III. — "With regard to the city parishes

lo. The parishioners of Notre Dame and St. Patrick's parishes shall visit twice the Cathedral, Notre Dame and St. Patrick's Churches.

2o. Those of St. Joseph and St. Ami's parishes, the Church of the Holy Cross (G-rey Nuns'), St- Joseph's and St. Ann's Churches.

3o. Those of St. James' parish, the Boiisecours Chiirch, the Chnrch of the Sisters of Mercy and St. James' Chiirch.

4. Those of St. Bridget's, our Lady of Couiisel (St. Mary's) and Sacred Heart parishes, St. Peter's, St. Bridget's and the Church of the Sacred Heart.

5o. Those of St. Vincent de Paul 's parish, St. Peter's, St. Bridget's and St. Vincent de Paul's Churches.

IV. — Nuns not living within a cloister, as also their novices and ail seculars habiting: monasteries are obliged to follow the same ordonance as the faithful with regard to the visits that are enjoined. Cloistered nuns are obliged to obtain a commutation of the visits to the churches that are assigned to the faithful. This commutation v^hich shall confine their visits to their chapel or oratory can only be obtained in the confessional.

V. — Travellers and navigators shall g*ain the Indulgence of the Jubilee in performing the duties prescribed by our Holy Father and visiting either our Cathedral, or the parish church of their domicile or the parish church of the place in which they are staying.

VI. — The alms that shall be collected during the time of the Jubilee in order to comply w^ith the désire of our Holy Father touching the offering of a spécial alms shall be placed within our hands to be disposed of in diocesan works.

VII. — Ail the priests who are named this year as ordinary or extraordinary confessors of nuns can hear the nuns of any community v^hatsoever as regard the confession that is exacted by the Jubilee.

VIII. — The Te Deum shall be sung on Christmas day, being the last sunday of tbe year.

IX. — The conclusion of the Jubilee shall be annonnced by the ringing of the bells, on the 31th of December, which shall last for one half honr after the Angélus.

X. — The mass of the second day of the 40 honrs' ^ dévotion shall hereafter be the Votive Mass of St. Joseph ; this mass shall be as the mass of his feast with the exception that the word Festivitatem mnst be changed into Commemorationevi ; the G-radual also mnst be that of a confessor non pontifF, since Trinity untill Septuagesima sunday.

XL — The two prayers De Mandata shall be superseded by the prayer Contra persecutores et maie agentes beginning thus Hostium nostrorum, etc. (No. 11).

XII. — At ail the exercises of the month of May,, this year, you shall add a Memorare (the prayer of St Bernard) for the success of the Episcopal Fund.

XIII. — As the first of May is the eight anniversary of our consécration you shall sing at bénédiction the Anthiphon Firmetur manustua et exaltetur dextera tua, justitia et judidum preparatio sedh tuœ. Gloria Patri, etc., and the versicle, Domine exaudi orationem meam, etc., and then Prayer, Pro Episcopo.

The présent Pastoral Letter and the Encyclical of Our Holy Father Pope Léo XIII granting a Plenary Indulgence, under the fbrm of a Jubilee shall be read at the prone in ail the churches where the public office is celebrated, and in chapter in ail the religions communities the first sunday after its réception.

Griven in Montréal, in Our E]piscopal Palace, under Our hand and seal and the counter-signature of Our Chancellor, on the day of Easter (April Itth) in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty one.

t EDWARD CHS., Bishop of Montréal.

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By Order of His Lordship the Bishop of Montréal.

T HAREL, Priest,

Chancellor,

SANCTISSIMI DOMINI NOSTRl