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Show REGULATIONS FOR EASTER . - Here Arc the Rules That Bishop Scanlan Will Give Out. t The Lenten season is drawing near. Ash Wednesday comes on February 25th and the forty days of Lent .brings Easter Eas-ter Sunday on 'April 5th. - The Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan, when seen today, said that the regulations for the Roman Catholics of R. C. diocese of Salt Lake City during this period would be as follows: ' During1 the approaching Lent by special spe-cial indult of the holy father the following follow-ing regulations will be observed In the diocese: Flesh meats may be used at all the meals on Sunday and once each day at the principal meal on the following days: On all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; Thurs-days; on all Saturdays, except Saturday of ember week and holy Saturday. Flesh and fish are not allowed at the same meal. Custom, tolerated by the church, permits per-mits coffee, tea or chocolate, with a small piece of bread, to be taken in the morning. Custom allows the use of eggs, butter, milk, etc., at the eenlng collation. colla-tion. The following persons are not obliged to fast, viz.: The sick and those in feeble health, women nursing children, all who are engaged in laborious and exhaustive occupations, the young who have not completed their twenty-flrst year, and those who have reached the .sixtieth year of their age. Those who are excused1 from fasting on account of their age or hard labor may use flesh meat more than once on the days On which It Is allowed. All who are exempt from the law of fastj lng should endeavor to perform-during Lent some other acts of piety and charity. char-ity. By an Indult of the 13th of March. 1895, the holy see has given for ten ;ears to the bishops of the United States the faculty of dispensing in favor of working work-ing people from the law of abstinence on certain days. By virtue of this indult in-dult and' dispensation of Lent working people are permitted to use fish meat once a day on all fast and abstinence days of the year except Fridays, Ash Wednesday, Wednesday and Saturday in holy week and the vigil of Christmas. The above dispensation Is granted, not only to working men and women but also to their entire families. All persons so dispensed are advised to perform per-form some other work of penance or self-denial. |