Flosh-ment is allowed on all Sundays, at all
meals, and on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, except Saturday of Ember days and Holy i Saturday, but at one meal only ; 3, The other days, that is, Wednesdays, Fridays and the two Saturdays mentioned in the preceding paragraph are days of abstinenee ; : k It is forbidden to use flesh-meat and fish at the same meal (For further particulars, read the Appendix to the Ritual)
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The Pope in according this induit, orders us to exhort the faithful to aet in such a manner that they may compensate by good works and alms-giving to the poor for this mitigation of the lenten penance,
We therefore urge you not to forget to multiply your good works and alms-givings.
Our present Pastoral Letter shall be read at the parochial mass in all ehurches, in all publie ehapels, and in ehapter in religious communities, on Quinquagesima Sunday.
Given at Ottawa, under our signature, the seal of the diocese, and the countersign of our, Chancellor, this eighth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four
+ J. THomas, A rehbp. of Ottawa, By Command, P. CANON McCarruy.
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Gième Série— No. 6.
PASTORAL LETTER
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MGR JOSKPH THOMAS DUHAMEL
Archbishop of Ottawa,
Promulgating the Eneyelical Ad diem illum luetissi- | mune Which grants an indulgenee in the form of a à Jubilee,
: By the Grace of God and of the Holy Apostolic Ner Archbishop of Ottawa, Assistant at the Pontifical Throne. ele
To the Clergy, Secular and Regular, the Religious Com: munities, and all the Faithful of the dioeese af Ottawa, Health and Benedietion in Our Lord
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VERY BELOVED BRETHERN,
We come to bring to your notice the Encyelieal 4 diem illum luetissimum of His Holiness the Nore Pontiff, Pius X, proclaiming a Jubilee.
In this encyclical, the Pope exhorts us to a most
tender devotion towards the Immaculate Virgin and demonstrates to us how she leads as it were necessarily to Jesus all souls and hearts. Pius X says so in express terms : ^ For ean anyone fail to see that there 1s no surer or more direct road than by Mary for uniting all mankind in Christ and obtain ng through Him the perfect adoption of sons, that we may be holy and immaeulate in the sight of God ?”.,., “Since Divine Providence has been pleased that we should have the Man-God through Mary, who conceived him by the Holy Ghost and bore him on her breast, it only remains for us to receive Christ from the hands of Mary.".... * That through the Virgin, and through her more than through any other means, we have offe red us a way of re eaching the knowledge of Jesus Christ, eannot be doubted when it is remembered that with her alone of all others Jesus was for thirty years united, as à son is usually united with a mother, in the closest ties of intimacy and domestie life". ... “Nobody ever knew Chirist so profoundly as she did, and nobody ean ever be more cometent as a guide and teacher of the knowledge of Christ. Henee it follows, as we have already pointed out, that the Virgin is more powerful than all others as a means for uniting mankind with ( ‘hrist.”... “Since it is through Mary that we attain to the knowledge of Christ, through Mary also we most easily obtain that life of which 1 ‘hrist is the souree and origin.’
In order to understand that teaching, it suffices to remember that Mary is the Mother of the Son of God, for itis of her that the Saviour was born, and she it is, also says the Pope, who‘ ‘thus prepared the Vietim for the Salvation of men; but hers was also the office of
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to a most Jirgin and necessarily in express is no surer ig all manthe perfect mmaculate Providence |: Man-God Holy Ghost s for us to | * That an through of reaching ubted when thers Jesus ally united cy and doist SO promore comowledge of dy pointed ul others as "Since it owledge of obtain that t suffices to Son of God, iid she it is,
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tending and nourishing that Victim, and at the appointed time presenting Him for the saerifice....and when the supreme hour of the Son eame, beside the cross of Jesus there stood Mary his Mother, not merely occupied in contemplating the eruel spectacle, but rejoicing that her zu Son was offered for the salvation of mankind."
."From this eommunity of will and suffering between Christ and Mary, also says Pius X, she merited to become most worthily the Repar: atrix of the lost world and Dispensatrix of ‘all the gifts that our Saviour purchased for us by His death and by His Blood.”
Doubtless, Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and men, the source of all graces, “but Mary, as St. Bernard justly remarks, is the channel.”
Our confidence in Mary ean never be too great. Mary has been too much identified wijh Jesus upon earth, and Jesus has obeyed her too well herebelow to refuse her any grace that she may beg for us Let us then go to her as a child to his mother ; let us ask her every "good which we really stand in need of, and our prayer will be granted, for, as St. Bernard assures us, “ no one ever invoked her in vain.”
According to Blessed Louis Marie de Montfort, that one will imitate better the most holy and immaculate Virgin Mary, secure more fully her ali-powerful intercession, unite himself more quickly and entirely with Jesus, who “will give himself entirely and for ever to Mary in order the better to be through her entirely and for ever to Jesus Christ, living he obitu: lly in a full, entire and perfect dependence on her will, after the example of the Son of God at Nazareth “ and he was subject to them,” ( Luke II, 51.)
How we shall make that entire gift of ourselves, is thus taught us by Blessed de Montfort : For that purpose, we choose a day on which we give to Mary, in a solemn and perpetual eonseeration, our body and soul, our organs and faculties, all our goods both material wud spiritual, and even the whole value of our good
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This is precisely what is done by the members of
the Confraternity of Mary, Queen of Hearts, which we established on the 25th Mareh 1899. They practise thereby the most sine re, perfect encouraging and certain devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
The Vicar of Jess Christ has enriched the confraternity with many plenary’ indulgences and he has ranted the priests who are members of it the personal eged altar thrice à week.
has received the approbation of d bishops in Canada, the Unitedjelgium, France ete.
high 4nd numerous approbaxhort you to the true devo- Mary such as taught by Blessed de Montineed that those who will praetise ie views of the Pope, which
faculty of the privil The confraternity eardinals, archbishops an States, Haiti, Holland, !
Encouraged by those tions, We will not cease to e tion towards fort, for we are conv it shall enter fully into tl « to restore all things in Christ." Pius X hopes that, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Immaeulate Coneeption, the faithful as well as the clergy will inerease their devotion to the spotless Virgin, that they will render her more solemn homages and feel inclined to a more perfect imitation of her virtues. In order to atimulate their zeal for her honour and and to further enliven their love for her, he aged to grant the whole universe an extrae in the form of a Jubilee.
This Jubilee we to-day proclaim with unspeakable joy, happy #8 we are to think that|every one of you, very beloved brethren, will make it & duty for himself
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The conditions for gaining it are as follows :—
lo. Three distinet visits to the cathedral, parish or principal church. For those who dwell in the city of Ottawa, the visits must be made to the basilica which is the cathedral church ; those who reside in the other cities or in country -parishes must make them to the parish church ; the faithful belonging to missions may make them to their ehureh or ehapel. "Those who might wish to make two or three visits on the same day, should remember that it is obligatory to leave the church after each visit. At each of those visits, one must pray piously for the liberty and exaltation of the Catholic Chureh and the Apostolie See. for the extirpation of heresies and the conversion of sinners, for the concord of all christian princes and the peace and unity of all the faithful, an | according to the intentions of the Sovereign Pontitl ;
20. The prescribed fast is for one day only and is a strict fast. On that day, flesh in any form, eggs, milk and milk-products such as cream, butter, cheese, ete, are forbidden ;
3o. The indulgenee to be gained during the Jubilee is a plenary indulgence applicable to the souls in purgatory ;
4o. Confession and communion are required for gaining it ;
5o. Travellers by land or sea may gain the same indulgenee by performing the works already noted immediately they return to their homes ;
60. The Pope grants to confessors approved by their respective ordinaries certain special faeulties, and to the faithful certain privileges. Each one will find in the encyclical what concerrs him.
Wherefore, having in. . .ed the holy name of God, We rule and order as follows :
lo. The translation herewith of the Eneyclical ad diem illum laetissimum shall be read and published
on one or more Sundays at the paroehial mass, and at the ehapter of religious communities, as soon as possible ;
20. The time for gaining the indulgence of the Jubilee shall commence, in this docese, on the seventh September next and shall last three months, according to the ordinanee of the Pope.
Our present Pastoral Letter shall be read immediately before the Encyclical proclaiming the Jubilee,
Given at Ottawa, under Our hand, the seal of the diocese and the countersign or Our chancellor, this seventeenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.
+ J. THomas, Archbp. of Ottawa.
By Command, P. CANON MeCARTHY,
Chancellor.
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