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TescTATTS TOLIO WIISOLrLL ANY.
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC ‘MISCELLANY:
it we pray for the emperor , and all the living: we also
8 to jommel nd coursclves to their
'. CHARLESTON, OCTOBER 31, 1829.
. ve OTICE.: . 2 Lewis
‘An election for four. tay delegates to tho next Convention on,
from this district will be held to-morrow at tho usual hour
‘ay for
“Wo remember,” says he, thoee that aro doceased, first
the patriarchs, apostles, and martyrs, that God
‘y
4}
r them.
d would re:
eive our supplications through their prayer and intercessi-
Then v We pray for our fathers and bishops, and in gene-
believing that
in the Library of the Seaintty.
We have:received the Pastoral Letter issued by the Bi-
shops asssombled in council at Baltimore, and addressed to
tho Catholic Laity of the United Staten Published br: Jamee
Myres, who has socured the c right.
his pers 3 ion to publish it in the Miscellany, and sil give
this will be the svete relicf to them for whom i is made
whilst tho holy and tr mendous victim lies ” Thes
a
bo read by every Catholic in tho Union. . Tt
of its having proceeded f from such a venerable and. learned |“
f the kind h flatts
it of. the pastoral it
ingp
must novesserily attach to it an importance of no ordinary |
yt speak
VOL. ¥X.
To the Editors of the United States Catholic Miscellany.
THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
more, October 10th.—My last informed you of tho
| proceedings to last Wednesday—On that day the Bishop of
4 Cincinnati celebrated High Mass, and the Bishop of Charles-
h | usual: the duties of the prelates appear ve
their attention is unremitted.
earlicr than dsual, the congregation sat also in the evening.
This tay Bishop Flaget celebrated Mass, we had no 0 dis-
age, and 0 5. St. Cyril goes on, and illus-
trates the efficacy of such a prayer by the comparison of a
e had| Whole nation which in a juint body should address. their
aC | Ling. in‘favour of person whom he should have banished,
offering him at the same time a crown. * Will not he,” sa
Cyril, * grant thom the remission of their banishment? >
o lik we off dead, though
hey are sinners, offer no’ ot a crown, but Christ sacrificed for
our: sins, studyiig to ronder the merciful God propitious to
os and to Arnob| » speaking of our public | litur-
85, Sys we ‘a whic!
for kings, magistra' ats, friends and enemics, both the living
and those who are delivered fom the body.” Inthe Apos
verg ancient fragm ent tof a
it came, and of the piety and d ability: of its author,
L SOULS DAY.
= As next Blonday will be the annual return when the
Church invites her pious children to aid by their prayers and
supplications the faithful, their deceasad 3 preston in the
wo understand, that an Office and solemn. High
ith,
Mass for the dead will be cclobrated in the Cathedral ont
01
that. morning, to commence precisely at 10 o'clock.
As conductors ofa Catholic paper, wo feel it our duty, [sac
whilst we exhibit to our Dissenting Brothren the reasons,
and evidences of our Faith and.practico,
instruct our Catholic Brothren, and to encourage them to
imitate the pious conduct and model thoir lives agreeably to
he edifvi 1 hei j inthe faith, O1
- [arate fro om
liturgy, from which Grabo, Hicks and Deacon | borrow many
things fo
tgs
Whiston pretended to rank among the cao scriptures.
In it occurs a prayer fo ft the dead: “ Let ray for those
who are departed in 2? There is no 0 Heavy used by
sect of oriental Christian, though some have heen se-
coum of the Church evor ¢ since the
S
occur, ‘I'he most ramaieht fathcss feqvently speak of the offer,
ing of the holy sacrifice of the altar for the faithful depart.
ed, Tertullian, the oldest among tin Christian -
joni ays: “
fice] on the anniversary days
docs not these things, sho has,
ed him im.” St. Cypri ian ‘mentions the usual o avon
orcan
said that he speaks in the same: manner of mart yrs.
distinction 8 isevident: * It is one thing to be cast
into prison net to be released until the last farthing i is | paid,
the congregation assembled at three he broke up at five in
faithful. Some ‘of the priests of Philedslphla have been
here for acouplo of days past. Committees or the prelates,
{am told, have boon appointed to deaw vee aletter to Rome,
a letter to the As-
sociation in France, for the wropegation of the Faith: be-. -
sides peor letters to the clergy and thelaity, It was ex-
pected the council would terminate on to-morrow, but
itis now said that the business yet undisposed of, cannot be
dispatched before Thursday, - It ig said that some lawyers
are invited to attend the congregation.
Oct ober 15th—On Sunday last, the Bishop of St. Louis
celebrated a solemn High Mass, and the Bishop of Charles-
h and the
| inaiiy of the Church in ber doctrinal decisions, He
unable to attend in his place at the altar during a
°| tow days previous, and was under the necessity of having a
carriage to go to the council, owing to a soreness ofone of
his legs, from an injury which he had received in Geor
Tho Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, of Bardstown, preached at
Vespers: the Very Rev. John Power, of New-York, preach- °
ed at St, Patrick's in the mornin
g ple 0 P
this occasion wecite a fow passagus from the carly writers
and Fathers of the Church to shew, what was the genoral|™
belief and Practice, of those: days of christian antiquity on
I
to attain to the ah 2 itis very different by long panish-
ent for sin’ to bo cleansed a long time by
ng.
+ On Monday there was + m0 High Mass, the Counc com-
d con
purged away allsin by suffering.” St, Chr: rysobtonn reckons
it amongat the dreadful obligations of a pricst, “ Thal t hy
tinued ° five hours in ‘session; the congregation met at four.
rs. On Tuesday tho meeting |
four hou:
How w pleasing a topic for reflection to the Catholic, and
what influence should it ave on his conduct? to remem-
ber that the practice of praying for the dead,was held by the
Jewish Church, that it was not revoked or condemned by the
Red r,and hag kb ii jably held & jated b e
es&
great lights of Christian Antiquity, and transmitted, as
and th
dead.” In another place he says: “ It isnot in vain that
succour the d
3
s
-
ant translators of Du Pin
AS B
ob-
sorve, that st. i ave in’ his thirty~ eighth Homily on
of the council was held at the same hour and continued to
sitas long as an the preceding day, The congrogation met
nS} at four o’clock, and at obout half-past five, the Attorney-ge-
neral (Roger B. Taney, Esq.) and John Scott, and Wm.
property
and ecclesiastical « censures, which had the concur-
inviolate deposite: froin age toage in-the christian heh
and
pale, none, with ‘one or two exceptions, ever vm pagued it,
until the men of the pretended reformation Ps red
ther with many usages of Divine institutio:
Is theroa Catholic possessed of the et ‘feeling of grati-
tudo for the parent who gavo him birth, who nursed and
cherished him, for the friend who succoured him, and will
not now in the da;
it off toge- oft
tremendous. mysterio: was decreed by the Apostles, Mr.
Thorndike, a Protestant Theologian, says, * The practice
Church o! of interceding for the d fond at the celebration
of the Eucharishi is 30 gene Fa ient, that i ite
be tho ht to have mposturo, b
Ss
eS
rence atthe other gentlemen, they were answers to ques-
tions which had been submitted to those gentlemen during
ot the preceding week. at. Taney, Mr. Scott and Mr. Read,
}same nepers ion will sectn “mn t0 tele hatd of the common chris-
tianity.” Prayer forthe faithful departed i is mentioned by
the fathers on other occasions. ment of Alexandria,
ho flourished in th
relation and friend ? Will he not afford r relief hi
sufferings, for whom when living he professed the “utraost
friendsbip? Yes, the generous impulse of his heart influen-
ces him, the dictatce of his faith not only permit, but require
him ond the law of charity commands him to supplicate the
Niet Be ee
ter death men t expiat he least ein before they
The e vision of St. Per Tpet a is relat-
ed by St. Austin, and in hor acts. Orig: places,}y
and “Lactantiue, teach at farge, that all souls are purge ‘ed by
the punishment of fire 0 bliss, unless
they are so pure as no
‘0 omit others, St, Austin expounds those words of the
Divin' y
the only assistance in his power to him, who has passed the
threshold of death, on whom:the night-has closed and
uunded with darknose, so that ho cannot labour for
Grataful and pious souls cannot be deaf to the erying
necessities of their deceastd friends, who long forthe ap-
psalm,.* Re © not in thy fury,” f het |
and those which follow: *Neither chastise me in thy wral yf
of Purgatory, as follows: t you purify me in this life,
and render me such'that I may not stan jin need of this
purging fre, In bis Enchiridion he says:
| ed by different members of the congregation. Lhave heen
told by ono oft the gentlemen, that they felt it to be the most
most respectable appear
once of any which thoy had ever addressed. The congro-
gation remuined in session after their departure to a later
hour than usual,
On Wednesday the meoting Was held as usual, and the
gation, this latter assembly adjourned to Thursday morning Z>
o propare more business, and acco cordingly sat until nearly
eleven o'clock this day, when the council resumed its sitting
until one 0 ‘clock: the last s session of ‘the congregation was
offe ved for them, o
the piety j ry il
of their living fend renee the rere of ‘te Bedintor bs isl
n the a
a
h
zy and has
d. Tam told they have gone through
ry question that
roach of this season, when the church with the affection au
indulgence ofa tender parent, offers sacrifices, Prayers and
supplications. for their deliverance to the
Whilst tre Catholic ‘thus indulges in tho Daly and pious pra-
3,
tho generous feeling
of their hearts calls on 2 them to exert themselvos cin aid o
are deni
that1 they might avail thon ad hero is a life so good as not
to requir them : and there i is another 80 Wi
doath it benefit ff
the sacrifices of the altar o
forts of the fiving, b
of t jead :
prayor, sacrifices and alms relieve the departed: He repeats
but that|
‘as on their paper. Mr. Power has
gone e back to New- York, and Mr. Carrare goes to-morrow,
‘, | to return to France.,
October 20th.—The Council sat on Friday and Saturday
evenings,and on Sunday tlic solemn High Mass of the Trini-
y was celebrated by the Archbishop with similar attend-
nee and ceremony as the mass of tlie Holy G
the day of opening the Council After the Gospel the
Bishop of Charleston preached a charity sermon, which,
0 mar
tyrs,but never r for his repose,“ It is an rinjary,” says he,* to
pray for a h het to b 1
though containing some excellent passages, was considered
‘the opportunity of rin their eatin and tribute of|
respoct for departed w
~The faith
Chriet; hare b
ject o of praying ‘for the dead from: the beginning is mani-
fest from tho writings of the primitivo fathers, In all-ancient|:
liturgies (or Masses) express mention is mado of prayer and
“And again :s You know in what Lees a
récomm' de a
for the liturg
fe
but prays
if
St. Austin and St. Ep shacius relate that when Acris, 9
priests denied auffrages
candomne
ather T recomme:
artyra fs but
° flen
ere
an
for the dead, this he-
the, Un iversal Cc ‘hureh. How
b
impious Arian
resy wa
db;
for then, he justly prays for thor d Uoseased | persons, alta
.| the council, upon which the Archbishop put the question to
tho othor prelatcs, who having voted in the affirmative by
Uieir Placet, he desired the Arelfdeacon to ask whether they
sacri ific 0 far the dead. St. Cpril’ of Jorusalem,
m
‘BY says, that
prayers c ofthe cl hare afer ee doparture, and how wel
ers of others is related in thoir lives.
sion of'th
a
had been road at the ses-
ich | the
gnitary sammoned ihe preinter to advance and sub-