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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la methods. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 I SKsag. m LETT ^B I.EHT OF MDCCCLIV. ADDRESSED TO THl CliERGY ANP LAITY OF THE ARCHDIOCESl Of HALIFAX. THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM WALSH, D. AKOnBISHOP Of HAUrAX. WITH AN APPENDIX, &c " J^liitliun moi» eeipm, expWInm d«U8tH«tein mend»do &il»t . . . Epl«*piitu» vam Mt . . . Eociesls qttot>«« KHA est . . . Spoaw Ohrtiti, uham domiun novit, vxvob oubUmll s nc lliatem CMto pudore cnitodlt — JElMiM. • NEW.YOEK: EDWARD DIINIGAN & BROTDER, 151 FULTOK -rRJiEl lll.DCGC.UV. 2B?). mm^^mm^m IMH 11 Po^^ ■ en I T( ** cas hi'c Eiii se ( UN I In £■0 Pcx^^ g3^ O^ 'y^ PASTOHAL LETTER FOR THE LENT OF MDCCCLIV ADDRESSED ** TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF HALIFAX BY THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM WALSH, D. D. AliCIIUISnOP OF HALIFAX. WITir AN APPENDIX, &c " Joinniimi iiwrs culpji', oxeiilimu dolietonim, rcmoiliiiin, sahitis, r;vlix gmtlfp, fiiiulnitiontum est castltatis. Hoc gradu ml Deuia citiiia i)ervenit; hoc (jriulii anti'qimm carru Ulifts ajicemlit.''— A. Am- Vrositis de ElUi et Jejanto. '• Una cut ciilumba men. Hanc ICcclosim tJnitatoiu qui iion tenet, teiioro se Fldem credit? Qui EoclepiH) roiiititur, (luiCATiiEi)iiAM rK.riu BUi'gi; cjlam itnuata bst Kcci-ksia, descrit, in Eeclesla se eise ooiilLilt ' Nemo I'ratorniiali'ui nuindiicio liillat Episcoimtiis unts e»t Kcclcsia quoque UNA est, . . , Si)i)npa Cliristi, fNAM ilomiuii novit, i-sii's cubiculi sanclltateni casto pudore custoilit HabiTcjaui lUiu potest Dcum I'atrem, qui Koi'k"'. Cijpriamlc Cnit Scctea. NEW-YOKK: EDWARD DUNIGAN & BKOTIIEU, 151 FULTON STREET. M.DCCC.LIV. THE ORDER OF OBSERVING LEXT IN THE AECHDIOCESS OF HALIFAX, FOR 1854. 1. Every "Wock Day in Lent is a Fast Day on one Meal and a Col- lation. 2. By virtue of powers delegated to liim by the Holy See, the Arch- bishop permits the use of Flesh Meat at breakfast and dinner on Sundays ; and at dinner only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday? during Lent, 3. The first Saturday of Lent, Ember Saturday, and Holy Satur- day are not included in the above permission. 4. It is strictly prohibited to use Fish ar.d Flesh Meat at the same repast ; and Eggs are forbidden on Ash "Wednesday, Spy Wednesday, and Good Friday. 0. It is expected that some compensation will be made for the above Indulgence by more abundant Alms to tlie Poor, and the per- formance of other works of Charity and Mercy. 6. The Penitential Psalm, " Have mercy on me, God," &c. (Ps. 50). and the Litanies of the Saints, will be read before ]Mass on Wed- nesdays and Fridays during Lent. Such as cannot attend Slass, will cause these and otlier suitable devotions and instructions to 1)0 read in presence of tlieir families. I PASTORAL LETTER. BY TTIE DmNE 3IERCY, AIS'D THE FAVOUR OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE, ARCniSISIIOP OF HALIFAX. To tliG VeiieraUe Clergy and Laity of the Arclidiocess of Halifax. Dearly Beloved Bretiiret^: — The great and iii(lis|)ensaljle duty, hj which tlie Pastor of souls is continually bound to feed his beloved "fl<^ek, with the word of life, is of peculiar obligation at a time like the present, when the whole Church of Christ is prepar- ing to commence the hallowed season of penance and prayer, of fasting and alms-deeds, of reconciliation and grace. W(3 are, therefore, induced to address once more our entire flock, and to " lift up our voice, like a trumpet," in proclaiming the Apostolic Fast of Lent, and the favor- able opportunity, which, through the mercy of God, is afforded us, of bringing forth "fruits worthy of pen- ance," of " redeeming our sin with alms," of " humbling our souls in fasting," of " ^vashing our hands amongst the innocent," and of insuring our eternal salvation liy the faithful discharge of every Christian duty. Attend, therefore, to our pastoral admonition, l)ecause we " watch as having to render to God an account of your souls; " 5o^csc [.- 4 PASTORAL LETTER. because we have not assumed of ourselves tliis formidable office, l)ut Lave l)eeii legitimately appointed and sent by^ the Venerable Successor of liim to whom the Prince of Pastors said : Feed my Lambs, Feed my Sheep. Listen to our voice ; for the sheep of Christ follow their true Shepherd because '' they know his voice," and they heed not the seductive voice of strangers and hirelings, " whose own the sheep are not." We come not in the persnasive words of human wisdom, but in the showing forth of the power of God, even of him who hath said: " I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject." We have no new doctrines to teach, no modern discoveries in religion to announce, no innovation on the faith once delivered to the saints, no addition to the glorious edifice of eternal and immutal)le duration whicii M\as built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. We know of no other name, but that of Jesus, in which men can be saved ; w^e have no hope of grace, in this life, or of glory in the next,])ut through his hifinitely precious and atoning blood. The pilgrim of T^aith nmst not expect that we can point any new road Avhich leads to Heaven. Despite the assertions of the false prophets, and seducers of the age, and regardless of the sneers and taunts of their deluded followers, we must enter on the ancient way, and follow the path of old, and walk in the footsteps of Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life ; pursuing our heavenward course in this valley of tears, in the narrow way by which the small number of the elect are conducted to the gates of bliss. Blinded by pride and passion, the enemies of the Cross of Clirist, whose sensual appetite is their God, and wliose end is destruc- tion, may decry fasting and abstinence, and rail ut mor- tification, and impiously pretend, that as Christ died for in PAHTORAL LETTER. 9 all mankind, a barren faitli in Imn will suffice for salvation, without penitential works, contradicting tliereby the plain- est testimonies of the Law and the Gospel. And, what is more deplorable, the most vehement opponents of that truly Scriptural discipline by whicli the Catholic Church consults the saiictification of her children ; the loudest brawlers against fasting, and abstinence, and the other worthy fi-uits of penance ; are those Avho boast of their possession of the Sacred Scriptures, and who profess to reverence the written Oracles of God. In vain will you quote for them the Prophets of the Old, or the Ai)ostles of the New Testament : the exami^le of Christ ; of His angelic precursor ; of His great vessels of election : the Doctor of the Gentiles. Moses, Ellas, and David ; the mothers of Samson and Samuel; the impious Achab and the pious Josaphat ; Esdras, Neheraias and Daniel ; Sarah, Judith and Esther, all fasted, and their fasting was agreeable to God. The guilty inhabitants of Nini and the Tews, after their crime, fasted by the dire^ of the Prophets, and " for all Juda " was a Fast procla; when their holy prince was in danger. Nevertheless, the overwhelming evidences of Scrip ture are rejected by our modern dogmatizers, and, vv^ith the Bible in their hands, they aifect to look down with pity on the poor benighted Catholic, who practically be- lieves in the efficacy of fasting ; who fulfils the prediction of the Saviour that " when the Bridegroom should be taken away, His children would fiist;" who "chastises his body, and brings it into subjection," who "mortifies his members upon the earth, and crucifies his llesh with its vices and concupiscences ; " who fills up in his own flesh those things which are wanting of the suflPerings of Christ, and who confidently hopes to be glorified with Him, because he humbly endeavours to suffer with him 6 PASTORAL LETTER. likewise, knowing from the Prince of tlie Apostles that " Christ suffered for us, leaving ns an example that we should follow His steps." There is some consistency in those who reject altogether the authority of the Word of God ; but 3' our professed Bible reader wdio scoffs at fasting, is a religious paradox, an aT)Surd contradiction which provokes the pity or contf^mpt of all good men. The true Apostles of Christ were unable to cast out certain devils, and were assured by their Divine Master that prayer and fasting Avere necessary for that juirpose. The pretended A[)ostles of error, in these days, aie more than a match for all the powers of darivuess (if we may believe themselves), without any such l)odily mortifica- tion. The innocen.t Baptist, and the Doctor of the Gen- tiles who Avas rajjt up to the third heaven, chastised their flesh by voluntary austerities; Init no such ])ainful remedies are deemed necessary by the pharisees, publi- cans and sinners wlio condenm the salutarv and imme- morial usao:e of the Catholic Church in the observance of the Lenten Fast. Filled with the same spirit of pride, whicli incited our first parents to violate the Divine Law of abstinence, they ignore the authority of the Scrii^tures m this respect, and, with the same serpent for their de- ceitful guide, interpret the sacred page in favour of tlieir own sensual and unmortified api^etitos. Rejecting the authority of the Church, and condenming her time- honoured practice from the days of the Apostles to the present, they a})peal to the testimony of Scriptui'e ; and wdien " a cloud of witnesses " rise up to convict them, from every part of +he Sacied Volume, they ap]>eal from Sci'ipture to their own hearts, ivid the ■• jrrupted heart, their only Supreme Judge in matters of Faith, pronounces a decisioniu favour of flesh and l)lood. For, it is a mistake to suppose that those who have shaken oft' the sweet yoke V PASTORAL LETTER. of our Holy Mother the Church, have submitted to any- other authority, except their own. (Jne common watch- word amongst them is, to think what they please, and to say what tliey think, in matters of Faith ; to interpret the Scriptures according to their own fancy, and to dtiuy to the whole world, collectively and individually, the right to question tliis proud piivilege. Hence, it is not the pastors, nor teacliers, nor disciples of the communion to which they belong, that are to decide their faith, or fix for them the meaning of the Sacred Word. No : they decide and interpret for themselves. They make the dead letter O'f Scripture constitute its essence, and not the genuine meaning and spirit of the ILuy Gliost. The in- spiration of the text comes from theni selves, and not from the Spirit of life and truth. With an understanding obscured, and a heart corruj^ted l»y sin, they sit down with arrogance and vonceit, to measure the ways of God by tiieir v ays, to scrutinize His mysteries by their fee1;le reason, an A to modify, if not abrogate, his plaiutst pre- cepts, at the imperious dictates of passion and self-love. And, this fatal privilege of self-guidance, and private interpretation, is restricted to no age, nor sex, nor class, so that this prolific source of endless disorder, this deadly princi[)le which in all human affairs is incompatible with the existence of civil society, and wliich no human legis- lators have ever recognized, is blasphemously descriljed as an emanation from heaven. The God of truth, and peace, and love is declared to have made known His will to His creatures in a mysterious and difficult volume, which each one is to read and interpret for himself, and these countless interpretations, absurd, inconsistent and contradictory as they are, must be for each interpreter, respectively, the revelation of Heaven! According to such monstrous opinions the God of Eternal Truth nmst PASTOHAL LETTER. be indifferent v/itli ' 3gar(i to one of His jiurest attributes, for tiiey make Him the autlior of a system whicli, in a million of instances, has led, and must necessarily lead into error ; and Him whose essence is Love, and whose spirit is Peace, they convert into a fomenter of discord and division, of rancour, and all uncharitableness. We nmst not be surprised, Dearly Beloved Brethren, at the i^^eneral prevalence, in these our times, of that flattering and treacherous principle, which robs the Almighty of the undoul)ted right of interpreting His own will, either by Himself, or by thosfe whom He has divinely commis- sioned for that purpose, and transfers it to each of His fallible creatures ;— dexterously ministering at the same time to the pride of their understanding, the weakness of their will, and the corruption of their heart. Vv^e must not be astonished if they have extensively availed them- selves of this disastrous i)rivilege invented by the enemy of souls, that old Serpent who " was a liar from the be- Lannino- " and wlio sui^Liested to our first Pai-ents, even in their state of innocence, this doctrine of private mterpre- tation, teaching t' em to expound the Precept of God, not according to the divine intention, but to their own appe- tite of concupiscence, and thus to substitute their own will, for the adorable will of Heaven. It is most natural that the disciples* of this 8])irit of error, who only taught in the earthly, that doctrine of disobedience Avhich he had himself already reduced to i)ractice in the heavenly para- dise, should hi conformity wilii his teaching, interpret the Divine Law in their own favour, and thus, make them- selves, as it were, "like to (Jod." Asa necessary conse- quence, they have renounced, and indeed covered with ridicule, all those doctrines and practices of the Church of Christ which are repulsive to human nature in its fallen state. And to come more Immediately to the subject PA8T0EAL LETTER. which now occupies our attention, they liave become ashamed of tho cross, the sufferings and humiliations of Christ ; they remember no more ;;he poverty of His birtli, or tli8 austerities and tribulations of His life ; and His blessed doctrine*-, they impugn and contradict as much, nay more than the obstinate Jews themselves. Jesus vvas l)orn poor, lived and died in holy poverty, earnestly re- commending this sublime virtue ; but, according to the modern exposition ^^f the Gospel, the poverty which Jesus honoured and loved, is looked upon as a disgrace, to be ^ more shunned than death ; nay, it is punished as a ci'ime. Jesus said : " Blessed are the poor ; " and " unless a man renounce all things he jiossesses, he cannot be my disci- ple." The new Evangelists cry out : Blessed are tho rich ; and, so far from making poverty a test of Christ's true disciples, it iS paraded as an invincible argument against His Holy Catholic Church that so many of her children are indigent and poor. Jesus said : " If you Avish to be pert'ccf, go and sell nil you possess, and give it to the poor, and follow me." But if Catholics of either sex have the coui'age to embrace tins counsel of perfection, to re- nounce their earthly goods and follow Christ, in the holy state of lieligion — madness, folly, fanaticism, superstition, are some of the mildest phrases from tlie new Scriptural vooal)ulary, by which their noble conduct is stigmatized, amidst the ])laudits of the ignorant multitude. Jesus was tlic King of Virgins, and the Lover of holy purity. His Precursor, and His Beloved Disciple who enjoyed the inestimable i)rivileg<' of re})osing on His chaste bosom at the Last Supper, were both spotless Vii'gins. He was Himself the precious Fruit of the Virgin's womb, and His Immaculate Mother was the brightest ornament of her sex, and the prc-elected favourite of Heaven, on account of her extraordinary purity, as well as the profound 10 PASTORAL LETTER. humility which accomp/inied aud preserved it. said there were some " who made themselves emiuehs /devoted themselves to a life of holy continence) for the Kiiio-c^ )m of Heaven. He that can take, let him take it.'^'^ He likewise declared : " Blessed are the clean of heart." But alas! this purity and cleanness of heart— this "tak- iiiff" of the counsel of Christ hy those who feel that with His grace they can take it— this renunciation of the plea- sures of sense l)y those who make themselves continent for heaven; this amrelic life of holy celibacy ; this spot- less integrity of mind mid body which elevates the creature of God above the grossness of earthly sensuality, to taste of purer joys in intercourse with Heaven ; this glorious virtue, so ennobling to humanity, which even the very Pr-ans regarded with peculiar reverence and honour, has become in these days of Scriptural enlightenment the subject of protane sarcasms, of riljald jests, and outrageous insults ;— would that we were not forced to add, of shame- ful misrepresentations and abominable calumnies. The fruitful viruinity which in the birth cf the Iledeemer baff ed the cunning of the Devil, seems to be an object oi peculiar horror to the i)retended lovers of Sciii-ture. The "animal man" who cannot "perceive the things that are of the Spirit of Goa," measuring his neighbour with the carnal eye of corruption, laughs at the j^ossibility of vir-iiml chastity. H.' cannot en.biiv, that the exalted ^ ivnie which he practically detests, and which he never hopes to attain, sh<.uld be possessed l)y others; and Hlthou'di proofs to the contrary are perpetually surronnd- in.^ him, he wilfully closes his eyes against the light, and seeks a cowardly apology for liis own disorders, m the cruel defamation of his neighbour. No means are lett untried to t^ar from the Holy Catholic Church, that priceless jewel of celestial purity by wldch she is udorned ; ■^> PASTORAL LKTTEH. 11 and this heathen warfare is carried to such lencfths, that the dignity of the Holy Mother of God herself is not spared. If she alone did not bear that intimate relation to the G(Klhead which was never shared by any other ci-eatnre ; if she were not on account of her divine ma- ternity and for the honour of her Adoral)le Son, worthy of our deepest veneration; if, through her blessed womb, we had not received all the treasures of heaven; if she had never been honoured by a messenger from on high, and never declared by the Angel to enjoy the fulness of grace, and tiie possession of God; if she stood alone, with her charming and unapproachable character, her angelic innocence, her winning modesty, her discreet silence, herprudeiit reserve, her unexampled humility; if we mcT-ely considered her faithful discharge of all her re- ligious and social duties, hei- tentler love for her ueif^-h- bour, lier devoted constancy in all the vicissitudes of life and all the bitterness of death, — if we i-egarded only her unshaken courage, her nolde fortitude, her uii])arallelfd, ardent attachment to Jesus, together with her entire resig- tion to the Divine Will — surely under so nuany endeariuLT and solid titles, this rare Virgin of a royal race, this loAvly hauvlmaid of heaven, must challenge our affectionate rever- ence. Pagan Greece or Home, even in the height of its licen- tious corxMiption, would have extolled such a character in transcendant eulogy; they would burn incense and erect altars to comDi.en"«orat0 so much virtue, elevate her to the rank of a TKity (as we are most falsely and wickedly accused of doing), and pay her divine hon(»urs. But, how is this ]»urest jind holiest of God's creatui'es,— -how is tjiis actual IMotlier of the vSon of (Jod, — how is she "of whom was born .lesus who is call(Ml the (-hrist," treated by thoL'°! wlio are perjietunlly ])roclaiming their love for Scripture, their lielief in Christ, and their respect for virtue ? She / 12 PASTORAL LETTER. is the target, against which their most envenomed shafts are directed ; the constant object of their unsparing abuse. They seem to decry her with a singular pleasure; to blacken her fair fome; to ignore her virtues; to decry her merit ; to tear her doAvu, if possible, from the lofty eminence upon which God himself has placed her. Those who are most arrogant in their Scriptural pretensions, are the loudest in their expressions of disrespect to God's own Mother; and, what is truly deplorable, that sex of which she is the ])rightest oi'nament, and proudest boast, that sex ])y which sin was l)rought into the world, ]>ut by which, likewise, in her venerable person, the ravages of sin were most gloriously repaired ;— that sex, to which the life and virtues of the Ever Blessed Virgin Mary should be ])eculiarly dear, seems to feel no interest, no reverence, no tender respect for its best benefactress, and holiest representative on earth. Ladies, calling them- selves Christians, speak of that highest exemplar of femi- nine grace and merit, with a cliiUlng coldness, an icy in- dift'erence, a provoking determination to accord her as little respect as possible; and such has been tlie general prevalence of this ill-will (we might say, ill-concealed hatred) to the august Mother of the lledeemer, that her Image lias l)een dragged through the streets of the boasted Metropolis of Scri]):ural Knowledge, within a recent period, and treated witli indignities, which the sam« mis- guided people would not otter to the image or represen- tation of their Sovereign, tiieir relative, or their triend. It is nearly so with all the maxiiiiS of the Gospel, and all the doctrines of the Saviour. For He said, " Blessed are the meek: Blessed are tliey that mourn: Blessed are the Peacemakers : Blessed arti they who hunger and thirst after justice, and who suilln* j)ersecution for justlrr sake." The coniit^^r maxims of the mod.ern Scrij)tural world are: i PASTORAL LETTER. 18 Blessed are the proud, tlie haughty, and the insolent. Blessed are they who will suffer no wrong, and endure no insult. Blessed are all who rejoice, and indulge without restraint in the amusements of life. Blessed are they who hunger after wealth, and thirst after power. Blessed are they who make Mammon their God, and worship it with the grossest idolatry. Blessed are they who possess and exercise the power to peioecrite the weak, and revile the oppressed, and speak untruly of the innocent. When Christ fasted, it was a genuine Fast of Forty Days, after which " He grew hungry." Wlien the modern sinners, who have cried do^vn lasting as a Papal super- stition, condescend, on rare occasions, to celebrate a pub- lic Fast, tlie day of pretended mortification is converted into a day of riotous indulgence, criminal excess, and worse than Pagan })rofanatiun. But of you. Dearly Be- loved Brethren, " we hope better things, and nearer to salvation." Far otherwise have you learned Chi-ist, and the salutary doctrines of the Cross. There is no other way of salvation for you, but the lloyal highway of the Cross, the dolorous w'ay (traced by the tears and blood of our dying Saviour), which leads to Calvary, and from Calvary to Heaven. Yours is the glorious privilege of suffering contradiction and calunniy, oi)prol)rium and in- sult for the sake of justice, and the name of Christ. If your religion were of tliis world, the world would love its own ? The ))itter and unchristian rancour with which your Religion alone is assailed, does not assuredly come from above; and the savage nature of the warfare you have to encounter, too clearly betrays its origin and author. The Spirit of all Evil instinctively knows from wliat (piMi't(M' lie receives his most deadly wounds; and it is natural, that she who crushed, and still erushes, the Ser- pent's head, should come in contact with the slime of his 14 PASTORAL LETTER. impotent fangs. Between lier seed and the seed of the Serpent, the Lord " liath put enmities," and the enmities will subsist, until that old dragon be chained down for ever. The medicinal Fast, which the Church prescribes, durin"- the holy season of Lent, will associate you with all that is veneral)le, in the new Law and the old ; with the liawgiver of the Jews, the Supreme Legislator and Judge of the world, as w^ell as the illustri(nis Prophet who is to" reappear l)efore the last coming of the Sovereign Judge ; and, without calling up the veneral)le names to which we have already referred, one Ijright ray from the supernatural glory of Tliabor, sheds the clearest light upon this di\'ine and apostolic ordinance. We need not ascend ^Vlount Sion to behold the Royal penitent with his "soul liuml»lod,"and his "knees weakened from fasting ;" nor follow the rroi)het Daniel into the palace of the King of Babylon, nor Esther into the royal halls of Assuerus. It is not necessary to go to the humble Bethulia to con- template Judith ; nor to the proud Niniveh to regard the universfd fast of its guilty citizens ; neither need we enter tlie Temple, to see Anna the Prophetess, who "served the Lord, night anount of Transliguration is sufficient, and more than sufficient, to confirm and sustain us: for He, our great mo.lel, oui- Glorious King, and in- vincil'U} Leader — lie, whose countenance shone brighter than the Sun, and whose garments were made white as gnow— "Fastkd Forty Days;" and a voice from the Eternal Father commands us to "IIkak IIim," as' the Be- loved Son in whom he is well pleased. And the Jewish Legislator, as well as the great Prophet of the new and ancient covenant— the two illi-strious witnesses wlio bore i PASTORAL LETTER. 16 testimony to Christ, and, couversing Avitli liiiu on this mystic mountain, confirmed all the Oracles in favour of the divinity of His mission — Moses and Elias, the publisher of God's law, and the precursor of His judgment, each fasted forty dmjs. Hence the enemies of His Holy Church, and of His Holy Word, may declaim as long as they please, against our Forty Days' Fast of Lent. With such high authority, and in the blessed company of Jesus, Moses, and Elias, we can well afford to endure their taunts, and to look down with pity and forgiveness on their deplorable l)hnd- ness, or their still more deplorable malice. On former occasions, we have descanted at some length on the benefit of fasting, and from the Sacred Scriptures? and the Holy Fathers, ex])lained its essence, its obliga- tions, and its precious advantages. Hence, it n.ay 1)e less necessary, at present, to expatiate upon the suliject. But, we can never repeat too often, that true Fasting is the abstinence from sin, the restraint of the tongue, the con- trol of passion, the crucifixion of vice, the circumcision of the lieart. True Fasting is the deatli of concu])iscence, the health of the body, the medicine of the soul ; it ex- pels demons, heals diseases, purifies the heart, and en- lightens the understanding. It is in youth decorous, in manhood a protection, in age venerable ; for the rich their best security, of the poor the sanctifying companion. Fasting is the food of continence, the preservation of public morals, tlie source of jirivate virtue, the stimulus of o])edience, tlic guardian of matrimony, the friend of widowhood, the nurse of virijins. Nevertheless, Fasting is not the perfection of sanctity, but a powerful means to become holy. The Kingdom of Heaven is not meat and drink, but justice, peace, and spiritual joy: "Not hi l)read alone doth man live, but in / 16 PASTORAL LETTER. M' every word tliat proceedetli from the mouth of God." Hence, our Kedeemer likewise said of Himself: " My food is to do the will of Him that seut me." Unless you strive to accomplish this holy will, by the faithful discharge of every Christian duty, your fasting is in vain. The absti- nence of the mouth will profit nothing, if the heart do not fast from sin ; for, in what does the fasting sinner differ from the devils, who use no food, but are reljels against God ? When you fast, therefore. Dearly Beloved Brethren, do so in the spirit of obedience, and with an humble and contrite heart. When the " body of sin " is so changed Ijv penitential austerity, as to become an ac- ceptable victim of sacrifice, present it with confidence, as a pure holocaust to the Lord. When the flesh renounces food, let the spirit die to concupiscence ; and, in propor- tion as you wisely defraud the sensual appetite, give to the poor with a cheerful al)undunce. Bestow on virtue what you subtract from pleasure. Instruct the ignorant, visit the sick, clothe the naked, protect the widow, assist the orphan, wipe away the tear from the eye of afiliction ; for, assuredly, if you do these things " you will be strength- ened in love," and the sweet odour of your fasting will ascend like incense before the Throne of Grace. Retrench all the indulgences which self-love would accord, and at the same time, avoid the immoderate severity which an erroneous conscience would suggest. And, thougli there may be few indeed who require such a caution, you must always remember, that the object of Fasting is not to de- stroy the body, but to preserve it ; to keej) it in a state of wholesome moderation; so that whilst it is able to per- form all its proper duties in harmony with the soul, it may be jirevented from rising in rebellion, against reason, and against God. The surest mode to comply with the spirit of the ol)ligation, is to follow, exactly, the precept PASTORAL LEITER. 17 of the Church ; and, Avhether from ])eculiar circumstances and just reasons, you seek for dispensation from the rigours of her law, or for permission to do more than it requires, not to judge for yourselves, in either case, but to submit with docility and meekness to those who are the guardians and expositors of that law, and your divinely- appointed guides in the pilgrimage of this life. Above all things, shun singularity, and fast in secret ; that is, keep your intention pure ; and, from the secret chamber of your heart, let your Heavenly Father alone be ac- quainted with the affectionate sincerity of your homage, and the devout simplicity of your obedience. Avoid all extremes; Jonathan snatched the honey-comb with too nnich impatience ; the Israelites in the desert clamoured for more savoury food ; the unha])i)y children of Heli were too anxious for the well-cooked morsels of their own choice; the doomed inhalntants of Sodom devoured too much ; the rejected soldiers of Gideon were intemperate in the use of water ; and even a vile mess of pottage was swallowed greedily l)y Esau. Thus, sinful excess does not always depend uj^on the (juality of our food, but on the unmortiiied and irregular appetite with which it is consumed. Those, who for just reasons are either totally or par- tially dispensed from the general Law of the Cliurch re- specting the Fast of Lent, we would earnestly recommend to make for such indidgence every compensation in their power, by alms-deeds and other works of mercy, by fer- vent i)rayer, and diligent meditation on the great truths of eternity ; and, as the Church has ai)pointed separate portiims of the Gospel, and different selections from the oth(!r parts of Holy Scripture, for every day in Lent, trea- sure uj) in your hearts. Dearly Beloved Bi-ethren, those })recious words of the Lord, wliicli "are sweeter ihnv. 2 • 18 PA8T0KAL LETTER. lioiiey and the lioney-coml >," and thus let your souls derive new vigour and life, not from the " food which perisheth," but "from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." AVith the Royal Prophet David, " meditate on the commandments of the Lord," and "love" them, for " all llis commandments arc truth." " Love the laAV of God," and let it be your " meditation the whole day long," for " the law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls, the testimony of the Lord is faitliful, giving wisdom to little ones." Ask Him to " give you understanding that you may know His testimonies " and tliat you may not be "as the unlearned and unstalile who pervert the Scri})- tures to their own destruction ; " for " there is' a way that seems straight tc man, but the ends thereof lead to death." And, as the great object of tlie Lenten Fast is to weaken concupiscence, to purify the heart, to prepare you for a perfect reconciliation Avith God in the Sacrament of Penance, and for an intimate union with Jesus Christ in the Adorable Eucharist, take sj^ecial care to avoid all dangerous occasions of sin, to mortify your senses, to re- .■,traiu your eyes, "that they nuiy not see vanity," and your ears that they may not listen to obscenity or de- traction ; and your tongue, that it may speak purity, charity and truth ; and your hands, that they may refrain from injustice, and exercise the works of mercy ; and your feet, that you may " keep them from every evil way," and your Avliole body, that it may 1)e likened to the similitude of the innocent and crucified Body of Jesus. If you Avisli that His Passion and Death should be your Peace and Reconciliation, "follow peace with all men" (for all are your brethren), " and holiness, without which no or.e can see God." Love your neighbour, tbrgive your enemy, be reconciled wdth your brother. Repair to the utmost of 1 PASTORAL LETTKH. 19 your poAver all the injury you have done him, whether in property or character ; and, having thus effected an en- tire reconciliation with your l>rother, you may come to the Altar, to offer your gift of contrition and lov^ with pure hands and regenerated heart. And, whlht we exhort you to perform all tlie duties of fraternal love to every creature of God, both within and without the True Fold of Jesus Christ His Son, we make a special appeal to your tenderest sym])athie3 in behalf of those " other sheep who are not of this fold," in behalf of that numerous class of our beloved neifdi- bours and brethi'en who "have gone astray from Uie womb (of our holy mother the Cliurch) and have spoken false things " on account of this unliai)i^y separation. O, Dearly Beloved Brethren, for them we invoke your most fervent j^rayers, together with the potent influence of your edifying example. Sad and bitter was the day wliich ))elie]d tlin (]isni]iti()ii of Clu'istian Union; calami- tous the tinu' when all Cliristcndoni was convulsed by the rude. shock< of religion, rebellion; when the 2>eoi:»le of God were divided into hostile camps, and those who had formerly "walked together with consent in the House of God," were delivered up to all the horrors of disunion, and unchristian strife. Then was rent asunder " the seam- less garment" of Jesus Christ: in those disastrous times the "unity of the spirit "Avas distur])ed, and "the bond of peace " broken ! O, how contrary to the end of Christ's mission ! Hoav diametrically opposed to the spirit of His Word, to the teachings of His life, to the object of His constant i)rayer ^ He is a God, " not of dissension, but of l)eace," not of discordant confusion, but of harmonious loA-e. Foretold by the Proi)het as " the Prince of Peace " He has fully confirmed His title to this glorious epithet ; "making peaceable by the blood of His Cross the ndu& 20 PASTORAL LKTTER. W^ that are in Heaven, and the things that are on earth." Wherefore.^ " He is oiir Peace, who hath made lioth one . making void the law of conniiandmenti? contained in decrees, that He might make the two in Himself into one new man, making peace, and might reconcile Lotli to God in One Body by the Cross, killing the enmities in Him- self. And coming. He preached peace to yon ihat were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh ; for by Him we have access Ijotli in one spirit to the Thither." And hence (as the Apostle here concinues in his Epistle to the Ephesians), " we are no more strangers and foreigners, Ijut fellow-citizens with the Saints, and domestics of God, l)uilt upon the foundation of the Proi)het3 and Apostles, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner-stone, in Avhom ALL THE BUILDIXG BEING FRAMED TOGETHER, grOSVeth up into an Holy Temple in the Lord." Thus, at His b.irth, the Angels proclaimed "Peace on earth ; " during His mortal life He promoted peace by word and example. When His "beautiful feet" were seen "upon the mountains " He evangelized Peace. " Go in Peace,'' was His favourite expression to those Avho were made whole from all their diseases by His omnipotent mercy. When He sent His disciples to propagate His holy doctrine, " Peace be unto tiiis house" was to he their familiar salutation. Ho declared the lovers and pro- moters of Peace to l)e " Bl- -('((," and th,it they should be "called the children ui LoiV When he reproved His over-zefdous Apostle for an infraction of peace. He pro- claimed that " all who use the sword, would ])erish by the sword." At his death. He made Pea'ce by His Blood between earth and Heaven, and after His glorious Pesur- rection, as if this " Peace of God which surpasseth all un- derstanding" was the p-'ncipal object of His mission and the noblest fruit of liis triumph, " Peace be to you " was i PASTORAL LETTfm. 21 was His first sfilutation to [lis son-owing Apostles, and, as it wei'c, to impress more (lee])ly upon them tlie inestimable value of the heavenly gift, He repeats a second time : " Peace be unto you ! " And to shew them the nature of this blessed Peace, and how different it was from the- false j)eace of the Avorld, He said to them : " Peace I leave ycu. My Peace I give you ; not as the Avorld gives do I give it to you." This heavenly Peace was, therefore, the Legacy of Christ, and all His true children will undoubtedly possess the precious inheritance. He did not bequeathe His Paace in vain ; and He therefore left, in the Unity of His Church, most elncacious means for securing it to His faith- ful disciples. Peace is the fruit of the Holy Ghost, the i^;)irlt of Love. There can be no peace on earth without fharity ; there can lie no mutual charity Avithout thorough union, and because union is necessary for Peace and Love, Our Lord constructed the Glorious body of the Church, in the Unity of one House, of one Bark, of one Kino-dom, of one yiieepfold, with the Head united to the members, and the mend^ei-s knit together in the bonds of love. To preserve this Unity He placed One Shepherd over this One sheepfold, and, to guard against the dangers of di- vision. He constituted a Centre of Unity around which, and in connection with wliicli, the children of peace were to find security and repose. In holy Scripture the Church f God is compared to one Spouse, to one Army, to one human body, to one Kingdom, to one Sheepfold, to one House ; and as one visi]»le head is necessary fijr each, so lie appointed One Head over His Church, to feed His Lambs and his Sheep. " One is my Dove, my perfect one is l)ut one " (Cant. vi. 8). " She is terriWe as an army set in array " (Ibid.). "The Father of Glory hath subjected all things under his (Christ's) feet, and o < i it 22 PASTORAL LETTER. M I hatli inado liiin head over all the Cliiircli wliicli is Ills Body " (Ephe^. i. 32). " In the days of those Khigdoiiis the God of heaven will set up a Kixgdo.ai that shall never he destroyed, and His Kingdom shall not be delivered up to another peoi)le ; and it shall break to pieces, and shall consume all these Kingdoms; and Itself cJiall STAND FOR EVKu'' (Dan. ii. 44). This is the Kingdom of Christ over which "He was appointed King" (Ps. ii. 0) by His Heavenly Father. 'Jliis is the One Kingdom, whose eternal duration, in '\iliilment of the pro])hecy of Daniel, was announced by the Angel Galjriel to his ever- Blessed ]Mother, when he said : " He shall reign in the house of Jacol) for ever, and of IIis Klxgdom there shall l)e no end" (Luke i. X), 2'd). Thij is the One Kingdom to Avhich the King of Kings so frequently alludes in the Gospels, and of wliich He said: "The Son of :\bin shall send his angels, and they sliall gather out of IIis Kix<^- DOM all Sc.an(hils'\Abitt xiii. 41). The Church of (Jod is the oxio suekpfold, of v.hich Christ Himself was the first visilde Sheidierd, within which alone there is security against the Infernal Avolf ; in whicli alone the sheep of Christ "liear his voice;" for which One Fold, Christ, the "good vSlu'pherd laid down IIis life for His sheep;'' and f )r the Unity of which Fold He was so anxious, tiiat He a(hh'd : ''And other sheep I have tluit are not of this F(»i.i>: tlu-m, aiso, I nmst bring, and they sliall liear my voiee, ami tliere shall l»e One Fold, AM) Onk SiiKi'iiKiM)" (John x., pa-si m). This is the Chuivh which tlie Ai)ostle calls One House, in his Kpistle to Tinu)thy (iii. i:>), where lie terms it "The Hou-e of (iod, which i> Tin; Cmia ii of tuf. Livixarnest fervour of I lis prayer foi' Unity sjiows with what love He died to secure it f >r His Uhurch : " Holy Father, hce}) them in th\ name whom thou hast given me, that thevmavbc OxK, AS WK ALSO ark" (John xvii. 11). And to j.iove that the unity for which He prayed, and jirayed eilica- ciously, was not t«) be confined to the Ajiostolic a<''e, lavt waw to su1>sist for ever in His Gliuicli, He adde(l (v. x^n, 21), "And not f.r them only do I ])i'ay, but for them also, who, through theii- word, shall believe in me, that they ALL MAY UK oNK, as thou, Father, in me, and I in I i 24 PASTORAL LETTER, Jt- thee : that tliey also may l^e one in us ; tlhat the worhl may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glovy which thou hast given me, I have given to them, that they may be oxe, as ave also are One. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect in Oxe" (Id. 20, 28), This double unity, of Faith, and Loving Communion, is alluded to by the Apostle wlien he tells the Ephesians to "be careful to keep the unity of the spirit in the Iwnd of peace. One Body and One Spirit : as you are called in one hope of your calling " (iv, 8, 4). The Holy Fathers and illustrious Doctors of the fn-st agvs of Christianity have unanimously taught the same scrii)tui'al doctrine concerning the unity of Christ's Church, and the danger of eternal damnation incurred by those who disturb this unity even by schism, as well as by heres}'. (a) To re- nounce the One " Faith once delivered to tlie Saints," was, in their opinion, to forfeit heaven. To break olf communion Avitli the centre of Unity, and to refuse obe- dience to the Chair of Peter, was to shake off allegiance to God Even if another A])ostle "would erect another hi opposition to this single chair, he would be a schismatic and ])revaricator." And lu'cause "one" (of the xYpostles) "is chosen, that by tlu; appointment of a Head, occasion of schism might be i'i'mi»ve(l," whosoever "was uuiteil in comnumiou with the Chair of l\'ter, folh)\ve(l no chief hut Clu'ist, AVhosoever eat the Lamb ont>i(h' tliat house was }>rofane. AVhosoever was not in lliat ark would perish In tlie lU»od," And again, " He that for>ook the Clnucli of Christ had no shari' in the rewai'ds of Christ: lie was a stranger, he was ])rof me, he was an enemy : lie could not have (iod for his Father, if he had not the ' Church for his ^^ttller. There was no other TToii>e for l)elievers except the ( )ne Cihmuii." The crime of hreuk- hiL' this unity of the Church was termed hy tho>i' holy PASTOEAL LETTER. 25 f men "an iuexpiaLle crime," wlikli "no shedding of l)lood could atone for." It was called " a most horrid sacrilege," it was compared to "murder" and "idolatry," and said to be even much more enormous than the crime of the cow- ardly Tkaditors who gave up the Scriptures to the Pa- gans to be committed to the flames. I+' \ -e have thus given a true scriptural notion of the Unity of the Church, what are we to think of the nnilti- tudinous sects and so-called churches, which now iill the world, and which agree in nothing but disagreement? The language of true Faith is one and invariable ; but they have introduced among the people of God more discordant sounds than were heard in the confusion of Babel. And, without taking a general survey of Chris- tendom, but coniiniug our attention to this Province of Nova iScotia, have Ave not every reason to deplore the non-existence of Unity in Conmumion and Faith? So nniny ditlerent churches (as thoy are termed), so many various creeds, sucli endless diversity of scrii)tural inter- pretation, so many clashing' systems, discordant opinions, irreconcilable tenets, contradictory dogmas, and deplora- ble divisions? No onunon liead, no common centre, no connnon bond of union! AVas this the Unity for which CUirist prayed, for which Christ shed his blood i V\\\\nt against puli)it ; connnunion-table against altar; tignrative commemoration against sacrifice ; pi'iesth(K>d against Fpis- coi)acy ; nature against grace; predt.'stination against free- will ; imputed righteousnes^i against sacramental ellicacy; barren faitli against fruitful works; i)rivate judgment against Church authority ! Even in the very city from whicli we Avrite, how many ditlerent creeds, and formulas, and i>laces of worshij)! Some believe that Christ estab- lislied a Cliurch with a visible Head, and otliers deny it. Some hold that tlie Church Avhicli lie founded on a rock, I 1 26 PASTORAL LETTEH. ■■■i could never ])e overtui'iied ])y t]ie infernal powers ; wliilst otliei-s maintain that she has fallen into innumerable errors, and that consequently the gates of hell h((ve pre- vailed ji^uainst he]', notwithstanding the solemn i)i'omise of her (livine Founder, (n) Some believe that the bap- tism of infants is ])oth lawful and necessary; others deny it. Some teach that by IJaptism, Original Sin is blotted (Hit; others regard it as a mere ceremonial of enrolment in a religious 1)ody, ])ut by no means essential. Some de- clare that Christ left to his Church the power of for-iv- iug sins; others deny that lie has given, or could give such ]X)wer to men ; whilst others sti'angely enoui.h''ad- mit such a pou-er in Christ's human minister at Il-'ptism, l)ut deny that he can possess such a power for the I'emis- sion of sins after the i-cception of that Sacrament. Some believe that legitimate ordination and jurisdiction from the Church of Christ, are necessary for the ])i-eaching of His VVord ; others think that any man who feels ///wiw/ he has a call to do so, may assume the functions of an Evangelist. Some ])rofess that Clirist bequeathed His real Body and Blood to His Church at His last Supper, and that unless this real Bo.ly be eaten, and this real Blood be drunken according to His own declaration, we cannot have life in ns: others maintain that meiv ])read and^ wine are consumed, as a memorial and ligure of Christ's death, mid that tlie transubstantiation (.f Ihe Eu- charistic elements is a fond superstition. Some Iiold that the pastor has the right to rule and teach his Hock in the name of Christ, and i.y the authority of His Church; others that the flock have the light to\-ule the pastor, to judge liis doctrine, and to condemn it, as each one tliinks fit. Some iK'lieve that the Holy Apostles and otliei- faith- ful servants of (;,,,!, now reigning with Him in Heaven, may l)e honoured on earth ; others are ihitly oi)])osed to PASTORAL LETTER. 27 s ; whilst imcrable \avG pre- ])romise the l);ip- ers deny i l)lotted ii'olinent ?<)iiie (le- f toi'^iv- ihl give liptism, e I'emis- . Some >ii t'roiu L'hiiio' of // 1 m ■self IS of ail umI His Slipper, liis real ("ion, we ' bread yiire of the Eu- •Id that V ill tlie "Iniivh ; islor, to ' tliinks •I- iHidi- I leaven, o.sed to such doctrine. Some think it is good and useful to ask the prayers of the saints ; others hold it to be rank idol- atry ; Avhilst others, who refuse to ask the prayers of the saints in Heaven, admit it is right to solicit the prayers of sinners on earth ! SoLie Tjelieve in the existence of Hell ; others deny it ; and some others who reject the idea of Purgatory, say that the torments of Hell will not 1)e eter- nal ! Some firmly believe that the Pope is the successor of St. Peter; others, that he is Antichrist, altliougli in this supposition, there must have been nearly two hun- dred and sixty Antichrists instead of one, since St. Petei's time ! Some hold that, as successor of St. Peter, on whom the Church was built, and to whom Christ gave the ke}s of the kingdom of Heaven, and the i»ower io feed hi.' entire flock, both lambs and slieej), the Pope is the visible head of the Church ; others, in denying this, assert that the Church has only an invisible head in Christ himself, or that the head is in London, or Scotland, or the United States, or Nova Scotia, or that each mernJ>er of the tharch ?.y (f head in hhmeh\ and a ■pa-sto}' to him-^rJffalb/ ^^nall- fed to rule, f Christ really present in tlie Holy Sacrament or not^ Are the Scriptures the only Ride of Faith for all mankind a\ ithont exception? Ila< each one the right to interpret tlicm for himself? Is Ha]>tism necessary tor Salvation? Has Christ left to Ilis Church the power of forgiving sins ? lias this Church the power to teach, to judge, and to anathematize; and are all bound to subniit to her authority? Is faith alone sufficient for snlvation i Are fasting and al)stinence, and other cor[)<>r,d jiusterities I'epugnant to Holy Scrij)ture ; are they necessary foi" the sinner; are they injui'iou-i or sujicrstitions i lias the death of Christ done every thing for the sinner, and left him nothing to do tbi- his salva- tion ? is man at anytime unable to control his sinful ap{)etites, or c;in he, if lie u ill, at :dl times control tliem, PASTORAL LETTEK. 29 by tlie assistance of Divine grace? Is tbe doctrine of predestination true ; or is the Divine prescience incompa- tible with the freedom of man's Avill? Are Bisliops esjential to the Churcli, or Priests only ; or is ordination, or jurisdiction from the Churcli, necessary to preach the Gospel, and administer the Sacraments ? Are there any S.vcraments in the New Law ; or is there any Sacrifice still subsisting i Is there a Hell ; and is the punishment there eternal or not ? Is it possil)le to define from Scrip- ture what are fundamental articles of belief, and what are not? AVhat authority is to pronounce upon essentials and ncm-essentials ? Is each individual to believe what he pleases, and to declare that in liis judgment of tlie Scri[)tur.'>, any doctrine whicli ho wishes to i-cject, i- not a fundamental point? WouM n^ t this modern fiction, of fundament.ds and non-fun(himei.tals, lead to universal incredulity, to the disbelief of all mysteries, to the denial of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the miracles of Christ, the establishment of the Churcli, the existence of a Priest- hood, the divhie inspiration of Cod's AVord,— in, fine the destruction of all Pvcligion ? Yes, Dearly Beloved Brethren, here are grave cpiestions, of vital moment, with the solution of whicli are intimately connected the very foundations of Christiainty, the unity of the Cliurch, the harmonious communion in fiitli of God's children, the eternal interests of man. Who could dare to say, that, whilst such important dogmas are left, in different chui'ches, to the uncertain, capricious, and conlhcfing oi>inions of each indivi(hiaK all such Churches are Ox\F- as Christ and His Father are One? that they can ])reserve the unity of the s[)irit in the bond of peace ? that their eternal oi)positIon, consistent only in inconsistencies, :uid in palpable contradictions alone liarmonious, rei)re- seuts the perfect Uiiil>J, for whicli Christ prayed ? Alas ! I 30 PASTORAL LETTER. ,ti|,.i no: the very thought is l)ln:^})]ieinoii3; it would give the lie to Jesus Christ, and make Him equally inclirtereiit to truth and falsehood. We do not, however, Dearly Belo\^ed Brethren, write these things principally for you. P'or you are securely fastened to the rock (that is to Peter) upon which Christ built His Church. You are bound by indissolul)le links to the OTeat centre of Christian LTuitv. To use the Avords oi St. Jerome, you are associated " with the Successor of the fisherman, and the Disciple of the Cross," and in his "hnuse you may feast on the Lamb Avithout profanation." " Whosoevei- is united to the Chair of Peter is yours ; " — your friend, your associate, your fellow-disci})le. AYe have been sent to you from that Yenerable Chair ; we have come from that centre of union ; wc preach and teach by that Apostolic authority. AVe and you, the Pastor and I*eople, all recognize the common Head, and iu listening to the voice of the visil)le, we obey the Great Invisi1)le Head. We heed not the silly objection, that that One, Adorable, Invisible Head, and Spouse of the Church, is sufficient, and that no other is rerpiired: for we know that His visible Church reouired also a visible Head, and that such a Head was appointed by Him in the person of Peter, and his Successors, to preserve the Unity of the Church for which He died. We know that Christ i>. not onlv the author, but also the Invisil)le Minister of all the Sacraments; but that, n(.'\ utheless, He has appointed visil»h! A[iuicloved Bre- thren, do we Hisist upon the necessity of Union amongst the people of God — not for \ i»u, who are sateh" moored with the Bark of Peter in the only haven of rest—but for those who " are tossed al)out by every wind of doc- trine ; " for those hapless sheep who have strayed away from the security of the " One Fold ; " for those who are "always learning and never arriving at the knowledge of the truth," because, instead of seeking it in its ])roper fountain, they "dig t.) themselves broken cisterns which can contain no Avater;" f*n' those who are " blhul, and leaders of the blind," as Avell as for their unha]>py dupes; for those who have been taught from tlicir infancy to blasi)heme the Catholic Church, the only Church on earth that is truly One, tiiat is always the same, that has braved all damrers, and outlived all storms;— the innnovable I p 1 32 PASTORAL LETTER. Cliurcli wLicli, foiiiuled on a rock, lias mocked the ravages of time, the fury of tlie element:^, the macliinations of the wicked, and all the jDower of hell. Yen, this is the 'One Dove, the Undefiled one, the ]:»eloved Spouse of Christ; this is the Ark of Salvation, the holy City of God, the New Jerusalem, Avhicli has come down as a bride from heaven A\ith all those decorations which should adorn the Spouse of Christ. The Catuoltc Ciiukcii is the One House of the Living God ; the One Fold under One Shepherd; the One Ship undca* the guidance of Petei' ; the One S})iritual Temple in which alone Christ is truly adored; the One Kiniidom of which lie is the beloved Sovereign. The C^atholic Church is the only Church which has been assailed, reviled, and persecuted in every age, and in every clime ; the only Church against which the AA'liohi world has C(jmbined ; which this wicked world has hated, hated with a malignity that has surely not been inspired by IIea\'en ; the only Church that has been pursued by the world with unceasing fury, with remorse- less calunmy, A\'itli deliberate misre})resentation, with un- blushing forgeries ; Avith racks, chains and scourges; with imprisonment and exile, proscription and death. Other religious bodies may have had partial persecution, oc- casional struggles, and isolated ojiposition ; but it is the glorious privilege of the Catliolic Church that her whole existence throughout time and space is a continual warfare, a perpetual martyrdom, so tliat in ller alone are truly fulHlled the predictions of Christ concerning the tribula- tions of His Church. And then, if we consider her miraculous preservation in spite of all this opi)t)3ition — her unmterrnjited duration amidst the vicissitudes of time, the fall of empires, the wreck of nations, the change of dynasties, the shoclc of revolutions, the upheaving and overturning of almost evei'y thinu' on the face of the PASTORAL LETTER 38 eartli, must we not he tempted to exclaim that "tlie Most Iligli Himself liatli founded her ; " for if she were of human :>nstruction she would have been lomr since destroyed by all the human power andiiendish malice that have been brought to bear against her ? llow often has her destruction been confidently predicted ? How many prophetic calculations have been made upon her ap- proaching doAvnfall ! How frequently have not " the Kings of the earth and its princes stood up against " her, and the people comlnned to destroy her ! How often lias not her Chief Pastf)r been stricken with the sword of persecution, in the confident hope that the flock would be dispersed ! How many times, even in the present cen- tury, has not the downfall of the Papacy Ijeen exultingly announced ! And in the unhallowed union against this Church, was found, not only l)rute force, coercion, violence, wealth, jiower and talent, but all the inclinations of flesh and blood, all the stubborn pride of fallen man, all the perversion of 'his weakened understanding, with all the corruption of his sinful heart. Still, the Catholic Cliurch endured all, confronted all, defied all and triumphed over all. Nations and Empires, and pretended Churches have disappeared; but she is still young. ITer "youth is re- newed like the eagle's ; " her beauty, like that of her Divine Founder, is always ancient, and ever new ! Strong ill her unity, mighty in her truth, ])owerful in possession of tlie Great Chailer to " Teach All Nations," she stands erect, l)efore the rage of hell, anmitted to for the sake of peace, inasmuch as the Bishops of Alex- andria and Antiocii had tacitly, if not actually acquiesced, and this Decree of Chalcedon, in the IBtli Canon, had not infringed ui^on, but, on the contrary fully recognized the Priniatiai dignity of the lloman See, in these words : " From the things thy t have been done, and deposed by each -one, we determine before all things that the Primacy and Chief Honour, be preserved, according to the Canons, for the Most Beloved of God, the Chief Bishop of Old liome." The Emperors themselves admitted this supreme spiritual auth jrity in the Bishop of Rome. A joint Let- ter of A^alentinian and Marcijm to St. Leo on the calling of this very Council of Chalcedon, and a second Letter, from Marcian to the same holy Pope, are still extant. In the former they write : "We deem it reasonable first to inform your Holiness as possessing the principal superin- tendence of divine Faith, by our sacred Letters, inviting- and requesting your Holiness to jiray the Eternal God for the establishment and stability of our Empire, and that we may have such a desire and purpose, tliat having 86 PASTOEAL LETTER. m ] removed every impious error, in celebrating a Council by your authority (sou autJieutountos) a durable peace, pure and frf"! from all hatred, may be established among all the Bishops of the Catholic Faith." The same authority is admitted in the Letter of Mareian, and also the Letter of the Empress Pnlcheria to St. Leo. We mention tJiese things for a ])ur])Ose which will be seen hereafter. They sliow that the Church of Christ was divided, not in reality, or in Faith, but only in name, into the Eastern and Western Churches. The Unity of Communion was maintained ])y the obedience of all to the Roman PontiH'; foi", although the heresies of Nesto- rius and Eutyches led many into error, the great Body of the Oreek Church still kept the Faith, and obedience to the See of Rome down to the ninth century, in the time of Photius. This intruder was condemned by the Pope's Legates and a Council of Oreek Bishuj)s held at Constantinople; and he was ])anished ])y the Emperor Basil. And altliough this crafty and unscrupulous man so far imposed afterwards on the Emperor, as to induce him to restore him again, and banish the lawful Patriarch St. Ignatius, the Greek Church did not entirely break conini'.mion with the See of Rome until about the middle of the eleventh century. IS'either did all tlie Eastern Catholics join in the schism of Photius, for many of tliem liave, from theljeginiiing up to the present day, preserved their allegiance to the Holy See. From the time of Photius until tlie year P274, histo- liaus tUiclare that no less than thli-teen diti'erent attempts liad been math) by the (ireek schismatics to be reunited with the Holy See. In \\w above-mentioned year, the (reneral Council of Lyons was lield for this special pur- pose, and a most respectabh' embassy was sent to the council bv the Emperor Michael l*aleoloL''Us, and the PASTOrLVL LETTER. 87 Greek Churcli, bearing letters from both. The Emperor's letter was in Greelv and Latin, and in presence of Legates sent by the Blessed Gregory X. to Constantlnojile for that purpose, he and his son Andronicns sAvore n])on the Gospels that they would religiously observe and l)elieve what was contained therein. Li this letter was inserted the entire Nicene Creed, the belief in Seven Sacraments, in Transubstantiation, ttc. ; with a declaration that the Pope was the Supreme Pastor of all God's Church. It was addressed as follows : — " To the Most Holy and Most Blessed, First and Chief Pontiff, tlie Venerable Pope of the Apostolic See, the Common Father of all Christians, and the Yeneralile Father of our Empire, the Loud (iREOOKV : '• ^riciiAEi, tho Faithful Enipernr in Christ and Cod, itc., etc,, Paleolo- gns, and Spiritual Son of j'our Creat Iluliness, convenient Ilonour and Reverence with sincere and pure affection, and the desire of your jirayers." The letter of the Greek Bishops was sul)scril)ed l)y thirty-eight, amongst whom were twenty-six Archbisho])S or Metropolitans, avIio for themselves and th(>ir sutlVagan Bisliops, ])romised to hold, maintain, and jtrofess the con- tents of their Lmjiei'or's lettei'. They expressed tlieir regret that they could not induce tlie then Patriarcli of Constantinople, Jose]>h, to join tliem on tlui occasi(m, and declared tliat if tliey could not persuade him to l)e reconciled witli the See of Kome, they would depose liim from tlie Patriarchal dignify. 'I'liis promise they fulfilled in the following year, and clectecl in liis place .bilin Bee, the Great Logothete :in, the sull rages of the living faith- ful, tlie Sacrifice of the INIass, ])i'ayers, alms, and other pious oftices, are much available — and hi fine, that the Pope of Rome has the Primacy in all the Christian Avorld. is Successor of St. Peter, N'icar of Christ, and Head of all I m^^ 40 PASTOIUL LETTER. il the Churcli ; tliat tlie Pjitriareli of Constantinople is to hold the second ])lace after the Pope, the Patriarch of Alexandria the third, the Patriarch of Antioch the fourth, and the Patriarch of Jerusalem the fifth." The only Prelate amongst the (Ireeks who refused this Decree of Union was the obstinate Mark of Ephe- sus, who persisted in his uidiappy schism to his dying day. The venerable Josepli, the Patriarch of Constantf- nople, expired some days l)efe)re the articles were drawn u]); hnt although he was personally concerned in the pre-eminence unduly set up for his See, he gave his entire adhesion to the projected union, as appears from an affect- ing letter in hi^ own hand, wliich was found in liis cham- ber after death : -Joseph by the Divino ^k-n-y, A.vlihi>liop of Ciistiintinople, Now Rorao, ami points of docti'iiH', which, for centuries! )efore, PASTORAL LETTER. 41 those Greeks had sometimes denied, and sometimes ad- mitted. Where can we ever expect to find the Unity of the True Faith on earth, if it was nc^t exhibited at Lyons and at Horence? If the True Church, and the True Faith of Christ were not represerited tliere, it must he ad- mitted that there was no True Faith on Earth ; no Church of Christ ; no certainty in doctrine ; no fuliihuent of the Divine promise. But, as it woukl be blasphemy to assert that the Church had then perislied ; that the " gates of hell had prevailed against her ; " that all true Faith was banished from the earth; and that all Christendom had united in the promulgation of a false creed ; it becomes of the utmost consequence to all mankind, to all especially who are outside the fold of the Catholic Chui'ch, to ascer- tain what Avas the Faith of Lyons, and of Florence ? In the first place those memorable assemblies were presided over by tlie Bishops of Home, the successors of Peter in the Apostolic See, the only See of all those founded by the Apostles, which still subsists in all its pristine s])len- dour, and wi-tli all its plenitude of Si)iritual jurisdiction over the whole earth. At Lyons and at Florence the Primacy of jur' diction and honour was accorded to the Bishop of Rome. Pius IX., the present veneralde Head of the Catholic Church, is the legitinnite successor of Eugeniiis, of (Iregory, of Peter. lie is now the visible chief Pastor over the whole flock of Clirist, as they were ill the days of their holy Pontificate. Whosoever hears his voice, and obeys his authority, belongs to the One True Fold, and is incori)orated with the One True Church. For Peter sjjeaks thi'ough him; and neither his voice^ nor his (hicti'ine is ditferent from that of Eugenius or (iregory. The Faith su1)scribed, at Florence and Lyons, is the very Faith which he teaches at this day, and which is ]>rofessed by the whole Catholic Church. Not a syllable, not an 42 PASTORAL LETTER. I ll iota, not a single point ]ias been changetl by that Church since the days of the Union. The Fathers of Trent re- eclioed the decisions of Florence, as Florence did those of Lyons ; and the Catholic Faith, as defined at Trent, is the iaith now held by the whole Church of Two Hundred Millions, of -^M-.-h Pius IX. is the venera])le Ilead It detract^ litt.. i ,ni the force of the argument that the unsteady (Ireeks afterwards generally relajised, as they had frequently done before. Their melancholy apostasy from the Unity of Faith subscribed at Lyons and Florence IS only to ])e regarded as a clear proof of their schism ' the moi-e they departed from that common standard the' more rebellious they became against the King of ki'n-s- ^uid, as they violated and swerved from the" Creed of Morence, in the sauie proportion, did they wander from the unity and truth of Faith. The visil,le judgment of Ileaven, with which they were so often threatened l,y holy men, for their shameful prevarications, speedily over- took them; for within fifteen years after the Council of Iloreiice, in 14.5;), Constantinople fell l)eneatli the sai)guinary and degrading yoke of the Moslem, a ])ondao-e which has now continued for four centuries, durin- which the unhai.py ^Teeks have sufiered chastisements somewhat Ike to thosc^ of the obd.irate Jews, iov a similar resistance to Divme laith. And, let it not be forgotten, that the two niemorable Unions of the Eastern and Western Church, to which w(, have alluded, took ,)lace, nearly three hun.h-ed, and one hundred years, before the s^- called IJetormati.m; long before the vague and in.lefin- uble^name of Protestant was heard in Euroi»e; likenise that, at the present I.our, the (^rreek and Roman (,'ath(,lic U.uivh are thor,>ngldy agreed upon all essential doctrines ofK'uth, u.th th(., exception of tu'o-the Supremacy of the lope and the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the PASTORAL LETTER. 48 Son as well as from, the Father, — two points, to wliich, as we have seen, they had repeatedly given their assent in the fullest manner, and before the face of the world. There can be no question then, of where True Unity is to be found — unity of love, unity of faith, nnity of priesthood. ^Ye wouhl therefore most affectionately and earnestly conjure all those who do not belong to the Holy Koman Catholic Church, to meditate seriously on these things, and to ask themselves what security they can give for the truth (we will not say of their Faith but) of their religious opinions, Avhen they Und them in o})position to so many millions of Christians ; to the most ancient, illus- trious. Apostolic Cliurches; to so many General Councils; so many learned and holy Doctors ; so many venerable Bishops; to the conunon dogmas of the Eastern and Western Churches, to uninterrupted tradition, the con- sistent andinnnutaljle creed of tiif See of Peter, in which alone was ever found the One Shepherd, ruling over the One Sheepfokl ? Alas! those Avho have abandoned tlie fountain of living waters, md dug to tliemselves broken cisterns, have had nuich reason to dei)lore the calamitous results of their unfortmuite separation. They know not " how sweet and ])leasant it is for l)rethren to dwell together in unity" and love, Tliey have lost the connnoii Father, the common Head, the supreme ar])iter of all (il.pntes, the supreme and sacred tribimai, so wisely instituted la the Church, for the settlement of all dilVerences between the (U)mestics of faitli, +^ . sheep of Christ, the children of God. With no ])ilot to steer, no clnirt or compass to to gui.!<> them, " they are tossed about l)y every winrethren. The united prayers of all would ascend from the same temple, with the grateful odour of acce]»tal)le incense, before the Throne of Mercy. The " nndtitude of believers having but one heart and one sour' would, notwithstanding their nund)ers, or the dif- ference of clhnate, nation or customs, all "partake of the one Bread," in the life-giving Eucharist, where all would happily meet in Jesus, and Jesus would 1)e in them ! The cohesive principle of auth(jrity would unite all ranks and classes ; and the dilTereut portions of society, each ob- 46 PASTORAL LETTER. lip serving its proper sii1)or(li nation, would mingle, in one harmonious whole. Parents and superiors would rule with more gentleness and ])ower, and he o1)eyed^ with more docility and respect. The supreme authority in the state, no matter what its form of government, would V)e submitted to with more alacrity and princii)le, and the laws would be ol)served more faithfully and froni purer motives. The arduous task of Eulers and Legislators would be lightened in many respects ; and some of those vexed questions which so deeply conc(^rn the moi'ul and pliysical condition of the people, and ^\•hicll, in countries Avhere ditfe-ent religions prevail, seem to have hitherto baffled all the attempts of the wisest statesmen, and purest ]»lii]anthroi)ists, Avould receive a s})eedy and satis- factory solution. Need we allude to the eml^arrassing sul>)ect of education, and other kindred questions, which can never l)e settled on a sound basis, unless ])y a people united in one religious communion ? We trust, however, we have said enough on the na- ture of the Unity for which Christ prayed and shed His Ijlood, and in which He established His Church ; on its manifold blessings, and the melancholy consequences winch have resulted from tlie division of the people of God. Let us hope, therefore, that what we have uttered in charity and kindness will l)e received, b^ all those to whom it is addressed, in a similar si)irit ; that pon- dering on these things in the sanctuary of their hearts, with a sincere desire to know and embrace the Will of their Heavenly Father, they may fervently pray to Him to V)e guided into Unity and Truth. These expectations are strenc^thened from Avliat we have known and heard of the manner in which our exposition last year of some of the misrepresented tenets of the One Holy Catholic Church, and especially her belief and practice respecting PASTOEAL LETTER. 47 tlie Sacred Scriptures, lias been received tlirouglioiit the Province. We have hjid many consoling and su])stautial proofs of the valne of that appeal to the good sense and religions feeling of the people of Nova Scotia, (f.) We therefore earnestly and hunihly entreat Ilini who " is our Peace," and Who prayed for Unity amongst His disci- ples, as the mark " by which men might know that His Father had sent him," to fill all our hearts with the spirit of peace, union, and love ; to 1 )anish discord and all un- charitableness ; to remove prejudice and crroi', and to make us all one, in the pefect unity of Faith and Love, as He is one with His Eternal Fatlier ! O that we could hopefully invite all into the bosom of the One True Church in the affecting language of St. Epiphanius at the close of his mem(^ral>le Treatise against Heresies ! " My dove, my undefiled is but one : this spouse is the Holy City of God, the faith, the foundation of Truth, the firm rock against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. For now, being free from all trouT)le, fear, and uneasiness, and being in an excellent situation, on account of the firm tranquillity and security which here exist, how did we rejoice in si)irit, on being received into a peaceable har- bour! We have j «ed many evils in om- navigation through the above dangerous seas (the various heresies which he had described and refuted in his book) ; but now, having the Crrv in si^it, let us hasten to this Holy Jerusalem, the Virgin Spouse of Christ, the secure Foun- dation and Rock, and our Reverend Mother, saying with propriety : Let us ascend unto the JToiuitnlti of the Lord., and uvto the Ilon-se of the God of Jacoh, and she will teach us our UKnjs. Let us speak to lier in the words of her Spouse: Come from Lihamis.mj ^wn^Q] come: be- cause thou art all fair and there is no spot in thee— so that being placed in thee we may rest from the above I(','i 48 I'ASTOKAL LKTTER. .:*!- :!!'il m i troiil^lesome lieresies, in Tliee Our ^Mother tlie Churcli, and in Thy lioly doctrine, tliat we may be refreslied in the Truth witli the Holy and (^nly Faith of Goal" To hasten this desirable consummation, Dearly Bsloved Bretliron, redouble your fervent petitions to ..eaven, and take care that your sanctifying example sliall add to the efficacy of your prayers the sweet attractions of edifi- cation and love. The happy symptoms of a return to Unity whicli liave appeared for some years past must fill our hearts with consolation and liope ; and we trust that those, distingui iied alike for learning, probity and virtue, wlio liave in these our times sought refuge in the Ark of Peace, are but the forerunners of innumerable others w^ho will seek for admission to the One True Fold, (o.) Before we conclude. Dearly Beloved Brethren, we beg to I'cnew all our former exhortations in favour of that most noble work of Catholic piety and zeal, the Associa- tion TOP. THE PiiOPAaATiox OK THE Faith. Continue to suppoi't its blessed operations in every part of the known world, by generous alms and fervent prayer. You Avill thus co-operate Avitli Jesus Christ Our Great Higli Priest the Divine Sliepherd of our souls, and all Tlis holy Mis- sionaries on earth, in the Godlike work of the sanctifica- tion of souls. Let all unite in this hdjour of love ; those who are favoured witli the goods of this life cheerfully giving in proportion to their means, and those who are unal)le to render p. uniary aid, contributing the powerful assistance of their prayers. We s])ecially entreat our venerable and l)eloved fellow-lab(-urers in tliis humble portion of ti)o Lord's vineyard, to ])romote this good and great work to the utmost of their power, amongst the faithful confided to tlieir care. Finally, Dearly Beloved Brethren, we "b* >eech you" witli the Apostle (liom. xvi. 17, 20), "to mark them who NOTES. 49 make dissensions, and offences contrary to tbe doctiines wliicli you have learnt, and to avoid them. For they that are such serve not Clirist our Lord and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the liearts of the innocent. For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good, and simi)le in evil. Aj ' may the God of Peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with you ! " Amen. Saint Maky's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Quinquagesima Sunday, 1854. NOTES. (A.) On this great mark of Uuity, and tbo necessity of all the faith- ful being united in One Church, the early fathers are unanimous. We give a few extracts to support the assertions in the text. St. Clement of Alexandria, in tho 7th Book of the Stroiiiata. — "Ecclesiam quae est Una, conantiir liaereses in iimltas di?^cindere. Antiqua e.st et Catho- lica ; Una est propter unitatein fidei." " They endeavor to divido into many heresies the Church which is One. She is old and Catholic ; she is one on account of the VNnY ok faith."_ St. Irenffius : " Qnoniani valde longum est in hoc tali vohnnine omnium Ecclcs':iruni cnnmeraro successiouts, maxiniae et antiqnissimae, et omnibus coenitae, a jrloriosissinns diiobus Apostolis Poti'o et P.T.nlc) Komae fnndatae et constitutae Ecclcsiue cam qiiani babetab Apostolis Traditii)ncm, ct annuncia- tain bominibus tidem i)Oi- suceessionom Episcoporum pcrvenientem usque ad nos indicantes, conl'undimus cos i.\\n (pioqno niodo, vol per sui placentiam ma- lam, vel vanam gloriam, vel caecitateni et nialam sententiam, praeror(iuam opor- tet 'colligunt : ad banc onim Ecclo>ium, propter potcntiureni principalitatem. necesse est omnem con venire Ecclesiam, hoc est cos qui sunt unditpie tideles: in (jna semper ab bis qiji sunt nndiquc conservata est ea quae est ab Apostolis Traditio." , , , . ^ . " For, as it would be tedious in such a volume as this to recomit the succes- sions of all the Churches, by pointing out the succession of the (Ireatust, and most Ancient (or most authoritative, arrhi.iotate) and best known to all men, the Church which was founded and established in Rome by the two most glo- rious \postles Peter and Paul, and declaring the Tradition which it holds from tbe Apostles, and the Faith published unto men by tbe succession of Bishops coming down even to our time, we confound those who in any manner gather together cither through self-complacency or vain glory, or blindness or per- verse opinion- for with this Church on account of Mio more powerful princi- pality, it is necessary that every Church, that is, the faithful who are m every 50 NOTES, iy ilirectioii should !i^,'rec, in wliicli tlie Apostolic Trailition has been ahvayspre- served by llio>o wiio are in every direction." — St. Irenmis Adv. Hares, iii. 2. St. Ireiuxnis, who was born aboat the year 120 and martyred in the year -202. was a disciple of St. Polycarp. Bishop of his native city Smyrna, and St. Polycarp was a disciple of St. John the Evangelist. TcrtuUian, Lib. de Pudicit. cap. L.Jspeaking of the Bishop of Home, calls him "Greatest High Priest and Bishop of Bishops." '• Audio etiam Edictum c.^se proposituni. et quidcm pcremptorium : Pontifex scilicet Maximus, Episcopus Episcoporuni diclt,"&c. The celebrated St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthago, who was martyred about the year 250, wrote an express Treatise on the Unity of tlie Church, almost every line of which confirms the doctrine laid down in the text. This brief passage is oxprestive : — " Hoc erunt utiqiie et cacteri Ajxistoli quod fuit Potrns, pari consortioprae- diti, ctluinoris et pot.statis; sed exordium ab rnitate profioisc'tur ; Priniatus Petro datur, ut Una Cliristi Eeclesia, et Cathedra Tna immstretur." "Tlie rot of liie Apo.sties were the .siine as Peter, invested with a like fel- lowship of honour and power. But a beirinnint; ])rocvcds from T'.nity ; the PiiiM.vcv is ;,dven to Peteh, that there should be shown O.ne Ciii:klu of Christ and U.VE See." And in the well-known passage from the same Treatise, beginning ; •• Avelle radium solis a corpov divisioucm lucis Unitas nou capit"— St. Cyprian writes as follows :- '•Taive away a ray from tiie ^un's body ; Irity will not bear a division of the ViLdit. Break a bough from a tree ; the broken branch oaimot bud. Cut otf a rivulet from the fountain; heint; thus separated, it dries up. Precisely 80 tiic Chureli radiant Willi the li(-dit of Ciirist, ditfuses its rays througli the whole world ; nevertheless the l-ifiht is One winch is thus dilVused, nor is the Unity of the P)ody divided. Through lier fertility her branches extend over the earth, and every jilace is watered by her copious streinis ; still there is but One iiead and One fountain. One Mother rich in her numerous pro^vny. I3y her fruitfnliiess wo are born, by her milk are wo nourished, and wc are en- livened by her Spirit. The Sjiouse of Christ cannot be an Adulteress; she is uncorrupted and pure. 8iio knows but On'e House, and AvltJi a chaste modes- ty preserves the sanctity of One Clmndier.'' Sl. Jerome, speaking of the Twelve Apostles, declares that St. Peter was chosen their head for the very purpose of preventing aerism and maintaining ITnity ; '• Unus inter duodecim eligitur nt capite ronstituto, schismivtis toUatur occasio." Lil>. i. contra Jov. and addressing Popo Damasus, ho says : — " Facessat invidia : i'oinaiii culininis recedat amliitio. ('um Successoro Piseatoris, et l>iscipido crucis loquor. i''-i;o nullum prinnnn, nisi Ciiristum, se- tiuens, {{eatiludini Tnac, id e-t. Catliednc iVtri, conunuidone coiisocior. Su- per illani p ti'ani a'dilicataui Ecclesiani of au. the Ai'oferi.Es sat, wascon- k'rrcd on lum lirst in the City of IJoiir.: that in him alone the Unity of the Chair might be observed liy all, and that i li of the other Apostles iinght not citiitn a Chair for himself, so that he who would erect another in opposkionto this single chair, would be a schismatic and a prevaricator." St. Augustine teaches the same doctrine in innumerable places ; call- ing Schism a dreadful sucrikirp. Cont. Litt. Pctil. ii. 96. Contra Par men. i. 8. comparing it to Murder, Id. ii. '>. - Quicumciuo ab unitate frumenti propter zizaniorum at palea) crimina sc separavit, propter ip- sum dissensionis et .schismatis malum, nee ab ipso crimine homicidii se potest defendero, diccnto scriptura ; Qid odit fratrem suum, homicida cn:' "Whoever has separated himself from the miity of the wheat through the crimes ot tlio cockle and chiiH'. cannot, on account of this very evil of dissen- sion, and schism, excuse himself even from tlie crime of murder, the Scriiiture tostityiii;;: Be who hateth his bivt/ier « a mnnlcrtr.''^ lie declares Schism to be a far greater crime than that of the Tra- ditors. Caut I'tfil ui, 3. and compares it to Idolatry. De Bapt. ConI, Donat. I. 8, "A pace Christi separantur auimu- ipiic in Ineresis vel schismatis sacriloffio . moriuntur. ' " "The souls who die in the sacrilege of iieresy or schism are separated from tlie peace of C'hrist." Ho even declares that if a Schismatic should suffer martyrdom, or ".so.mor than deny Christ that he should endure tribulations, hunger, nakedness, iniprisonmcnt, torture, the sword, or fire, or wild beasts, or oven the Cross itself," it would not avail him to salvation, though "per- haps " it might mitigate his eternal pMnishment in the other world. Lib. do Patient. .\.\vr. Finally, St. Augustine teaches expressly that Truth is to be found in the Cliurch r.lone. and that those who separate from the unity of her womb must of necessity lall into error ; for. commenting on the 4tli verso of the lvii. Psalm. The tiickid are a/ienahd from the wotub, they have, gotie astray from the wumb^ thaj have spo/ien false things — ho says : — if' 62 NOTES. * tf"' 4-. '^Ideo erso erraverunt a ventre, quia locuti sunt falsa ^ An potnis uleo locuti sunt falsa, quia orravc, unt a vontro ? Jn ventre i couveniemlo populos tii umm,^ i^o., (pu.iuam qiu- dam dicturi erant contra : Fuit et non c^i—txiguiMcm, mtenu.s. illi sine line sunt uhi ero : non iiwos qua'ro. T.-miMTMhs quuT..; teinporales dies milii iuuiuncia KrH/ui- . tatfin dierum meorum, non a'tmiitateni nuncia mdii. tiuamdni ero in isto sa-Huilo, annnncia mild pr-.pter iiU.s (pii dicnnf. Fuit et Jam non est. 1 rop- ier illos (lui dicunt, imiiletie sunt scrii.tura-, credidernnt ..'imies gentes, seU .\l.(.statavil et iieriit Ecclesia do omniluw gentibus. Quid est hoc : h.n;/>'ita- tcm ilierom niiovum ,n,,niHcia nn/il ? Et annunciavit, nee vacua tuit vox ista. Quis annunciavit mihi nisi ipsa Via? Quoniodo annunciavit? hcce ego vo- OiHCiimK'iiii iiKi/'h 11(1 coiimitiuiiiilloitcin fKrcnli.^^ " In the assembling of the peoide in one, and Kingdoms to servo tlio l.orU. But, that Ciiurdi wiiidi was the riiurcli nf all Nations, exists no hniger. Wio has perislied. Tiiis is sai.l by Hioso wlin are not in her. O impudent cry ! She exists not. because you do not belong to lier. Take care that lor that very reason you have imt lo"st your own existence; for she will exist, thi)iig h yon d(. not.' Tills abominal.le'and detestable cry, full of presuini)1ion and deceit, HUnnortcd bv no triitli. onligiitened bv no wisdom, seasoned by n<. salt : tbm vain, rasli, headlong and pernicious cry tiie Spirit of (Jod foresaw, when, as il aKuinst those who use it, ho proclaimed hor L'nitv, saying : /" as^elMbling tlio people in on.', and Kingdoms to serve tiie Lor.l. Uecause some m alter tinioH were to say against her, S/w mm; but o/tc «»« /«//f/fr, therefore, siio said: (in the prophetic words of the rsahnist)«/(y(0 me tlic/cirncss of my dn l-Jn ] ^ "^^ J^-^tico to rocor.J I,n, Invo f.n ; "''"'«'"' ^'"'^i t" niauif.Nf u 7 ^''"''^"'e. They tcntion and rcsnoot .' ?'* ^'*^''^^«'-^J to our fn.tr,,, f ^ • T"^ :r;- ^" -vera, n..!r^.:::;:7''"V'^^''"^^"^^-^'- -^^^^ «'-^f'bor. of uiLer creeds have 58 CONVERSIONS. often given them valuable assistance, both in money and otherwise, towards the erections of their Places of Worship. How refreshing it is to be able to record such creditable and generous deeds in the midst of the unchristian rancour which elsewhere disturbs the peace of society, in tlie much-abused name of Religion ! Need we repeat the advice so often given to the Members of our Holy Church throughout the Diocess to reciprocate all this kindness in the most grateful and Christian man- ner. (G.) In the Appendix to the Pastoral for the Lent of 1852. a List of Converts to the Catholic Church for some years previously, was publish- ed. The following are some of the numerous conversions which have taken place since that time. We regret that the List is imperfect, as we cannot at present furnish more details. CONVERSIONS. In Battrrshii's Dublin Catholic lifghtrij, for 1853, the List is as follows: Mrs. Gixltoii, wife of Rev. J. S. Galtoii, Perpetual Curate of St. Sidwell's, received into tlie Ctitliolio C'luirch, at Tor Abbey, Torcimiy. Rev. Dan vers Chirke, M. A., Exeter College, Oxford, Rural Dean anc' .ector, Sussex. Rev. Mr. Dodsworlh, Incumbent, St. Panera.-i, London, Rev. J. E. ]v-,rle, Ineumbent, Christ Ciuireli, liradford, Wilts. Rev. W. C. J. Iluteliinson, Curate, St. Endellion'ti. llov. J. Juines. Rev. .1. Laprimando, Curate. Archdeacon \'. Rev. II. E. Planning. Rev. W. M. Leihwaite, Incumbent of Clifford. Rev. James Orr, Curate, St. .James's, l.>ristol. Rev. Mr. Vale, Buokiniiham I'alaoe Chapel. Rev. Edward Walford, M. A., of Ealiol College, Oxford. Rev. Eerdinand J'".lliut White, ^'e\v-York. Hon. Gilbert Talbot. Tiio Dutchess of Montebello, iu Erance. Lady Ncwry. Laily Katherine Howard, daughter of the Earl of Wicklow. Lady lunma Charlotte l'<>.u\ and family. The Countess of Il.'dui-hahn, the celel)rated writer and novelist. Count de Lippe and family, in Germany. Hon. Miss Brand, daughter of Lord Daere. liaron Turckhein), formerly a member of the Baden ministry. Baron Weld. The late lion. Admiral Sir .lohn Talbot, (J.C.B. Sir Vere de Verc, Bart., and Lady ile Vore, of Curragh Chace, Limerick. Sergeant Bella'is, Cajitaiu I'aterson, brother of the Rev. Mr. I'ater.son. Charles Daslnvood, Esti. Captain Ualiburton, ol the iSth Reginiont, his wife and daughter. I CONVERSIONS. 69 Robert Biddulph Philips, Esq., of Lonc,vorth. Herefordshire Professor Gfiwror, the historian of the ThiKy \S Wu, JvancirR War.f f^^'^^'^ff'^, "*^P'i*^^- "f ^^orA Ellonborou^h. Mr. Frederi<;k Myers, of birkenhend. Airs, llnvaites, wife of Dfiiiiel Thwaites F«n of Til., i i M,ss Hubbard, sister of - Hubbard, Esq ' ^''^^'^^"••"' Mi,ss Hanmer, sister of Lady Cliarlotte Keir Ma^rV^;„;;hf^S;ro,St:' '"•• '■ '' «-"'--. ^^^ ^^ -eeived into St. WuiLn.'""'"^^ ^^""y- ^^^- --'-^ "'to the Clu.reh oj C ';,, by the Rev. Mr intcS SurJlJ'^t Si.S^ J£'u£ t?^h^i!-t^r- ^r'^';' --'-^ .station. ''=' ' ^ ""'^'' ".^ t'"= Ivev. F. Moses, ehi.pluiu of the into'L £.d!^:r^°s.A Si ''^"" '^"^' ""' '^'■- '"'"^^ ^"^''-"' ---^ Ch,Sh. i'lSciur' ^""''^ ^'''"''^'•^' ^'"'' '''^ ^^''^ ""^^ *^"^"y. ''eceived inlo the Cla,^X£; x?^r"''"" ""^ '"^'i^^ ''^"'•' "^ ^'- II-'- J"''?« J-'es, at Santa Bor^p;:;.te!"- ''"'"'^ ''"'' "' ^"'■'-"'^-■& and brother-in-law of Prince Jennne dompton-st piS"" ^ ^ ' ^' ^' ^'"'""^'^ Walworth, another sun, is now a lie- — Miss Hardin, .lan-hter of Colonel Hardin, U. S. Anglican Chirei" Sl^ff ; ' n '^ ^^''- "^"''''^' ^-'l-^dge, and a cleravnmn of the P.Sr;w5; gif''"""' °' *'""' I-oilg.. received i„l„ ,l,e cl,„,el, Ij ,l„ ,l„. *' M*^^" *■"■ '^^''^*'"' I'^f'^iveil into the Chiu'ch — Mrs. .Alartha Fordo roeeive.l into the Chu.Th hy the Rov Mr Svnan PV "■*■ 11 ',"r."'l\n""'' •'"'r,"''»I.V. of Ne,i,„l,, ,.„|„,,„| ||„, rM,.,]lc faill, cep£nr.!;„don>;;i',lrv;^;i;',;t;^irR'i;;:.:^ BisH. S AJ^Slce" ''"' ''^"'""'^'■^ "^^''^'^'^ '"•^■*'- ^'"'"■'•'' '•>' ^'^••- Von K,.. teler, bytidiS J;;^-;;J^"l>''y-''••l-'^-id,.nt in Ron,e, received into the Chureh 20. Mtir. .Silmnr, Archbi.shop of Pari- I'd'ci-iod in lil^ ,.!,.,,, I ii, i • ,• r two English lad.es belonging to'very honorable LlJll^r M 'illtBliliS'Tlo! I 60 CONVERSIONS. acliniiiistoreil to tliom tlic saornmcnt of Bnptisni eonclitionfllly, and the Mn*. ■jnis Do- noso-C'oi't(>H, mnljiissador of Spain, actofl as tcoilfuthcr for l)otli the neopliytes. ■IrxE 28. At tlie Colh'giate Cluirch of M.S. dtUo Vigiio, ayoiinij; I'rote.-taut lady m. o licr ahjui'atioii at tlio hands of the Archbishop of I'irgi, who gave hor condi- tional baptism. She !iad for godfathor tlie Marquis Gui.seppe Marco Durazzo, and for godmother, tlio Countess Maria Bonavciituri. .Illy 1. Mr.s. Douglas, Lady of Charles Douglas, Esq., admitted into the Church, by the Uov. F. Atlianasius, Missionary .Xpostoiie of Benares, East Indies. 27. Mrs. liastiek, wife of William J5a-;tiek, Escj., of Exeter, made solemn pro- fession of the Catholic faith, and was reecived into the "one fold," at St. Saviour's, Torre Abbey, Torquay. On the previous Saturday, Harriet Hawkins, an intelligent young woman, nmdelier abjuration of the errors of Prote.stantisn), at the same place. Alaster William 15astiek, a tine boy, son of the above lady, is preparing for reception into the (.'liurch. — The Countess of Montebello and her three daughters publicly abjured the I'rotestant religion in the church of Celos. She is the daughter of Mrs. Bodding- ton, an English authoress, jiopular some years back. Au(i. 5. At Berlin, thiity-one Protestants abjured their errors and entered the Church. — Mrs. Barct, originally of England, a descendant of the famous Scottish fa- mily of Hi'uee, received baptism, and made her abjuration of Protestantism in the banean of St. .lacqiu's, in Conqiiegne, formerly V. (J. of the diocese, ^I. le Superieur of the JJttlc Seminary, and the greater part of the clergy of the city. Count Ernest De Breda ,"ind the Countess de Thusi, a relative of the convert, acted us godfather and godmother. 9. Recantation or return to the Catholic faith of the Rev. Richard Wall (of Waterford), in Rathmines ; and of the Rev. !Mr. Hopkins, at Belmullet — two of the few remaining aposttito ''Priest Protection Society,"' whom passion or mammon seduced. 11. J. C. De t'astro, Esq., of Woodend, made a .solemn profession of the Ca- tholic faith at Torre Abbey Chapel, Toripiay. 12. Henry Itowden, I'Isq., I'eceived into the Church, at the (Oratory, Syden- ham, by the Right Rev. Dr. Grant, Bi^hoji of Southwark. lie is the brother of J. W. Bowden, ICsq.. of Trinity College, Oxford (another convert), author of the "Life of Pope (jregory \[L," and uncle to the Rev. Father Jkiwden of the Oratory. m. Four noted converts received in St. Anthony's Church, near Dunkeld. 20. Ilev. G. Noi'man, late Minister of St. ihirgaret's Chapel, Vutlon, near Gloucester, entered the Church. 21. Miss Thomasina Wilson received into the Church, at Cloulara, Dootias, by the Rev. Mr. Kenny, C.C. 22. Mrs. De Castro, wife of J. C. De Castro, Esq., of Woodend (whose recep- tion took ]ilace on the 11th), with her two interesting children, were solemnly re- ceived into the Church, in Torre Abbey Chapd, T(U'(piay. 22. Rev. R. Belaney, A^icarof Arlington, Susse.v, received into the Church. Ski't. 7. Stephen Church, ]0s(|., of the Grove, received into the Catholic Church of Dcsertiighill, County J^ondfjuderry. Ho departed this life in the most edifying manner on the 22d of October, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 8. Conversion of six Swiss soldiers fr<]m the Protestant to the Catholic Church: they wert! baptized by the f!rand Almoner uf the Neapolitan army. 1(L Rev. Henry W. AVilberforce, Meiir of I'last Farleigh, received at Malines. — Mr. (iregory l?laekwell of the Blst liegiment, stationed at JMiuistynion, bo- came a member of the Catholic Church, and made his profession to the Rev. Mr. O'Brien, C.C. in that town. — The wife of the sexton of the Protestant Church in Ennistymon received into the Church. 1.5. Three Pi'otestants, Sarah and i-llizabeth J{epter, and another, received into the Church by the Very Rev. Count Tehereas Sodei'ini. D. I)., at Truro. V CONVERSIONS. 61 V. & of tidily " ""'" "'°*"'"' ""» "'• "'""'■ I'J "«> V«.7 lie.. B. J. iS., 8ufl-;7in^ kay c!;:;;' ^..tr""'""" ""'"■' ^^^"'^'^ '^ '^^"^-^ "^ '■^^"SO in runs, for cut,i}. s..t thrii^:^Tilo:n;'s;ir"^' '"'' "^^ ^""''^" ^^^ ^-«*<=^' c---«- ,...3i 1 '^^"f,^""« l'"|^f' i J;"'«l't«- of Denis B. Potter, Es,,. (who with hi. son were Oathed.,1 ot liuun, andwus reoeivc.l into the Catholic Church by the Kev F S^^;. Tua,r ''''' '''" Very Rev. John McEvily, President o? Srj^altlS opivP nni^";. ^Yi ^'i'7' J^'^'J"'- f""l^^-'V^- ■•enounced Protestantism, and was re- ceived into the Clnirch hy the Rev. G. Cniniiiin?, ]' P ~ ?/''• •^"''" V"''"" ^'^'■^^■C'l '"to the Catliuli'c Chu'reh, at Tipperarv. int^I^e o:,h.;,Slu:;;h"' ''''"•^' ■"''"""'' '^'^"^^■^ l^-testantism. ^k1 received cat;;;.i!c^:,:;;r;f u:Sd^iS;'?:J::'^'^^ '^'^^^"^^''•"' ^^-^'^^^^ ----^ -^°"- M — /V""*'^',"- ''*" c»"vortsat Rome, included Messrs. Wyne, Coleridge, Mr and Mrs. Dodsworlh. . r. Reginald Talbot, Lord Fielding. Mr. Ra;tard, M.f 11 Dovle &L. 11,0 new College for Anglican converts opened there on the feast of the Pre! 27. The Right Rev. Dr. Ives, Protestant Bishop of Carolina, U. S., has abjured the lu-rosy ot t le Reformation, and submitted to the Catholic Church Dr Ivcsis now in l.nghiM. ,^ and in ].assing tlsroiigh London, on )iis way to Rome, ho iiad an intorv. -w with his Kmincnc.Uho Cardinal Archbishop, who very warmly sympathi/- ed w-th the new convert m his feelings of Ihaiikruiiieis for the niorey which has been .Wiown him. ]),.. Jves was much beloved and respected in his diocese of Carolina am hisexami.lo is very likely to have a wide intliience upon a considerable number 01 (lis late clergy. n ,r"r*'v"f '"■^' ^'''"t^'-"t"int minister of Bui.zlau, made a public profession of the Catholic faith. ' i~7''"' *'*'""^'^*'* ^''"' nahn-liahn, the celebrated writer (converted to the Ca- tliohc faith after visiting L'claud), entered into the religious Institute of our Ladv ot t;iiarity. •' 30. William Thompson, mate of the sloop Frinukhip, publicly received into o Catholic Ciiureii, at Killiila, by the Rev. P. Maloue, P.P. Dr . 3, Mis. Margaret King, of Galway, aljurcd Protestantism, and became a Catholic. 8. Mr. Bernard Samuel, mnster-tailor of the (iSth depot, with his four children received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. Mr. Nagle, C.C. ' til I » 62 CONVERSIONS. m It I {From the London Catholic Directory for 1854.) OLEIUCAI. CONVKUTS. Rev. Lord Charles Thynnc, Vicsir of Lorii^'brulge IJeverrell, niul P"eben<]arj of Canterbury, uncle to Ihc Marquis of Batli. Rev. Norman C. Sloughton, of the Protestant Episcopal Church atCatsklll, New- York. Rev. W. Pope, ]}.A., of Christ College, Cambridge, nephew of Dr. Whateley, Protestant Archbishop of ])ublin. Rev. Mr. Pritchard. jRev. Kdward Beard, a zealous Primitive IiIeiI;odist Preacher at Cambridge. Rev. Frederick W. Pollard, M.A., Rector of the ]']pi:-!copnl Church at Nantucket. Rev. M. Oliver A. Siiaw, Rector of All Saints, Philadelphia. Rev. M. Ilnsert, Rector of IJunzlaw, (icriMiiny. Rev. Dwight Lyniiin, Episeo]ialiiin Minister at Columbia, I'ennsylvania. Mr. Sands of Mountrath, formerly a I'l'olcstant Jlinister. The Pastor Liitkciautter and all the ineniljors of his family. Rev. Joseph Keeuan, a Baptist Preacher jit Benton, Scott County, Mo., United States. LAY convi:i:t.s. Lord Iluntingtower. Francis Wegg Prosser, formerly M.P. for IJorefordshire, and of Biiliol College, O.xford. Lieutenant Allen Bathnist, R.N., grandson of the lute Dr. Bathurst, Bishop of Norwicii. Major .James Dodwell, at Lisbon. LJon. ,1. R. Cha)idler, Member of the American Senate. Mr. George Baily, Wigan. Charles Thomson, Es(|., of Tunbridge Wells. Joseph Vance, Es(i., of Charlestown. Mr. TliomasDrumniond, of Balbriggan. Edward Lucas, Esq., of Croydon. Count Ptiel Von Diersdorf, at Breslaw. M. Rociis Von Rochow, at ditto. M. Beer, the celebrated author. .]. T. M. Mchol, I'^sq., of the Royal Navv, son of the late Right Hon. Nichol, M.P. for Cardiff. Mr. Price, edi'" of the Dublin livening Packet, deceased, R.LP. T. P. Wait, Esq,, Under Graduate of Oxford. F. Eager, Esq., of Tuam, Loland. Daniel Potter, Esq., Solicitor of Tunm — also his two sons and a daughter. Mr. Thomas Richardson, of Derby and Dublin, the eminent publisher. Lieutenant-Colonel Count Degenfield Sehondjerg, formerly Ambassador for Wurteiuberg at Vienna. The Chevalier L. Olsenwski de Portrissen. Henry Douglas, Esq. M. de Florencourt, Redact on- do C'hrfo( the principal Catholic journal in Ger- many, the Vo/./islial/e of Co/of/ne. M. Muglish, editor of the ^ion ; M. Ilass, Editor of the NouveUe Sion. M. Bender, author of the excellent " ETieyelo|)edie Catholique." Mr. Thomas Becker of Vineennes, U. S,, and liis five children. Professor T. Blume, of Calvert College, New AVindsor, America. Mr. Henry Bumi, Manchester; Thomas Joseph Trilleway, Escj, Barret Wadder, Esq. of Lundon. Richard Meady, Esq, if Cloudesly Bittern, Southampton. Lyman W. Case, Esq , Mr. Stephen Cliurch, of the Grove, Londonderry. Thomas Robert Dean, Esq,, barristerat-law, Tiiiperarv, a foitniaht before hia death, RLP. Mr. Richard D. Scofield, student of the University of Notre Dame du Lac, America. b of w- et. ed of i^ ol, for er- C0NVEESI0N3. 68 Mr. Ciildwell, of Keweiistl Mr. ;<"" I'^ll-tj nr„l Lis three si.^ers, nt Nenagh Mr. Clmrlc3 llall nnd familv. of T'U-n^.„fi. ^ ' M.. , u , . 'amily. of Plymouth. Mr. James Sealy, jeweller, Galway: Mr. John 1- ox. of Mnllagh, Counf/ Cavan. Mr. Charles Kaokhan,, of Cottenliam. iMiss Charlotte Kernan d'HKrlitm. ..f t i- t-, , ,. Miss8ar„.„, of ^otth ^ nln'so^SJn^r"' '''''' '"'"''^'^ ^'^'^"^h. Mrs. (,. JJailey, at St. Mary's, Wi^^an. ' Mrs. Meurliii and Miss \Voodlia]l,\,t York mi: Ar';:;t;:r,^^£„'"'^ ^^'^ ^^^''"' °^ "■<' ^"'^ «^s'--^- .'"■ ^r",''^'' *^'""''>'. ill Canada West Irs. lla I, ot (Jeor^etown, in Canada Wo^t Ml ConS"iayo'""""'^"'^'^^^'^^^SM- oHhe late Col. Browne, of Browne Hall, Miss Stanley, an English lady at Paris Ca^olie Chnreh on last^Chriiasl.^ ^ '^^^ ^' S^^ ]:;:;£ bos'lu.l'Sei^liJSL^'SnJ^f; ^^r""' -^ -eived into the staying so.ue tinieou a visio! 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