The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-03
REGULATIONS FOR LENTEN
 ARE GIVEN OUT
The Season Begins We'd nesday and Will Be in Force Until Holy Sat-
 urday, April 18th.

urday, April 19th.
 The following regulations for Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday. March 5th., and ends Holy Satur- day, April 18th, are self explanatory:
 General Law
 i All the faithful, who have com pleted their twenty-first year and have not yet begun their sixtieth year, are, unless legitimately dispens- ed, obliged to observe all the days of Lent Sundays excepted) as fasting days On Holy Saturday, however. fast and abstinence cease at noon. | 1.-The law of fasting ordains that only one full meal day be taken; but does not forbid a small portion of food in the morning and evening A scollation or light lunch, not to ex- ceed the fourth part of an ordinary full meal is permitted in the evening; and in the morning a small piece Of bread with cup of tea, coffee, cho- colate or something similar. The | full meal may be taken in the even ing, and the lunch earlier in the day On days on which meat is allowed one may partake of both fish and meat at the same meal
 III-The law of abstinence binds all who have completed their sev- cnth year of age. It forbids the use of flesh meat, and meat broth or soup, but not eggs, milk cheese and butter, nor any seasoning of food, even that made from the fat of ani- mals.
 IV.-The following are exempted from both fasting and abstinence, viz the sick, the convalescent, and wo- men bearing or nursing children
 v.-The following are exempted from fasting, though they may still he subject to the law of abstinence viz: persons enfeebled, those of delicate constitution, the very poor those engaged in hard work, those unable to procure a sufficiency of food at the principal meal, and all who by fasting could not properly dis charge their duties.
 Dispensatlons
 By the authority of the Holy See [ nd as a privilege, the following dis nensations are granted to the faith | ful in Alaska, for this year: | Ion Sundays in Lent, flesh meat Ii, allowed to all at every meal. On weekdays, abstinence is confined to Wednesdays and Fridays; so that cn the other days (excepting Ember | Saturday and the forenoon of Holy l Saturday., meat is allowed (a) once day, viz: at the principal meal, to hose who fast; (b) more than once Q day to those who are exempted from fasting.
 H.-Laboring men, and all whom | laborious work places in similar condition, together with their entire families, are dispensed from absti- renee throughout the year, except on Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Holy Sat urday forenoon, and the vigil of Christmas.
 uI.-United States soldiers and sail CTS are allowed to cat meat every fay in the year, with the exception lef Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday before noon, and the yigils of the Assumption and Christ l mas.
 Recommendation On account of serious reasons ex- emptions from rigid fast and absti- hence are granted by Holy Church; but from the obligation of penance and self denial there is no exemption. These virtues should prompt every Catholic to abstain during Lent from rublic amusements, whether they be he theatre, social functions, or any of the manifold inventions of the modern passion for pleasure.
 All should endeavor to sancify this holy season by works of Christian charity and zeal, by assistance at daily mass, attendance at the weekly Fenten devotions, frequent commun- ion, and the recitation of the rosary,
 During the month of March. the authorized prayer to St. Joseph shall Ne recited either after mass or al Denediction.
 The time for fulfilling the Easter Drecept of Holy Communion, in Al aska, extends from Ash Wednesday Trinity Sunday inclusive. Given at Juneau, on the feast of St. Peters Chair at Rome, January IS, 1919.
 IASEPH R CRIMONT S l.