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Show Lenten Regulations. L All the faithful, who have completed com-pleted their tvventy-tirl year, are, unless un-less legitimately dispensed, bound to observe the fast of Lent. 2. All days of Lent. Sundays excepted, ex-cepted, are fast clays of obligation, cn which only one full meal is pet milted. 3. By dispensation flesh meat is allowed al-lowed at the principal meal on all days of Lent, except Wednesdays. Fridays, Fri-days, the Ember Saturday (February 22nd) and Holy Saturday (March 2Pth.) 4. The use of fish with flesh meat is forbidden at the same meal, even on Sundays in Lent. 5. Custom sanctions the taking of a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate in the morning: and in the evening a collation colla-tion which should not exceed the fourth part of an ordinary meal. At this collation meat only is forbidden, the use of butter, cheese, milk and eggs being allowed in virtue of a special spe-cial indult of the Holy See. fi. The use of lurcj and drippings is permitted in the preparation of abstinence ab-stinence food. . When the principal meal cannot be taken at midday, it may be taken in the evening, and the collation in the morning. ' ' S. All persons under twenty-one years, or over sixty years of age, those who are engaged in hard labor, the sick and convalescent, and tho,se who cannot fast without injury to their health, arc exempt from the obligation ob-ligation of fasting. Those who have any reasonable doubt, as to thtV obligation ob-ligation to fast or abstain, should con- suit their confessor. 0.. Those who are not bound to fast may use- flesh and meat more than once each day on which its use is permitted. per-mitted. 1U. Th time for fulfilling the precept pre-cept of Faster Communion extends, in Ibis diocese, from the first Sunday Sun-day in Lent to Trinity Sunday. 11. The reverend rectors are rc-Ouosted rc-Ouosted to have special Lenten devotions devo-tions in their churches. 12. In virtue of powers granted us by the Holy See. on VMaroh Ki. ISOfi. j for ten years, we permit workingmen and their families the use of flesh meat once a day op all the fast and abstinence clays throughout the year, with the exception of all Fridays. Ash Wednesdays, the Wednesday and Saturday Sat-urday of Holy Week and the eve of Christmas. Those who avail them-selve-s of this dispensation are not allowed al-lowed to eat fish and flesh at the same meal, and they are exhorted " to perform per-form some other act of mortification, such as abstaining from all intoxicating intoxicat-ing beverages. I (liven in Denver on the Feast of the Purification, February 2, 1002. N. C. MATZ, Bishop of Denver. |