ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD A Monthly Journal, CONDUCTED BY A SOCIETY OF CLERGYMEN, UNDER EPISCOPAL SANCTION. VOL. XII. 'Ut Christiani ita et Romani sitis." "As you are children of Christ, so be you children of Rome." Ex Dictis S. Patricii, Book of Armagh, fol. 9 DUBLIN: WILLIAM B. KELLY, 8, GRAFTON-STREET, AND 4, LOWER ORMOND-QUAY. LONDON: BURNS & OATES, 17, PORTMAN-STREET, W. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Page Pastoral Address of. from the Synod of Maynooth Resolutions of, on the University Question (28th Feb., 1873) Christian Subjects, Duties of: Letter of Most Rev. Dr. Troy Clement XIV., Indult of (see DOCUMents) National Synod of Maynooth: Pastoral Address of the Bishops: List of Prelates, Officials, &c. Pastoral Letter of the Most Rev. Dr. Troy on the Duties of Christian Subjects-(continued) Indult of Pope Clement XIV. (5th April, 1772) regarding the Pontifical Blessing and Plenary Indulgence in Articulo Mortis Various Decrees regarding the Impediment of Clandestinity Instruction of the Propaganda regarding the Privilege of saying Letter of the Bishop of Montpelier on Infidel Teaching Letter of the Pope to Cardinal Cullen (18th Oct., 1875) Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Elphin on the Lenten Fast and Resolutions of the Bishops of Ireland (28th Feb., 1873) regarding Decrees of the S. Congregation regarding Scapulars Decree regarding the Contrition required in the Case of Partial "God's Angel on Earth:" Sermon of Most Rev. Dr. Conroy at the Month's Mind of Most Rev. Dr. Furlong Holy Office (see Inquisition) Page 169 552 COR- Index to Documents contained in Volumes I. to XII. of the IRISH Indulgences (see DOCUMENTS, THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS, RESPONDENCE) Indulgences, S. Cong. of (see DOCUMENTS) Infidel Teaching: Letter of the Bishop of Montpelier Inquisition, S.; Cong., Instruction of, regarding the Impediment of Ligamen IRISH PARISH PRIESTS :- An Act for Registering the Popish Clergy Registry of Irish Parish Priests (see DOCUMENTS) Jubilee and other Indulgences (see DOCUMENTS: THEOLOGICAL Kyran, S., of Clonmacnois: Sermon of the Most Rev. Dr. Conroy List of Prelates, Officials, &c., at Synod of Maynooth Louise Lateau before the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine Pastoral Address .. List of Prelates, Officials, &c. 501 156 178 Sermon of Most Rev. Dr. Moriarty M'Evilly, Most Rev. Dr.: "Exposition of the Gospels of St. Mathew and St. Mark "—noticed Montpelier, Bishop of: Letter on Infidel Teaching Moriarty, Most Rev. Dr.: Sermon preached at the Second Session of On the Duties of Christian Subjects (Most Rev. Dr. Troy) Penitentiary, S., Decision of, on Reserved Cases PIUS IX. HIS HOLINESS (see DOCUMENTS) Propaganda: Instruction regarding the Privilege of Saying Two Masses I 19,58 260 44 74 45, 93 Reserved Cases (see THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS: DOCUMENTS) Resolutions of the Bishops of Ireland regarding the University Question (28th February, 1873) 270 Scapulars, Decrees regarding 295, 334, 414 Sermons (see Conroy, Most Rev. Dr. ; Moriarty, Most Rev. Dr.) Indulgences: the Clause Corde Contrito Troy, Most Rev. Dr. Letter on the Duties of Christian Subjects- University Question, Resolutions of the Bishops of Ireland (28th February, 1873) Wiseman, Cardinal: Some Remarks on his "Lectures on the Blessed 40 92 220 298 19, 58 270 233 THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. OCTOBER, 1875. PASTORAL ADDRESS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF IRELAND. IN their Pastoral Address, issued from the first Plenary Council assembled in this country since Catholic Emancipation, the Bishops of Ireland expressed their humble trust that the Synod then closing at Thurles should become an epoch in the history of our National Church, and a source, not . only of present and immediate benefits, but also of light and influence on the future. Twenty-five years have elapsed since these words were uttered; and although a quarter of a century is but a brief moment in the life of the Church of God, in whose sight a thousand years are as yesterday,1 yet it has been long enough to furnish proof that these hopes have been abundantly fulfilled. The history of the Catholic Church in Ireland during the last twenty-five years is a history of graces, manifold and surpassing rich, outpoured on her by God, like precious ointment on the head, running down to the skirts of her garment, as the dew of Hermon which descended on Mount Sion. It would seem as if the Synod of Thurles marked that turning point in her fortunes, of old beheld in vision by our apostle St. Patrick, when he saw the mystic lights of her holy places that had been reduced to a faint glimmer, flash forth, at a given time, far and wide, in all the beauty of their pristine brilliancy. Those years have brought to Catholic Ireland what the Prophet designates the revenge of recompense. This divine form of revenge is the answer which Providence ever gives to the cries and tears of those who meekly suffer persecution for justice' sake. In it God's mercy repairs the wreck made by man's cruelty, and gives back to the 2 Psalm cxxxii. 2, 3. 1 Psalm lxxxix. 4. 3 Isaias xxxv. I, 4. I |