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To the secular and regular Clergy, to the Religious Communities, and to all the Faithful of this Diocese, Health and Benediction in Our Lord. o.rt;i:/::ltSS''^^'^ - ^^^-^^^^^ atlasttopuhHsh But M-e had first to fulfil a grave duty. Pastors with respect to the people, t le B,shop are but the sheep of the fiock with regard to the S.,ecessor of^PeS . ( Trt Z T ^ "'?r '^'' ^^'^' ^^"^^ '"^ "'^^ ^he Church of God " (Acts, 20 28) they are nevertheless subject to him, whom J.sus Christ has appomted us VH=ar upon earth, and to whom, in the person of the Prince of the Apostles, lie lias said : " Feed my sheep » (John, 21, 17) And this religious submission which wo owe to the Supreme Head of the Church whom the Saviour o_t the world has commissioned « to confirm his brethren" (Luke 22, 32) iinposed upon us the obligation of laying the acts of our Council at Ins teet, and of awaiting his approbation before promulgating them The decree which contains this approbation concerns you, D B B as much as It does ourselves, and therefoid, being persuaded that you will be happy to know It, we make it our pleasing duty ,o communicate it to you _ _ Tlie purport of that document is t'.at the S. Congregation of the Proj^aganda m its meeting ot the 22nd of May last, after a careful examination of the decrees _ 2 — of the third provincial Council of Quebec, pronounced them worthy of approl)ation ; luid that the Secretary of the Baid Congregation, liaving laid^ this jiidgnieut before Our Holy Fatlier the Pope, in his audience of the 28th of the "same montli, His Holiness was pleased to contirm it, and further to order the said decrees to be promulgated and observed throughout this Province. Upon vucoiv in ij; this high approbation of the decrees of our Council, we understood that luit only were we allowed to publish them, bi;t that it was our duty to do so wi;hout delay. Accordingly wo hastened to have them printed ; and we are now enabled to promulgate tlicm, according to the command of the Holy Father, and such is in fact the object of this pastoial letter. Therefore, from the date of the publication of this pastoral, the decrees of the third Council of the Province of Quebec shall be considered as duly promulgated in this Archdiocese ; and conscptently they shall be to yon as so many salutary instructions and holy laws, euuinatedfrom your chief pastors, and endowed with the sanction of the Supreme Head of the Church. We therefore confidently hope that your piety will induce you to receive them with all the reverence due to so high an authority, and that you will make it your duty to keep them, as dutiful children obey the precepts of their father. We shall only add here a few words to direct your attention to the most important of those decrees, which are the fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh and twelfth. By the fourth, the Bishops wished to renew and conhrm all the decrees ot the first two Councils, in order thereby to maintain them in all their vigor, and to oppose the deplorable propensity of most men to forget and neglect the wisest laws and the most sacred rules. The sixth, which is comi)aratively lengthy, treats of the dignity, of the authority, and of the duties of Bishops. In the two former Councils, tlu- Bishops had reminded the priests, the parish priests, and all ecclesiastics in gene- ral, of the peculiar virtues of their holy state, and of the obligationsof their sacred ministry. In this, they considered it their duty to draw up as it were a com- pendious synopsis of the duties of tiieir own awful and sublime office. This they have done in the si cth decree, loth for their t)wn and for your edification. For they wished, by the consideration of those dncies, first to excite themselves to fulfil them worthily, and moreover to induce you to honor their dignity, to acknowledge their authority, and frequently to pray for them, that they may correspond to their holy vocation, and approve themselves in all tlungs faithful ministers of Jesus-Christ for the salvation of your souls and the greater glor.v of God. il — 3 — Tlie seventh, extends to all the Dioceses of this Province, without excopti(.n, the ancient rule which circumscribes tlie limits of the jurisdiction of parish priests in tins Archdiocese : so that, henceforward, by virtue of this decree every parish priest of this Province shall bo authorized to preach and to hear con- tessions in those parishes, even of another diocese than his own, of which the nearest habitations are not more than nine miles distant from the limits of the parisli committed to his care. In the tenth, the lathers of the Council, heedful of the exhortations of the bov^ereign Pontitf, raise their voice apiinst that host of errors and heresies which in this age of nnSelief, the agents of hell continually invent, and which they leave no means untried to propagate among men, to the misery of nations, and the ruin of souls. In order to oppose tliun with greater force aiid better success they invoke the supreme autliority of the Holy Father, and ordain that to the present decree be joined his two impcrtant allocutions (tliose of 1854 Dec << and 1862 June 9), in which he points out to the christian world, proscribes aiid condemns all those monstrous errors. The eleventh, cheoifully do wo belie. e it, D. B. B., will find a loud echo in your catliohc hearty. It contains a warm protestation of respect and love for and attachment to tlie Sovereign Pontitf, the glorious Pius IX, made in the name of the Bishops, the Clergy, and all the Faithful of this Province and accompanied with a solemn act of adhesion to the celebrated declaration of the Lishops, gathered in Rome in 1802 for the canonization of tlie Holy Martvrs of Japan, concerning the temporal riglus of the Holy Sec: wliich declaration is iHit the faithful expression of the sentiments of the Bishops, the Clergy and all true Catholics throughout the world. ' This decree, we feel convinced of it, will receive your henrty approbation and you are prepared to subscribe to it with joy. I„ these unhai.py davs when Hell and the world seem to have formed a league, to wage a relentless war against the Head of the Church, it is glorious for the children of that Churc'i to proclaim in the face of the world their filial respect and tender love for the Jlo y I ontifi, and their inviolable attachment to his sacred person ; it is desirable and of the utmost importance that all Catholics should raise their >oice together to defend him and to safeguard his rights ; it is their duty, in fine and a source ot happiness to them, to gather round his throne, in order thus to remain more close'y united to him and to each other, and thereby to be enabled to protect him more efhcaciously against the aggressions of his enemies. lastly, the twelfth decree of our Council relates to our noble Laval University. i In this truly roinarkable decree, the Bishops show us in the first i)Iacc, that the liitliers of tiio first provincial Council, considering the great eervicos which a catholic universily can render to letters, to society, and to religion, had i)lcdged tlicnieulves to do all in their power to procure to the catholics of this country the udvantago of having their own universities, as well as thoir own colleges and schools. They acknowledge in the second place, that it is at the reiterated request of the same Bishops also, that the Seminary of Quebec, at the price of immense hacrifices, has founded the Laval University. They next declare that they approve the Statutes of that Univ. isity, ami olFer up fervent prayers for its increase and prosperity : which uhmidaiitly proves that it answers their cxpextation perfectly, and that it is tlieir fond wish those catholic young men should flock thither,' who intend ti> fit themselves for the liberal professions, by the study of the higher branches of learning. In fine, considering that the nunber of students at the Laval University is far smaller than what it ought to be, and, no doubt, grieving to see that too many of our catholic young men persist in going to i)rotestant colleges and universities, to the in'uninent peril oi their faith and morals ; the fathers of our Council solemnly warn all the faithful of this Piovince, to watch over the salvation ofthoseinlrusled to their care : beseeching them in the name of the Lord, to provide first of all for the preservation of their faith and morals ; and, to this end, not to allow them to draw the waters of science but from the purest spring. 1 1 it Let us hope therefore that all catholic fathers and mothers, who have the salvation of their children at heart, will c.mprehend these grave admonitions of tlieir chief pastors, and that they will profit by them, for the honor of our Ileligion and the greater gloiy of God. _ Such are in substance, D. B. B., the principal decrees of our third provincial Council, which we this day publish. Such is in short the result of the labors oi the Bishops of the Province in their last reunion : labors undertaken for the interest of your salvation, and which they concluded with a fervent prayer addressed to Mary conceived without sin, the mother of God ; beseeching her. as the patroness of the Metropolis and of the whole Province, to take under her powerful protection their persons and their dioceses, your souls and theirs, and saying to her, with the whole Church of God : Begina sine laU concepta, ora pro nobis. Queen conceived without sin, pray for us. — 5 — This our pnstoml letter Bhall be read in all the churches and parochial <-mpo]8, where d.vuie service io publicly celebrated, and moreover in all the chapters ol the relii^nous comnnuiities, on the first Sunday after its reception Given at Quebec under our hand and seal, and the counter-sign of our .secretary, on Ash-Wednesday, the fourteenth day of February, one fhou and eight hundred and sixty six. ^» " uiuusana t C. F. BISHOP OF TLOA, Adminutraior. By His Lordship's command, Edmond Langevin, Priest, Secretary, I