Fl Years and Those Entering
Sixtieth Year Not Included in Pre-
cepts.
In this year of grace, 1918, Ash
Wednesday, 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
grievous sin, to observe the Lenten
regulations.
sf 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 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-
versed, the meal or principal repast
being taken in the evening, and the
collation. at an earlier hour.
Tho 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 30).
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 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 or
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 er
cused: Those under the age of TWEEN
ty-one years or entering their sixtiett
year; the infirm and the convalescent
women bearing or nursing children
those engaged in hard labor or othel
duties exhaustive of physical strength
those who from poverty are unable t.
procure for the principal repast {
suficiency of nutritive food.
From the precept of abstinence
from flesh meats are excused: Thu
young under the age of seven years
the sick; those who are so situated al
not to be able to procure for them
selves abstinence food.
Both the law of fast and that o
abstinence cease Holy Saturday at 1:
o'clock midday.
Special Exemption for "Working
People,"
In virtue of the authority conceded
to Bishops in the United States by
recent Pontifical Indult, permission i
granted the working people" to u.s.
meat on all days of Lent, with tn
exception of Fridays, Ash Wednesday
the Wednesday and Saturday of Hol,
Week.
This dispensation from abstinence
extends to all three repasts in tn
day.
When the wage-earner, IN virtue
the Indult. uses meat, all the mem
bers of the household may likewis
use it. The Church does not wish t.
impose upon the household the ir
convenience of double cooking. Blu
in cases of this kind, those member
of the household who may be boun
by the precept of fasting are allowe'
the use of meat only at their principa
repast.
The Sovereign Pontiff exhorts al
who may make use Of the privilege
of the .Indult to be still mindful o
their duty to practice self-denial, an
he counsels that instead of the at
stinence from meat some other sacr
fee Of bodily comfort be practicet
the Sovereign Postiff himself suggest
ing as such sacrifice abstinence froI
infovioofinr drinka