Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-03-07
Regulations For Leaf.
Archdiocese Of Baltimore.
Chancery Office.
4O3 North Charles Street.

Chancery Ofnce,
403 North Charles Street.
Baltimore. Md. Feb. 20, $780,
Ash Wednesday. the first day Of Lent.
falls on March S. ~
1--All the faithful who have completed
their twenty-first year and have not yet
begun their sixtieth year. are bound to
observe the fast Of Lent a
2-They are to take only one full meal
day. except on Sundays.
3-They may take in the morning some
warm liquids as ten. coffee, thin chocolate.
made with water. and with this liquid
about two ounces of bread.
A slight refreshment. commonly called
collation.. is permitted in the evening.
S-Those for whom the hour of noon
may be an inconvenient time for dinner
may invert the order of their meals and
take their collation. in the morning and
their dinner in the evening.
6-By virtue of an Indult to the United
States. the Wednesdays (instead of Satur-
days. and the Fridays Of Lent are days
not only of fasting. but also Of abstinence.
The same rule applies to the second Satur-
day Of Lent and to the forenoon of Holy
Saturday.
THE use of flesh meat is permitted
at all meals on Sundays. and only at the
full meal on Mondays. Tuesdays. Thurs
days and Saturdays Except the second
Saturday of Lent and the forenoon Of Holy
Saturday,
6-The Lenten fast and abstinence ends
at noon on Holy Saturday.
9-The following persons are exempt
from the obligation of fasting: Those who
are less than Fl or more than SO years
old; those who are sick and convalescent;
all those whose health or daily duties
would be seriously compromised by fast
ing; nursing women all those whose &C.
equations are of very laborious and ex-
hausting nature all those who have been
dispensed by ecclesiastical authority.
1O-Persons exempt from the obligation
of fasting are free to take meat more than
once, on days on which meat is allowed
only at the full meal to those who fast.
lit is no LONGER for hidden to eat flesh
meat and fish at the same meal during
Lent.
12-The use of butter. milk and eggs is
permitted every day of Lent so also the
use of hogs lard or drippings. for season.
ing instead of butter.
l3-By virtue of an Indult granted to us
by the Holy See we permit to all working
men and their families the use of flesh
meat once day on all fast and abstinence
days throughout the year. with the excep-
ton of Fridays. Ash Wednesday, the FORE
noon of Holy Saturday and the Vigil of
Christmas. Those who are exempt from
the obligation of fasting are free to take
meat more than once on the days mem
toned. Men serving in the Army or Navy
are allowed meat on all days of the year
except the Vigil of Christmas. Ash Wednes-
day. Good Friday and the forenoon of
Holy Saturday.
1.-THE faithful are reminded that be-
sides the obligation of fasting imposed by
the Church. the Holy Season of Lent should
be in an especial manner a time Of earnest
prayer. of sorrow for sins, of seclusion from
the world and its amusements, and of GEN.
erols almsgivines. 1t is also a very proper
time for the children to make their first
confession. which they ought to do eener
ally at about the age of seven years
Parents should see to this.
15-The Paschal time extends in this
Diocese from the first Sunday Of Lent
until Trinity Sunday. during which time
all Catholics who have attained the proper
age are bound to receive worthily Holy
Communion.
BY order Of His Grace. the Most Reverend
Archbishop.
- WILLIAM E. MACKESSY,
ChancelIor