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 BIGHT REVEREND DOCTOR CONNOLLY, 
 
 BISHOP OF ST. JOHN, N. B., 
 
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 They say to hhn. Whv do the disciples of .Tohn fast often, and make 
 prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees ui like manner ; hut thine eat 
 and drink ? 
 
 And he Baid to them, Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast, 
 «-hil8t the bridegroom is with them ? 
 
 But the days \rill come, when the bridefo-«K»m shall l>c taken away from 
 them, then shall thev fast in those days.—LrKE v. 3,1—35. 
 
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PASTORAL ADDRESS 
 
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 BISHOP OF ST. JOHN, N. B. 
 
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 then shall they fast in those days.-LuKE v. 6i-6d. 
 
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 Thomas Lotjis, by the grace of God and the favour of the 
 Apostolic See, Bishop of Saint John, to his beloved Children 
 in Christ, health and benediction, Sfc, Sfc. 
 
 Among the many onerous duties of our wide-spread solicitude 
 there is one which has been consecrated by the immemorial usage 
 of the Church— and it is— the Pastoral Address of the Chief 
 Shepherd to his Flock at the approach of the yearly recurring 
 season of Lent, which is now at hand. It would have been our 
 duty, as it was our earnest wish, to avail ourselves of the opportunity 
 afforded last year ; but as we were yet comparatively strangers 
 among you ; as we were more or less unacquainted with yourselves, 
 your circumstances, your many spiritual wants ; as we had not yet 
 the happiness like the good Shepherd to know the flock ; to call 
 them by name; to make them hear our voice with effect and 
 advantage; we deemed it better to await until a longer residence 
 among you would have made us more suited to the task. With 
 thanks therefore to the Giver of all good for the countless and 
 unmerited blessings which He has vouchsafed to shower down 
 u^on our humble efforts during the past year, and with a heart 
 teeming with charity for every one of you, we joyfully embrace 
 the present occasion of performing towards you a duty, at once, 
 so pleasing and so imperative. 
 
 With a consciousness of the weighty responsibilities of the 
 Episcopate in New Brunswick and of our own deficiencies, from 
 the first moment of our appointment we placed our entire trust 
 in Him who selects the weak things of this world to confound the 
 
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strong, (1 Cor. i. 27), and who alone could sustain us in the face 
 of so arduous an undertaking. In humble imitation of Him who 
 retired to solitude and prayer before He entered on His great 
 missionary career, we began by a Spiritual Retreat for the Clergy. 
 We witkdrew a little while from the daily cares of the ministry to 
 attend exclusively to our own souls ; that so, being renovated with 
 new spiritual vigour, we may recommence our opening mission 
 with the assurance of Heaven's favour : and if we are to judge 
 by the outward result, Tar as appears to hunian eye, we are war- 
 ranted in the belief that God must have blessed us or we could 
 not have so far succeeded. 
 
 At the conclusion of the Retreat and before the Clergymen sepa- 
 rated for their distant homes, our first care was to pay a tribute of 
 justice to the memory of our lamented predecessor, who was en- 
 deared to you all by the ties of so many hallowed reminiscences. 
 In the presence of a crowded and a deeply affected congregation, 
 we offered up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and performed his 
 obsequies (as ought to have been observed at his death) with the 
 decency due to his personal merits as well as to his exalted position. 
 The zealous care of the dead, the sweet recollection of their virtues 
 and the relations by which we were once united with them, their 
 oft-returning picture before the mind, and a heart's wish to love 
 them warmly as ever and to assist them if necessary by every means 
 in our power, were ever the characteristics of the true children of 
 God. David's lamentations for Jonathan (Kings ii. 1.) ; the tears 
 and the prayers of Tobias as he buried the slain of Israel (Tobias 
 xii. 12.) ; the munificent offerings of Judas Maccabeus for the souls 
 of those who perished in battle (Maccabees ii. 12.); the signal 
 manner in which Heaven declared its approbation of their piety m 
 this -particular ; and lastly, the uninterrupted practice of God's 
 children, under the old and the new dispensation, proclaim to us 
 the duty of praying for the souls of the departed and honouring and 
 cherishing, far as we can, the memory of the Sainted Dead. And 
 if such be our duty towards all the brethren of the faith, how much 
 more obligatory must it not be in reference to him who had such 
 peculiar claims on your affectionate remembrance. He was once 
 your Priest, your Bishop, your Father, your watchful and loving 
 Shepherd. During thirty-three years of a holy and unblemished 
 life he begat many of you in baptism to Jesus ; he watched with 
 deep concern your growing years ; he knew every one of you; he 
 
called you by name, uiul led you I'oiUi to the rich pasturuge of 
 sound doctrine, by word and, what is yet move impvesHivc, by a 
 brilliant example, lie lived as if unconscious of his own wortli, 
 humble and condescending to every one with whom he came in 
 contact. Ho was a friend to the poor, a fatlicr to the orphan, a 
 protector to the widow, a frequent visitor to the house of mournin-^, 
 a kind consoler to the afflicted of every class : ho was the esteemed 
 and beloved of our sepc^ated brethren, while ho ever remained the 
 idol as well as the Bishop of the whole Catliolic community over 
 which he ruled. He closed a long and an honourable career as he 
 lived, in the true spirit of an Apostle leaving all his treasure where 
 his heart was so long enshrined, to wit : in the house of his (iod 
 and for the furtherance of that holy cause which was so dear to him 
 on earth. With such claims upon our affection, our gratitude, our 
 never fading remembrance, we have so far paid a dobt of bare jus- 
 tice to his memory ; and we shall continue to pay it as long as wo 
 remain faithful to the dictates of honour and of conscience. Re- 
 member (says St. Paul) your prelates Avho h-'-.c spoken the word 
 of God to you ; whose ftiith follow, considering the end of their con- 
 versation (Heb. xiii.. 7). Bring back to your mind the early in- 
 struction, the kind advice, the many salutary admonitions you have 
 received at his lips ; place before you the mirror of his sainted life 
 and holy example and it will serve as a lamp to your feet through 
 the perilous career which is yet before you. 
 
 However, as the judgments of God arc unlike those of man; as 
 Ave ait) assured that there is not even a High Priest (except one) 
 without his infirmities (Heb. vii. 27) ; as it is possible that in the 
 discharge of his many and formidable duties he was not always 
 pleasing to the eye of a holy and just God ; as he may be still de- 
 tained in that prison, mysteriously alluded to in the parable (Matt. 
 V. 26.), from which he is not to be rescued until he satisfies the 
 justice of God and " pays the last farthing," (Matt. v. 26.) ; as the 
 stubble of his unatoned sins and imperfections may be yet burning ; 
 as he may be still suffering loss after death, and will be only 
 " saved as if by fire" (Cor. i. 3, 15.), so it becomes our duty dur- 
 ing life to afford him the meed of our frequent and earnest prayers, 
 that God may have mercy upon him should he still require it- 
 This is the only act of gratitude that faitli points out to you ; this 
 is the only substantial tribute we can ]iay to the memory of him 
 who loved you so well and Avho is now no mora. 
 
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Having so far discharged a sacred duty to the memory of our 
 lamented predecessor, we have now, dearly beloved Brethren to 
 direct your attention, as briefly as we can, to several other topics 
 ot deep interest to this important Diocese. Notwithstanding the 
 efforts of those who have gone before us, it is needless to say, that 
 at our arrival, there was yet much to bo done for Catholicity in this' 
 country, and more especially among the English speaking portion 
 of tlie flock. Up to that moment, properly speaking, there was 
 no Cathedral worthy the name ; there was no College ; no Seminary • 
 no efficient School; no religious establishment for the education 
 of boys, or of girls ; no suitable resting place for the dead in the 
 capital; no Church accommodation for the masses of the poor in 
 tte town or in the country; and what is more lamentable— there 
 was scarcely one-half the number of Clergymen required for the 
 religious necessities of so numerous and so scattered a population 
 Ip remedy all these evils at once, with the limited resources at 
 our command, would have been a hopeless task, and so we resolved 
 on taking them piecemeal. After much anxious thought we began 
 with the Cathedral, in the chief city of the Province, where two- 
 thirds of a large and influential community had no Church accom- 
 modation whatever : and this we intended should serve not only as 
 a Church for the people of St. John, but also as a centre of action 
 mid a raiiying point for all future operations through the Diocese. 
 What the Church !s in the Parish, the Cathedral is still more in the 
 piocese,-that is the mother of Churches ; the grander and loftier 
 temple ; the Sion of the Judea ; the heart's home ; the monument of 
 surpassing beauty and honour for all those who live under its sha- 
 dow. As we have over and over stated, it is not the exclusive 
 property of any particular district : no, it is the parent Church, as it 
 IS the honour and the advantage of every resident Catholic in the 
 Diocese. 
 
 From this the obvious conclusion must follow, that it is clearly 
 the duty of every Catholic, even in the remotest districts of the 
 Province, to contribute to its construction according to his means : 
 and m this we are conscious of putting forward no pre- 
 tension that is not warranted by precedent and the immemorial 
 custom of every Diocese in Christendom, wherever a Cathedral has 
 been constructed by the free offerings of a people. We know our- 
 
 ""■ " ^-atixcdxtti lucxntly erected in a Diocese of the United 
 
 States, not certainly superior to ours in wealth or population, where 
 
not only costly stained glaHS windows wcro prcsontcd by the tribu- 
 tary I'urishcB of the surrounding districts, but where a debt of ton 
 thousand dollars was voluntarily assumed by their Pastors. Wc 
 have no hesitation in saying that the same may bo cffbctcd with 
 equal facility in New Brunswick, if required. But, thanks to the 
 goodness of God, and the unprecedented prosperity of the times, 
 and the immense contributions of the people of St. John, who are 
 more immediately interested, and who within one year have paid 
 in the sum of seven thousand five hundred pounds, we will not 
 press too heavily on you, mth the conviction, that every Priest and 
 Layman, of his oAvn accord, will faithfully do his duty. If every 
 Catholic through the Diocese will give his quota on the day ap- 
 pointed for that purpose by his Pastor, the sum itself may be insig- 
 nificant and of little consequence to the donor, but, in the aggregate, 
 it will swell to an amount not only important, but which wo may 
 truly say is now indispensable for the consiunmation of so mighty 
 an undertaking. This is what appear* to us most needful for Ca- 
 tholicity in New Brunswick ; this is what God's honour and the 
 welfare of the religion you love and your own pride, your own 
 brightest hopes make imperative upon you ; this is, lastly,, the earr 
 nest appeal which the Bishnj> makes to every Congregation in the 
 Diocese, whether French or Irish : and we are confident, through 
 the goodness of God, and the active co-operation of the Clergy, and 
 of the more zealous Laymen in each locality, that our appeal will 
 not be in vain. For that piirpose we hereby declare it to be our 
 will, not only that this Pastoral Address be read from the altar of 
 the principal Church of every Parish on Quinquagesima Sunday or 
 on the first Sunday in Lent, but also that a convenient time be ap- 
 pointed, either in the Lent or early in Summer, for receiving the 
 contributions of the faithful in the several sections of the Parish. 
 It will be our care, as it will be our duty, to make in duo time 
 public and suitable acknowledgement of the sums so received. 
 
 Upon the result of this appeal to you, dearly beloved Brethren, 
 depends, to a considerable extent, not only the building up of a 
 magnificent Cathedral, of which every Catholic in the country may 
 be justly proud, but also the success of every other Religious Es- 
 tablishment which will be sure to follow. Once that this holy ob- 
 ject of our ambition is attained, we will have more resources, more 
 leisure time, and, with God's help, more courage to devote our- 
 selves imrpspyvodlv in nbiPf*" nf """"nl ;—». i. ii i. a.v . 
 
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 Far bo it from us to insinuate, for a moment, that in raising' up 
 the material pile of God's house, and consulting for the outward 
 glory of his religion, wc have accomplished all that Catholicity re- 
 quires. No, this Avould be a fatal mistake : it would be un-Catholic, 
 and subversive of the foundation of all religious truth. We need no 
 revelation to convince us that true religion must be necessarily a 
 prerogative, a virtue, an inmate of the soul. Tlic force of the truth 
 is felt within us that " God is a spirit, and they Avho adore him 
 must adore in spirit and in truth." (John, iv. 24). Like the smoul- 
 dering fire or the pent-up fountain, that will quickly spread 
 and burst forth into the proportion of a river or a mighty 
 conflagration ; so religion in man's heart will of its own nature^ex- 
 tend its sacred influence, not only to every thought and feeling, but 
 to every word and act of the outward man. To be true religbn, it 
 must spring from within ; it must flow outwardly from the limpid 
 fountain of :he heart ; it must be fed by the sacred flame of God's 
 love, and catch its inspirations from that Heavenly fire which Jesus 
 came to enkindle upon the earth. Such, dearly beloved Brethren, 
 are the interior dispositions which must accompany every outward 
 act of religion, in order to make it availing for any salutary purpose. 
 To you, as God's people, let these bitter reproaches of the Prophet 
 be never applied. " This people honor me with their lips, but their 
 hearts are far away," (Matt. xv. 8) ; " OflTer sacrifice to me no more, 
 for my soul hateth your new moons and your solemnities. (Isaiah,' 
 i. 14.) Were we to distribute all our goods to feed the poor, and 
 deliver our body to be burned and have not charity (that is the sin- 
 cere love of God within us) it profiteth us nothing. (Cor. i. 1, 13.) 
 So far then from lulling you into a deceitful security and crying out 
 "peace where there is no peace" (Jer. vi. 14), rather do we pro- 
 claim^ to you the indispensable necessity of heart religion, in order 
 to give life and character and merit to all you do for God. 
 " Wash yourselves and be clean ; take away the evil of your devices 
 from ray eyes, said the Lord," (Isaiah i, 16.) ; " Cease to do evil and ■ 
 learn to do well," (Isaiah i. 16.) ; and then and then alone your 
 money ofibrings and your every act of religion will be as the sweet 
 odour of incense before the Lord. 
 
 As the season of Lent is now approaching, we must not only 
 require from you a sincere and effective co-opevation in building 
 up the outward structure of Catholicity ; but in obedience the voice 
 of God Hu.I of his Church, we must call upon, you to do what is 
 

 
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 liolicr tcmpl'o of your own souls : " For know you not that you 
 are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dv/elleth in you." 
 (Cor. i. 3, 16.) " For the temple of God is holy, which you are." 
 (Cor. i. 3, 18.) The gorgeous church, the tapering spire, the lofty 
 dome, the Cathedral in all its beauteous proportions are all but a 
 faint type of the surpassing beauty and grandeur of the redeemed 
 soul. That temple must be exquisite and lovely, beyond all descrip- 
 tion, when it is made to the likeness of the living God ; it must be 
 of peerless value in His estimation, when no one less than His ow^n 
 Son, Jesus, could have rebuilt it on its ancient ruins, and when He 
 deimed to cement the stones thereof with his o".vn blood. Where- 
 fore, dearly beloved Brethren, instead of confining your soul's 
 ambition within the sphere of this visible Avorld ; instead of con- 
 tenting yourselves with building up the oxitward walls of Jerusalem 
 and the towers upon Mount Sion, you must furthermore give point 
 and meaning and reality to these outward symbols ; you must 
 furthermore build up that citadel of God within you, and be in the 
 words of St. Peter i. 2 — 5, " As living stones built up, a spiritual 
 house, a holy Priesthood, offering up spiritual sacrifice acceptable 
 to God, through Jesus Christ." The thymiama of sweet incense 
 must perpetually burn on that inner altar of the heart, or our 
 sacrifice will be in vain. The varied ornament, the gold and silver, 
 the precious stones, and the gems of every virtue must adorn the 
 interior of our home or otlierv.'ise it cannot be a fitting dwelling- 
 plage for Him whom the heaven of heavens is ndt worthy to con- 
 tain. For those Avho by crime have lost their Baptismal inno- 
 cence, the first eifort should be to gaze intently on the desecration 
 and the ruin of that temple within them, and to resolve at once on 
 rebuilding and restoring it to more than its ancient splendour. 
 They must begin by clearing away the rubbish of their many sins, 
 and building up this temple and rcsprinkling it by the laborious 
 ordeal and purifying tears of a sincere repentance : and there 
 cannot be a more appropriate, a more auspicious season for that 
 important undertaking than the acceptable time, the hour of salva- 
 tion, which is to commence on next Wednesday morning. 
 
 In imitation of the forty days fasting and penance of Mosea and 
 Elias, and of the Saviour himself, those forty days of Lent, which 
 r.rc timc-honourod and universal as the Christian Religion, havs 
 been wisely set apart by the Church for the same hallowed purpose. 
 
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 We are not fo believe that the law of outward or of interior 
 penance was abrogated under the new dispensation. No, as the 
 body is agent, as well as accomplice, in the perpetration of crime, so 
 must it equally participate in its expiation and atonement. While 
 Jesus himself is our great first atonement, and has paid the entire 
 ransom of our sins ; yet we must be likened to his image (Col. 
 iii. 10) ; we must be made conformable to his penitential life and 
 holy example, before the saving effects of that ransom can be 
 applied to us individually. Though Jesus died for all ; though 
 one drop of His blood would have been sufficient to wash away the 
 «ns of a thousand worlds; yet Judas, his believing but traitorous 
 apostle, and the impenitent thief by his side, profited nothing by his 
 boundless expiation : rather did it serve but to make them the 
 more inexcusable. To succeed, therefore, in becoming partakers 
 of His redemption, like Him and his sainted apostles, we must fast 
 and pray, and chastise our bodies, and live in the holy practice of 
 external as well as of interior mortification ; that so being like 
 his image in this world we may be also assimilated to him In the 
 world to come. When the Saviour assured the disciples of St 
 John th3 Baptist, that it was not lawful for the children of the 
 bridegroom to mourn as long as the bridegroom was with them • 
 yet. He added-as if in the same breath-that the tin^e would soon 
 come when the bridegroom would be taken away from them, and then 
 they too (said He) shall fast in those days. (Luke v. 37.) And so it 
 was ; no sooner did He expire on Calvary than His apostles and 
 disciples, and believers in every country, became remarkab'le for 
 their fastings, their bodily mortifications, and the singular aus- 
 terity of their lives. In obedience, therefore, to the command of 
 God and of the Church, and in conformity with the example of our 
 Divme model and the unvaried practice of His illustrious Saints at 
 every age, the Ministers of God are now called upon, for more 
 than the eighteen-hundredth time over, to " blow the trumpet in 
 Sion ; to sanctify a fast ; to call a solemn assembly ; to gather 
 together the people ; to sanctify the Church and assemble the 
 ancients. (Joel, ii. 16.) For now " Between the porch and the 
 altar, the Priests, the Lord's Ministers, shall weep and shall say 
 Sparc Lord, spare thy people, and give not thv inheritance to 
 reproach. (Joel, ii. 17.) For thy day, O Lord, is terrible, and who 
 can stand it. Now, therefore, said the Lord, be converted to me with 
 all your hearts, in fasting, in weeping, and in mourning j and rend 
 
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 your liearts aud not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God, 
 for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and 
 ready to repent of the evil ; and who knoweth but He will return 
 and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him. (Joel ii. 14, 15.) 
 
 Now, dearly beloved Brethren, more than at any other season of 
 the year, it becomes your sacred and imperative duty to merit that 
 blessing, not by any independent action of your own, as if of your- 
 selves you could add the smallest iota to what has been already 
 achieved on the cross ; but by throwing off, through his grace and, 
 assistance, " the old man of sin and so put on the new man in 
 God," (Eph. ii. 24,) Christ .Jesus, your atonement, your full satisfac- 
 tion, your God, your all. We must, through his grace, adopt him 
 as our Father, by obeying his commands and imitating his virtues, 
 before he can adopt us as his children and give us the title deeda 
 of our happy inheritance. As it was through the gateway of Bap- 
 tism we entered into that spacious home, where we were to live as 
 loving and beloved children ; so the moment we forsake that home 
 and cease to be members of that family by the non-performance 
 of our filial duties, like the prodigal child, we have only one re- 
 source to fall back upon, and that is the sacrament of mercy — the 
 great Christian ordeal of penance, A deep sense of our degrada- 
 tion, a thrill of horror at the thought of our ingratitude, and then 
 a quick return to seek the pardon and pity of Him whose loving 
 heart we hav5 so grievously woundedi are the only means of rescue 
 from the fearful doom of the unrepenting sinner. This is what God 
 and our Holy Mother, the Church, like the father of the Prodigal, 
 expect at this season from their wayward children, who have been 
 so long absent from the home of their love and the asylum of their 
 hallowed protection. After having toiled the day long for a heart- 
 less task-master, and served an ungrateful world, and followed a 
 phantom hope that was never to be realised ; after having wandered 
 BO long abroad, amid the miseries and cares of a life, that brings 
 nausea to the soul and must quickly pass away, you are invited, 
 this day, to come back to the home of your hearts, from which you 
 have been so long astray ; to think seriously of the interior disorders 
 of your poor soul : that so having discovered the height and depth 
 of your misfortunes, you may exclaim at last, with him that was lost, 
 " How many servants in my father's house abound with bread, and 
 I am scarcely fed on the husks of swine ; I here perish with hunger. 
 But I know now what I shall do ; I will arise, and I will go to my 
 
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 fether and I shall say to him : father I have sinned against Heaven 
 aad before thee; I am not now worthy of being called thy son; 
 make me as one of thy hired servants. (Luke, xv. .) Amen we 
 say unto you, your Father, who is in Heaven, will see you in the 
 distance ; he wUl not await your arrival, but he will go out himself 
 to meet you on the way ; " he will fall upon your neck " and clasp 
 you to his affectionate embraces ; because " the son that was dead 
 u come to life again, he was lost and is found." (Luke xv. 22—24.) 
 Though there is not a moment of the sinner's life in which this 
 •hould not be effected ; yet, during the Season of Lent it is the more 
 obligatory, because these forty days have been especially sanctified 
 by the penitential ordeal of the Saviour and his Saints, and because 
 they Lave been set apart and consecrated, for that purpose, by the 
 Church, from the earHest period of her history. Our return to penance, 
 therefore, is the more necessary at present, because the more easily 
 accomplished; because it is that period when the avenging arm of 
 God is withheld, and the bowels of his mercy are softened to^'tender- 
 est compassion, ty the accumulated tears and fastings, and prayers of 
 his sainted children throughout the world. " Arise, therefore, you 
 who slumber and Christ will illumine you." (Eph. v. 14). 'cast 
 off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light and the 
 helmet of salvation. (Eph. vi. 17.) As " the life of a man is a 
 warfare on the earth ; as trials and cares and disaj)pointments are 
 unavoidable for the sinner as for the just, " fight the good fight," 
 (Tim. ii. 4,7) : remembering always that if the struggle be terrible for 
 the while, yet it is of short duration, it must soon end in an 
 everlasting trium- h. As you have no alternative but to fight or to 
 succumb, cleave rather to the cause of God and of virtue ; valiantly 
 battle for your soul's salvation : if, like the coward, you lay 
 down your arms, instead of escaping disaster and death, you will 
 only become a more easy prey to the enemy, and thereby forfeit 
 the spoils of an immortal victory which might have been so easily 
 yours. 
 
 To be renewed to penance in the Catholic acceptation of the 
 word, is the first and most sacred duty of all the faithful, and espe- 
 cially of the sinner, during the approaching season of mercy. It 
 was mainly with this object in view that the Church, as the faith- " 
 ful interpreter of God's law, has enjoined upon all her children the 
 accustomed iLenten obligation of fasting and prayers, and ahn. 
 -deeds, and every species of good work. Faithful to the mission. 
 
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 st Heaven 
 thy son; 
 Amen tve 
 i^ou in the 
 ut himself 
 and clasp 
 was dead 
 22—24.) 
 i^hich this 
 1 the more 
 sanctified 
 i because 
 e, by the 
 penance, 
 )re easily 
 ig arm of 
 tender- 
 •rayers of 
 fore, you 
 ■). Cast 
 ; and the 
 man is a 
 lents are 
 d fight," 
 rrible for 
 d in an 
 jht or to 
 'aliantly 
 you lay 
 you will 
 7 forfeit 
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 of the 
 id espe- 
 xy. It 
 3 faith- 
 ren the 
 id alm« 
 oission. 
 
 as to the character of her Divine Founder, she still continuaa, ar 
 she will ever continue, to act the part of a fond mother, to lov« and 
 cherish all ; but to make the return and the saving of her lost onM 
 the' foremost object of her solicitude. Her mission, too, is to look 
 for him that was lost ; to receive back the prodigal ; to call th« sin- 
 ner rather than the just ; to save him that had perished. As th« 
 only means of attaining that happy result, she proposes to you th* 
 heart observance of the duties enjoined on every Christian during 
 this acceptable season. She now calls upon you more loudly than 
 at any other period of the year, through the voice of 
 her ministers, to fast and pray, to feed the hungry and cover 
 the naked, and perform the various duties of charity accord- 
 ing to your circumstances, that so you may be the better prepared 
 for a good Confession and a worthy Easter Communion. It is thus 
 only the sinner can hope to celebrate the approaching festival of 
 Easter, in the true spirit of a Catholic ; it is thus only by dying 
 once for all to his crimes and to his passions, that he can hope to 
 rise triumphant with Jesus from the sepulchre of the. spiritual death 
 in which he has been so long enthralled. 
 
 While it is yet time, therefore, and while the grace of God awaits 
 you, shake off" that death slumber from which millions have never 
 been awakened but at the summons of an angry God. With th« 
 Prodigal, let every sinner say within himself, on this morning, 
 I am sick of the husks of the world. " I know now what I shall 
 do : I will go back to my father." I will wash out my sins if pos- 
 sible with my tears ; I will forswear my ingratitude ; I will seek 
 the pardon of my God, at the feet of him to whom Jesus gave tho 
 delegated power of loosing and binding (Matt. xvi. 19) ; of for- 
 giving and retaining. (John xx. 23.) I v/ill go and shew myself to 
 the Priest (Matt. viii. 4), and lay bare before him the leprosy of 
 my sins and the many bleeding wounds of my poor soul: 
 and once that I am cleansed and healed ; once that I am admit- 
 ted back to my father's home, and that I am restored to his 
 friendship, as I am not worthy of being called his child, I will 
 be happy in being accounted one of his servants all thw days of my 
 life. Such is the language which every sinner she- ' adopt on 
 this auspicious morning. A total abandonment of the past, and 
 entire newness of life should be the resolve of your inmost soul. 
 You must cease to do evil and learn to do well. (Isaiah i. 12.) As 
 flrom the face gf the serpent fly from sin. (Eccl. xxi, 2.) Let your 
 
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 loina be girt as one contending for a mighty prize. Let the lamps 
 of a glowing charity burn in your hands (Luke xii. 35) : not that 
 you may be seen by men, but that men seeing you, may glorify 
 your Father who is in Heaven. (Matt. v. 16.) Be henceforward 
 like to men who wait for their Lord, when he shall return from 
 the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh they may open to 
 him immediately." " Amen, I say to you ; blessed are those 
 servants," for the Lord " will gird himself and make them sit 
 down to meat, and passing will minister unto them. (Luke xii. 37.) 
 This is the duty which you owe to God and your own soul ; this 
 is a duty which, in a country like New Brunswick, you owe in an 
 especial manner to the Church of which you claim to be a member. 
 While you glory in the honoured appellative of Catholic, be not 
 one of those who, by your mis-conduct, tarnish its fair name and 
 are a foul blot on its escutcheon. Be not one of those on whose 
 account the name of Jesus is blasphemed, and whose drunken broils 
 and riotous conduct, and sinful, disedifying demeanour, are so 
 falsely ascribed to. the teachings of the holy religion whicR they 
 profess. It is difficult to conceive any man worse or more inconsis- 
 tent than a bad Catholic. With all the advantages of deep-seated 
 religious impressions, and all the means of sanctification at hand, and 
 all the remorses to be stifled, the perversion and obstinacy of 'such 
 a man are marks of deeper guilt and of a more depraved and wicked 
 disposition. His whole life, his every breath is at variance with the 
 principles he professes to hold most sacred, and hence his greater 
 crime before God and man. If you wish to glorify God, therefore, 
 and to honour Catholicity, you must not only pray to your Hea- 
 venly Father in private ; but as members of the social body, as men 
 coming every day in contact with your seperated brethren, you 
 must take care that the sweet odour of your virtues be spread abroad 
 like the smoke of balmy incense ; you must take care that your un- 
 tarnished honour, your sacred principles, your honesty unques- 
 tioned, your rigid justice between man and man, your promptitude 
 to help the needy and to oblige your neighbour by every means in 
 your power, your love for your own religion and then not only a 
 toleration (which is an odious word) but an enlightened liberality, a 
 true heart respect for men of every other religious persuasion, accord- 
 ing to their merits, must be your distinguishing characteristics : or 
 otherwise your religion is but a mockery, a name. These are the 
 weapons with which every true Christian must be armed in defence 
 
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 of himself and his religion. These were the only means adopted by 
 Christ and his Apostles in the propagation of Christianity, and 
 wliich we therefore believe most effective in its preservation and in 
 its triumph. Wherever the children of God were holy and faithful 
 to their principles, there all history is unanimous in proving that 
 we were not only impregnable, but even progressive against every 
 assault from without. In vain did the Gentiles-rage, and the kings 
 of the earth stand up against us. (Psalm ii., 1, 2.) In vain did 
 the wind of every varying doctrine lash to fury the billows of 
 earthly power against the frail sides of Peter's bark, wherever the 
 crew, like those on the sea of Tiberias, were bound together in holy 
 association with Jesus. But, on the other hand, wherever there 
 was a departure from these principles ; wherever " the charity of 
 many grew cold," and that the children of a sainted ancestry, 
 like the Jews of old, became degenerate and forgetful of their Hea- 
 venly destiny and bye-gone associations ; there, too, if we run down 
 the successive pages of history, it will be found that their resistance, 
 as foretold by the Evangelist St. Matthew, was feeble and of short 
 duration. " Because iniquity hath abounded " (said He) " and 
 the charity of many shall grow cold ; many false prophets shall 
 rise and shall seduce many." (Matt. xxiv. 12.) In Northern Africa, 
 in Palestine, in Constantinople (the seat of Eastern Christianity for 
 so many centuries,) in the several nations of Europe, that were ship- 
 wrecked in the faith and fell away from the Church, the cause may 
 be easily traced to our own disorders. It was not the sword of the 
 Cajsar, nor the character or the talents of the new lawgiver, nor yet 
 the charms of the doctrine itself that prevailed against us. No, 
 whatever may have been the concurrent causes, it cannot be denied 
 that the hand of God was deservedly upon us. We tottered more 
 by the weight of our own degeneracy than by any pressure from 
 without. As long as we continued faithful, the blood of ten thou- 
 sand martyrs served but to fertilize the soil on which it flowed : 
 every succeeding persecution but gave additional impetus to the 
 growth of the Church and the unyielding enthusiasm of her chil- 
 dren throughout the world. 
 
 For this reason, dearly beloved Brethren, the only danger we 
 have to dread is our owm selves ; our own weakness ; our own 
 corrupt inclinations ; our own tendency to lukewarmness in the ser- 
 vice of God. Every organization of our opponents, and every 
 attempt to crush us from without will be utterly unavailing if w« 
 
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 ng our chai.ly, „ blotting out the fuith of God within „. - 
 athor, „„ .,,0 cont™,, will thoy „«fc„ „„„ ;„;';^ » "„;; 
 
 classes 071 1. ^fl, .• i "^"^"^"^^ *"g ^^bouring industrious 
 
 tt .n u':; V 1 r Tr' '^ '^ *^^^ "^^---- ^-^^ of 
 
 h.' .,« r ;-^' ''"' ^'^""^ ^^^^^^ t^^^ i^g^^cy of religious 
 
 h-o as tlje chrest curse over boquoathcd to a people As n uu 
 happy Ireland, (they may transplant the odious exot^^ to th s Z 
 soil of their adoption) they may be still tho ^ I I 
 
 sivp «nrf ; *.u ,. , ' <-atholic who takes any offen- 
 
 «ve part zn the unholy warfare ; the Catholie who by his forbear 
 anee, h.s eharxty and kindness to all men, and who by the iuT 
 Clous exercise of all his nolitVil I'nfl,, j ^ ^ ^' 
 
 discountenance it and to p^ " do" '°' '"''^^^°'^^ '' 
 
 country and to his God W H n ' '' ' ''''''' "^^^° *« ^« 
 bo abJto stay thrt^nt ^.t Te r^yt" ^r ^^^ ^^' 
 tut let not the fault be ours To .7 ^ '"''^'^ ' 
 
 ire unci, ^ve are rejoiced to find that an overwhcImiTia P.fi, i 
 that an entiro P.fl, r ^ ''''''''''°- ^^ Belgium, the world knows 
 
 -.imon»on.t.o.o3ta.t;douUo''^.C:ir.t^^^^^^^^^ 
 
It 
 
 ks, or cool- 
 ivithin us ; 
 
 more our 
 gcther (as 
 icity of an 
 the demon 
 ren of the 
 r his own 
 idustrioua 
 13 tools of 
 
 religious 
 ^s in un- 
 
 this new 
 w design- 
 :ded only 
 Hies and 
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 forbear- 
 the judi- 
 avour to 
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 may not 
 ■avages ; 
 !s from 
 vie in 
 ?r men's 
 
 of thirty-three millions of theit own creed. In Anstria, with a. 
 Catholic Emperor and more than twenty millions of the same faith, 
 no religious distinction has ever been complained of even in the 
 distribution of thu highest offices of the State. In Ireland, it is a 
 remarkable fact that four-ilfths of the Representatives of CathoHc 
 constituencies are Protestants, of their own unbiassed choice, and, 
 simply, because they believed them most effective in the advocacy 
 of their rights and in the protection of their common country. 
 There is. not an instance on record, that we know of, where any 
 candidate was opposed, directly or indirectly, because he was not 
 a Catholic : and do we not exhibit a like liberality of feeling not 
 only in the several counties of New Brunswick, but throughout 
 the whole extent of Catholic Canada and the British Provinces, 
 from Lake Superior to the Atlantic. 
 
 In struggling, therefore, by every legitimate means in our power, 
 for nothing less and nothing more than perfect equality with our 
 brethren of other creeds, we look for no odious ascendancy. If 
 ascendancy has ever been wantonly aimed at by a people or a na- 
 tion, calling themselves Catholic, we repudiate it as utterly abhorrent 
 to the genius of that religion, which, we believe, can be sustained 
 only as it was established and propagated in the first instance ; that 
 is, by the moral and intellectual weapons of reason, of sound sense, 
 aild of God's holy revelation. If by steady perseverance in this hea- 
 venly course we fail in attaining that religious concord among 
 brothers, which is the greatest blessing of any country, we may 
 deplore the fatal consequences for men of all parties. Here, as 
 elsewhere, they may tell over and over again, the fate of Abel and 
 the curse of Cain, and the prostration of business, and the fags 
 and feuds and miseries of a divided people ; but we are consoled 
 by the reflection that the fault will not be ours, and that our reli- 
 gion, at least, as in all similar trials, will not only not lose, but 
 will gain, and gain immensely in the struggle. The same system 
 was tried in Ireland for 300 years, and Ireland in the end was 
 more Catholic than before. All the secret societies in existence, 
 and all the clamorous denunciations, and all the appliances of 
 penal laws and brute force that can be resorted to, may make a 
 man a hypocrite ; but they never have made, and they never will 
 make one convert from the Catholic Church. On the contrary, the 
 more violent, the more bigoted, and the more unrcasuniiig they are, 
 the less we have to fear for the safety o! our divine yeligion. Secta« 
 
Ill 
 
 end tho result for ZhZ^^' nl ""''' """" '^"°" >■"• '» «■» 
 
 you adopt wn.t r ot t:; L v: •:: -ri 'r °*^' -""^^ 
 
 nation : it will ond „ 1. Tl " '"' '" °™ """dem. 
 
 0- ..igion Jiri I ri;t iiTt c r-''™"""""- " 
 
 contemplates the great livll 1^, f J ' """ "''° "''"""^'^ 
 hundred years oldTd thlf t • , °''''' "■"' " " ''«"^» 
 
 dred millL, „f I . . " ™8"' '" *" """^rt' of two hun- 
 
 dtt tr;r; ttvTsoriLhe'r? "r- "-^ '°"^^' " '^ -=■ 
 
 =ma.gan,a.ion; or others euCu't "''r"°" "'""P'^ °' 
 would have falle„t„„- , other religious systems, it 
 
 St. Mataew i °v 9 T ^ Tu ^' '"'' '°''' ""'^ '"■-"'W ^7 
 "were to be L '. ""' ''"''^'™ "^ O"-!' «'^ t™o Church 
 laid by an natn"" "J';?.' "*"^'^''' ""^ P""" "-.h, and 
 
 ».ins. ; i: x: ;ha:i t^; Tot ati^r«:^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 consonant with reason as it is ,vi.l. r ,° , * "^- " " 
 
 one true Church on earth ougrtt 2° ' '°, '''"™ '""' '"^ 
 
 oppose^i thet::r:hth «r :i^iraXrr^ 
 
 wished h s chilL to fon! I'."'", '^t """■ " '^"^' "-"i ^''o 
 Cross. (Matt "vt ; ) tno^^^^^^^ "^"■"^ "' *^ 
 
 nor by counter organiLt „„ :: ' t:7^ZlTl ■'"""'"' ""■"• 
 low and naltry device of R.^T n '"'■'^"*°'"' »ystem_the 
 
 ly aisgrafefu/ror:: stftt^.h ftt Lttrtr"* ^'' 
 be sustained in thi^ nv „« /i °* ^'^^^^ can 
 
 ^aiueu m tms or any other country No fh^ ^«r • 
 
 Th (^Z^v rr- '"* »-™- --e'bf of'Td" 
 
 he»«^ i:''^:: 7 *7- '■^ '»'« - m other partieu, , 
 
 career, it is our "ro^ o^'t raVtha^t • '" '""J^ "■"• *"'""«" 
 
 tion or toI„.at» I so-ret .'7''^.'''"'"' ■"> '^'«''<lid *o over sanc- 
 
 -_-at, ,, scret society williin her besom, Through th. 
 
19. 
 
 tnouths of her venerable Pontiffs she has over and over ptodaimed 
 the principle, so clearly established by her divine founder, that 
 men love darkness rather than light, for their Avorks are evil. 
 Every one that doeth evil hateth the light and cometh not to tho 
 li.ht, that his works may not be reproved. But he that doeth truth, 
 cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because 
 they are done in God. (John iii., 20. 21.) The Church, therefore, 
 neither harbours, nor countenances any secret society, and tor ttua 
 simple reason-that she has nothing to conceal. Her principles ; 
 her dogmas ; her discipline ; her liturgy ; her historic records, the 
 voluminous writings of her children of every age and chmj) ; and. 
 lastly, the sanctuary itself is wide open to the world. She loves 
 the light ; for, the more she is viewed by it ; the more she is studied 
 and examined ; the more her truths are developed and brought into 
 iuxta position with each other, the more her divine beauty flashes 
 on the eye of every unprejudiced beholder. The only complaint 
 we have against our seperated brethren is that they condemn us 
 without trial ; they protest against what they know not, and what 
 they have never seen or hoard, but through the distorted medium 
 of one-sided misrepresentations. 
 
 We need, therefore, no secret or unhallowed agency in our be- 
 half. If, as Catholics, you really believe in the enduring character 
 of your religion and the promises of perpetuity which Christ mado 
 to his everlasting Church, it is manifestly inconsistent to/ecur to 
 mere human means for its defence and preservation, ^o, taith- 
 fully perform the duties that Catholicity enjoins on you, anU 
 leave the remainder to God. Live as good Christians, peace- 
 ful loyal citizens, obedient to the laws, respecting authority, care- 
 fully avoiding all religious bickerings, hating no man and work- 
 ing hand in hand with your brethren of other religious persua- 
 sions, for the happiness and prosperity of your common country 
 which is to be a home for yourselves and the generations that 
 are to succeed you. It is thus only you will consult for the honour 
 and the true interests of the religion you love ; it is thus only you 
 will consult for your o^vn temporal and spiritual welfare, and per- 
 form your part in making New Brunswick what we earnestly hopo 
 she is destined to be, that is-a favoured land, with a free, a pro- 
 gressive, and an united people. . 
 
 By steadily pursuing the course.we here point out, there is only 
 one danger more-one rock of scandal-which you must "avoid, at 
 the peril of everything near and dear to you. I allude to that beset- 
 ting sin of drunkenness, which has been so prevalent among you, 
 
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 .»d which raay ho truly .aid to bo tho ,o«roo or alT y„„r mi.forlun«,. 
 If, .pen a rotrospoct of your livo», you fiud you wcro evor lUo ,io- 
 t m of mlomporanco, not wo. but God, commaud, you to avoid tho 
 
 Ztrr™ ? T*"' "' '''™ "■" f"™"' *° .crpont,y„u 
 mu fly from rtut has over and over brought death to your \ior 
 •OUU. You must not content yoursclvo, by lopping off cvorr 
 
 laid to the root ; you must tear it out from its deepest fibres : or 
 otherw.se , Ice the cockle, it will sprout forth and thicken more a^d 
 more unt,l n w.ll choke within yon the growth of every budding 
 
 mininl , T '"'"' """ '"'""" f""" "P^i™™ wWeh 
 
 fo r? "Tn'""""'.'' "'" ">" '"'=■ """y «"" with the serpent, 
 for h,s foil hallucmafon, will blind and betray you ; it is hi, very 
 nature to bite, and he will bite to tho core; If ^u are weak 
 .uA netr th' fr *° "'^ "f »">-»«"." "icuor^; beeZ or' 
 0° esfmu,; ?„ '"° " "" P-P^'-'io" »f 'ho crime itself:- 
 
 excess must follow, as a necessary consequence. " Live soberly 
 therefore, and j„,.ly and Godly, in this world, lookin/f„ he' 
 blessed hope and coming of the glory of our Lo d Jesus Ch is, " 
 
 (S x°, 37T "■' "^' ""^ ""' "™° »°" »" "" -'X.. 
 
 As wo fear we have already trespassed too long on your indul- 
 gence, we wm now conclude by reeommonding to your pTrHcular 
 nofce the great work of tho Propagation of the FaUh, wh^rha. 
 been already established among you, and which has be „ 7,01 
 
 would" trZ:\ 'r™ '° "^'^ """ '"f-™^'' CathoHc. U 
 descripfon of the blessings innumerable which that Association by 
 .ta prayers and by its munificent contributions, is br ngTnt d„'^ 
 
 pr:a°nd:tt h" " "^'^ "°''-^"^- «-- ««' f-dsTtho ^r 
 
 paganda at Homo were confiscated to a considerable extent, durias 
 
 <nat on that the Gospel was preached to the Savage and tho Pagan 
 a th remotest regions of the earth. Whether on the Koekr 
 
 foot™ rn- "T '•"'.' "'""^ ^"'"■"•"^ I''-^ whether^ t I 
 ft i 1 r ?7'r' °' '" *''" ™°'^' '™<"» '''"nd of the Pacific 
 
 ma i* net ""'/' *° '"""'"'^ "' ">'» A-°™«». wh"t" 
 
 i^thers those blesszngs, .vhich you j^me above evef jr earthly treasure. 
 
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 ..fiA BO to brinit tho pity of Jesus on your own souls, both Priosti 
 fd peo lo rcaUcS on, by the un.ul.takoablc voice of the C.urch 
 hrou«U tho earnest and frequent exhortat ons of our Ho y lather 
 Popo I'ius the Ninth, to enter into the spint of this haUowoa n- 
 atitution, and to co-oporate with your fellow ^''^^^f -/^J-^/J^.^^^ 
 world, in buildinK up and suBtaining this bulwark o y mr la th. 
 We a e therefore, most anxious that a bettor system for the enrol- 
 Tent members, and the eolleetion of the usual eontnbutions, bo 
 Tdopt d in every Parish through the Dioeese that so we may v.o 
 in holy emulation with the surrounding Provmees :n the furth r- 
 anee of a eause so dear to God nnd to his Chureh. Let eaeh Pastor 
 Address his floek on th:. most i.r.ortant subjeet at the earliest op- 
 portunity, and we havr no misgiving for the result. 
 
 Such dearly beloved Brethren, is the first Pastoral exhortation 
 which we send ycu, on the several momentous topics that neetned 
 to us more immediately connected with the present position and 
 future prospects of Catholicity in this country. 
 
 May we hope that, in hearing this heart appeal, you will recog- 
 nise the voice of your chief shepherd, and that you will obey U at 
 every sacrifice. May we hope that it will have the happy effect, 
 not only of bringing back many a wandering sheep but that it may 
 kep together the entire floek and securely lead them forth to th. 
 richer pasturage of more abundant light and grace and interior 
 edification; and "may the God of all peace who raised from th. 
 dead the great Pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, (Heb. 
 xiii 20,) feed you and guard you, and keep you together in th. 
 one'foli" and under " the one shepherd" (John x 16 ), until you 
 shall be gathered into that more perfect and amp.e old m Heaven^ 
 ^here, with your supreme shepherd, Jesus, you wiU banquet unto 
 everlasting ages. 
 
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 ROMAN CATHOLIC LITANY OF ANATHEMAS 
 
 Principally Composed by the Rev. Johi. Gothek, Catholic Priest 
 and recently adopted by several Bishops in England and in 
 New South Wales, as an authentic Exposition of the Roman 
 Catholic Faith. 
 
 Cursed be he that adores any thing else but the one God or 
 admits there are more Gods than one. 
 
 . Cursed be he that gives divine adoration to the Blessed Virgin 
 
 whatever '' '° *^'" ^'^'"'^ °^ ^^^^^^' °^ ^^^ --*'^^ 
 
 Cursed be he that puts his trust or his hope of salvation in any 
 of these rather than in God. ^ 
 
 Cursed be he that maintains that they have any virtue or merit 
 whatever, or that they are entitled to our respect orTeneratioX 
 any other title but what they have received from God ^ 
 
 Cursed be he who pays them any respect whatever, except what 
 glory ^"""^ '"" *' ^'^' '' ^^^°"^ ^" ^°^°^ and 
 
 Cursed be he that believes the Blessed Virgin to be a Goddess 
 
 a^ht^s; sr ^^"^ '' -' ^^ '"^^'^ ^^--° ^-- ^-^ 
 
 Cursed be he that does not believe that the one sacrifice on 
 
 iMsTot" 1 trr' '°^ *'^ ^^^^'^^^°- °^ --kind, or that 
 t 18 not available for us individually, by adopting the ndispen- 
 •able means which Christ has prescribed. ^ 
 
 to ^rH^T^ \^\ '"^" ^"^''''' '^^' '^'''' '' -y " ^'^^'^ n^n^o given 
 to men m which we can be saved but the name of Jesus." 
 
 God s ava,hng to forgive sins, or that any man or angel can do it 
 
 of his own authority or without power committed to him by God. 
 
 Cursed be he that says that any Priest, or Bishop, or Pope can 
 
 pardon oven the smallest sin for any amount of money, or Tat he 
 
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 cto give pcmission to commit sin ; or that h& has any power to 
 absolve the sinner who has not the spirit of true repentance and 
 the worthy dispositions that God requires from him. 
 
 Cursed be he that believes ho can be saved simply because he is 
 a Catholic, or by faith alone without accompanying good works. 
 
 Cursed be he who adores bread and wine in the Mass, or who 
 gives to any creature the honour due to God alone. 
 
 Cursed be he who believes that a merciful and provident God 
 left his Religion as a riddle and guess work for mankind, and 
 established— not the Bible, but the private interpretation of every 
 man ignorant, or otherwise, as the standard whereby we were to 
 be guided unto the one truth. 
 
 Cursed be he who asserts that God has established a Rule of 
 Faith which, of itself, would lead any man into error: or that ho 
 is in any way the author or the approver of the ten thousand 
 clash*-.g systems of religion into which the Christian community 
 is now divided. 
 
 Cursed be he who asserts that God can contradict himself, or 
 that in the Bible he propounds a doctrine to one man differing in 
 any thing from that which he reveals to another. 
 
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 REGULATIONS OF LENT 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DIOCESE OF ST. JOHN, FOR 1864 
 
 Every week day in Lent is a Fast Day on one me^l and a col- 
 lation. 
 
 The Bishop, by virtue of powers delegated to him by the Holy 
 See, permits the use of Flesh Meat at one meal on all Sundays, 
 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from the first Sunday of Lent 
 to Palm Sunday, inclusive. On all other days, from Ash Wed- 
 nesday to Holy Saturday, meat is strictly forbidden. Eggs are 
 not aUowed on Ash Wednesday nor on Good Friday. 
 
 HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION. 
 
 ALL StTNDATS IN THE TEAB. 
 
 Circumcision 
 Epiphany 
 Annunciation 
 Ji.scension 
 Corpus Christi - 
 SS. Peter and Paul 
 Assumption 
 All Saints 
 
 January Ist. 
 January 6th. 
 March 25th. 
 May 25th. 
 June 1 5th. 
 June 29th. 
 August 15tb- 
 November Iflt 
 
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