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tion, Remember, man, that dust thow art, and into-dust thow
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shalt return,* to remind them of their mortality, and prepare
them for the holy fast of Lent; the ashes are made of the palms
blessed the Palm Sunday before. - Ash-Wednesday is the first
1 dayofLent. " . .~ a
: | Lent.—Many reasons have induced the Churclr to conse-
| erate by a more rigorous penance, by fasting and by abstinence’
| the forty days that compose the holy time of Lent. Ist. She
wishes by this sample to instruct her children in the obligation
they are under of doing penance during their whole Tife, of
' which, as the Holy I’athers observe, Lent is a figure. 2d. She
| obliges them to pray and to consecrate to God the Tithe of
. their whole life, by sanctifying these forty days, which are
» about the tenth part of the year. 3d. She causes us to do for
Jesus Christ something of what Jesus Christ was pleased to do
for us, when he spent forty days and forty nights in tho desert
without cating or drinking. 4th. It is upon this model, the,
figure of which had been given in the fast of Moses and Elias,
she has deemed it proper to determine and regulate the obliga-
tion which Jesus Christ imposed upon his disciples to fast, after
he should have withdrawn himsclf from them by his death and
by his ascension. ee Be
In short, she wishes to sanctify us for the Feast of Easter ;
and she prepares us to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ +}
py making us partake in some degree of his sufferings, through =
which it was necessary he should pass, to arrive at his glory. *\,
; ‘All those who have completed one and twenty years, are’
obliged to abstain from flesh-meat and to fast. ‘The sick, women
with child, those who give suck, and those under infirmities,
those advanced in years, or whom painful or laborious oc-
cupation will not permit to fast without greatly prejudicing
their health, are dispensed from the fast.» ¢ .
Far greater reasons are required to he dispensed from absti- ,
nence from flesh-meat ; and the Church obliges those who think
to stand in need of this dispensation, to address themselves to
their parish priest, who even cannot grant it but for lawful rea- :
ons, and with just precautions, Every little headache, want: :
of sleep, or other transitory and inconsiderable indisposition;, '
fe not sufficient reasons to obtain a dispensation from the:
tthstinence or fast; since the fast is ordained with. a view: to: wid
incommode, that is to say, to chastise, to macerate, and to sub-. .
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‘wo allowed on just grounds the uso of flesh-meat during Lent, ~~ |
should substitute an alms or some other good work for what is :
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