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Show X iLITOiS FOR LEIMT i : For th. Diocese of Salt Lake. J : . .- '- BY OUR. RT. REV. BISHOt. ff H- 4-"f The following are the Lenten Regulations for the Diocese of Salt Lake for the year 1900: Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, falls this year on the 2Sth of February. Febru-ary. 1. All the days of Lent except Sunday are fast days of obligation. 2. All persons under 21 years or over 60 years of age, those who are engaged In hard labor, the sick and convalescent and those who cannot fast without injury in-jury to their heilth, are exempt from the obligation of fasting. 3. All bound to keep the fast shall take but one meal a day except on Sundays. Sun-days. 4. The meal permitted on fast days should be taken about noon. 5. A collation isipermitted in the evening. 6. When the principal meal cannot conveniently be taken about noon, the order may be inverted so that the collation may be taken about noon and the dinner in the evening. - 7. General usage has made it lawful to take in the morning a cup of coffee, cof-fee, tea or chocolate with a small piece of bread. 8. Necessity and custom have authorized the use of lard instead of butter in the preparation of all permitted foods. 9. By dispensation the use of flesh meats Is permitted at a'.l meals on Sundays and once a day at the principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays Thurs-days and Saturdays, with the exception of Ember Saturday and the last Saturday Sat-urday of Lent. 10. Persons exempt from the obligation of fasting may partake of flesh meat at all meals on days when the use of meat is permitted at the principal meal. 11. Flesh meat and fish are not to be used at the same meal during Lent, even on Sundays. xue use ol uuuer, cueese, miiK ana eggs is permutea every aay m Lent. 13. By virtue of an indult granted by the Holy See March 15, 1895, working-men working-men and their families are allowed the use of flesh meat once a day on all the fast and abstinence days throughout the year, with the exception of all Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday and "Saturday of Holy Week and the Vigil of Cl.ristmas. Those who are exempt from the obligation of fasting fast-ing are permitted to use meat more than once a day on all days except those before mentionjd, namely, Fridays, Ash Wednesdays, the Wednesday and Saturday of IDly Week and the Vigil of Christixas. Those who avail themselves them-selves of this Indult are not permitted to use flesh meat and fish at the same meal, and are arnestly exhorted to perform some other act of mortification, such as abstinence from intoxicating liquors. 1 14. The Pa&:hal time extends from the first Sunday in Lent until Trinity Sunday, inclusive, during which time all Catholics", who have attained the proper age are bound to receive Holy Communion :worthily. 15. To afforl the faithful opportunities of gaining the graces of the Lenten season, it is hereby ordered that in addition to thej usual Sunday devotions, Lenten exereips be held on two evenings of each) week in all the churches of the Diocese, to which are attached resident pastojs. On one of the evenings an instruction s to be given, on the other the Stations of the Cross, and permission per-mission is heeby given for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on both evenings. ( 1 1(5. Thd fsiflflll QVO l-ftmin.n V,o iV- -t-l,.i. ....... .... -.. ... ucoiuca Luc oojigaiion ot lasting im posed by the Church, the season of Lent should be jn a very special manner a time of earnest prayer, of sorrow for sin, of abestension from amusements, which, not sinfil in themselves, are permitted during I other portions of the year, and of gmerous alms giving to the poor. 1 17. To comtly with the Decree of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, a collection wll be taken up on the first Sunday of Lent at all the Masses and at Vespers for our Holy Father, the Pope. L. SCANLAN. Bishop of Salt Lake. j IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. In the last issue of The Intermountain reference was made to the universality uni-versality of be5ef- in a Supreme Being. It is coeval and coextensive with the history of the'human race. This belief is not the distinctive character of any one county, or people; but of all countries and the entire human race. Those who sejarated themselves from the synagogue had their false gods; but their fallacious beliefs in God, so different from what He is, furnish a strong argumrnt in favor of, rather than against the existenca of a Supreme Being. Theinerror was regarding the essence and not of the existence- of Uod. Belief in His existence can, does, and has always coexisted with false - conceptions .'f what He is in reality "No one denies," wrote Cicero, "that God is." Deum esse nemo negat. J An absdute denial is incompatible with reason. At best modern unbelief . can only siy nescio I know not which means agnosticism. But this form of unbelief does not satisfy the cravings of the soul. In the hey day of life very possiby I; does, but as the years roll by, and that natural phenomenon eallud dentl is seen stalking in the near future, the soul not unfrequently .becomes restless, and the thoughts are disturbed. Here arother truth presents itself, and that is where is the feoul located, and how do W know itus immortal? This is of equal Importance to that which proclaims the existence of God, since it presents to the intellect the mysterious future in which man may be forever happy or unhappy. Where is th soul located? has been frequently asked. Like heat, emi-natihg emi-natihg frorc a glowing fire, cannot be assigned to any particular spot in the fire, neither Car. the SOU' be ronflnpd to nnv -nartloiilnr mrl- nf tha Knrlt. Where theiv arc- any signs of vital activity in the body, there is the soul in a.ll its completeiess. All matter, the world, the animal and vegetable kingdom, are circumscribed circum-scribed by space The soul, which is a spirit, is no way affected by space. It permeates the eitire body, which it enlivens according to its special functions. func-tions. Its immortality is engraven on the soul itself. Like the idea of a Supreme Bedng, .t is one that has the consecration of universal in&tinct and usage, professed by most superior minds, as well as by the most barbarous . nations. This natural and universal instinct can be explained only on the ground that it has a corresponding and unaltered image of a reality in the soul itself. it-self. In nature, all things are perishable. Only the species and classes are perpetuated. Individuals pass away. Judging by observations and experience, experi-ence, death rules the universe. "We shall fade and vanish like the blade of grass." Yet, the idea of the immortality of the soul survives this knowledge. Why? Because the origin and pers'stency of anea so abnormal could not be otherwise than from an Immediate sentiment, and perception of its reality real-ity in the soul. Reason tells that it is not an illusion from -without; that it ia stamped on the -soul by God, and has its corresponding reality in the soul. It comes with the same guarantee as that of man's existence. Hence the conclusion. con-clusion. Man exists. Therefore, is immortal. Add to reason the many Scriptural proofs: "Let us make man to our image and likeness." This likeness must be spiritual, since God has no body. "Those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some with life everlasting, and others unto reproach to see it always." Dan. xil., 2. "Before the dust return into its earth from whence it was, and the spirit return to uoa, vv no gave it." ecci.xu., 5-6. The New Testament is still more emphatic in its teaching regarding the immortality, resurrection and future reward and punishment. "Fear ye not, them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul " Matt, x., 2. "There shall be a resurrection of the just and the unjust," Acts xxiv., 13. "He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit that dwelleth in you." Rom. viii.. 11. "It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment." Hebrews He-brews ix., 27. Viewing the soul in this light, religion is not a stern reprover of one's pleasures, a yoke difficult to carry, or a system with a severe code of morality moral-ity imposing rigorous laws of fasting and abstinence; but is a kind messenger mes-senger that carries man's good works in advance, keeping them in store until the hour when they shall become the measure of his immortal happiness. happi-ness. As man naturally seeks his own happiness, to make the future life one of unending happiness should be the work of life. To help in this important work, the Catholic Church Is now ready. She enlightens, directs and exhorts; and has set apart the season of Lent as a time to be devoted to the interests of the soul when all should make their peace with God. |