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and friend who speaks to you with heart bro.
ken with sorrow. With this view you would dc
well to retire to one OF the converts in the Pro.
vince OF Avfgnon, there to repose yourself, and
perform the retreat which dispensed you from
last year on account OF your duties. Mediate In
solitude on the great truths Of religion. not to
preach them, but for the profit of your soul. ASK
light from Heaven with q contrite and humble
heart. Address yourself to the Holy Virgin, to
our father, St. Joseph, and to our seraphic moth
er, st. Theresa A father can well address these
words to his son. although he be great orator.
1t s very serious question for you and for US ALL
] pray to the Saviour that he may deign to accord
you His light and grace. recommend myself to
your prayers, and give you my benediction, and
am your very humble servant,
FIR. DOMINIQUE DE SAINT JOSEPH,
Superior General.
The reply of Father Hyacinthe-a reply
which he seems to have deeply pondered over
before trusting it to paper-dated the goth OF
September, has already been published to the
world, and its contents are therefore suffi-
ciently well understood. To this letter the
superior-general replied on the 26th ultimo,
expressing his deep affiiction at the continued
frowardness of Father Hyacinthe. His letter
is as follows:
Reyerend Fdthcr-Your letter of the Goth only
reached me yesterday. You will easily Imagine
ness it flied my soul. l was far from expecting
YOU to fall to such depth. Therefore my heart
bleeds with grief, and Is filled with an immense
pity for you, and raise my humble suppllcations
to the God OF all mercies that He may enlighten
you, pardon you, and lead you back from that de-
plorable and fatal path on which you nave en-
tered. 1t is very true, my reverend latner Ina,
during the last five years, IN spite OF my persona
opinions, which are in general contrary TO yours
on many religious questions-as have more tnan
once expressed to you-in spite OF the counseis
have given to you on several occasions reatiVe "
your preachngs, and to which, excepting III the
caseaof your Lent sermons at Rome, you
paid but little attention, so long as you dld
not openly depart from the limits imposed ny
Christian prudence on priest, and especially on
a monk i always manifested toward you sentl-
ments OF esteem and friendship, and encouraged
you In your preachlngs. But If that Is true so also
Is it that, from the moment In which perceived
that you were beginning to go beyond these nm
its; was forced to begin on my side to express
to you my fears, and to mark to you my dissatls-
faction You must remember, my revered Ia
ther, that did especially last year, about tne
month Of october, when passing through France,
relative to letter addressed by you TO cluD IN
Paris then expressed to you what annoyance
that writing had caused me- Your letters pun.
lished in Italy were also very painful TO me, ana
also drew on you from me o6servatlons anu re-
proaches when you last visited Rome. Lastly,
your presence and your speech at the Peace
League filed up the measure OF my Apprehension
and my grief and forced me to write to you the let'
ed You in future not to print any letter or speech,
to speak In public elsewhere than in the churcnes,
to be present In the Chambers, or to take part In
the Peace League, or any other meeting, tne oD-
ject Of which was not exclusively CATHOLIC and re.
ligious. My prohibition, as you see, did not IN
the least refer to your sermons In the pulpit. On
the contrary desired you In future 20 devote
solely and entirely your talents ana your
elouuence to teachings in the church. Con-
seauentiy it was with painful surprise that
read In your letter that "you could not reascend
the pulpit at Notre Dame, with language pervert.
ed by dictation or mut!lated by reticencc." fou
must be aware, reverend father, that have never
forbidden you TO preach, that have never given
YOU any order or imposed any restrictions on
your teachings. only took the liberty OF giving
TO you some counsels, and on addressing 10 you
some observations, especially on the subject OF
your last lectures, as in my quality OF Superior 1t
was my right and my duty to do You were, con-
sequently, as free to continue your preachlngs az
Paris or elsewhere, as in preceding years, before
my letter Of the 22d July last; and II you nave re-
solved not to reappear In the pulpit Of Notre Dame
de Paris, 1t is voluntarily and OF your own free
WILL and not by virtue OF measures adopted by me
toward you. Yourletter OF the Goth announces 70
me that you are about to leave your monastery IN
Paris. learn, indeed, by the journals and by
private letters, that you have already left 1t, and
have cast or your gown without any eccleslastl.
cal authorization. II the fact is unfortunately
true, would remark to you, my reverend father,
that you must be aware that the monk VINO QUITS
his monastery and the dress OF his order, wlthout
the regular permission from the competent au-
thority is considered as real apostaCe
and consequently incurs the canonical penal
ties mentioned In Cap. pertcutoSo. The punlsh-
ment Is, as you are aware the greater eXcommu-
nication ldtR SententtR; and accordlng 10 OUT
constitutions, confirmed by the Holy See, part Ill,
chapter XXXv No. 12, those who leave the COM
munity without authorization incur the greatest
accommodation, tpS0 rucf0 and the note Oh IN.
fanny. Qui a congregations recedunt, prGtel
ap0Stdsidn ipSo Onct0 eLc0nl1auntcduoneHs e
fi,Iamig nOtdn. inc1i7lnt. AS your superior,
and in accordance with the prescriptions OF tne
apostolic DEGREES, which order me to employ even
censure to bring you back TO the bosom OF the
order you have so deplOrably abandoned, am
under the necessity OF calling on you TO return 10
the monastery in Paris which you nave quitteu,
within ten days from the date OF the present iet-
ter, observing 10 you that II you do not OBEY tn's
order within the time stated you Will be deprived
economically OF all the charges you hold In tue Or'
der OF Barefooted Carmelites, and VIII remain
under the censure established by the common
law and by our rules. May you, my reverend
father listen to our voice and to the cry OF yeur
conscience; may you promptly and seriously ue-
scend within yourself, sec the depth OF your iall,
and by an heroic resolution manfuly recover
yourself, repair the great scandal you nave caus-
ed. and by that means console the church, your
mother, you have so much afflicted. That Is the
most sincere and ardent desire Of my heart; 1t Is
also that which your afflicted friends ana my
SELF your father, ask, with all the fervor OF our
souls, Of God Almighty, Of God, so full OF mercy
and goodness.
FIR. DOMINIQUE rg SAINT JOSEPH.
MEETING OF COUNCIL.