...eal,) is allowed in the evening. All who have reached the age of 21 are required to observe the fasting days, unless they are excused for sufficient cause.--In several of the Diocese throughout the United States , these general rules are modified, more or less, by the rules for Lent, promulgated by ecclesiastical authority. The days of abstinence are all Fridays in the year; all Saturdays except those which...