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Sinners and Saints must Fast, Works of Charity sliould accompany the Fast of Lent, How Alms should lie given, - - . . . I'liblic grants to Hospitals and Homes, Injustice done to the Catholics of Kingston by the Munici; I Council, ----.. Attendance at Morning Mass and Evening Devot'ons, - Family Prayer, --..___ Paschal Precept, I*. i PAOK. Lent, 12 14 - 17 3ns, I'.i 21 22 RHgHDiogese of Y^m^M^ James Vincent Cleary, by the Grace of God an.i favor of the ApobtoHc See, Archbishop of Kingston. I I To the Reverenu Cleri^^v, Religious Communities, and faithful Laity of Our Diocese. DEARL' BELOVED IN CHRIST: The following are the regulations for Lent for the year 1895. in the Archdiocese of Kingston : I AH davs within the Lent, Su.iday. excepted, are Fastin- days', on which only one full meal is allowed, with a par- tial refection or coUation in the evening Young persons who have not completed their tweuty-hv.st year of a^e, and those who have reached the period of life when old age itself is an infirmity ; likewise the sick, nurs- i„.r women, and all who are employed at hard labor, are exempt from the law of Fasting, and may therefore take their usual number of meals every day in Lent. U The law of Abstinence, which forms part of the penitential discipline of Lent, prohibits certain kinds ot food, an;l all are bound by it who have completed their seventh year of age, unless they be sick or have obtained a dispensation. ByUre common law of the Church, delivered down from the first aae of Christianity, fiesh meat, eggs, milk, butter and choes,, have been excluded from the food of the laith- I I'0|.e l.ea vm ^1^ ""l-;'»'">" f'™" it. This ,,„„er >""v think lit il„.„„ , ~ , °I"'""'"l'e"seasth^.y "U.■ cli„.,.,c.. ■ '"■'' ™-'«"»" of the .severity „'f '"• '" ™"'""f"'i"M>'«tolicl,„|„|t „.„,„, .,„ l"«it „„ ail .Suiid,.v. at „„,.,.„ , ' ""■ "* "' ''«!' »"'! Holy .^at,„'iHy. ■ ''"■'■ "•'-''''^- (""' "•'"■••^lO under t«entv.ot,e vew „f ., ' "7 'o ■«""« I'wsons ShonW any i-,„thef .vlaxHtion „|- ti... I--,-, , • '«|l...ed l,y ,,„,.tj„„|„ , ' °' "'« ' "St or al«tn,t.M« he »I«ctive |,as.or, „,,„ arXoh . t "'" T"" " ""'" "'«"■ - p-ided .™ea„d..,„oien:::,c';:!:r:r ^ " '- "-„. l^a•: IS. stated to the ecclesiastical authorities, to whom the d,s,«n».ng TZ,.I the l'„i>c has been conumn.ieate,!. A dispensafon from ;r a-t ornhstinence procured byraeaus of false or exa^.^erated representatious of ill-health or other e.uses, .s wholly useless ; Zs not relieve the applicaut from the Lenten obhgafon, bu .t tZZ his conscience with the suilt of falsehood and decept.on • in a grave matter of religion. ' The faithful should guard against thinking or s,eal'ng of f,e Lenten restriction of food as a needles, or arb.tary severity, A „ood catholic will always regard it with sacredness, as a sp^ anal discipline ordained lor the well-ben,g ot Ins soul. He wdl tea i . mind that it was instituted by the Apostles of . lesus i Ctaist in the very beginuiug, and ha, b.en nuuntamed contmn- annual course of penance, for the expiation of each one's sn,s and Tm sterv of bis spirit over his lle.,h, in accordance w,th t^,e s"^ nsof Our' Divine Saviour Hin.self, conilnued by H,s i exlmX in the forty days of His fasting and hunger and unn,- - terrupted prayer in the desert. Unbelievers sometimes ask. can forgiveness of sins and ever- lasting glory be purchased by restricting the M"ant.ty and qual- ity of our food f OUR OWN WOUKS, AS HUMAN WORKS. ABE OF NO AVAII, TO SALYA- TION. It i9 true that cur acts of self-chastisemc. ^ considered as our own works, or merely human acts, bear no proportion to the avavity of our otfences against God. and could avail nothing to- wards tl.e remission of our sins or increase of grace and merit in our souls. But if we perform them in the spirit of obedience to the divine authority of the Catholic Church, uniting them in faith and hope with the forty days' fast of Jesus Christ and the un- speakable suHerings He was pleased to endure for our sake throuohout His mortal life, and particularly in the several stages of his°Passion, which we commemorate in the last week of Lent, they become supernatural works, the product of faith and grace, mo,l ,,leH,i„j; to ll,e heart of OoJ, ami prolific „f p„,.l„„ a„,l I a 1 rejoicod ■„ hi, ,„ir..ri„,.,, b.,..,He. u,M,i,„ ,h.,„ with lh„„' o the Wur he ■Milled ,,,,,ho,e tiling, that a,e w.u.ti„., Tf .a„ J,f ."""'r""''""-','" ''" ""^"""« "f ""'■»«l^« "'wa.-.l, the .a .ct heat „„ „f „„,. ,,„,,, „„j „,„ „i|.„,„i^.i„ , ^alvHt,o„ by „„i„„ of „„■■ ;„t,.„ti„„ with Cluist in faith Lltr a pn,n,„.y art.cle of CViatian doctrine ,et hath re,.at.dl7h; h .Se„ptu,_es .'No one cu, co.ne to Me." , aid the .Savfou unlessthe t.ther, who ,ent Me, shall .haw hi,„." (.,„,,„ Z' 44v.) On the voad to heaven we are like paralytic, • J 'can' nottnove a ,tep forward I, „„r own ellia',; i i, , J, " who can drawn, to Jesu, < W. and throngh dcsu, to Ili„ e,f n II. heaverdy home. Again .„e Saviour proclain,,,, ■• A, t e hraneh cannot prodnce frnit of itself, nnle,, it adi, r,., to t e vn,e, so neither can yon n.de,, you abide in Me. I a,n I e vi 1 you are he branche, ; „l,o,o abideth in Me and I i , „ "^' pro nceth ,nncl, fruit, f,.r without Me you can do n tdn ' (John, loc, 4v.) By this intimate union .,ur lives our ac '™ our snneriu.,s Wcotue identified with the life, the a^ti ^^ sullenng, of Chnst ; Christ lives and work, in u, whik u I .... wo,, and f,a,etia. in Chris, unto salvation. . ! .1 r'X ^ «K e,npl.a,,.es th,sgreat principle by telling the Clnistia,:, ^f'i ! ippi (-c, U^.) that we cannot porfor.u anv good and -du.,, act, or even ave the intention t t. unles", Go' a co'r ^ f. H., goou w.ll, ope.ates upo., us by His orace N. v ,! , Hrst thought suggestive of any gL actiorpri^' C;!" w,sha„d good work, must eome from Gods agency wlin!: and upon „, nVe a,, not snilieient to //,;„/. a'nySi.r „ (tor. 12=. ...V.) that ,s, we .annot ntler this asph.tion'with prl „1- i.v our own natural i-o^'er; it is tho j^race of the to our .oul. by on ow ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^. ^^^^^ Holy S„n.t. I-- ' " ; ;';X^ ' : ,,: ,tterancc of that sucrcd name, and tauges u ^^^^^^ ^^^^j ^,^^,. ^^^y^^s ou, favor a tho ^1-- '^ ^ ^ ; ,^,^„^,^ ^,, ,,, ,,ts and pray- derivH all their elhcac:- from iiie ... -.f l..^us Christ our Saviour throu-h laUh. Lti 7 :ti.ln i every Catholic soul at our entrance npon the ;'"" U . ill iL -ell. The discipline of last and abst;n.-v3 Lent, and all >mII ^ ^-e"- v.. f^M.fullv olwrved. Com- „,„, ,„.ui= ana ^^^^^;^^:^:^r^^: :: m. .ir, b,. ''■' '■' ca t p." o,,.ly euclavcl by evil ,,a.«ons ; a,.d. T""", ;,, tlcy o the Sac,a,„e.>t, of re„a,.ce a,.cl t,>e uw"'e tchS for »hose «rthy ..cep.i I Ka.ter the '^*'"^^'' SISNEKS Am. SAINTS MUST FAST. f„r "aU ,.e.. i.. k--- »'■'■'''■ " ••'""• '"=•='"''" ^'"' r ; « h tl e Mn esty of T.od i. offimded. and His sov.re.gn author.ty fs- .:"T^;™^ .- — r- tx oL'd t„ IjO(., lut "F ■ " Tf i« not enough to believe that .^tntiPTTipiit from the sinner. It is noi ti.uu^ii r a:»t ,nade aU-.-fflce,. »to..e...e,.t fo,-the s.ns o n.a,,- kM.d. Millions and millio,.s of men for xvhom "'■' '^'f "^ eten ally lost, because while they unhes,tat»gly bcl.eved they d^rnot tuim the co,.ditions pveseribed m the covenant o re- t;;!" for the application of the all-sumcient mer.ts of Jesus to individual souls. .'?-^>-^»*^i^-^V I and It profitetl, lm„ nolI,i„s,saystl,e A|«,.,tle :-t. I',u,l. Ki-htee. ceutunes a«„ tl,e Holy Ol.ost i„,pi,e.l St. Jan,,., to write lo the Church, .. What shall it p,.„flt, „,y .,eth,c.. if a ,„a„ .av hi hlth fa.th.amlhas „„t wcfa ? Shall faith to able to salvo hi,,,' Ja, I., ,f ,t l,ave not works, is .lead in itself. For, a. the body Without the s,.,nt ,s dead, so also faith without woiks is dead " (Jan,es 2 c.) Now, the fi,-,st and „,ost indispeusable wo,k ,e. quired for the panlou of si„ is penance. " Unless ve do mnance " smd the Saviour, •• ye shall all perish." , I.„ke 13"c.) A,„l what ,s Meant by peuauee ' The Written Wonl „f ,;„,,. as well,;, he uu,for,u Trad,t,o„ of the Church, p,.oclai„,s self-ehastise„,e„t to to the d,st,nct,ve cha,-acteristic of (rue and salutary Benauce All ,„s tances on reco,d of God's a.,,.er being avcled, and'haoive^ nes.s extended to public or private l,„nsg,.es.so,.. i„ considerl.ion ofthe.r return to Cod by penance, exhibit their co„t,i,io„ „ heart, outwardly manifested in acts of self-adliction, chief an,ongst winch a,.e : prayers an.l supplications will, tea;,. Ion., fast,ngs, and prostrations upon the earth, and va,io,.s other methods of painful disei,,liue, such as the weariu- „f hairc fl next the skin, au.l Iyi„g „„ ashes. ■■ i do pen,a",ce " ad „b •■". nst and ashes." (Job. ■>, e.) ..osuc'.he l^ade ,t t J Israehtes, ,tr,v,ng to avert Go,l's anger f,„n, his people, rent ganuents and Lay flat upon the ground before the Ark o e Uvd unt,l even,„g. Ml, he and all the anci.a.ts of Israe a ,^ they put dust on their heads. (Josue 7 c) Sa,„„.l ,, j upon all Israel to "fast all day, a,,d e,y ou fwe ha c sfl aga.nst the Lord." (, Kings, 7 c) The 'peuit^t l^T i , , 1" a' an,l g,.oa„ed and wept, night and ,lay, for an enti,-e week ke„ , mg a fast au.l lying ,„«„ „„ ,,„„,,, „.,,,,^, „^ Zt;,Z to turn as,de H,s ange,, and ,en,it the penalty ,lec ee.l ta „ ' himonaceouut of his sin. "I hunrbled my .soul , fX' satd he; "my knees are weakened by fastiuo Id'.'.? r-t::^^^:;;:t:-^i^:---i— eof 9 „nnced in the streets of their city, '• Yet forty .lays and Ninive Xm be destroyed : - They proclaimed a fast, and ,,nL on sack- i^^h the king and all u.e ,eople. from the greatest to he leas ; vt 'the oxen and the sheep, as well as the u.en, -ve demed a ood • nd drink. Then they prayed, and "cried to the Lord w th aiuilelrstrenoth." The Scripture adds. " (^.d saw the. works, and God had luercy." (Jnas :5 c) Those examples .re recorded by the Holy Ghost for onv instrn ion. and yet how little do we profit by then. : Our Holy Mol" the Chnrch. recalls thenr to onr nunds .t the solen.n i.nu u;atic>n of the Lent, and frequently throughont the torty Zf^he Litnrgv of the Mass and in the Divme ofl.ce and oihei- ^ervices. She blesses the ashes, and impresses theni on ou foreheads m the sign of the cross on the first monung o. the I nt, dedicating ns thereby to a course of six weeks penanc in L o with Jesus, our Leader, our King an our Mode , fas uu, "„d praving in the wilderness, apart from the word and Us d..- " ct on; a^d vanities. She does not re-iuire of us to deny ou^ s very nruch in regard of food and drink and sleep and oh natural enjoyments. Her indulgent d.c.phne at he 1 sent day hardly deserves to be called pet.ance or fast, when conrpared with the penitential fast., recorded in the Scriptures or ^vith the severities of Lent, as it was enforced and observed in the first thousand years of her .istory, when uo other food was used by her children but dry bread and herbs and water, and this onlv once hi the day after the Vesper service in the church. She ha^ had good reasons for relaxing the Lenten austerities ^ot that sin is less offensive to God to-day that it was m former tin,es On the contrary, the sins of Christians involve greater auilt than those of the Jews or Gentiles who had not heard how "God so loved the world as to give up His only-begotten Son. and how the Incarnate Sor of God humbled Himself, out of love for us to a most cruel and ignominous death upon the cross, to make'atonement for all and each of us, and purchase for us the reward of everlasting glory. Mo ; the sinful Catholic ot today is more "uilty than the Ninivite sinner ; and God s anger is pro- 10 portionately intensified against him. Ti.e ( ■lunch tells him so and never omits to warn him of " the wrath to come " and the' never ending torments of the fir.- of hell that most surely await him unless he does timely M'orks of I>enauco. She proclaims from her pulpits that the word of the Saviour exi.resses an unchai.ae- ablelaw, '• Unless ye do penance, ye shall all perish," and that to the present generation, e.jually as to those of old, the dictum of St. Paul applies, " They whc are of Christ, have cruciHed their flesh with its vices and concupiscence^ " (Gal. 4c.) Never- theless, she is considerate for the weakness of lu-r children in the.se latter times, .seeing that the ancient fervor of pietv has generally abated ; and an almost universal drea.i of pain and bodily austerity has .seized the minds of men. even the stroiures^ • and the conditions of human life have undergone a remarfable' change in divers way.s, especially in the activitv of h.dustrial and commercial eiitorpnVe, and the prolonged hours of labor, and the severe demands of ta.sk-work, and the consequent strain upon the mental and bodily energies cf men in the j.ursuit of worldly business, striving for succes. in the face of ever-increasi,,.. com- petition. For these and other cau.ses the Church permUs the general use of nourishing food in Lent nowadays, trustin- to other resources for the awakening of the spirit of penance°and the just reparation to Cod's offended majestv by her errii," and repentant children throughout the holy .season of Lent ° Sl,e expects that her moderatioz. in relaxing the former .severitv of the fast will encourage the faithful to observe with thorJucl. exactness the few and small rest.ictions of food now re.n.ired of them; and she believes that a little mortihcation practiced with fidelity in the spirit of obedience, is more meritorious before God .han the most rigid austerities grudgingly submitte.l to. She expects also that good and loyal Catholics wil, co-npr..sate for the dispensation .she grants in the law of fast and abstinence by deiiying theni.selves indulgence in other things that contribute bodily pleasure or comfort, but are nowise necessary to life and health. Every one knows his own habits, and few th'e y a Xl cannot, with profit to the soul, and perhaps to the health of the ti,n will (^h ' how uumt'ious sue tne moueiu f '''""T'e Tf" ic \S . : So.ne of them ave innocent in ti.en,- forms of selt-giatmcdUDi. Himi , the desert, a volantavy penance and an atonement for "s" j;;. Ind it will; moreover, strengthen hi. soul tor the day of teiuptation. . The t:hnrch also ex,.ect, her faithful children to abstam ,„,.iJ t hi -enitentia, season from all public games and theatr,- c:i n -^i m.-nts and han.p.ctin.s and balls -"' dances and ' ■ ,..unt« These are d recti v aiul manifestly <4nrh-hke festive amusements, iutsedieu sucu iiK^ ^ . . Penance and selt- SSIar UiSol Itr l^fore Ood in atonement for '„ o Ve ce a-ainst His Sover ign Majesty. What can unbeUev- bleiedashe" in tokenof their dedication to the forty days d.s- ::::h:::;compnncti„nands~^^^^^^^ • m" xhibiUons of vanity, too freanently oflens.ve to mo ■nui always dissipating to the rel,g.ous spmt ^ W c »»»'«" ^stly exhort .11 Catholic parents to te firn. and nnrelenUn, u, "m **: 12 their opposition to these unworthy practices » , ,„., ,„n,,"™' '»* '*'^'. ^ Ivmea Aal vi»- ''""^Vi , foslins a"d alms. 10 find n.«cy a.uU* ^^^^ ediftcaUon « ^,^^,, „„ ^„, „„U white to vel^at here ^^^,^,, t„ „ on ^^^^ „„,y the advice g-ven by 0. ^_^^, ,^,„ , „ t^> ,^,^„ ,;hostte>v"" ,.,teav,inyso". »™' („„„dation m *y '- ^'"^ r'fmv »"*. -^ ^^'^i *";.ori. tvl; n,ind,ana take 0,e words of my '" „f ,hv life l«ve I .o'> " ■" ronmian"- eart. A" '"" ''^^.n n 'o «". "« '"'"f : "i snhs.ance. K >-^n\r^r -V.od. .>Wea;.ns^o^;;>^,,,,,„,ec^^^^^^ mentsof theU. ^,„„dantly : ■ *" ^^,,,, thou storest thou have »> A ^; ^,„,„„,y a httle^ 1« ^^ ^.^^ ^„„ even so, ^ J*'^" ^ fo, the day ol n ^^.^_ ^^^^ , „p to thyself •'•r'* .from death, and « din ^^^^^ ^,,^ dlliver from all -»'' ^toh. 4 c.) ^°;:^,':„„„„h, and piety to go into *^>f^7ontario-.vonldhaveta « ;^^ ,„ the .•atholic V.'^f ,; ,," „„„d Israelite'" "f'Sven ,,ith therr enough, to ■"^'' *'; .^f„,e tins out to the people the I II sackcloth atid ashes, he describes the sort of fast that is accept- able to the Lord, because acconiiianied l>y works (»f ( harity: " Is not this rather tlie fast which I have chosen ' Deal thy bread to the hungry, and liriny the needy and the homeless into the house ; When thou shalt see one naked, co\er him, and des])ise not thy own flesh." (Is. 08 c.) The Fathers of the Church insist so strenuously on alms giving as an accompaniment of the fast, that they do not hesitate to declare all the severities of Lent, as practiced in tlieir time, to be of little or no avail without alms, where persons have sullicient means to l)estow them. St. Leo the Clreat, as cited above, requires those who cannot comi)ly with all the rules of rigid fasting to make up the deficiency by multi- plying their alms. This rule holds good for us all nowadays, since the fast is reduced to almost nothing. St .lohn Cinysostom allirms, "If you fast witliout giving ahns, it is not to be rei)Uted a fast." St. Ca'sarius of Aries says. "Fasting withodt alms is not available, unless a person be .so poor as to have nothing to •iive, and in such case the good will is suflicient.'' Let us take seriously to heart these teachings of the Word of (Jod, written for our instructittn by the Holy (Ihost, a!id proclaimed Ity the Holy Church in all generatiotis. Let it selfishnes shut up the Ijowels ot mercy within us. We have sinned, and we cannot ob- tain mercy without practicing mercy. We jmnish our Ijolies very little indeed by the modern discipline of Lent; but we have the power, and we are bound to supply the deficiency by alms- giving. now .VLMS SHOrLIt HK (ilVKN. The direct purpose of alms is to relieve the wants of the poor. Therefore care should be taken that they be not mi.-ap- ](lied. Poverty and want should, first of all. be distinctly ascer- tained, that imposture may not receive encouragement from our excessive good nature. If we have personal knowledge of the wants and privations of any family or of individuals, who receive no aid from any public fund, it is an excellent work of charity to give them suitable^ as.sistance privately and noiselessly, liut wlien the poor are very numerous, the best method of relieving 15 , . .1 -..n.P time .niaidiii^ uw>i"*l imi.usiti..n, is to comnut our al.us to '"■ , ■™, ' ' \,^„„ „f ,,,,,itv. They v.ill ...ake dnig«"t. ""'""■>;, "I'^i"!.;!, ..usW to be Biveo. an., sciontiously g>ve re.iuisite ai.l «l e'e „ ^^ ^^^ witW-oUl where ,t o.„h. to ';;;;'',;',,,,;: II the exeellent theCityorKi,„..to„,au,l,no 1 ' .^ ^^^ ,.^,„f^ Society of St^ X mcen -le . , 1 ^^^^^^^^ ^j^^^, ^.^^.^ .„ spiritual au.l ten,,«.ral. „f the ..,o, I , _^^_^^^__ ,',eiv houre. aud protect aga.u^t -;;;/;;,„„,,„„ of our ,„ena t\,.s a.l„nraUe Soe.ety to the ena ^_^ lUithful priests a„.l veop e tl»-S »"' « " ^,^r,-.,„„, ,.„ ,,„,„ .„ God, «■'■" «•'■"-, ■:;^;:;:^U ""he .e,i,iou. eo„.,nuui- 1 also in our MotropohlauCity o l.,,,videueo, aud .u ^ ties of the Hotel l-eu am tl 1. ^,__.^^ ^,^^,„^. llroekviUe the llo^pilal of »t. \""^\ „( ,,un>auity. ,, . , ""«f it:;" f r H ;;l::";:^>w,i .... the.. The Sisters of thautj oi ^ ^^^^1 ,,,l„,„j lives in tenderly nu.nslenno „, . . ^.^,^ ,,^ ^,^^. , ,«„. „r l,„.h .exes of whon, '•-'•:', j,,.,,,,, ,,. what U„„>e, and al.o ol ..rphan h„ , " '- ^ ^„ „,„,j „„„, -'< - '-•""■";';' ;; ;:: : : lllt'e ...ir youth and womanhood ^ n.Ul e n ^l„ ^^^ ^^^ ^,^^, ,,, f,„, ,_.,„,„,., lion of l«rpetnal o«> than th. .^.^^ . j,.^^^^ ..Ue, in the conlident hop,- " ' J^ ^^ ^^„, ..„,,,,,, „reeks ,!„«.. aoed m.M> and xvomen, the I"" '" s» ^^_ of 1 "ity. the hhnd and ' ;;;;^> J,'^, , '^ .r,, a,e tender- .iok, and their fast dee. yn,« rellow- .eat _ ^^^^^^ „e.s a mother eonl, show ner el . Y ,,^„, "'«r':i.rr;'«a-';:;.:;uon,iy, >.o-"'- neat aiui i'K-anl} , luey ^^^^ ^^^, ^^^,, ^^^.^j^^ a.ey au all tins w.th a '^''-^'^f ^. f ' : .'^^ , u.e Holv Ghost aev^tum that c-aii only he the fnut of the giaue 10 rejoicing in their hejirts and i^aying them the " hundred fold rec- ompense " ]»romi.sed hy the L'>rd Jesus Christ. They ask nothing, they receive nothing, from tlie world. The saying of St I'aul is theirs, " Having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content." (1 Tim. 6c.). The Si&ters of the Hotel Dieu and of St. Vincent de Paul's Hospital in like manner, and with ecjually edifying self-sacrifice and laborious zeal, exjieml them- selves in the care of the sick and (lying poor. To this they have consecrated their whole life and all their faculties of soul and body by .solemn vows. Their extreme tenderness in nursing the sick, th-;r long night- watchings, and their success in sustaining and consoling the hearts of their patients through all the changes of prolonged sickness, are well-known and gratefully acknowleged by non-Catholics as well as Catholics. They, moreover, nurse our little orphan girl.> with jiarental atl'ection and rear them nicely. They expect no reward from creatures. They rely on Him who said, " Wlio.soevcr shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple; Amen, I .say to you, he shall not lose his reward." (Matt. 10c.) We trust our good Catholic people will not neglect tho'e religious com- munities. It would be a cruelty to forget them. They are working for Christ, to be sure ; and He will not forget tiieni. IJut they are working for us akso, by caring our distressed poor, whom the Saviour of men committed to our care. They are absolutely dependent on the chnrity of their fellow-citizens. We know, of our own certain knowledge, that they have no means of their own for the maintenance of their institutions. Whatsoever they did formerly acquire by coh;'cting and .safe guarding their alms received from charitalile frieiias, has been recently exi)ended in providing much needeil accommudation for the increased numbers of the i)oor in accordance with the requirements of health and for the greater efficiency of their mini.strations. The Government Inspectors could not avoid making complaint of the inadequacy of their fornr.er equipments and domestic arrangements. Every Catholic was ashamed of the state of things, as th.ey hitherto were. It was time to do something in the way of im- 17 provemcnt. But the diaiiges of buiUiings uiul eiilargeiuent ot spare aiul sanitary ieONK TO TIIK CATHOLICS OF KINCSTON HY TIIK MUNI- CII'AI, COITNCU,. The tienil (.f ( hii (-ubject nutiirally leads Us to the con- sideration of a grevious injustice perpetrated from year to 3 ear upon the Catholics of the City of Kinj,'ston by our Muiiici}tal Council. There are two Protestant institutions in the ciiy— the Protestant Hospital ai.d the Protestant Hou?e of Industry — corresponding^ in their main purpose with our Catholic Hospital and our House of Proviilence. They are private institutions, maintained, as ours are, by the cluritalde offerings of individuals, supplemented by ^'rants from the Provincial ( ! overnments. They have on their side most of the wealth of the city, and have, from time to time, been recipients of immensely large bequests and donations. We have on oiir side only a minority of the population, who are, as a v.liole, the less alHuent section of citizens. And yet the Municipal Corporation of Kingston ainiuiilly take Irom the fund dcrivd from Protestant and Catholic taxes alike, a sum of Sl,')Oi) and hautl it over to the two Proteslaiit institutions, whilst they give not one dollar or cent to either of the Catholic institutions that exist solely for the relief of the poor, who have a natural and divine right to support from tlie public;. Nay, they even impose a tax of so much per gallon on the water taken through the i)ublic pipe from Take Ontario by the Hotel Dieu and the Providence for t'.ie drink of the sick and poor, and the washing of their linen. The amount of tax for water charged last year against the sick citizens receiving care in the Hotel Dieu, and compuls<^rily paid otitof the alms contributed in their favor, is $18-4.24 : the water tax charged against the alms supplied for the food and clothing and general maintenance of the 129 aged and intirm poor creatures, and the ;")•") orphans in the House of Providence last year, is 3127. ;").">. We have been told that the pretext for thus discriminating against the poor artd the sick in charge of the Kelijiious Sisters is because the Protestant institutions are uon- sectariun and ours are sectarian ; and last summer We listened with interest to an address publicly delivered by one of the Governors •JJ ol the (General Hospital, in the course that institnti.»n to hf n<.ti-se« tf) I novo were opeiiet: of which ht) 'ndeiivoreJ •tariuu, because its doors \ :o I'rotestaut and Catholic patie nt« alike. ment avails anything, it lavors ,1' I'lftvidence, ainco the ] If thi ,. ihe clnini of the Hotel Dit'U the portals of both the ( iitliolic ar<,'u aiul House Ol I m^ nii;ii< c, .,...-■ , , 11 1 Hosmtal and the Catliolic Home are likewise open to all de- Sions. Surelv.irthe<;eueralHo.pitdl.r.gar^^^^^ nndenonun..tional, by reason of its hav.n, ten ^"^'ho - ^ within its walls to-dav, an.l havnig had e.^hty-e.glt Latl ol c n he official year endiu, Septen^ber ^^"^'■. / ''Y l^ ^ f Dieu is eMually entitled to an undenonunatnnal cH--t .v. .nuchas i has eight Protesuut p.tients to-duy.and had th. teen of then, sou^etiu^s last yea, and has had one hundred and lifteen sick I'rotestants in its wards within the same othcial year ending i'.Oth Septen.be, 1894. By a sin.ilar co.apanson the House of Providence can establish its tale as strongly as the HoPse of Industry to be regarded as non-sectunan, s.nce . has nine Protectant inn.ates at piesenl, a.ul has fre.p.e,.tly had more Wherefore the distinction between sectarian and nou- sectarian in reu^rence to these institut: >n. .f reUef for the ,^r „,ust be established on some other bP . v 'e> .aps it ■. le er- able to the management. Certainly the Hotel Dieu aud House of I'.oviden^e are under Catholic management ot tht very best possible kind. Bit, whereas the (ieneral Hospital and the House of Industry are under decidedly Protestant man- loeme the ground of distinction between sectarian and non- 'semrian is not discoverable here. Perhap, it may be found in the Medical Stall, or the nurses, and other oiVicials ( But these are exclusively Protestant in ^^ ^'^''^ ^'^^f\'^' ^ Hou- of Industry. The conclusion is irresistible, that the City Council of Kingston dips its hand every year into the pockets ot the Catholic citizens and extracts their money for th.e mainteu- ance at the rate of tilleen hundred .lollars per year, of two Protestant inslitutions, whilst it does not allow any portion whatever of the taxes, whether Catholic or Protestant, to be applied to the support of the hundred and twenty-mne aged •21 And infinn poor, and fitty-five urphans, in tiie House of Trovi- (lence, or to llit sick inmates ol' tin; Hotel l)i«Mi, nmiiliHiin;:. at a yearly avfraj,'e. over six hundred. We larni'Stlv liope thr.t there is suthoient fairness of !>j)iril in the citizen? of Kingston to remedy this ineonility of distribution ot puhlic money. Mean- while the ( atholics, We hope, will feel it all the more incumbent on them to provnle for tite poor and alllicteil members of Christ, who throw tl cmselves uiK)n the eharitv of the j?ood Sisters for that relief vhich they areentiilol to receive from the jtubli-; generally. AS.slST AT KVKN'IN<; l>K\OTioNS AM" MOKMNC MASS. We hope our faithful people will sui>])ly for the delieiency of bodily niortitication by their reguhu and •constant attentl- ance at the tiaily publ'c devotions in the chun-h. Every family should make it a rule, whensoever possible, to join with t'.e priest and t\w congregation before the altar each Lenten evening for the recitation of the Itosaiy and ihe rece[)tion of the special favors bestoweii by Our Lord in the lienediction with the Blessed Sacrament. The pastors resident in towns or villages are re.st s'loliine and eilicacious of all forms of prayer. It is adoration, praise, thanksgiving, supplication for ]»ard(;n of sin and iiiipetratioii of the graces and blessings we have need of for our spiritual and temitoral welfare. It is Jesu.« Christ Himself, the High Priest and Viciim of the New and Eternal Te.stanleu^, who oilers wor- ship in al' .nose forms to His Father, for us and with us, i;i the oblation of the Holy Mass. It is He who lays the otlering of our heart.s, our faith and hopi' and love and compnn-^tion, our 22 praise and petitirns, our thanksgiving and supplication before the tluone of God in sight of the whole heavenly com-t. lAMILY PRAYER. We trust that the practice of united family prayer, at all times commendable, and especially appropriate to the forty days of Lent, shall be observed most punctually in all homes of the DiocesJ of Kingston from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday ; most particularly in those that are too distant from the Church to admit of the family's attendance at the public devotions. If we cannot go into the desert with our Divine Master and Saviour, let "us invite Him to come in spirit each evening and be the centre of the household at the time of prayer. He has promised to come, if He be asked : " Where there are two or three gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 1-Sch.) Where parents and children, masters and servants, assemble together in their peaceful homes to close the day witl'i adornation and thanksgiving to God, and supplication for paraun of their ollences, and petition for continuance of heaven's favors, through the Saviour's meiits and the Virgin Mother's intercession, with the blessed beads in every hand and the cross pendent from every beads, they are then and there assembled in Christ's Name, and most assuredly He will be in the midst of them. I'ASl'llAL PKECEIT. Although the Paschal Precept does not absolutely demand fulfilment ni this Province before Trinity Sunday, it is more pro])er and more safe not to defer it beyond the Octave of Easter, especially because the pious discipline of Lent is intended by the Church as a preparation of her children's souls and bodies for the fruitful reception of the Word made Flesh, who is the " living bread that cometli down from heaven an to .iipproach the Sacraments ■2\ and t/aiii the Indulgeiioc mi St. Patrick's; Day, that thc^y may have a share in the blessing.s vouchsafed to th(; Irish race in every clime tluongli the intercession of their glorious Apostle on his annual Feast. Wt; ask our Ifev. Clergy t(j give facilities to their lloeks for Sacramental Confession a day or two previous to St. I'atrick's Day. The (Jrace of (3ur Lord Jesus Chri.st be with you all. Amen. This letter shall be read to the congregation in each Church of the Archdiocese on the first Sunday after its reception. Given at Kingston, under Our hand and seal, this 2:!rd day of February, iS'.io. t Jamhs Vincknt Cleary, Archbishop of Kingsi, :i. Tiios. Kelly, Secretary. — i^m —