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Show 14- 4. 4.4- SIIWW53 f'QK LEUT : : For the Diocese of Salt Lake. : ' : T EY OUR RT. REV. BISHOP. T ' 4 f rtf f 4 4 The following are the Lenten Regulations for the Diocese of Salt Lake for j the year 1900: j Ash Wednesday, the first day of Le nt, falls this year on the 28th of February. Febru-ary. j 1. All the days of Lent except Sunday are fast days of obligation, j 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 in-j in-j jury to their health, 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 is permitted 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 ha3 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 all 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. ' 12. The use of butter, cheese, milk and eggs ia permitted every day la Lent. 13. By virtue of an iinTult granted by the Holy See March 15, 1S95, 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 Christmas. 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 mentioned, namely, Fridays. Ash Wednesdays, the Wednesday and Saturday of Holy Week and the Vigil of Christmas. Tfhose who avail themselves them-selves of this Indult are not permitted to use flesh meat and fish at the same meal, and are earnestly exhorted to perform some other act of mortification, euch as abstinence from intoxicating liquors. 14. The Paschal 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 Conrmunion worthily. 15. To afford the faithful opportunities of gaining the graces of the Lenten season, it Is hereby ordered that in addition to the usual Sunday devotions, Lenten exercises be held on two evenings of each week in all the churches of the Diocese, 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, and permission per-mission is hereby given for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament on both evenings. I 16. The faithful are reminded that besides the obligation of fasting im- j posed by the Church, the season of Lent should be in a very special manner a time of earnest prayer, of sorrow for sin, of abestension from amusements, which, not sinful in themselves, are permitted during other portions of the year, and of generous alms giving to the poor. 17. To comply with the Decree of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, a collection will be taken up on the first Sunday of Lent at all the Masses and at Vespers for our Holy Fathjr, the Pope. L. SCANLAN, Bishop of Salt Lake. |