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 of mristian virtue which leads to an everlasting life of happine^. 
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 ance. Alas! how few there are who, with haptisnml rohcH un- 
 stained, f each Heaven by the path of innoeence never lost ; and 
 even the innoeent should do penance, as the best means of pre- 
 " serving tltat pearl of great price. 15ut for us, dear brethren, 
 who have sinned, for us, who, by actual transgressions, have lost 
 our baptisrtial innocence, for us poor prodigals, there is no return 
 to " our Father's house" save by the tliorny road of penance. 
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 ternal repentance jifut also external works of satisfaction, is 
 necessary for salvation, and is a matter of Divine precept. It 
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 "All iniquity, whether it be great oi- small," says St. Augustin, 
 "must necessarily be punished, either by the man penitent or by 
 an -avenging God ; for he who repents truly will chastise himself. 
 Absolutely either you punish yourself or God punishes. Would 
 you that he should not punish 'I then punish yourself^" Hence 
 tl^e necessity of doing penance is enforced by God Himself in the 
 most emphatic language in various parts of Holy Writ. '.'^Be 
 converted, and do penance for all your iniquities j and imtiuity 
 shall not be your ruin.'*— (Ezechi^l,c. 18, v. 30.> "Now there- 
 fore,'^ saith the Lord, " be conver|!ed to me with all your heart, 
 in Jfisting, in weeping and in mourning."— (Joel, c 2, v. 12.) 
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 whoRO God in thoir hidly. and wIioho ^lory in in thmr Hhamo. 
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 •if any man wiHlum to he Ilin diHciplo, ho must <lony lumm-lf, tak.- 
 upliiHcrosH daily, and follow Him. And St. Paul dcclaros, 
 that " they that are Chrisfa, crucify their llonh with its vicch and 
 concupiHcenccH." — (Oal., c» 5, v. 21.) '^ . 
 
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 most pleasing to God and most salutary to our souls; and it is 
 for thiy reason, as well as in imitation and commemoration <)t 
 our Lord's forty days' Ikst in the desert, that the Holy Catholu- 
 Church proclaims the fast of Lent, and commands it to be 
 observed by her children. Fasting is of Divine as well as of 
 Ecclesiastical institution, and is admirably adapted to the wants 
 of poor, fallen nature, bt. Paul, who was a profound philoso- 
 pher, as well as an inspired Apostle, states that there are two 
 laws within lis, struggling one against the other, and striving for 
 the mastery— the law of the spirit, dhecting us towards God and 
 the eternal world; and the law of the flesh, dragging us down- 
 towards sin and sensual pleasures. "For I am delighted with 
 the law of tfod accoMing to the inward man; but I see another 
 law in my members fighting against the law of my mind, and 
 captivating me in the law of sin, that is, in my members.' 
 —(Romans, e. 7, v. 22-23.) And in another place he describes 
 XfiiecdTistant struggle that 18 waged within us by these 
 antagonisticlaws:— "For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, 
 and the spirit against the flesli, for these are contrary one to 
 another."— (Gal., c. 5. v. 17.) By this we perceive the profound 
 wisdom, the Divine philosophy, that underlies the institution of 
 fasting. By it we declare war against the body, and chastise it; 
 we mohify the flesh ; we weaken its vicious inclina.tions ; we, its 
 it were, Xut it off from -those indulgences that stimulate 
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 nn,l forgiveness. "JJe eonvert.xi to nu,," myri (iod, ^'uith vofiV " 
 whole heart, hi fusfing, in weeping, and in i.ioiuning." (Jo*.!. 
 c. % V. 12.) Th(. Ninivites, l,y fasting, disarnied the jiihtiei^ of /' 
 
 (Jod, and saved their city from destruetion. {.f«.nas, e. M.) 
 The IsraehteH ..btai-ned, by it, pardon for sin, and were divinely 
 helped ti) put their i'uemies to ignominious ili;:ht.— (I Khigs, t:. 
 7, v.<;.) Our bUssed Lord tells us that afterifis asecnsion llis I 
 
 followers shouhl fast, and Ife lays down the rub^s tlnit must bo 
 observed to uiala^ our fast i>reasing to (iod :-•• When thou fastest, 
 un.Hut thy lu.ad an.l wash thy faee, that thou appc-ar n.)t to men 
 to last, but to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who 
 seeth ni secret will reward thee."— (>ratt., c. (;,'v. 17.) Ma„ 
 Ml oi-iginally fmm his.allegianc(. to (iod by the gratilicaticmOf 
 Ins taste, ancyp|must return to Him by fasting. Thus the law 
 o last comes m^^is recommended l,y the doctrine and example 
 ot the 1 rophetsand Saints and penitents of theOld Tostament 
 as Moses, Elias, Joel, Daniel, the Ninivites,.&e., and iu the New - 
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 Saviour Himself; of Jlis precursor, St. John the liaptist, of His 
 AiK)stles, of whom He foretold that they would fsist when the 
 Bridegroom was taken from them, and thenceforward by the 
 example of all the holy servants of God. Our Lord has'com- 
 nlandedit; the Scripture recommends it, penitcMits and Saints 
 have recommdided and practised it, and the Church now 
 appomts the times and seasons for its johseryance. 
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 ess betvii ordained in imitation of the forty days' lust observed . 
 
 by our blessed Lord in the desert Lete beginnn.g his public" 
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 woll as Ha»ctinoa hy tho oxa.nplH <.f Christ. Than MoH.h fantml 
 forty dayH wlum \w m-oiv.-a the law on Mo.int Hiiia..- (Kx., c, 
 21 ' V 18.) KHaH fanttul forty .layH in tho xvihUrncsH hi'foro 
 aHc«M.«linKth(> mountain of (lo«l. CJ Khi«H. c. lU, v- b.) And 
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 (lavH in prayt'r and faHtinK.— (Matt., c i, v. ±) 
 
 'During' th(! Li-ntcn nmisoH tlu; Chnrrh callH upon uh to nnitato 
 tho faHt of our Divine Saviour, to do penance for (.ur ninn, and 
 l)y prayer and prnitea.tial xvorkH to puj'ify om- houIb, and i.repm'O^ 
 them for the NViuthv eelel)ration of tlu^ l»asrhal myhtorioH. " W(i 
 make no <loul.t." Haid the Su'prenio I'ontitT, J^enedict \IV., "but 
 it iH well known to all those who profcKH the Cathohe reh;;ion, . 
 that the fast of Lent has always hern looked upon as one prni- 
 cipal point of ortho<l.)x discipline throughout the Christian world. 
 This fact was, of ohl. preli-ure<l in the law and in tho l'ro])hets, 
 an.l consecrated hy the exampUi of our Lord .Jesus Christ ; itwas 
 delivered to us hy the Apostles, everywhere ordained hy the 
 sacred Canons, and retained and ohserved hy the whole Church 
 fi'om her very iM'^iimiii^'. As w(» are daily otfendin^ (iod hy sni, 
 in this common penance wv. find a remedy; and, hy partaking' of 
 the Cross of Christ, we i)erf()rni, hy this nunms, some part of 
 what Christ did for us; and, at the same time, hoth souls and 
 hodies hein« purilied hy the holy U^^tM are moreAvorthily pro- 
 pared for colehratinK the most sa«'red mysteries of our redemption, 
 the passion and resurrecticm ()f oiu- Lord. This is, as it were, 
 the ensign of our spiritual warfare, hy wliicliwo are distinguished 
 from th^ enemies of the Cross of Christ, and hy which we avert 
 from ourselves the scourges of the Divine vengeance, and are 
 daily strengthened with the assistance of Heaven againfjt all the 
 powers of d^arkness. Hence, if this sacred fast should come to 
 he despised, it will certainly prove a detriment to the glory of 
 Ood, and a disgrace to the Catholic Religion, and will expose the 
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 tb(i) antuent reHiwot an«l revrn-ntial obHt'rvan<*e of tliin h<dy time, 
 and of other fantinjjj dayn, which waH ho (h^eply hnjjrinted in the 
 heiirtH of all C!hriHtianM froin the very beginning;." 
 
 tit't all, then-fore, who are ab|«', (tbHerve thiH ^rcat fast of Fieiit, 
 and let thoHo who are Hot l>ound to fast obHerve tjui prrcopt.of 
 alm^^inenee, and chaHtiHe their hodicH, and niorlify Weir HeHh by 
 otJH-ir penitential works. " Behold now in tim aeeeptabl<> time, 
 and |iow is the day of Halvation." — {"Mul Cor., v. i\, v. 2.) " Ijet 
 tlie wieked man ftU!Hake his way, and the imjuKt man bin 
 thoit^btH, and let him return to the Lord, and then He will have 
 mercy upon him." — (InaiaH, c. rtd, v. 7.) " Ilefc uh cast *ort" thti 
 works of darkness and put on armor of li^ht; let us walk honestly 
 as in the day, not i»i riotinjj; and drunkenneKH, not in cluunbcring 
 and impinities, not in contention and strife, but put yo on the 
 Lord Jesus ('hrist." — (UomanH, c. V.\, v. 14.) Wr, wo nnist join 
 the j^reat fast frmn sin with the solenni fast of Lent, in order 
 that the latter may be really acceptabh; to our Heavenly Fatln^r, 
 and beneficial to our poor souls. For of what avail will it be to 
 us if, whilst we fast in the body, our souls fast not from sin and 
 vice ? The fast froUi sin and wicked pleasures is the perfect f ant, 
 witliout which the corporal fast will bo of little benelit. God re- 
 jected the fast of the,Jew8 because on the days of their fasting 
 they continntid to offtmd Him by their cufttomary sins (Isaias, c. 
 f)8), and will he be better satisfied with us if we, in pretendin{» to 
 fast, are jT;uilty of the like inconsistency and f(<lly*? We must, 
 therefore, fast from dishonesty, calumny and detraction; 
 from an{?or, hatred and ill-will; from cursinK ariff swearing ; 
 from immodest words and acts; from reading bad books and 
 journals; from drunkenness and rioting; in fine, from every 
 thought, word and action that would offend God^^^d transgress 
 His Divine law. And whilst fasting' from all wichXwickedness, ' 
 we must apply ourselves to good works and acts of^ercy. "la 
 not this," saith the Lord, "the fast that JWiave chosen?" 
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 despise not thipe own flesh. Then j^all thy light break forth ap 
 the morning, an^ thy health shall speedily arise^ and thy justice 
 shall go before thy face. Then shalt thou call and the Lord 
 shall hear."--(Isaias, c. 68, 7-8. . 
 
 And in this connection let us exhort you, dearly beloved 
 brethren, to practise the virtue of temperance, and to avoid and 
 to detest the sin of drunkenness, which' is opposed to it. This 
 fearful sin of drunkenness spreads its ravages all around, and 
 like a deadly plague brings soi-row, desolation and death into 
 numberless families. It brings a curse upon all who are guilty 
 ofit; it maculates and defaces the image of God stamped upon 
 our souls; it dethrones reason and reduces man to the level of^ 
 the brute creation; it darkens the intellect, weakens the will, 
 blunts the conscience, and smoothes the way to an impenitent 
 death: It squanders the savings of years of toil; it phmges 
 multitudes in misery and want and sorrow ; it wastes the energies 
 of the mind and the body; shatters the constitution, drags 
 its victims' bodies into a premature and dishonored grave, and 
 casts their souls into the everlasting; flames of hell. Woe to the 
 world because of this wide-spread and hateful sin ! Woe to you 
 who rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, saith 
 the Prophet."— (Isaias, c. 5, v.ll.) "Who hath woe?" asketh 
 the Spirit of God, " whose father hath woe? Who hath contend 
 tion? Who falleth into pits? Who hath Wounds without causer? 
 Who hath redness of eyes ? Surely they who pass their lime in 
 wine, and study to drink off their cups.''— (Proverbs, c. 23, v. 
 29.) " Be not deceived,'V says St. Paul, ** neither fornicators nor 
 drunkards shall possess the Kingdom of HeaVen."— (1 Cor., c. 6, 
 V. 9.) And again—" The wgrks of the flesh are manifest, which 
 are fornication and drunkenness, and such like, of which I fore- 
 tell you, as' I have foretold to you, that they who do 'such things 
 shall not obtain the Kingdom of Heaven."— (Gal., c. 5, v. 19.) 
 
 0, dearly beloved brethren, let us conjure you to shun this 
 gigantic evil which deluges the world with a tide of miseries, 
 which is so offensive to God, and so destructive of our happiness 
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 to do all in their power to promote the cause of Gatholic educa- 
 tion, to render the Catholife schools as efficient as possible, and 
 to see that, besides a sound secular education, religious instruc- 
 tion be regularly and efficiently imparted therein. An awful 
 responsibility rests on the souls of both pastor and people in 
 this matter. If any of the little ones of Christ should be lost to 
 God and the Church by the criminal neglect/and indolence of 
 those who have char^f them, the blood of these lost children 
 will be required at their hands by the Supreme Judge. The law 
 establishing the Separate School system is indeed most defec- 
 tive, yet if our people be unanimbu^ and generous in sup- 
 port of Catholic Schools, as we know they' are and will continue 
 to be, it can be made the source of untold blessings to the child- 
 ren of this diocese. And here let us remind the. Trustees (if the 
 Gatholic Schools, that they should never employ a teaScher with- 
 out the express approval of the Pastor, as he is the legitimate 
 guardian of the schools in their moral and religious aspects. 
 
 The chiirch commands all her children, who have arrived at 
 the full use of reason, so as to be capable! of properly receiving 
 the Sacraments, to go to confession at least once in the year, 
 and to receive the Blessed Eucharist at Easter or thereabouts. 
 This precept is contained in a Canon of phe Fourth Council of 
 Lateran, has been confirmed by the Countil of Trent, and binds 
 us under the gravest penalties. The Sadrament of Penance is 
 an institution of God's unfathomable mercy for sinners. When 
 worthily receiviad it remits the most grevious sins, saves tiie 
 soul from eternal perdition, and restores it to the favour o^^d, 
 and to its right to heaven which it had fcfrfeited. It is,a;^ivine 
 
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 Probatica, whoBe waters stirred by the 
 restore souls enfeebled and paralyzed byiin, to heal^ and vigor. 
 And yet some of our beloved children of the Laity cannot be per 
 suaded to approach this Divine Sacrament/nay, cannot even 
 be induced to do so by the solicitatioisAnd menaces of the 
 Church herself ! The Blessed Eucljarisr is the fountain of the 
 spiritual life of the soul ; if any man eat of it he shall live for 
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 the flesh of the Son of Man, and drmk His blood, we shall not 
 have life in us."-(John, c. 6, v. 54,) And yet, notwithstanding 
 the fact that our Lord and the Church, His spouse, invrtc us to 
 this marriage feast of the soul, there are some Cathohcs who 
 Btubbornly and persistently refuse the invitation ! The know- 
 ledge of this fact grieves us to heart. It is to be feared that for 
 such obstinate and self-blinded sinners, unless they repent, it, 
 ^ will be better for Sodom ap^Gbmorrah in the day of judgment 
 than for them." We beseech them not thus to abuse the grace 
 and mercy of God, not thus to trample underfoot the precious 
 blood of Jesus, shed on the cross for them. We conjure them 
 to "delay not to be converted to the Lord, and not to put it ott 
 from day to day, lest His wrath should come on a sudden, and 
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 Let us therefore spend this holy and penitential season ot . 
 - Lent in accordance with the spirit and requirements of the 
 Church.- Let all perform their Easter duty by worthily receiv- 
 incr the Sacraments of Penance and the Blessed Eucharist, as 
 we" are commanded to do by the Church, under the gravest pen- 
 alties ! Let us sincerely repent of our sins, bewailing them m 
 the bitterness of our souls; let our cry ascend daily to God 
 for mercy and forgiveness, beseeching him to look upon the 
 face of His Christ, and for the sake of His bitter passion and 
 death to have compassion on us whom, He has redeemed in His 
 precious blood. Let family prayers and the Rosary be punctu- 
 ally said in every household; let the public devotions of the 
 Church be faithfully attended ; let the passion and death of Christ 
 be the subject of frequent thought and reflection; and in^lhis 
 way we shall spend Lent in a manner pleasing to G9a, and 
 fruitful in blessings to ourselves; and We shall emerge^;from the 
 gloom ofLent into Easter joys, happy in the cons^usness of 
 having honestly endeavored to promote (J^bd^ftjglorj^ and the 
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 The following are the Lenten regulations Jo be observed in 
 
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1st. All (lays of Lent, Sunday* excepted, are fasting days. 
 2nd. By a special dispensation from the Holy See, meat is . 
 • allowed on Sundays at every meal, and at one meal on Mondays. 
 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, except the Saturday of. 
 Ember Week and Holy Saturday. ^ 
 
 3rd. The use of flesh and fish at the same time is not allowed 
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 ' The following persons are exempted from abstinence, viz. :^ 
 Children under seven years; and' from fasting, persons under , 
 twenty-one; and from either or both, those^who, ob account or 
 ill-health, advanced age, hard labor, or some other legitimate 
 cause, Cannot pbserve the law. 
 
 Lard may be used in preparing fasting food during the season 
 of Lent, as also on all days of abstinence throughout the year by 
 those who cannot easily procure butter. 
 
 The season within which %11 who have attained the proper 
 age are obliged to make the Paschal Communion, commences on 
 Ash Wednesday and terminates on Trinity Sunday. 
 
 The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity of God, 
 and the communication of the Holy Ghost, he ^ith you all --■' 
 (H Cor., c. 13, V. 13) ' 
 
 This Pastoral shall be read in all the churches and chapels 
 of the Archdiocese, at the earliest convenience of the Clergy, 
 and at chapter in the religious communities. 
 
 Oiven at St. Michael's Palace, Toronto, on the 2nd day of 
 February, Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin AD' 
 1890. ^ * ' * ' 
 
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 Pastors are requested to hold in their respective Churches at 
 ^east twice in the week during Bent, devotions and instructions 
 'suited to the holy season, and they should earnestly exhort their 
 people to attend these public devotions. They are hereby 
 authorized to give on these occasions Benediction of the Blessed 
 I Sacrament. Besides the public devotions, family prayers, and 
 especially the Holy Rosar^^ of the Blessed. Virgin, should be re. 
 cited m 6very household of the diocese. In these days of tepidity 
 reUgious indifference and love of ease and self-enjoyment,' 
 jwe should 4b ou^ utmost to uphold the devotional and penitential 
 Icharacter of Lent and to impress its meaning and purpose on the 
 Ihearts of the faithful. Let tie pastors keep a strict account of 
 Hhe number of their flocks who may not comply with their Easter 
 duty m order that the number ind the names of the delinquents 
 nay be submitted to the Archbishop on his visitation. It is the 
 practice of good and holy priests to make a pastoral visit to their 
 people durmg Lent, and especially to those families which are 
 ^ distress, or whose members have become careless about the 
 performance of their religious duties, A kindly visit of this sort, 
 hade in the spirit of the true priest, will do more good than the 
 post elgquent sermon; will win the eopfidence and love of the 
 Nple for their pastor and will bring b^ck hearts and souls to 
 jUnst that otherwise wouia have remained obstinate in sin »nd 
 
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 ,ins ot him that «a8 ready lo P'^""'^^™ j„ y,„ ,,,i,„, „„d a 
 forted the heart of the wdU. ^ »'"' "^' '".f \j„,, ^xix, IS-KU 
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 The faithful paBtor « n no ..uarrel "«■ '' »f' ;\'^„ it heeon>e8 
 
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 may exist or occur m l"". "'!""' "^j,'^, ^„a „„t in the hitter 
 and charity hcco„vinB,a m k'^"' "' <^'" " i;"'U<«<l f'om iU- 
 
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 •parrriH nr,^ ohsrrmnt patrcmyjwcncs 
 
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 m those places ^" f ^t^^.^^ , hereby required to 
 day« and holulays U^^o|k^ Hope 
 
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to como unto moand forbitlYheiii not, forofHiieh is tho kingdom 
 of Ijciiven." (Matt, xxix, It.) Tlio future of tho Church in this 
 country will be conditioned by the maimer in whicli our children 
 f^ro trained and educated. Children who are wdl instructed in 
 their religion and trained in virtue and piety will bo good and 
 fervent Catholics, and it is the most sacred duty and obligation 
 of the pastor, conjointly with parents, to cause the children of 
 the mission to be well instructed in the Christian doctrine and 
 well trained in the practise of virtue and piety. Our Separate 
 Schools will, if properly worked and utilized, help very materially 
 in thi^ good work. ' ^^ 
 
 Pastors who take litfle or no interest in their parish schools 
 and seldom or never visit them", wilfully neglect a powerful means 
 of promoting the roligiouii instruction and the spiritual welfare 
 of the cliildi-en. Such clergj^mcn have not the hearts and souls 
 of true shepherdfl of the flock of Christ, and their neglect in this 
 respect is inexcusable and eulpable in the extreme and is most 
 injurious to the 'oest ijiterests of their people. ^ 
 
 We require of each pastor to visit his schools at least 
 
 once a week and to write a report of his visit in the visitor's 
 
 ' book that should be in each school. The schopl day should begin 
 
 by prayer and end in the same manner. Catechism should be 
 
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 munion should be broushi 
 
 shildren who have made their first com 
 toconfessiian monthly, and the children 
 who have come to th6 us^ of reason, but who have not made 
 tlieir i&rst communion, should be made to confess four times a 
 year, say at the Ember days. In those missions which have no 
 Catholic schools, both pastors and parents should be most 
 diligent in attending to the religious instruction, of the children. 
 Sunday schools should be established and zeafoiisly worked, and 
 nothing should be left undone to instil into the young mind a 
 sufficient knowledge of the holy faith and the love of virtue and 
 piety. Let all concerned bear in mind the inspiriting Nvords of 
 God, "They that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars 
 for all eternity." , (Daniel xii., 3. v.) V 
 
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 doctrine. ot«nrHolrU,-uU.^na .1 _^^ ^^^^ _^^^,„, 
 
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 morahty hy the aimn o. V ,,,,„,,.:,,. Gooflhooks are so 
 
 the c»t»hli«h.nent of V'^^f^^'^J;^ „,„rality. They 
 
 instruct ami e(lit> , tiH).y , ..v ,. ,„ „ ii^.^lthv tono of^ miiul. 
 
 In a country like ^'"f; " • , ,,. Ar-.^s ami lioar a sermon 
 C).«rch,, and .ue '^^^ ^.u :,. w„„M .eon, t.he a 
 every Sunday. tl,ecuc«latonol^^ ^^^^^^ also oneouraRe 
 ■ positiyeduty .t.™ta„«. s.^^ ^^^^^^^^^ , , 
 
 their people to teWe-Ul 2 ^^ „e«„,,aperB. ^vhich, 
 
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 ^ Catholic Ch«^ a .Bi,,le meetin«»,".M"off"'"» """"•• B.v. 
 meetmss. , »<> r^' . ^. ., ,ouie lose the very lanRuaso of 
 .: the pm..al otm,h pttpo>^^^ ^ ^^ ^.^,^^ Thus you will 
 
 Catholicsm, "»? *<''f 'ji;;, ,„e RoinR t,. "prayers" or_to 
 hear wane t«ople «ay '•*^"'\."' ,^" „; „„i„„.t„ assist at th« 
 
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 is calculated to intlict, loi i ^ .,„,.„,„„„.. of laeas, and destroys 
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 the promotion of Catholic intorestH, and will thuH make them 
 take a iivoly intoreHt in the work and hihorn and trialH of the 
 world-wide Chnrch of which they are momherH, and which, in 
 fine, will take them aw it wore out of their iHolation and Holitiidci 
 in the remote townnhipH and hack-woodH of the country, and make*^ 
 them partake of the great curnuit of Catholic life. The Catholic 
 presH ImH a great rfnd glorious miHHion to fulfill in tluH country 
 and it should he encouraged and foHtered hy all wlui have the 
 aacred interestH of the Church at heart." 
 
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 cause of temperance, and to use their best efforts to foster and 
 promote it. Beyond all doubt, the vice of intemperance is one 
 of the'worst and most wide-spread evils of the day, and, like a 
 destroying Angel, is ruining many precious souls made in the 
 image of God, and purchased by a great priee-r-the blood of 
 Jesus Christ. All who love their fellow-men arid wish to see 
 the reign of Christ extend and triumph in the wciFJid, yhoidd do 
 all in their power to arrest the destructive progress of this 
 gigantic evil, to exorcise this demon from the souls and bodies 
 of the wretched beings wliom he possesses. 
 
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 Such, Rev.' and Dear Fathers and co-laborers are the 
 words of advice we haVe thought useful to address you on this 
 occasion. " We beseech you to stir up the grace of God which 
 is in you by the impofiition of Episcopal hands." (II. Tim., 1- 
 6 v.) We must be earnest and zealous workmen in the Lord's 
 vineyard. I'li vera viffila, in omnibm labom, opus fac evangeU 
 istte, ministemim timm imple. (11, Tim., 4-5.) It were yery sad 
 indeed if in the evening of our da3^the Lord of the vineyard 
 should say to us, " quid atatis uW^e otiosir (Matt. 5cx-6.) 
 Let us >york like good soldiers of Christ. ''Lalmra 8ieiitb(mu8 
 miles ChnsUr^ (II. Tim., II. a) ; so shall we one day have the 
 happiness of hearing from the lips of pur merciful Saviour th^ 
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 many thin«H, enter into the j<,y« of your Lord. (Matt., xxv. 
 
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 WiHhing you. Rev. and Dear Fathern, God'B abundant l.leH- 
 
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 We are, yourrt faithfully in ChviHt, . ' , 
 
 V ^ JOHN WALSH, 
 
 St. Michaki/h" pIlack. - ^ AnlM^.p .^Toronto. 
 
 ' Totonto, Feb. 2nd, 181)0. ^ . 
 
 P 8.-^In conformity with the command of the Ilyly Hoe. we request 
 vou^^o take up a collection for the Sacred Shrines in the lloly Land 
 on Good Friday or on sorte conVeinent day during sEastertide, and to 
 remit the amount to Very Rev. V. G. Laurent, wh0 will send it to its 
 prop«r destination. ^ ^^^^^ WALSH. ^, 
 
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