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SUBIACO, TUESDAY, APRIL 6,
10.
PRICE 6D.
1875.
gcnces, and wishing for that end to ecclesiastic days-that is to say (in the fultil the ilecessury oldigations, address latter ease), between the first Ve,pers themselves to tl.em in order to obey the of one (lay and the end of the evening l'Ol'E, BT 1/IVIN PROVIDENCE twilight of the 101lowing day ; for these precept regardirg confession, a,.solve To all the Patilarebs, Primates. Archthem for that time, and only in the persons whu are at a distance they will cummunicabishops, bishops, and other Heads of spiritual tribunal, from also visit mice a day during fifteen days, that and suspension, and other ecclesiasDiocese*, united in grace and ie coin. successive or otherwise, the cathedral umbion with the Ai (medic see, and tical sentences or censures incurred by or priticipal church of their town, as to all the Faithful of Christ. Hume, right or ub bomine fur whatever clause, well as three other churches of the own, even if they had been specially reserved l 874. or locality, or of the neighbourhood, NUS IX , POPE. for the ordinary of the place, or for the according to the appointment of the AND WELL11E0111E118 VENEIIABLE Sovereign EVART, or the Apostolic See, ordinaries of the district, or of their DELON' LI) SONS, URACE AND A rosTom and this also for those cases which had vicars, or of others, by their orders, 14NEDICTION. not Leing included in other concessions after they are made acqueinted with of the kind, however ample they may our present Letters ; aull un condition " MOVED by the heavy calamities of have beets ; as also they may absolve that both the ones and the others-that the Church and of the world, fuel by Divine them iron' all kinds of sin alio excesses, of iniplorilig is to say, those who ate at Louie and the necessity liewever grave told serious they may be, those vim are elseahete-pray in each have (1.11 (quieted I chive the eyes of assistance, ae love lever, dining our even when those sins and excesses may of these visits for the piosperity and the kithltd. the cotruplion of morals, pontificate, neglected to excite all have been reset veil, as already said, for exaltation of the Catholic Church and of which is propagated 10 so great 811 Christine people to make au effort to to orditiaties, or for us, and the the and ; for the extiri ation boil Apostolic ."ee of the of majesty tie *84..14, ant! Hagrant the overthrow appease Apostolic zsee, by imposing on them a Divii e and }outlaw tights, no wide- of heresy and the coaversion of all who merit Ilk hea% enly clemency dy the saltaury pee:nice, and the lulfilling the have strayed away for the peace and spread and SI, IllodUCtiVe of ruin, SO holiness of their live-, by N1.1'ks of other cumin ions preouribed by the unity of the w hide Chri, thin pen' le. penitehce, sod 1.y pious soil to etrrupt all moral 7 lieoe confessors ect lesiastieal tight. Lastly, aceording to our intention, we sense in the hearts tit mot-vonshiering, o this end, and tol loving the dictates can also commute iiito other I ions works allow, at the sauce time, that this indulof one aposti tic lid eralit, we have on 1,e)roill this, tl at in the ptesen. e of vows, eve!' those which ate made tinder gence may be al plied, by way of suffi age, sereial ueea,i011, opened, for the I enent, this mnlidude of evil, we should, iu the fume of oath, and which are reserved to the souls of those vvlio, united to (it'd acceelsince with our epistolic charge, of tie faithful, the split ...1 Iii asures of for the Alio, tolic See (always excepting by Charity, have quitted this world. religion, double oils I are, Si' iiidulgences, in ,.rder that, aniniat,d by " We allow, beyond this, that those the vows of Chastity, of religien. and of awl i iety ibay de lei tilted and may a true spirit of peidtence, mid purified obligation tcwai ils it third person-that lioutih. so that the si irit of} raver may persons who are at sea or out a yet age fr. in the stains of sin I.) the sacrament is to lay, those which could not be may gain the same indulgences by pet grow and si reed itself abroad, so that of leconeiliation, they uiigl t approach violated without prejudice to a third 01 grave, the acts, forming alcove-numett and by 1.1liohE the led to a to iliese who have rimy be fidlen with Vol.$:Cliee person, exsepting also expiatory sows, «irdial leiiteice and to the reform of visiting as soul) as they love arrived lit and become wtotIQ to obi's prtiers which ate called preservatives against (.ti er coven, their domicile, or at any other station, their lives, 111111 HD that the sins which agreeable to sin, unless the cunanutation be an equal the cathedral, or principal or parish slew es, we awed thn, 1,01 hate exi itr,i the at gel' of qpi may I,e equivalent as ft pleservative from sill to church of the place, as many times as the holy (Ei timeliien1 lei holy word s. h is the the or a-sien the first sul ject of the vow) ; and for we have already indicated. csIteial (dicta of ti e vele) ration of the Con cif of the Va i an. so that all " lite ordinaries of the respective the penitents of this kind who may he great Jul ricesure have not thetight it iif sie It taNe ithpot tio ce afl) found in the Orders, whether they are diocese may hispense flow the above well eu to is (tea -ion to lep ive the Pike)) f, r the lament, (it' the universal secular or iegular, it in eohoequence of eople of this salutary benefit, named visits, and tidy lion' the -e visits, Church should be supperted eft re (.0,1 some hidden it regulai ity they find themIy the ptayets of the esiir,. Cloud, ; at least, in the feint which is Moue religious oblates and other young gills selves prevented Iron -exercising their or women living either in cloistered pei witted by the pre,ent state of things : and all hougt, oil a aceoeta of t, e functions, the said contessurs may monasteries or other pions houses in te that, lei ewe,' in spirit, they may Ca 11111, I s of the lil'esela flint', the veleoh mice ttilh guider lei your in the community, alichorets and het toils, 1111.1 restore them with the couseet of their halloo ut t e Council Lit- been sin respective superiors, and only in what all other tides or ecclesiastics. regular ways ot jestice, and tl.at, purified from pehded, iicveilliele,s we have deemed regards the violation of censures, and or secular, who are in pri,bn or capiI 4.11' mulls, they may more easily and and declaied that the iielulgence all this we concede by our authority tivity, or who are prevented by corporal tr.eie al nialantly (.1 lain the Divine Intilgated, as I sing aide to he gained and ill the abundance of our apostolic infirmities or by any other oholacle ; nwicy. Ilicteloie, then, let the entire on that orea-ion under the form lit benigeity. they may also dispense front communion of Christ reevive our Jul flee, shied(' reliant', as in reality it We do not intend, however, in force But as these children who have not yet leen admitted mold, by which, for the sake of her does tenant., ill fusee. of these pesetas, to dispense Iron' %%Lat. eltetioe, of the sanelifieation of the to the Saertitsent, and may pre -guile utiltai py times l ur tie their ei.tirsesoever other irregularity - -whether public to them, either directly or by tneans of Clo total) people, and of the glory of we me already in the sevetityfilth year or secret, whether wanting or known, eriors. or their directors or teguiar lac d, we decree, ani.onme and promulsince the secnlar epoch of one theusund Ironi whatsoever other incapacity or of prudent coulessois, works of piety, gate the ...rust awl Universal Jubilee eight laue re years, the year which inability in whstsoever way contracted, for tl a wilt le course of the next (ear of charity, or teligion in plate of these maths the staled period 7thich the 11..ly visit-, or of the Sammie! tal Com- or to grant any faculty for dispensing ancestors and the instiIst75; end, for the ,u1se and canoe of ctistom from the same er to rebel ilitate and this jut ilee, tie ileelaie, by our will and munion ; we accord, alst),1. I hese pi t ,eiit tntion of the Boman Pontiffs, our restore into the primal state eveli infOro Letters, that the said iwilitialies may, iu s it the of this Ai ostolic Sue, to lie edeeesool s, had eenseciated to the couscanlicr ; nor yet do we intend to et. iiiation (il the sidemeity ie a I1ui. suspended tl c (that ..i.a.t.ed indulgence according to their prudence. !educe the derogate from the constitution with the With w hat gi eat veliea. tooled num' er of visits to the churches the film of J ul alt e. out versal Juld'ets opportune declarations given forth by indicated in favor of any clinpo rs and the out asion of the Council of the ration and 'hely the ye:' of .1111.ilee was his pi etlicessor, Benedict XI V., of or trampidlity the of regular, of the Ilse or hen secular a migregat ions, Vatican and at .rated ; same time we ('eft happy memory, the Constitution begin open widely the celestial confraternities, or universities, or coltreasure Church petinitted we know by the testilong tt ith these words- Sacrum, meet acquired Icy the iutierings and the leges whatsoever, Who way act oniplish loony of aneiNit, and toodet» menupeuitentice, "and published at the date of vetoes .if Christ our Lord, of the Virgin these visits in the form °I pet cessions. molts of history. It nuts, indeed, the !Bother, and (il all the ',mints, the dis" We accord, ulso, to these same the calends of* Julie, in the year of our custom Hot tie Sear of salutaiy ltedentption, 1741, the first of his pensation of which is confided to us by religious, and to their novices, the expiation for the whole Christian people Pontificate. plir of rice author of our salvation. power to choose any confessor whatever should be o tisid,red us " Lastly, we in no way intend that 'net is why, by the mercy of (god, in order to gain the indulgence of the redemption and grace. aod from all stipule should, in sit tue of these presents, aid hounded upon 11 is ai.thority, and Jubilee, provided always that the one riots the faithful flurried to this august absolve those alio have been excommuupon that ..f the blessed Apostles, Peter whom they may' select has eel, approved city., the seat of Peter, whole were nicated, notably by us and by the and Paul, in virtue of the supreme as a coefesour fur religions ,y the offered to them all the means of Al.ostolic ."-ec, or by any other prelate lamer of litchi% and loosening which ordinary of the dioceses, or or their recoil( illation and of grace, and all that or ecclesiastical judge ; neither those the Lord has accorded to our person, respective monasteries ; as fur others, could satisfy their pious ho have been suspended, interdicted, both sexes, le,wever unwei thy we grant, with the and for each of the faithful Our age also has witnessed this onus or who have incurred, in consequeece of spirit of mercy ut the Lord, to each mid whether lines or secular, ecclesiastics of and holy soletninty when our I redecessor, at public "eclaration, other senteuces or all of the faithful, as much to those a ho whatever Order or congregation they Leo XII.. 01 happy memory, having censures, unless that, during the year poimulgaited a Jubilee for the year iivvell it) this city, or elm may come to may be, as also for all institutions of 125, the favour with a hid' the it, es to those who live away in any Regulars, we accord to them, even it' the Jubilee, they shall acceuiblish the appointed storks of satisfaution, and, if enefit pal t of the world VIllathoever, who are this necessitates a special mentiole Cloistian people greeted this necessary, become reconciled to the in a state of grace and of obedience to power to choose for the same purpose was such that the same Pontiff was 11dt:tested parties. the Apostolic see, that they may gain, any confessor wl atever-thut is to say, enabled to rejoice with reason at the For the rest, if any of those who once iu the year of the thoilee, u most au ecclesiastic, either seenhir or regular, poly etual concoime of pilgrims to this have commenced the fidfilinent of the estended plenary indulgence Red the even of an Order or institute different city (tiring the whole of the year, as prescribed works, with the intention of etnissien d all their sills, 00 the confrom their own, provided that he is well as at their religion, their piety, gaining the Jubilee, are not Ale, being dition that heing truly contrite, having approved by the actual ordinary to hear their faith, their charity; iu a word, at surprised by death, to complete the conft!ssed and receisol the Holy Comthe confessions of lairs in the towns, till the virtues, the spleodour of which definite number of visits, we, wishing to munion, tl ey visit, those that inhahit dioceses, and territoties in which the had been manifested in so admirable favonr with all kindness their pious and this city, the flair Basilicas of S. Peter, above -named institutes are placed ; and a timelier. Would to God that our firm desire, will that they snould, itotof S. Paul, of ,..John Lateran, and of three cottfessore thus chosen may, in the condition, and that of religious and civil withstunditig, participate iu the iiidulS. Alaria Alaggiore, upon fifteen days, course of the year of Jubilee in favour affairs, were such that the solemnity of succeesive or not, which days may be of those who, having sincerely and genee and iii the above -named remission the gteat Jubilee, which should have iu the same way as if they had really been celebrated in the year 1850, and counted either as ordinary days or as seriously resolved to _gain the indalC I ,I CAL LkTTE ()FOUR HOLY FATHER, PIUS IX.,
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which was ornittsil then in consequence of the sail cirelm,tances of that time, might be happily celebrated to-day, according to the rule and ancient custom practised by our ancestors But. Gtal having permitted it, the difficulties' which prevented us from ilee at that period, promulgating the tar Iron disappearitig, have increased from day to day. Nevertheless, considering the innumerable evils which afflict the Church, the coot limed efferts made by herenemies to tear from the souls t,f the faithful the belief in Christ, to corrupt the true doctrine and to difftee the poLoil of impiety -offish ering the scandals which t
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