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». fered to God a true, proper, and Propitiatory, sacri-
n- the|the
ch
professing our + belief in the Catholic ihe . without
: ch ni
fice for the living and the dead. “And t
most Holy Sacrifice: of the : ‘Botan tere is truly, |
n
really and substantially the body a toge-
ther with the soul’ and ‘divinity of ou Lord Jesus
Christ ; and that ¢
substantiation, Lalso confess
kind alone’ “Christ is received whole and entire, and
a true sacram! ,
ol constantly hold that there is'a purgatory, and
that the souls therein detained are helped by the suf-
frages of the faithful.
© Li kewise that the saints reigning. together with].
Christ are to be honoured and’ i voked, and that
they o} offer prayers to'God for us, and their relics are
to be respected.
* T most fittaly assert thee the images of Christ,
of the Mother, of ‘God, € irgin, and alse of other
saints, may be had and retained, and that due honour |°
and veneration are to be given them
* T also affirm that ihe power ‘of indu !gences was
Jeft by Christ c the church, and op tie use of f them
is mest wholes: to christix tp
“ U acknow lege the Ho
Roman Church for
other churches ai
Bishop of R:
the Apostles, an
Catholics Apostolic |”
the Moll her and Mistress of all
romise ‘true obedionse to the
er, Prince of
3
e un
ote ings delivered defined and. declared by the],
red c and general coungils. and particular rly
by the Holy Council of Trent; and I condemn, re-
jectand ; anathemize all things contrary thereto ; and
mned, rejected, and
Cc)
e Catholic faith ; without which non
e
, ean be’ saved, Ido at this moment reely profess and
sincerely hold and:I promise’ most. constantly to re
tain-and confess the same entiré~ unviolated, “with
God’s assistance to the end of my life.’
hen the converts prone tinced this creed, “the
choir chaunted the psalm, Miserere mei Deus. ‘The
Superior then addressed them briefly. directing their
consideration to jan article.‘on exclusive salvation,
whi t pronounced. He said—* I
{upon In
r eoeropation “implored the grace of God‘upon the
su
tedly receive and profess, all as
inclu
n
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
or misfortune you have endured ;:be for you ‘unto
remission ot your sins, the increase of divine
grace, a ward of eternal life. Amen.
VoL: IX,
|! will consider the objects for which you are sup-
e or combine. Thirdly, I will treat
Holding the right hand of the converts, the Su
rior repeated a prayer, received | them formally into
uct, if persevered in;
point out to you what your interest and your dut,
the church, and pronounced a_benedictio
then subscribed, in a book kept. for: “that purpose ; 3
their abjuration, and the ocongregation were called
onclusion the ‘priest and
converts, and prayed that their good life might affor
equire you do,
Solotnon, the wisest of men and inspired by Gon,
ressed to him the following prayer—¢ Give
an example of edification to. others.
IRELAND.
djis, that men are strongly tempted to ev
riches, or by great poverty—and it is the duy of eve-
ry wise and good man to pray that he may not be led
nto temptation. . In
centuries the labouring classes: have | been gen rally
The disturbed state of this unfortunato country having
been o matter 0
and the sauses having been so variously sesigned we have
: lightened, crime diminishe
in a state
tempt the
mt
lerimes. Whene
ne of the sources 0 starbance and the part which is
ta sken by the Catholic Clergy thi
To the he in Christ Jesus, of the Deanery of
701 ugh am in the Queen's County,
sues. DO
real and Benctieto
ED BRETHREN td did not suppose “whe nl
visited 3 your several Parishes, in August last, that I
should have occasion to address you within so short
e as has since elapsed. 1 expected
advice, | then gave you,
een sufficient to check, to subdue, and
gradually to extinguish that evil spirit which had
‘one abroad, and seduced from the paths of. virtue
and innocence, some-portion. of the youth of nour
district, My hopes have not-been realized :
pectations have been disappointed. For if the: seve-
ral, reports, whiet share reached me, - contain any
truth, ‘and I fea do, there still prevails, in se-
veral of your. heinreed a spirit of combination, which
at war with every law, but more especia lly with
he law.of the Gospel. ‘I'o be plain with pomp e-
loved Brethren, I have-been told and I'am forced to
believe, that throughout the division of ote Coun;
try, which extends from Castlecomer to Mountrath,
gf seven or cight. parishes of these Diocesses,|
and soine other of the adjoining Dio
inere exists a Secret Associat
whi n be saved,”? we don
enter into judanient upon the individual “merit ‘and
hopes of our separated brethren. _ ‘The doctrine of
the church is laid down by St. tin, and always
professed and taught by her ministers, is that ** ‘those
who ain an erronedus opinion, but wit thout ob-
atinuey, particularly if they have imbibed it from their
parents, and are prepared to renounce it, if they
desi
Knew it to be Srroncots, such are aot reputed. here-
tics.” Thus we do as i rted co!
eternal da mnation those who disagree with us. in
opinion ; those who by education, early habit3, and
ignorant prejudices, do not enjoy the happiness of
n
pany instances the’
may be “ invincibly “gnaran of the errors of
their faith, and are thus com
pecial
Be!
Y|'The plunder of arms is with them a favorite object,
ar! and in carrying it into effect, they guard against de-
destined for attac
‘or purposes scarcely known to those \
it, and having no specific ob
tain, unless it be to. prevent the reduction of wages, |«
ane the € ejec ction of tenants from their holdings.—
3 Association, as I am in ormed. consists ofc on-
siderable numbers, chiefly of the labouring class,
and includes within it, besides the ignorant and un-|.
heretofore noted
who compose |
holics and Protestants are, I am told
te tion by employing individuals of their body, un-
n to those whose houses or property are des+
=
Z
pris
exemption from ine consequences, ot tony ‘deserib-
‘ed by Bt. Augus'
After sundry siher prayers, ‘the: Superior. exhorted|o
‘the A sana on: their conversion and told them he
but from
“the excommunication by which they were separated
ann mt tanding up,
e penitents
a prayer, aa which the fol-
=
May our Lard Jesus Christ absolve you; and I
by the authority with: which 1 am invested by. the
blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of ‘the Su-
mitted, and upon you bes:
d
the church and to the communion and unity of the
faithful, in the naine of the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost. Ame
the merits of the blessed Mary, ever Vir;
-of the
-}vo oie to uphold | the tyranny. or vindicate the oppres-
he
May the passion of our Lord Seusus Christ and
‘* ject ; he "did not understand the purposes we have
** In view, and therefure. we need not attend to his
‘¢ reasonings, nor follow his ‘auvieo.” In discussing
with you, Brethren, our common interests, for
self am identified with every. thing that concer s
you, it is quite unnecessary for me tor reque
best attentio’ what I say; because you always
o uio. cithor as vitor to a father, or as
friend: listens to a friend ; nor-need I bespeak your
confidence, for you all know. that I am. one having
bogs as your-
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sion of the Great ; but more than all this, I discharge
an embassy from, "Christ to
Lexpound.and to administer’ i here-
ere to my judgment and abide by.my advice. -°
_ But to commeoce—F will, first, treat of this con-
leracy, or asso ciation, unconnected as it ¥
wi} moved, our Countrymen, whether at home ora abroad,
hi
D. De, Bishop, &e. &c. wishes .
the
ocess of Ossory
tion, drawn together °
et that I can ascer-|irviola
is that such combin
fore ta me, and if Lspeak what is true and just, ad-/ nati
their
old and national -habits. -Indeed the Irish of every
class are naturally inclined to virtue, lovers of jus-
tice, fond of peace, social, g enerous, confiding ; 3 but
‘ote
rovoked, are
not innocent; for if tem nation could justify trans-
gression, there wou uld be n
by the violation ‘of any law, whether, human or di-
vine. ihe eason is, that no man does evil for evil’s
sake r commits it un he | is tempted there-
to by some “existing. cause. erefore assuciations
or combinations ‘be inconsistent with the laws of
Gop, or the laws of any ¢
fiable on the plea that men shave tempted to enter in-
th 3 no temptation can justify a man in the vio-
lation oe any
duty. Some extreme may i
deed arise, wherein i is diffe: cult to decide whether
Jaman in n doing a cer cl, or pursuing a certain
line of conduct declared to be illegal, “does | in reali-
delicate questions, and need n
What I wish to impres ss upon you! is, re ieneral rule
taught us by own reason, which ‘ge
on that assoc ations or seo rbinetions net authoris-
by law are not justifiable. But notwithstanding.
ations are condemned b both by rea-
n don
use which. could excuse or even diminish the guilt
of those engaged. But in ail cases, wherein these
associations have been formed, ther have, on ac-
men who took a lead in them, been marked in
have ‘endeavoured thus to state the matter clear- their’ progress by the committal of the most horrid
ly, that all may understand what it is of wwnieh I treat]and barbarous excess ocent and the
mea when I. proceed, as Iam about to do, to ar-| ty. have become the victims of the bad men who com-
ne this matter soberly “with those eéitcerned, no|posed them. ‘These men-framed without authority,
ne of them may say hereafter ‘* te mistook aur ob-|and enforced by the most shocking cruelties, laws
destructive-of both property and life.
and the followers in those associations became idle:
and vicious. Drunkenness; theft, lewdness. murder,:
3.
. o
them the punishment which their crimes deserved.
‘This has been the origin. the progress.and. the. end:
of every association such as yours, which has been:
formed in Treland these last three hundred years.
e th rules and regulations which:
are viirectly *sapesed to order and justice ;. these
rules, i in place of resting on good morals are sub-
versive of all morality, far disobedience to parents
and superiors, drunkenness, plunder, and the: ptofa-
ion of G oly name are mixed up with thenr
in all their stages and operations. Nor, 3 ain, can
they be sustained by force, for I need: ‘only ook your-
e|selves, or your predecess ause, have:
all the saints, and of whateyer good you ave done,
with its end or cirenmatances. In the second place,|
ors in the
jyou ever been able to 3 appear "whether by night,. Or
Ireland, unhappily, .for many
no real offence committed *
try, they are not justi-"
eneral rule
count of the ignorance, the depravity and malice of
bane because to reserve any union of men for any;
Ast