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and be reduced to poverty ^ Does she prescribe upon him to spend days and nights in adoration and prayer ? Does she impose on him auatere practices, painful mortifications, frequent fasting ? Does she order him to retire in a solitude or desert to weep a long time for his iniquities ? No, the Chureh does not wish to subject the will of any of her children to such a trial; she requires only confession and communion with proper dispositions. si: xty visits to appointed churches, and short prayers according to the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. Such an extreme kindness should touch the heart i£. every one and transform the prodigal sons into faithful children, for the future. We trust that no Catholie of this diocese will neglect the grace of the Jubilee.
Wherefore, having invoked the Holy Name of God, we rule and order as follows :
The herewith translation of the Eneyelieal Zemporis quidem saert will be read and published on the first Sunday of Lent, the 24th instant.
20. The six months’ extension of the Jubilee will begin on the said first Sunday of Lent and will close on the 25th August next.
Jo. On the 23rd February, after the evening Angelus, the bells of all ehurehes and chapels of this diocese will be rung for a quarter of an hour at least.
4o. On Sunday the 24th February, the Veni Creator will be ehanted before high mass or the principal mass.
50. After highmass or the principal mass on the 25th August, feast of the Purest Heart of the Blessed. Virgin Mary, the Te Dewi will be sung. This hymn of hante. giving will close the Jubilee.
Go. The annual confession and Easter communion do not satisfy for the gaining of the Indulgence ; a confession and communion ad hoe are required.
7o. The Faithful of the city of Ottawa must visit the following churches: the Basilica which is the Cathedral of this dioeese, and the churches of St, Bridget, St. Joseph and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Each of these four
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8o. In all other localities, the Faithful will visit their parochial ehureh or the church of the mission wherein they reside, four times a day, during fifteen days, either successively or at interv als.
9o. The visits must be made with devotion. At each visit one must pray according to the intentions of Leo XIII, that is to say, for the triumph of Holy Church, the extirpation of heresies, the concord of catholie princes and the salvation of the christian people. It will be sufficient for that purpcse to recite five times Our Father and Hail Mary.
100. The days may be computed naturally, that is from midnight to midnight,or eeclesiastically, thatis from first vespers of one day to sunset of the next day.
llo. Mariners and voyagers who, by reason of a long
Journey are prevented from making the Jubilee within
the prescribed time, may, on arriving at their homes or other fixed stations, after the expiration of the six months, gain the Indulgence by visiting fifteen times the ( 'athedn al ehureh, or the prineipal church, or the parochial church of their domicile or station.
120, Each confessor can dispense from the obligatory communion, only those children who have not vet made their first communion, but he must preseribe another work of piety,
130. Each confessor is authorized by the Bull to commute, even outside the confessional, into other works of p.ety and devotion partly or wholly the requir red church vins on behalf of prisoners, invalids and in general all those prevented by other legitimate reasons from mak ing them either wholly or partly.
Ido, Nuns whether clois*ered or not, th r pupils who board with tl xrsons of the md sex living in monasteries wilt visi’ sixty times, during fifteen different days either in succession or at intervals (consequently
four times a day), the chapel or oratory of their institution, and will pray each time according to the intentions of the Pop:
150. Members of chapters, congregations both secular and regular, confraternities, sodalities, universities, colleges, and parishes’ wader the guidance of their pastor, or sonte one deputed by him for that purpose, all these may visit the appointed churches 77 procession or ina body. On their behalf we reduce the number of days for the visits from fifteen to four. In the city of Ottawa, those who shall take part in the procession will visit the four appointed churches on each of the four days: in other places where there is but one church to visit, they will visit it four distinct times on each of the four days.
160, Nuns, including novices, are authorized to make their confession of the Jubilee to any confessor who has the faculty of hearing the confessions of nuns in the diocese, :
170. All the faithful of both sexes, whether lay or ecclesiastic, secular or regular in any order, congregation or institution, even though they should be named in a special manner, can apply to any priest whether secular or regular, of a different order or any institute, provided such confessor is approved by the Ordinary for hearing confessions of the secular.
200. All priests approved in this diocese for hearing the confessions of the different classes of people above enumerated enjoy the faculties mentioned in the Bull under the title: De Confessione Jubilaei.
210. In conformity with the Bull, we declare, (a) that persons who, having gone to confession and communion with the intention of gaining the indulgence of the Jubilee, are prevented by sickness from completing the number of required visits, will nevertheless not be deprived of the grace of the Jubilee Indulgenee, (b) that if anyone should receive from his confessor absolution
from his sins and censures, or dispensation from an ir regularity or the commutation of a vow, with the sincere
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Shall our present Pastoral Letter and Mandement be read in all churches and chapels where divine service is held, and at the chapter of all religious communities, on the first Sunday which will follow its reception, and the incyclical Temporis quidem sacri on the first Sunday of Lent
Given ac Ottawa, under our hand, the seal of the diocese and the contersign of our Chancellor, this eleventh day of February one thousand nine hundred and one.
t J.-THomas, Archbp of Ottawa.
By command,
P. Canon McCarthy Chancellor,
