The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-31
Letter to FathOr Hyaointho rom His Superior.

The reader cannot fail to observe the differ
ence between the letter given below full OF
the noblest Christian charity, and the pert
note of Father Hyacinthe addressed to the
Bishop of Orleans. We do not intend to oc-
| cupy our col1mns with the sensational inter!
views published by the journals, many OF
which are actuated by motives which we do
not care to characterized:
| ROME, September &C. 1869.
IerereRd Fdther-Your letter of the Goth inst
only reached mo yesterday. You will easily
conceive how deeply it afflicted mo, and with
| what bitterness it filled my soul. / was far
| from expecting SO low fall on your part.
| Therefore my heart bIeeds with sorrow, and it
is with an immense pity for you that raise
That he may enlghten you and pardon you,
and lead You forthwith out of the deplorable
path on which you have entered.
1t is quite true true, Rev. Father, that for
! the last i've years, " spite of my opinions
! being in general contrary to yours ON many
religious questions, as have moro than once
let you know; in spite of the notices which
| have repeatedly given you respecting your
preaching, to which notices, except, indeed,
during Your Lent sermons at Rome, you have
paid but trifing heed; as long you did not
openly go beyond the limits fixed by Christian
prudence for n priest, and, above all for re-
llgtous have always shown you my feelings
OF esteem and of friendship, and have en-
couraged you in your preaching. But if this
Is true, 1t Is true also that, from the moment
when 1 saw you were overstepping those
limits, had on my part to begin to express to
you my fears, and to show you my displeasure.
You must recollect, Rev. Father, that did so
last year especially, towards the month of Oc-
tober, when passed through France, on the
subject.Yf a letter you had written to Paris
club. l, then informed how displeasipg
that letter was to me. The letters you pub
| i1shed in Italy were also very painful to me,
and drew you remarks and reproaches from
me at the time of your last journey to Rome.
FINALLY your presence, and the speech you made
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my fears and of my sorrow, and compelled me
to write you my letter of 22d of July last,
wherein I formally ordered you never again to
print any letter any speech, never again to
pronounce discourses elsewhere than in the
churches, to refrain from going to the Cham
bers, and from attending the Ligue de Ia Pair,
or any other meeting for an object not exclu- |
siWly Catholic and religious. My prohibition, |
as you see, was not in any way addressed to !
your preaching in the pulpit. 1t was, on the |
contrary, to that chair of truth that wished |
to see you devote entirely and exclusively your |
talents and your eloquepce. Therefore, L have
read with painful surprise in your letter, that
mutilated by reticence" you could not again
ascend the pulpit of Notre Dame" You must |
well know, Rev. Father; that 1 have never for
hidden you to preach, and that l have never
given you any order, or imposed on you any
restrictions, to your sermons. / have only
allowed myself to make certain remarks to-
wards You, and to address to you certain OBJ
servations, especially respecting your last con-
ferenccs, as it was my right and my duty to do,
in the capacity of your superior. You were,
therefore, just free to continue your SER
MONS at Paris, elsewhere, you in
previous years, before my letter Of the 22d of
July last; and if you have renowned n reap
pearance in the pulpit of Notre Dame at Paris,
it is of your own good will that you have re-
this, and not in virtue of any mea-
sures taken by me towards you. #
Your letter of the both inst. informs mo that
papers and private letters tell me, indeed, that
you have left yonr convent, and thrown off the /
religious habit without ecclesiastical per
mission. If this should unhappily be true, /
would beg you to observe, Rev. Father, that
you must not be unaware that the religious
who abandons his convent and the habit of his
Order without regular permission from the
proper authority, is considered as an apbstate
and falls IN consequence under the caponcal
penalties mentioned IN tap. PeriCHiOsO. Those
penalties are, rs you know, the greatest ex-
to our Constitutions (par.-: cap 3d. No. I2,)
confirmed by the Holy See those who leave
the congregation without permission, incur
ips0 tdct0 the greater accommodation and the
mark of infamy. Qui congregations recount
prGter apostdsidrn pso fGcto communication 1T
intdmiG HotdRt incHrrHnt. In my capacity as
Y our superior, and in order to obey the rcgula-
tions of the apostolic DEGREES, which even COM
Enand me to employ the censure, in order to
bring you back to the bosom of the Order you
have so deplorably deserted, find myself under
the necessity of ordering you to return to the
convent at Paris, which you have left, within
the delay of ten days from your receipt of this
did not obey this injunction within the delay
hereby fixed, you would be economically de-
prived of all the functions which you hold in /
the Order of the Discalced Carmelitcs, and you {
would continue to live under the weight of the I
eensures ordained by common law and by our
Constitutions.
May you listen, Rev. Father to our voice, !
and to the cry of your own conscience! May
you speedily and earnestly examine yourself, Z
zee the depth of your fall, and, by an hcroicai
raise yourself generously, repair the
great scandal YOU have caused, and thus con- 4
ioc the Church, your mother, whom you have !
ust afflicted sadly! This is the true and I
most fervent desire of my heart; and this too
$ what your afflicted brothers and l, your !
ather, ask with all the strength of our souls !
rom Almighty God, who is rich in mercy !
ind in goodness. t
BR. DOMINIC OF ST. JOSEPH :
General of the Discalced Carmelites.
THE BIsEOP OF POITIERs.-Mgr. Pic t
las delivered an address to his clergy, t
before leaving them for the Council, which i
) remarkable, as are all the utterances c