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Show LENTEN REGULATIONS, DIOCESE OF SALT LAKE Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent this year, falls on the fourth day of March. I. All the days of Lent, except Sundays, are Fast Days of obligation. 2. All persons under twenty-one years or ovor sixty vears of age, those who are engaged in hard labor, sick and convalescent, and those who cannot fast without injury to their health, are exempt from the obligation of fasting. 3. All bound to keep the fast shall make but one full meal a day, except on Sundays. 4. The meal permitted on Fast Days should be taken about noon. . o. A collation is permitted in the evening. (5. 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, 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 all meals on Sundays and once a day-at day-at the principal meals on Mondays, 'Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with the exception of Ember Saturday, the last Saturday in Lent. 10. Persons exempt from the obligation of fasting fast-ing may partake of flesh at all meals on days when the use of meat is permitted at the principal meal. II. Flesh meat and fish are not to be used at. ythe same time during lent, even on Sundays. J2. The use of butter, cheese, milk and eggs is permitted every day in Lent. 13. By virtue of an Indult granted by the Holy See, March 15, 1895, workingmen and their families are allowed the use of flesh meat once a day on all the fast and abstinence days throughout the year, iTt. 'he exception of all Fridays, Ash -Wednesday, rt'ednesday: and" Saturday of Holy Week-,"ahd " the vigil of Christmas. Those who are exempt from the obligation of fasting are permitted to use meat more than once a day on all days except those before be-fore mentioned, namely: Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the' Wednesday and Saturday of Holy Week, and the vigil of Christmas. Those who avail themselves of this Indult are not permitted to use flesh meat and fish at the same meal, and are earnestly exhorted exhort-ed to perform some other act of mortification, such as abstinence from intoxicating liquors. 14. The Paschal time extends from the first Sunday of Lent until Trinity Sunday, inclusive, during which time all Catholics who have attained the proper age, are bound to receive Holy Communion Com-munion worthily. 15. To afford the faithful opportunities of gaining the graces of the Lenten season, it is here-bv here-bv ordered that in addition to the usual Sunday devotions, de-votions, Lenten exercises be held on two evenings of each week in all the churches of the Diocese Dio-cese to which are attached resident pastors. On one of the evenings an instruction is to be given: on the other, the Stations of the Cross. Permission is hereby given for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment on both evenings. On Good Friday the Devotion De-votion of the Way of the Cross shall be given twice in all parish churches, once during the afternoon and then again in the evening. The afternoon service is for the children, though grown people, especially the old, and those who cannot attend in. the evenings, should not be excluded from it. AsHhe service in the afternoon is for the children, chil-dren, it should not begin before 3:30 p. m., thus giving them time to reach the church after the closing clos-ing of the schools. ' The exercises on Good Friday afternoon shall consist of the Stations of the Cross, with the singing sing-ing in English of a verse of the Stabat Mater between be-tween each station ; a short sermon on the Passion and Death of our Lord, and the reading of the prayers to the Five Wounds. I strongly recommend all who have pastoral charge of souls that wherever it is possible, the children be brought to their respective re-spective parish churches on every Friday afternoon during the Lenten season for the Devotion of the Wav of the Cross, and a short sermon relating to the Passion of Our Lord. Wherever this is done permission is given to have Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at the afternoon service as well as at the evening service, with the exception, of course, of Good Friday. 16. The faithful are reminded that besides the obligations of fasting imposed by the Church, the season of Lent should be in a very special manner a time for earnest prayer, of sorrow for sin, of abstention ab-stention from amusements, which, not sinful in themselves, are permitted during other portions of the year, and of generous almsgiving to the poor. L. L. Scanlan, Bishop of Salt Lake. |