The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

Morning Pra.

general Confession

OF COMMON PRAYER. RUBRIC.
" Almighty God, the Fa- " Thenwhenhe[thePriest]
ther of our Lord Jesus wishes to absolve the Peni-
Christ, who desireth not the tent, a SALUTARY PENANCE
death of a sinner, but rather having been first enjoined,
that he may turn from his and upon being received by
wickedness and live ; and him—he says first :
hath given power and com- May the Almighty God
mandment to His ministers,' have mercy upon thee, and,
to DECLARE and pronounce thy sins being forgiven, lead
to His people, BEING PENS- to everlasting life."
TENT, the absolution and re-
mission of their sins : He.

pardoneth and

absolveth all

them that truly repen

unfeignedly believe His holy
Gospel. WHEREFORE LET
US BESEECH HIM to grant

us His Holy Spirit, that tliose.

things may-please Him which

we do at-this present: and
that the rest of our life here-
after may be pure and holy ;

so that at the last we may

come to His eternal joy:
through Jesus Christ our

Lord." RUBRIC.
The form of Absolution after " Then lifting up his right
the general Confession' in hand towards the Penitent,
the COMMUNION Service. he says:—
"Almighty God, our hea- " May Almighty and Mer-
verily Father, who of His ciful Lord grant unto thee
great mercy hath promised the indulgence, absolution,
forgiveness of sins to all them and remission of thy sins.
that with hearty repentance Amen. May our Lord Jesus
and true faith turn unto Him : Christ absolve thee ; and I
Have mercy upon you ; par- by his authority absolve thee
don and deliver you from from all the bond of excorn-
all your sins ; confirm and munication, suspension, and
strengthen you in all good- interdiction, as far as I can
ness ; and bring you to ever- and thou needest. Also I
lasting life ; through Jesus absolve thee from thy sins,
Christ our Lord. Amen." in the name of the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost. Amen."

RUBRIC

The form of Absolution at "If the penitent should be
the Visitation of the Sick. a layman, the word suspen-
" Our Lord Jesus Christ, sion to be omitted.
who hath left power to His " May the PASSION of our
Church to absolve all sinners Lord Jesus Christ, and the
who truly repent and believe MERITS of the blessed VIR,
in Him, of His great mercy GIN MARY, and of ALL THE
forgive thee thine offences: SAINTS, and WHATEVER
And by His authority corn- GOOD thou hast done, and
mitted to me, I absolve thee EVIL thou hast SUFFERED,
from all thy sins. In the be UNTO thee for a REMIS•
name of the Father, and of sum OF SINS, INCREASE of
the Son, and of the Holy grace, and the REWARD of
Ghost. Amen." eternal life."

" The rite," or form, " of absolving an excommu-
nicated person already dead."

RUBRIC.
" If any excommunicated person departing from
this life should have given a sign of contrition, lest

he should be deprived of ecclesiastical burial—but
be assisted by the suffrages of the church, as far as it
can be done—he may be absolved after this manner :
—lf the body has not yet been buried, let it be
SCOURGED and ABSOLVED as below; then, being
absolved, let it be interred in a sacred place. But
if it should have been buried in a profane place, it
shall be exhumed, if it can be conveniently done,
and SCOURGED in the same manner, and after AB-
SOLUTION buried in a sacred place ; but if it cannot
be conveniently exhumed, let the PLACE of burial be
SCOURGED, afterwards let IT be ABSOLVED. But
if it has been buried in a sacred place, it shall be
exhumated, but the grave shall be LASHED. And
whilst he is LASHING the body, or the place of bu-
rial, the priest says the antiphone—' The bones
which were humbled shall rejoice in the Lord;' the
Psalm. ' Have mercy upon me, God,' &c. &c.
" When this is done, let sit be ABSOLVED by
By the authority granted unto me I AB-
SOLI, E thee from the bond of EXCOMMUNICATION
which thou bast incurred (or thou art declared to
have incurred), on account of such an action, and I
RESTORE thee to the COMMUNION of the FAITH-
FUL, in the name of the Father, &c. &c. &c.' "
Rituale Romanian, pp. 68, 69. 72.
I now leave your readers to admire the contrast which
)ur Catholic forms of absolution, as they stand in our li-
urgy, present, when placed alongside of those practised by
he Grand Apostacy.
In my next letter, with your permission, I shall go as
ninutely as may be necessary into the stated requisites to-
yards insuring the validity of absolution in the papal
hurch ; and also transcribe at length—in the hope of dis-
!busing such as may have been abused by your contemporary
he Mercury—the statement of the Church of England with

saying-

.espect to absolution ; and that, too, as defined by that great
ind erudite, though whip-maligned prelate—Dr. Philpotts,
3ishop of Exeter.

I am, sir, yours faithfully,
St. Helens, 17th Dec., 1840. PACIANUS

DESTITUTION OF THE POORER CLASSES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—The misery which exists in the neighbourhood of
Vauxhall-road and Marybone, renders it imperatively neces-
sary that the wealthier classes should bestir themselves to do
something towards its amelioration, or have the alternative
of seeing the poor perish for very lack of bread. No an-
nouncement has yet appeared concerning the soup shops.
May I ask, through the medium of your paper, if those
gentlemen who so kindly interested themselves last year,
will come forward again, and open subscription-books at the
different public offices ?—Yours, ALIQUIS.
Dec. 21, 1840.

!Our correspondent's suggestion is worthy of grave consi-
deration ;—we shall be glad to see something done for the
alleviation of the distress he so feelingly alludes to.—
ED. L. S.l

CHARTIST Row.—lt appears from both our contempo-
raries that a cdollision took place between the Chartists and
the old Political Union party, in the Watt Institution Hall,
on Tuesday evening last. It appears that a body, terming
themselves the Anti-Corn Law Association, called a meeting
of " all friendly" to their society on the above evening,
George Kinloch, Esq. in the chair. The presence of the
son of the once-idolized refugee fr.,m and representative of
the town of Dundee, however, could not restrain the violence
of the Chartists, who had sworn to allow no inferior agita-
tion to that of the charter. Accordingly, a full muster of the
worthies attended the meeting, headed by a James Low ;
and all Mr. Kinloeh's efforts to preserve order were, from
the first moment, utterly useless. A regular row ensued—.
cheering, yelling, groaning, and hissing alternately, without
intermission, until the Anti-Corn Law Association were
driven from the hall. A fierce contest then took place for
the chair, but the appearance of Mr. Corstorphen and a
posse of police officers promptly put an end to the fight. A
vote in favour of the charter was then carried by acclaim-
mation.—Dundee Courier.