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We are liappy, and wo hasten to announce to you, Our Dearly Beloved liretlircn, that by his apostolical letters, dated the 8th day of December last, which have recently come to hand, the Sovereign Pontiff granrs to all the faithful of the world a plenary indulgence, under the form of a Jubilee, to be gained in the space of one month, selected by their Bishop, during the present year. ^ The nitention of the Holy Father, while granting this great favor, is to mduce them to make worthy fruits of penance, to approach the sacraments, to return to God, to satisfy His justice by works of piety, charity and mortifieati-n, and, in fine, after having thus purified their hearts, to form all together a holy concert of prayers that, through His infinite mercy, He may vouchsafe to put an end to the calamities of His Church. How wonderful, D. B. B., is the spectacle which this Holy Pontiff exlnbits to the world in these days of error and iniquity I How worthy he is of our admiration and of our respect ! Abandoned by men, surronnded by inveterate enemies, in the midst of the dreadful storm which troubles the nations, and agitates the Holy Ark of the Church, he has preserved the peace of his soul, and he fearlessly accomplishes the lioly work of his divine mission. He beholds the gates of hell opened, and Satan unfettorred ; he has perceived the thick cloud of errors which spring from the infenial abyss, and tlireaten to beset the worid ; he has hea -d the roaring, the yells and the blasphemies of all the impious of the earth, ccispiring against God and His Christ, and who, led on by the angel of darkness, Satan himself, have resolved to wage war with the Lamb and to overthrow His kingdom ; he feels the bark of Peter, which he guides, trembling beneath his feet amidst the fury of the tempest which tosses it to and fro, and threatens, every moment, to bury it in the waves : and yet ho is cahn and iilled with coutidcnce. . He trusts in God ; he relies on the promises of Him who has appointed him supreme pastor of His people. He knows that God's truth -f-- f /^f ^J thlt heaven and earth shall pass away, hut that the word of th ^ of Go ehall not pass away ; that the gates of Hell shall never prevail agan-t H Church ; hat the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus, from on Ingh, langhs to .coi ^L v-ain plots of His enemies ; that He shall overeome them a 1, and sh 11 scatter them with a blast of His breath, because He is the king of kings, and the L 1^ o Lords ; because, in fine, the bark in which Christ rests and sleeps Wth 1 is disciples, ;annot perish : and behold, in the plenitude ot 1- J ^^en^^^^ .nd strength which he derives from the divine promises, and which God impai ts old he rai.cs his voice with ir.ajesty, and his voice, like the voice of God, prevails over all the discordant murmurs of human opinions, all the vam schemes ^f a proud and blind philosophy, and the roaring oi the stormy sea, in whidi flounder so many monsters of error and impiety. He speaks from the Chair of Peter • and his voice is heard and resounds to the very boundaries of the earth. He speaks in the name of God, whose vicar and representative he is ; he speaks to kings and nations, and to all the children of men ; he reminds them of the eternal truths they have disowned and they have dared to deny ; he censures and condemns their errors, old and new, with rtie supreme authority he holds from JesuB -hrist, as supreme pastor of his Church ; in fine, he directs their attention to the abyss into which they are hurled by the false principles and senseless doctrines of this faithless age ; and into which they are precipitated by the tremendous vortex of impious and sacrilegious revolutions. Such are D B. B., the grave teachings which presents to us the first part of the encyclical of the eighth December, which the successor of Peter has lately directed to all the bishops of the world. But if, on the one hand, the Holy Pontiff dreads not the fury of hell and of an impions world ; if he is calm in presence of persecution ; if he relies on the help of God • if he has the promise of the final triumph of truth and of the Church, which is the pillar thereof ; on the other, he is concerned and aggrieved at the calatnities which oppress this daughter of heaven, and trouble hmnan society m these evil days. His ^oul is distressed with sorrow, and his fatherly heart is penetrated with the most profound grief, at the sight of those evils, and of the loss of so many fickleminded and inconstant souls, whom the infernal breath ot the seducer, and the wind of false doctrines sweep away on the road to perdition. o wlHch an aiitMliiistian press nnccasini-lv l„.l, ,„ V .^ Um cliand Iior nmmtcn, " the fo,mda(io„ of the Catliolie faith n„d thl,' „ ", ' '"" '""«'''""» «*' "Po.. "engender every ill so evnoll ,„ ? ■ «''''""'°''''''*''l™'"l>tto " from the Lord ; tliat ij to «■,,- if .• •■ ' '' "■" "* "°""'W f"«hor " show that we are fl." '' 'f'''"S'"""e <""■ '»<'">i; »e abjure His power to pasted f:d'f:i.i;;v tt'tioiMat::: ,":'^- ^-'ir ■:-'" '- "- ■-■* -^ welivei„,l„vereeo>,rse,o gT^^Z^^ZT' '" "'° ""'"'"Py ^'"^'^ he beseeehes and eonjures then, , / 1 t,:^; "'av ' T ;""^.°-l'^T' *"'"«"" ! f..igivenes. for the faithful and fo, a „ ™ '' "J"" '° '"*' '" order to obtain with His blood. And a the ttt^.r'' f ■ ' ' '''""' '^'"''" '"» "^""'""t they apply to Ili.n wt J ,, 1 et^d t:™";:,;;':^ TT"" •" ""^' "''- the ehildrett of the Cl.nreh tl.e , a Cly ^s ,' . , T ^ "" ">"-"""« '" "" and he grants then, the indn e, ee of h. r, "' ''"" "'° '"''l'""^'"-. a,,imate,rw.itl,tr,,epie.y, d ;; Ltv L': if' '" 7'°' "'"* "«'"« "» stains of their sins ,1,; , ntav with o,^, T '»'""'" "' I'«"'™<'«. <"»" 'he hefo. ood, .,d .a. thoL ;::;;e;:';!:arar,:ro:::;.Cb,r,rr'' "™-" speakstyou on ihif Jaf Tie': "'".r'"° ,"'' '"" '''""' "'' ''-- Christ, who — 4 — T pi.t-iat Whoever rcfnses to lieai* ftnd Christ. Whoever ob^shunoMBJ;-^-^^ Hearken then to obey l.i.n, refus. s to obey Josub <-^»'"^*'/ ' "\{' ^ he condemns. .11 hi. teaehiugB ; reject then, -^^^^^^^"^^^ ^ of God's people, He is the connnon father of the faithtul, the ?uprc ^^^^.^ of the Chnreh of Je.;.-Chri.t^ '^^:^:^^:\ZZ^r^^^ou. ^o father, as .tie.nbers to their head, lo ^M >'^«J^ ' q^^,^ chnrch, to children of God ; it is to belong no more to God s people, Jesua Christ. „,. unlvition nor happiness for all men, Be fully persuaded that there oan ^^'^;^^%, ^ catholic religion, but in the knowledge and pract-ee ot the true ^^^^^^^^ j ^.^, .one of .vhich is ,he religion of the successor ot P , 1 t e pec > J^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ Canada, yon .'ho should '^f^^^'V^'^^^^ p.eLrved, by miracle, you whom she has ft -ed J h. , ^ '^^^^^^^^^^^^ you, in fine, asi. wee, on tins laud wate.e^l l^J^l.,,^,^ro.o...d,tovyon^ov who have grown under her wmgs and w ho may op ^ ^^^^^^^^^.^ and to endure, as a people, only in proportion as you shall and shall be faithful to her. „i .,n<1 with all voiir strength to Adl;ero then vith your whole 1--^*^^"^.-"^' ; ' f^ :; ^fand happiness for your religion, as if to your niother, us i^U>^ ^^^^\r;after. Avoid then, your cou..try, for yonrf.m.hes, tor yo«i.elvt, hue ^ ^^^^ ^^ vepel then, as you. n.ost inveterate -^ ^ ;,'' l^^^^ ,uies, hesitate not to separate you from her. Cast away rom mi ^ ^ ,? j her injmious to that :^;- ; t :^r r;o :X: tr:;^ a:^ tr , or Uabli to destroy yonr "^^XS;::;^.d hear your pas.., whoa.^^ labour to strengthen you in your relig.on, and in the hdelitj to all her holy ,a-aetices. ealvation the Uoly Father presents Earnestly profit by the ''^^""^''"^^^^^^ "^^ tllh he grants you. Make to you, m the precious ^^^'^^^^ ^^.:^ti..tnr to^nendyour worthy fruits ot penance ; watch o%cr jou _ yourselves, in all vicious habits; avoid sin and f ^ ^'^^^f ^" ,. ^ "^^^^^ 'J^ ^^ please Him, to thing, to do the holy wiU of (Jd; m ^1 ^om j^;- ^^^.^yj .U the works perform them tor Ilis love, Ui>> go} , -^^ i prayers, alms- prescribed in order to gain the ^-^^^'^^ ^J^^ ^^^ to Jesus Christ by a Seed. ; purify your souls by a ^^a^^ ^^^, Holy Tontiif intreats worthy communion ; and pray, pi ay mucli, wi and conjures you to do. i i — 5 — the Holy Futhe.., for all the faithful, for ouLvLLlrLu clown H '"'7 "'" mercy on our brethren and on all n.cn ; and we shall beearH Z ''"^"' hour; and the Lord shall not take awL^ Hi "^^^^^^^ asserts : '' Ask, and you shall reeeivo ; sLk, and Z s^^ fid kn . '"T ' " shall be opened unto you. » ' " JO" simll And ; knock, and it Moreover according to our Holy Father's ndviVp 'i i ^ • , ;; for the ,„e,cy of God II, ,,„. encouraged „,, ,o I do J r^,,:"..?; -; J' w,t ulrau- ,nj. mercy from ti.era." Lei u, ask and we »l,all reoei f „„ 1 »' ■sslownc,. „,. delay in i,. reception, l,eea„,e we Imvo ^ veir ^ , ,7 let ns knock, becauBe lie opens to those who knock • for ,?.„!' Wherefore, after having invoked the holy name of God w<, i „. , and uppohitod, do hereby decree and aj.point : ' "'' ^^'"''^'^'^ nf n ^ ° * t'^'", "r^,"^'^"^ ^'^''!' "^" »"'• ^I-^'y Father the Pope, dated the 8th dav o December last, above mentioned, shall be read and published through, ut the d.ocese, ater our present pastoral letter, or on the following ..nday t . prone ot the paroc Inal churches, cliapels and others where divi t' si IS celebrated pubhcly, and moreover in all the chapters of th ' re 1 o , commnnities ; ^ 'i-iigious 2 = . The time appointed to gain the plenary i„dulen shall select at least one week, during which tl'eT s " procure, as much as possible, to the faithful intrusted to their care the sol n„ exerosc. of the jubilee With respect to such as may have been ski or d e dunng the mouth of May, they shall select the nearest month, to afford to" pansluoners he means of gaining the indulgence of the jubilee observing w has been said, concerning the exercises ; oo.erv.ng ^^ iiat — c — 4 o The opening of the Bolc.nu exercises of the jubilee sliall bo announceJ, in cverv" parisl or mission, on tbe ove, by tlio ringing of tbo bells, wh>ch «buU astlmuiorofanhonr, after the evening angelus ; in hke manner the elose thereof S bo. also ann^uneed, on the last day of the exerc.ses. after the even.ng '"'"50! On tho flrst day of tho exercises, the Veni Caator shall bo s«n^ before 1 i^^h mass, or conventual mass, or principal n>ass, to call down the light and Mnees of the Holy Ghost. On the last day, the Te Deum shall be sung n thanksgiving. On the days of the exercises, those of the even.ng, .nay ternunate Iw flio benediction of the Blessed Sacrament ; , » .. after tho litany of tho Blessed Virgin, according to the mtenuon ot the Sovor il Pontm; every Sunday and festival day in .he month, and alter lugh mass dtin. the olemn exercises of the jubilee ; and U.o Tract. I)o,nme no. ^ZZn^ctc, shall be sung with tho praj.r : Deus eru propnu,n est ^Zeri, etc., at the benediction on the said Sundays and exercises ; 70 To gain the indulgence of the jubilee, it is required accordnig to the tenor of the apostolical letters for the jubilee of 1846, to winch His lIolme.s Xsil iuThe present letters: lo. To visit twice the churches or chapel anpo n ed ^or the stations, or at least one ot them, and pray thcrem w th Tvo ion, for sonie time ; 2 o . To fast on the AVedncsday, Friday, and Saturday ot Le week; 3 = . To confess, and receive, with fervor, the most holy 1 of Fucharist • 4 = To give alms to the poor, every one according to "^-^h^: h'h^e gc^^d works may L accomplished during the nonthtlat the jubilee shall last in the diocese, we nevertheless exhor tl e ^ it^M to fulfil them in the course of the week, or the weeks which bIu be lelected in their respective localities. By virtue of the same apostolical lettei. til tont" sors may. Tor some reasonable cause, replace those good works, ScepUnrco^^^^^^ recitation of some prayers, or by some other religious exercises; ^ „ ,. 8^ We select for the stations of the jubilee, in the parish N.D. ot Quebec,"the Cathedral, St. Patrick's Church, and two other churches^ m tlie_ same parish, at the choice of the faithful; in the parish of St. Koch, ot Q ebec tic parish Church, and the churches of St. Sauveur and ot he Cot :Jion; in the country parishes or missions, their espective churches 0X1 In tlie localities wliL there are neither churches nor chapels whel^ thte are difficult of access, the confessors may change tho prescribed visits into some other good works ; I I - 7 - vuws into other good workB with il,„w !• , Arelibuliop, and commuto .ndofcntcringfntor ,^i„;;a moeft^^^^^^^^ from wluoU wo draw tl.cfoe^il.nlna'^ ^"^ '" '"° "''°"°""'" '«"- .11 P^:XlXl:':C:t„d ':,-°~'',-" r"""-.! at ...o prone o, eolXated, and moroo^W t' Ve , ^t'^T ^r^^ "'~° " '""""' flrst Sunday after it, reception " "'''«'°"' "<""">""ities, the sixty^fir °' '*"*"' ""'" °" '""O -'i -" -d '1'^ --.er .ignatnre of „„r secretary, on .he seeond day of Febraary, „„„ thousand eight hundred and t C. P. BISHOP OF TLOA, By Hie lordship's command, Edmokd LANOEvm, Prieat, Secretary.