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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. f t • 32X 1 a i 4 5 C t. / « f FAHTOBAL ADDU£»S FOR THE LEKT OF 1862. ARMAND FRANCIS MARY DeCHARBONNEL, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND THE FAVOUR OF THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE, BISHOP OP TORONTO : Tu the Clergy and Laityof the Diocese : — ^ Deakly Beloved Brethrkn: The Council of Trent comm.inds repeatedly all the Pastors to preach the Word of God every Sunday and Holyday, and more especially during the Penitential Seasons of Advent and Lent. How pressing are the recommciidiaions ot the Holy Council, when it imposes on us the charge of walching over the local Pastors, that on those days tl.t>y ftcd with Sanctifying words the people in- trusted to their care, according to the capacity of both the preacher and the hearers, teachinj; tliem all whatever is necessary for Salvation, explaining to them in shoit and easy instructions what they have to shun and to follow, in order to escape eternal pun- ishment and conquer eternal gl )ry ! Oh, how urgently likewise is our solicitude requested with respect to children, that, at least upon Sundays and festival days, they be taught the rudiment.s of our Divine Faith, the religious obedience they owe to their (>oil and to their parents! On, how earnestly we are called upon to remind the people with zeal that every one is bound to hear the Word of God ! ^ _ If this sacred duty of teaching lies heavy ujrou the conscience of Pastors in any age and country, how much more is it not overwhelming in such a time, in such a country as this ! for we must say, using the language of the Catechism of the Council of Trent: "False prophets have gone forth into the world with various and strange doctrines, to corrupt the minds ol the faithful, of whom the Lord has said: / .sen/ thtm not, and >hey ran ; I spoke not to them, yet they prophesied. \n their unholy work, to sucli extremes has their impiety, practised in all the arts of Satan, been can led, that it would seem ahnost impossible to roiifine it within bounds, and did we not rely on the promi.ses of the Saviour who declared that he had built his cimrcli on so soiid a founda- tion, that the gates of hell should never prevail against it. we should be tilled with most alarming api-.rrh(.nsion lest beset on every nide by such a host of enemies, assailed by so many and such formidable engines, the Church of (,od should, in these days, tall beneath their combined efforts. In order to disseminate error and impiety more ea.'^ily and extt n.-iveiy they compost d ini.umerable amallbooks which veiling their poisons under tiie semblance of piety, deceive witii incrfdil le facility the simple and the incautious. [i is therefore to discharge, in part at least, a s.icred duty of our pastoral oHice, Dearly lleloved iind vi^neviible co-operators in the Ministry of the VVonI, that we call at the approach of the Holy Season of Lent your most conscientions mtcntion to the all con- fiiiiorations handed to us l)y the FathiTs of the Council ol Tn-nt in their admirable Catechism for Pastors. Let us jkmusc them again and again, and so on jollowiiig the sure and |iliiiii way pointed out therein. There we have .at hanil the whole matter ol oui doc- trine, superniituial faith and good works, vivified by true chaiity. There we have at hand milk and more solid food accoidiiig to the peculiar conditions of onr|)cople, tlieiraue. their caj)acity. their manners, &c. There we have at hand the j>uie springs ol faith, the Divine .Soriirtures and the authorizt-d traditions constantly received in the Church. There we have at hand a (air, ch ar i.nd complete sketch of iiistruclions reduced to four heads : the Apostles' Creed, the Sacraments, the Commandmt nts, aad the Lord's Prayer. There wo find particularly how nature and religion imposed on parents the sacred obligations of teachinaf tiieir chik'rcn Hiid preserving them from dangers for their faith and morals : " Parents owe to their childien to bring them up in the km wleilge iiiid in the practice of Religion, and to give them the best ])recepts for the regulation of their lives, that iiistnicted in the truths ol Helitjion and prepared to make these trutlis the guiding principles of their conduct through life, they may j.rcseive inviolate tl tir fiilelity to God, and serve Him in holyness. This duty of parents is beautifully illu-^ln'.ted in the conduct of the pa'cnts n( tie juM Tobias and of the chaste Su'.anna. The Pastor therefore will admonish parents to be to their children models of the viitues which it is their duty to inculcate, of justice, charitv, modesty, temperance, and in a word, of every ' hristian virtue"; as it is (in t/wn duty to admonish all the Confessors of our Diocese to be very particular in the tiihunal of penance about those most im})oilant ob'igalions at parents, and to refuse them the absolution, when they i\o not promise to comply with them ; bectuise religious educatii ii by re- moving dangers, teaching and giving good example, is the basis of individual, domestic and social success aud hajpiness in this world and in the world to come. O merciful i.ord. what a comfort it would be for our paternal heart ibr our anxious mind, if we could be confident that every one of our beloved chililien in Christ is thorouahly instructed, accoidmu' to his age, condition and capacity in the sound principles of our most Holy Religion, and regulates his life in compliance with the rules of our (\)mmon Mother, the true Chinch of (iod ! Would it not be a mo-it cliei^ring prospect for Catholicity in this Province, the highf i?l blessing of Heaven, to behold cvt ry meml er ot this Viist Diocese enlightened and steady in his failh. irrepioachable in his laiiynage and ini'iiiieis, true to his religion, mi im.'.ted with that l)ivin(i Ch iiity in vvhii^h lies the fullilling of the law ? Thou alone, O Father of liglit and love, from whom i veiy j'erfect gift cnnii's down, thou alone canst shoot thronifh these western and cold rcitions the briUiant and aideiil niys of eternal tiulh. It is with the view, Dcnrly H loved llrethrcn. to second with all our [lower, the inleiioi opeiiition of L'ivine Gruce in your hearts with leLfaiil to your Rolj^ious instriiclioii. that we present to your |)cmyal and letieciion as llie Standard of your Faith, as the prin- ciple of your lif(> a siiniin;iry of Hie piiii('i))nl truths ot religion. There you will see the tenets to 1 e believed, the virtues to be practised, the sins to be slmnned ; yon will Iind that Prayer, the Sacriiments and the Holy S;icfifice are the means equally ell'ra- cious :iiid easy of leading; a Christian lih; ; you will know that the society in which men enjoy these invaluable treasures is the One, Holy, (!atholic, Ajxistohc Chuicli, the Church which liiik^ together in one Body tie Saints in Heaven, on I'arih, in the sojourn of Pnigiitory. This precious and correct abrid.'ment of the Catholic doctrine widen si ould be ciiculated as much as possible and religiously preserved in eveiy lions(!, we prcM'ribe to be read every threi- months ly the several missionaries in their resjicctive OoiiirieLration.-', and we desire to bi^ irraduallv and iiitelliiiibly exphiined lo all onr beloved Diocesans. As for t!ie peiiiteiitial works of this Hofy Season, you shall confoim, D. R. P. lo the general rules of the Church, remaining however free lo avail yourselves of the lehivation ■rninied by the Iiidult dated the 7th Ju!y 1844; the whole according to the pre- scriptions and direetioiis of this Kei'le--iastical province, as fol'ows: " Diirinir t!ie Holy time of [,ent voii are obli'/ed tolas) every day (Sundays excepted), fiom Ash-Wednesday to Faster Sunday. This is the •reneral law of the Church to her children twenty-one years of iiire. Ihil .-he dispen^es with it. old people, nurses and preurianf wo>iien, the inlirin and \ aletndinarians. Mich as aie obliijed lo make Ioiil' and painful journeys and voyai'os. oial all who are not ante to dJMchar'jfe ilie duties of their avocation, without a ciejit incouveniencp. Let every rme doubting whetl er he is Ibw- fiilly dispensed with tlie law. consult his own P.istor. or some prudent adv iser. V'ou are boui'd lo abstain from the use of flesh meat, 1st. On Vsli-Wediiesilay and the three succeedinij days, v'lid. On the Wednesdays. Fiidays and Saturdays of the five first wcfks of l,ent. .Ird.