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Les diagrammes suivants iilustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 CIRCULAR VF HIS LORDSHIP BISHOP LYNCH TO THE REV. CLERGY or THE DIOCESE OP Toronto. St. Michasl's Palacc, Torooto, April 3, 1868, Rrv. AKD Dkab Sir,— Id comptiauce with the laws of the Church, the regrlar Trieonial Coun- cil of the Bishops ol the Ecclesiastical Province of Quebec, io Canada, has been convoked by the Most Rev^ A^chbi•^ r of Quebec, to meet in bis Metropolitan Catheilral on the Seventh of Maj next, the Feast of St. Stanislaus, Bishop end Martyr. The object of Provincial Coun- cils is, not to define the doctrines of the Church, but to maintain its discipline ; to correct abuses, if any should have crept in; to provide for the always-increasing spirit- ual wants ol the people entrusted to their pastoral care ; and to extend the bleuiogs of the Gospel to those "who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death;" of enacting laws binding in conscience Christian peo* pie. In the true Church alone does this authority exist, and it comes fi 3m Christ, the Head of the Church, and resides in the true Bishops of the Catholic Cburcb, suc- cessors of the Apostles. " Take betd to yourselves, and to the whole flock, niierem the Holy irhost batb placed you Bishops to rule the Cburcb nf God, which ht iiath purchased with His blocd." (Acts xx. 28 ) The obligations of the Faithful to obey these laws is evident from the words of St. Paul, "Obey your Prelates, and be subject to them; for they natch as being to render an account of yourselves, th.t tbey may do tbii with joy and not with grief. (Heb. xlii 17.) alwivB held Councils of Bishops have been Church on the model of klwiys held ID the Church od the model of that held id Jerusalem by the Apostles to •ettle matters of discipliDC, (Acts z?,) and of that if ben Matthias was chosen to sacceed to the Episcopncy forfeited bj the nnbappj Judas. (Acts i.) Our Lord Jesus Chnst has promised that where two or three would be gaihered^together io His name, He would be there in the midst of them. (Matt, iviii ) Now, majr we cot with confidence expect tthat Christ, who promised also to be always with His Church, will be in the midst of HisBishops, prayiog and consulting together for the eitensioD of His Kingdom on Esrtb ? More thin all others, the Faithful are in- terested that the Holy Spirit preside erer and direct these'solemn assemblies; conse- quently they ought to pray with ferforand constancy to obtain this faTor from tl) Father of Lights, from whom cometh erery good and ezeellent^gift. (St. James i.) You will, theD,ReT. and Dear Sir, engage your parishioners to acquit themselfes fa thfu'ly of this important duty of prayer. Frcm the receipt of this present letter until the end of the Council, you will please to add to the other collects at Mass the prayei de Spiritu Saneto, In Parish Churches and Religious Communi- ties the Litany of the Blessed Virgin will be recited, after Mass, with the people, that She, through whom we have received Him who redeemed us, may obtain for us ' from her Divine Son, the grace to santify us. Yours faithfully in Christ, t JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH, Bp. of Toronto.