The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-18
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RoafE, June 21.-The Pope received Che
Solicitations Of the sacEed College and Of the
Genate on Saturday. the anniversary of his
address from the Cardinal viear, bis Hoiiness
said--"Arrived ag now am ut the 2zth year of
my PontifCate, my first dnty IL to render
weakness in the midst Of numerous and cruel
trials, and to admire the protection 90 full of
wisdom which He has granted to the Church.
No doubt He has allowed her to be exposed TO
fearful tennpests, but, Mt the came time He
suatains her, and raises up IN defence of her
rights Christians animated with holy courage.
! address in the next place, my thanks to the
me, Tor the noble share they have taken in the
struggle, and for the good wishes they have
expressed through yoa. The world appears
divided into two societies, one numerous and
powerful, agitated and restless, the other less
numerous, but calm and faithful. Myfillustri-
Gus predecessor, Pope Gregory the Great, has
gathered, the first on the Plain of Shinar,
where men raised the tower of pride and were
visited by God with confusion of tongues and
dispersed, tho second in the SCenacolo on the
day of Pentecost, when Peter the Apostle, and
thousands of faithful of different nations,
heard and understood one and the same
the revolution. bringing socialism in its train,
which condemns and denies religion, morality,
and God himself; aud ON the other hand, the
true falthfai who, ssHan IL national faith, wait
wheaesorae Incidence, and till the designs of
God are accomplished. If sovereigns would
adopt these good principles, how easy would it
might they do TO their people and to them
selves The future is in the hands of God; as
He defeated the first revolutionists, he will
ought to desire that the naughty prosecutors of
the Church should be humiliated and con-
founded In the meantime let us accomplish
Psalmist, and let us give God thanks for
having preserved peace in this slip of earth so
wonderfully privileged, and from which we
can extend our tears and our prayers over the
whole Church. How great are the evils which
weigh her down! Everywhere we meet with
ruins and with tears Perhaps Mt the very
moment am speaking q kingdom is being de-
prived of its last Bishop, thrown like his
brethren into prison, or drawn into exile.n
I1ere The -POpe's voice was broken by
emotion and he lifted his eyes streaming with
referring to the exile of the Polish Bishops of
which Intelligence had just reached the
Vatican.)
Certainly" resumed the Pope, "God might
permit that we ourselves should share the fate
of these Bishops. The plant which plunges its
roots into the soil where we still find security
may be struck, rs was the mystic l@Rnt of the
prophet Jonah. But the perils which menace MS
will be turned aside by the divine mercy, and
this plant has the word of the Lord that in
ssres its stability. invoke the Almighty
protection of God on the Sacred College, on the
prelates, on this beloved city and those who
represent 1t. (The Senate was presently 1
pray especially for two sorts of persons-those
who are in tribulation, that God may be their
helper; and those, still more unhappy, who live
in sin, that God may give them victorious
grace. Even in Rome there are some few souls
for the substance, falsehood for truth, and who,
1epYing the path of justice, lose themselves in
the forest with ravenons beasts. Woe to such,
for to them is owing the loss of all good. May
God save You from such fate, and may He,
by the intercessioh Of Mary, bless you, as
desire with all the fervor of my hearth