REGULATIONS FOR LENT
Every day during Lent, from Ash Wednesdav included, to Holr Satnrdav also included, is à day of fast, the Sundays only being excepted.
2° A Wednesdavs and Fridavs of Lent, and also Safurday in the-Emihcer week, Holr Thurs dav and Iols $ Saturday L
arc days of abstinence. nm
3° There is dispensation of abstinence all the other days of Lent, but it is allowed to cat meat at one meal only, cach dav. ‘
. © 4° It i< forbidden to eat meat and fish, at the same meal Der ; . “even on Sundavs, durine Lent.
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3° By an {ndult of the 2nd of March 1873, it is allowed: 1) To use the grease of any animal whatever, for the preparation and cooking of other food on days of abstinenee. Thereforce it is allowed to sabstitute to butter or oil, tallow of beef, mutton, or other animal, or even lard for frying purposes of the preparation of pastries, on abstinence days. Yet it would not be permitted to have meat-soup, on these days. 2) Jt'is also allowed to take, on the morning of fast days, —— about ? ounces of food, anl à eup of coffee, tea or ather bevcerage. At the evening meal, called collation, it would be per- . mitted to take of the meat-soup left over from the mid-dav aueal. As to quantity of food, the onlv practical rule is tu take less than if it were not fast day.
6° The use of milk, butter, cheese, eggs, which was for- 4 bidden for à long time, is now permitted, during all the “season of Lent.
T° A persons enjoving good health and having reached the full age of twentv-one vears, are obliged to observe the law of fasting, during all Lent. Bnt many people have Jegitimate reasons to be dispensed with this obligation.
8° Are exempt from the law of fast, during Lent, as also ou other fast days of the yéar:
1) Persons who have not reached the full age of twentyone Years. Oo
2) Women with child or nourishing, all siek, sickly, or convalescent persons.
3) Persons having reached the age of sixty years.
4) Persons having to do heavy work or hard journeys.
5) Finallv all those who, when fasting, could not perform the work or obligations of tlicir offices. In ease of
doubt,-consult your confessors, and if exempted, make évmipensation by. giving some alms, or practisine some mortification. It would be convenient to set in the church, an almbox for the purpose of receiving the ofierings of Lenten cree
° By the decision of the Sacred Penitentiars (16 Jan. 1832), those who are dispensed for anx reason, with the law of fasting, can cat meat at every mecal.
The discipline of the Church, concerning Lent ani fa, has been much mitigated, christians nev ertheles ss onglht
to be exhorted not to be Id by motives of caprice anl Exagerated delicacy to seek for exemptions.
TEL. — QUÊTÉS COMMANDÉES. Par le Souverain Pontife. 1) En la fête de l'Epipha-
nie, 6 janvier, quête pour l'OEuvre anti-esclavagiste. 2) Le Tendi- Saint, quête pour le Saint- Sépulcre et les Saints Licux.
° Par VEvêque. 1) Le dimanche de Pâques, ou, “si on le réfère, le 3e dimanche après Paques quête pour le Séminaire diocésain. 2) Le dimanche de la Pentecûte, quête pour les écoles du Nord-Ouest.
3° Ces quêtes doivent être faites à‘tous es offices pu-
blies de la journée où on A Phabitude de faire une quête.
4° 1 faut être fidèle à envoyer an plus tôt, à l'évêché, le montant total de ces quêtes, sans en préler er le montant les quêtes ordinaires. (est une question de jnatice.
