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John Joseph Lynch, by the grace of God and the appointment of the Holy See, Archbishop of Toronto, Assistant at the Pontificial Throne, etc., etc., etc. To the Venerable Clergy, Religious Communities, and Beloved People of the Laity, health and Benediction in the Lord. The infallible Church, the spouse of the Holy Ghost, the Pillar and Ground of truth and the true teacher of the doctrine of Christ, has in the distribution of hen feasts and festivals set apart one day in the year, the^^^t'" November, in favor of the suffenng souls in Purgatory. She calls on all her children to assemble around her sacred altars to assist and pray at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the deliverance from Purgatory of the souls of those who, whilst dying in peace with our Lord still had debts to pay to his infinite justice. These debts were contracted by the commission of mortal sin, whose grevious guilt, though removed by the Sacrament of Penance, yet left on the soul a debt which was not sufficiently atoned for, or by the Commission of venial .sin not sufficiently repented of. Purgatory is one of the great consoling doctrines "f Ihe Church of Christ n i l heaven, and how few persons I. '"'."' ""'' P"'"^' "" ^mer »'" and .rouble in ,ha, s, "f '7 1 "'"' "' •^'""■^■»", _ -ere no. a place of purifica.ion h2 T ""''''"'"■ '^ '^ere eaven. Nearly .he ihole Cl'Z 'T'" '" "'''^>" >° f> e.e.-ni.y of .he bea.ihc io, of r 7 ' '^ ""'^"''O "" 'h's way of exhibiting his ju °" fd ' ''"" "'' "^''"^en exac.mg .he u.t particle of deb. Jd h"""'- "'' >""'"^' by poor repen.ant sinner. Ood r!w,M ™"'^'' ''^ »^""S (he -*s So„,e are impe^:' Ci""' °"' ^--^'"^ to hi 'hrough carelessness, vani.v J ^ ""' <" P""' inten.i„„ -ubble adhering .o gold Xr^cilLT"^' '''l' '"^ "''^ -^ 'iistre. precious stones which dull their -'hi:htct:s.n::7r""';- ^"^•^^'"^■•^- --^ '^.-^ '-., gold, silver, precious ;,?:"?:'" "P™ 'h-f°""da ■an's work shall be manifest, Tr the d, ,"'; '"*"'=■ Every ^■'«re „, because i, shall be revealed i„« "' ''°'' »>>»" d- 'ry every man's work of wharsorf i, i 'r^'' "'» "re shall btde, which he hath built thereupon L\ , '"' """''' "ork If any man's work burn he shah s.'i ^" '""^' » ^-^rd. -hall be saved, yet so a» by fire " , r °'' ' ■"" >" himself PerrectLTZa^^^^^ he fire of God's justice will outftrhl,'"'" '° '' ''3' "re. '"dwho shall be able to\ZVuh7/' ''' ''"^'''"^'>^'^■ And who shall stand to see hI " t t" °' ^'" "■"'"g' hroj and like the fuller's he ^ ' IZ^' I «''= ^ refining "..d cleansing the silver. And He ,h n """' ^'' '^""'-g '-..and shall refine them as gll;".r"''^ "'^ ^"^ °f offer sacnfices to the Lord in jS tee "-MaTT' ^"' '"^^ ^'""' - '"'-''^"^-■--■■----"Xrdac.ions, Lnu- /£fl 1 ind perfect can enter earth of temptation, perfection, jf ihere "ould go straight to uld be deprived for <^od has chosen y- His justice by 'ercy by saving the fie according to his o^ pure intention ' ''ke the hay and s which dull their that which is laid upon this founda- stiibble. Every 'e Lord shall de- nd the fire shall ^ny man's work eceive a reward, ^ut he himself ed up with im- so as by fire. imperfections. His coming? like a refining ^'1 sit refining y the sons of ind they shall 2,3- good actions, PASTOkAI. LKTTKR. 5 to see if they are perfect. " Be ye perfect as > jur Heavenly Father is perfect. Oh how few are perfect, and how few do penance in pro- |)ortion to their sins. How lew in their dealing with their fellow men, giving measure for measure, goods ccjual to the money paid for them or services equal to the pay received. How many fail in charity in words and actions, how many prayers said carelessly and without thought uttered even at the most solemn times. These will have to be repeated, ns it were, m Purgatory. How many will suffer from their want of charity and mercy to the poor and failing to pay their just dues to God's Church for the spiritual favors they receive from it. If we give you," says St. Paul, "spiritual things, you should ad- minister to us temporal things." The guilt of mortal sin is so great that the eternal pains of hell are destined for its punishment, and when that awful crime is forgiven the penalty of satisfying for it it some measure is so grave that the flames of Purgatory are made use of for a long or short time according to the gravity of the sin. A certain holy person said that some souls after a bad life will be in Pur- gatory until the day of judgment inasmuch as they have merely escaped hell by a death-bed repentance, and yet what a blessing to have escaped hell ! All spiritual writers agree that the pains of Purgatory are intense, yet the souls are satisfied to suffer till the last debt is paid. They would not wish to enter heaven with stains on their souls. God in His great mercy has per- mitte.4 some souls suffering in Purgatory to appear to friends on ■earth to solicit their prayers and masses, and to pay their debt.s. This, the lives of the saints. Ecclesiastical History at all times attest. In these days when faith is fading from some minds even in the Church, it behoves erpecially the Bishops to remind the faithful of their duties and_ obligations to their departed 6 PASTORAl LETTER. "^ ™„, carriages and a g'ra "» '" "''^"'■- f— , „,h « ^ y an .he -qu,ren,e„fs oA,:,"™-' ^^ '"' graves w f -he deceased's friends could on JT" '''""'=>'• ^las ! •hey would cry out and sav "T,/ !?'"' ''°"' "'«■• graves ™onun,ents only crush us. Thev o 1 "" "°*'^ P^^""' -d ^""g but in no allevlte o '^ T"'*' ""^ ™"»y of ,he P"e„,s „,ay cry ou. ibis to tir ch',;"''"'"«' '" P^atory Ae.r parents. Where is LT ''''''" '"'^ 'he childrenTo S^-'/'ude? Alas! vanity his l' ^''"' '^ affection a„j "-idly people will even'ptrLu h" " 'T '"'"' "-*• So'e for the souls in Purgatory' reTn.lrr'r.'" ^^^ """ ^"'s he Pr,ests and the Priei umv, LTk '' ''" '"' "^"^fi' „ sr^^°---ndsac:rad:t;::-;L;;x-^^ - ^ "^^tzrt:r:z:: 't -'- - -p. -rvor:r::d:ihVrr-^^^^^^^^^^ -erous foundatiot in' C^ ^ '°^^' ^""-^ ^'^n" Churches and Canonries whrm! """'' '" Purgatory day by canons and monks hr%" ""= celebrated evT^v «"de„,s, hospitals fTthe 'ca .ofTk '" "' ^-"-'-n of ^o^f "on of al^s to the poor, to ave o! "''' P"'°*-' **ibu ages made for the souls in vT '"' ^''y"' ="d pilgrim 'wep, away by the ruthless ha^dT^'' ^" "■«' have C -form the Church ; and eve„ ,t th^ ''"" ^'""" -^"'"g " Chr.st,an soul is about to TJltV'T' •'^^' *''en the 'here are legal impediments n ,t °'^ '''' ^o'^'eign jude" "-ions for pra;e,3 or^Zr^ ^If ^^ b'y^t' ^erefore, my uear people, h Ln ^ i&A expensive funeral with ^t over the graves will ■and decency. Alas' 'ak from their graves ."'orldly pageant and 'sfy the vanity of the enngs in Purgatory. and the children to •e^e is affection an J 'nany hearts. Some /osay that appeals ' ^or the benefit of ofsuch untrue and 5Pect, be silent or people the perfor- ards their deceased remind the people ^•ng in Purgatory, ^ere stronger than '' showed itself in ''s in Purgatory, celebrated twery education of poor ■nodical distribu- yers and pilgrim, hese have been 'ovver wishing to day, when the Sovereign Judge, making by will ny dear people, PASTORAL LETTER. 7 whilst you are well, make provision for your own soul ; do not entrust it to the care of others that cannot love you more than you love yourselves. One must be exceedingly pure to enter into the presence and company of the God of all purity and sanctity, to be the companion of the Immaculate Mother of God, and of all the saints and angels in Heaven. The doctrine of Purgatory has been denied by the majority of the so-called Reformers, but nowadays, on account of its reasonableness it is rather accepted, and there are some who dare to deny the right of God to punish eternally, but will admit the existence of Purgatory. To the er class we have nothing to say. God has sovereign rights, and He does not lose them by the whims and fancies of poor corrupted human nature. Ihe existence of a third state or Purgatory is proved from many texts of Sacred Scripture, both in the New and Old Testaments. (II. Mark. xii„ 4-13, 4-6.) " And making a gath- ering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered lor the sins of the dead thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection. And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep in godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they be loosed from sins. In the New Testament we read in the Epistles of St. Peter, iii., 18-20, that Christ visited Limbo, a place in which just souls were detained on account of their incredulity, even before the deluge. " Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust, that He might offer us Lo God, being put to death in deed in the flesh, but enlivened in the Spirit. In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison, which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building, wherein a few, that is, eight souls were 8 PASTORAL LETTER. w saved by „aler." (i p.,„ ... ''"»»• Theyampiy prove V^ .^^ *"' ^P''*"» '" -l.e Coril doctrine of PurgarofyTs !, '^"'-'"'"^ "^ f'-rgatorv Th >-nurch. There is no orieniai li„ " "^"^ '""rgy of ,1,^ who have departed ;„ "''«>' "■'"'out praver, f„ . tu "'-i'rtrtea m peace Tk^ a F''»>ers (or those "• mat a widow nra,7o ^ . ^5> or sacrifices fnr the first resurrection, and offe ^ . . """^ '"'^ •company in days of his death, for' if she dfnot t "' °" ">' """'versa ! much as in her lies, divorced hint '" """^^ ^""^ "-- i" as St. Cyprian speakes nf fj, ri«ces for every d':cea::;:hristiar "'"" °^«''''™»« sac- 'hatljy puZt:: atTd^alh .t.:!'"'' '■" '"' ^-^ -°. says "" "^""^ ""'y can enter heaven " ""''^''P'^e even the leas. f^^:i!:^:::;^j;!:^;^ ? • — a had the fenng ,„ p, ,^^ smalT,^^ ' ,'"''"'" "ho was suf ^-Ph- entreats this favor in his,ast.„.„„,„^^,^^^. t t tl tl fl V( in ^n thifi& TER. V '■) Jt is unneccessary to ".^ Epistle to the clZ ""e of Purgatory. Thi. \ taught in the Church Toll" ''"' ^"^— «' of the people. Stand ;j^ned, whether by word ^o"' prayers and masses ^"cient liturgy of .he 'thout prayers for those ostol.c Constitutions- ^^k largely of prayers PASTORAL LETTER. ^thers, who hVed about er'ngs or sacrifices for ^o^'I of her deceased • have his company in -s on the anniversary ^h'"gs she has, in as '"Of celebrating sac- n the year 200, says opiate even the least ^- Perpetua had the 'Other who was suf- Jt the holy martyr [li'te cheerful and '111 to offer prayers M sacrifices for him after his death, especially on the 30th St, Gregory the Great mentions, that having ordered thirtv asses to be sa,d for the Monk Justus, he !ppear d to Ws bbott after the last mass and said to him : " 1 was in pain bu ow I am well." Bu. the limits of a letter will no pelit u ;o cue other examples, even in our own day. The Council of Trent, under the inspiration of the Holy host, has made decrees on the subject which bind the cons d [ences of the fa.thful. In the thirteenth Canon of the sl'h Se " ston, „ decrees " that if any one should say that a „„ smner, after having received the grace of justifica on he pun ishment of eternal pains being remitted, has no temp<^r 1 pun ..hment to be suffered either in this life or in the „e«I Pur" Sh:^^.'''-"^'""'-""'^'"«^-''f«od;i:^:: t,„ '^''""Sh King David was assured, after his sincere reoen ^ncetha h,s sm was forgiven, ye, the Prophet told him that he had still to suiTer by the death of his child fin.'"!""* »4th Session and 3rd Cannon, the Holy Council de ^g 'nd ; : '::" r °' "^ ''"^ '^ p™p-a.ory\oth r tt: living and the dead, for sins, punishments, satisfactions and for tL^TT ''""*"^'° ^P-'°"^ Traditions ^d tie 10 nim . Receive the power to offer to God the sacrifice nf the Mass as well for the living as for the dead TZ . the Lord. Amen." "'^ ""■"« °' The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is therelore the most power ful means of relieving the souls in Purgatory • ne« k ihr/ vent performance of the Stations nf ,he rC^: ." h V mdu,gencesarea.tached;thenoVher'ini:;;;:ced';t;:rf: lo PASTORAL LETTER. example the Rosary. Alms tn fho -.. "B,e..a.:.fZe!Lt?:;^L;::--„°-- people on AH Sour d;;LrSunT'" "' ""^-"^-f '"e and the proceeds to be comn,!,!, ;^ '""'°'" "' ^"bsequent cordingly computed and Masses offered up ac- We attach the indulgences of the wav of th. r am crucfixes and thus enable pertols who °"' "" "■- ■ently visit the Church to m»V. Pf'^"''."''° cannot conven- indulgences of the Station ht "".'.^'""'"^ *ere to gain the and Hai, Maty, „fth TgIo^ f thf Far" °" ^'"'- Station and five Our Father's and win J "' '"•' '''"' 'ach five Adorable Wounds with 1. f "t "'' "" ''°''"' "' 'he for the conversion of l^frs ' '""""""^ "^ '"^ ?<-?« e3pe!Ln;drot;1tVrS;t '"1 '•'"" ''"'^'■«'°- Vincent de Paul ordered .re pril'Vr '" ^"«'"°'-^- St. to go to meals without first saviS, n ' ™"8«^8ation never in Purgatory. The Church S^h '''""*' '"^ '"'' '™'' office with " May the souls of the fa"hfu, dT' f k'"^ *""^ mercy of Ood rest in peace ■> o„. '"""' ""™8li the thought, from a tomb on which°s noT""™ "™^ '^'""' =ad in peace," or on which a cross-,h Zh^T^ " ^'' "" '^' and in a happy resurrection-does noTfiguT "" '""^ '" °'" We exhort you, beloved children in Chri« ,„ earnest charity towards the souls i"p?rl:,o ! T'7 " - -^^o^ioi^. vou loved lij LDlh 19.9. PASTORAL l,ErTER. II r is another powerful i^ shall obtain mercy." estors loved— to edu- onica rejoiced at her her every day at the opt one or subscribe ents Fund. »^e wish that it should the offerings of the 2vious or subsequent ■asses offered up ac- 3f the Cross on cer- ho cannot conven- es there to gain the irteen Our Fathers ther, etc., for each ry's in honor of the ntions of the Pope pious associations in Purgatory. St. ■ongregation never undis for the souls yers of the divine carted through the I away with a sad yed " May he rest ' our hope in God t, to entertain an OO- You loved them during life ; do not let it be said " out of sight, out of mind." Love them in death or living and earnestly wishing to go to God. This charity will greatly help yourselves. If a cup of cold water given to a servant of God will not go without its reward, how much more a cup of celestial grace, that will shorten the time in the flames of Purgatory of a soul that most ardently wishes to go to God, who desires it himself with great love, and will reward those who hasten the exile of his dear servants. Those, says St. Alphonsus, who succor the souls in Purgatory, will be succored in turn by the gratitude of those whom they have relieved, and who enjoy sooner by the prayers the beatific vision of God. This pastoral will be read in all the Churches of the Diocese and Religious Communities, whole or in part, the first Sunday after its reception. t JOHN JOSEPH, Anhbishop of Toronto. Given at Lit. Michael's Palace, 25th day day of October, 1882. By order of His Grace the Archbishop, J. J. McCann, Chancelloi.