The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-26

Weu-knOWn fact that 1C Ii nc, hAinsoA, "nO
either prescribed or arranged in liked
manner the main points of the actual liturgy
used in the Roman Church.
Now, it is admitted by nil that ST. Gregory
the Great belonged to the Roman Church;
he was a Roman Catholic, Roman monk, a
Roman priest, Roman bishop, nay, the
Bishop of Rome that is, one of those popes
so much hated by pious Episcopalians. More
over, he asserted and maintained, Mt least
as theoretically as any of his predecessors
and successors the powers and rights he had
received from Christ as pope and heir OF the
chair of st. Peter, and there is to be found
in his writings more than enough to anathem-
atize over and again all national, private,
home made churches claiming independence
from the Church of Rome.
Therefore, the forms of the Episcopal
Church, whether they be conformable to the
forms of the Primitive Church or not, have
been taken from the actual liturgy OF the
Roman Church, with the difference: that In
the. Roman Church forms are the outward
manifestations of an interior and living
spirit, while in the Episcopal Church it is an
any reality. 49,
Is it not strange to see those men so
anxious to preserve what they call the forms
of the Primitive Church after having SO bit
terly reproached the Roman Church with
its .tormalisns, and after having so severely
rebuked ritualism, for we know that several
of those Episcopalian bishops are no friends
now in our hands the prayer-book of the
Episcopal Church, and besides, that book has
undergone many serious changes, we can
not say how they have arranged the itanies
that were sung at the conservation, but
they must have dreadfully curtailed them
for itanies, which are a Catholic form of
prayer, suppose the invocation of the
Blessed Virgin and of the saints, which are
an object of adherence to the Episcopal
Church.
We would ask again what they meant by
the " imposition of handsf We under
stand that ceremony in the Roman Church,
which considers holy orders as a sacrament.
But the Episcopal Church does not recog-
nize ordination as q sacrament. They ac-
and the Lords Supper-and even the ac-
acknowledgement of these two sacraments Is
a mere opinion for, in the Anglican Church
which ia the mother of the American Epis
copal Church, we see clergymen of high
standing denying with impunity the neces-
sity and the supernatural effects OF baptism
AS to the Lords Supper, it is, in that
church, an empty ceremony, which Is not
much respected nor attended to, and we see
that the Republicam, while calling it holy
communion, says in its report that after the
conservation there was pause OF few
moments, in order to give time to those to
GO out of the church, who did not want to
attend to that part of the service.
And so it is for what they term the con-
secration of a bishop. Their ordinations
and CONSIDERATIONS are mere words, which
have no meaning whatever; for since they
do not recognize the sacrament OF ordina-
ton or holy orders, their imposition OF
hands, and all their prayers, have no sacra-
mental effect they confer neither charac-
ter, nor grace, nor any spiritual power.
Their conscientious, therefore, is void cere-
mony-a instrumentation.
In the Church of England, bishop is
made a bishop, not in virtue of a consecra-
ton, OF of any other formal ceremony, but
by the very appointment Of Popess Victo-
ria, who, according to the doctrine of the
Anglican Church, is invested with the full
ness of spiritual powers, and then can make
and unmake bishops, as well as her prede-
cessor, Popess Elizabeth, the Queen-Virgin
the meek old Bess, who was accustomed
in her graceful and dignifed Language, to
say to the bishops of her manufacturing
when they displeased her: " 1 made you q
bishop, and, by God, L will unfrock YOU
ILL that no mi