The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-09
LETTER FROM ROME.

LETTER FROM ROME. "A "'et' :.
ROME, Jan. 5tl,, ls73.-Ou SATURDAY.
dec. 2S) the Holy Father received the
New Year congratulations of the Heights
OF Malta. On the same morning a. E.,
the members of the Commission Of the
Fabric of Saint Peters. At noon the Pane
entered the Sala del 4Concistoro, where he
was attended by great number of foreign
ers. The immense hall was crowded.
Amongst the persons of distinction present
Reed, late Chief Constructor Of the British
Navy, &C., &c. After having made the
circuit of the hall, and giving his hand to
many of the visitors to kiss, His Holiness
addressed the assemblage in French. No
verbatim report was taken hut the follow
ing passages have been given from mem
ory !.yon +. 70 .o,.. o4 So, -, 49,
gratuations, and thank you. The year
that is coming to an end has not been q
good year the world isgoing a bad road.
We have TO summon up our. courage, and
await the return, OF peace to the earth |;
just az in the midst Of tempest men await
that calm refgus Mt RoIdeand that things
are not going on so badly as is said. There
are even some foreigners who on their ar
rival in this city enquire for tickets of adj
mission to the church functions. have
no doubt thai if God spare my life to next
Holy Week, people will be asking for tick
cts for the Cena. and for the washing of
the feet. Alas it is heads that need wash
ing nowadays. A emile of assent went
through the assemblage at these yvords.]
"But SO long as.the present state of things
lasts, those. functions cannot take place.
! Those of you who have been present at the
solemnities of Holy Week will remember
Inv oil rIA It,r Will I -
day in token of mourning. Wen, that is
cur state at present in fact, 40 many
tborrers are committed, aud one hears and
reads SO many blasphemies, that Rome has
| lost her right to be called the Capital of
the Catholic world. !.
of bitterness and affliction by reason of the
evils have just mentioned. Yet desire
that it may he good year for you all !:
anu as an earnest of the fulfmeut Of that
| desire. l give you my Benediction."
On Tuesday the members of the Palatine
Guard, commanded by their general, Sig
nor Gugfielmi, presen ted their Fluctuations
to His Holiness. On the same day at noon
the Pope, surrounded by his Cardinals
and the Prelates of his court, received in,
the Sala del .Concistoro, the Fluctuations
on the New Year of the Generals Of Reli-
gious Orders. The Reverend Father
| General of the Canons Regular of s. Peter
Holy Father replied as follows =
~ have traversed , long road 10 this
valley of misery of which we oil are dwell
lers- we erules fill Erae (poor banished
sops of Eve); and this is the third time
that have witnessed the suppression Of
the Religions Orders. saw it when a
child saw it when a young man I view
in this fact Providential ordering. God
knows what support and what powerful
aid His Church receives from the Religious
Orders. 1t is from'them that the Churc!
obtains her missionaries whom, she sends
to the most remote parts of the world, and
the preachers who proclaim the Word OF
God, and the priests who administer the
Sacramento. God knows and sees all that
but yet perhaps He also knows that the op-
perfume moment has come at which to put
to the proof that chosen phalanx of HE
servants; and it is for this that He per-
mits the euppressions, the confiscations,
indeed of those who inflict them but
which will, nevertheless, be for the good of
those who suffer them, by exercising their
virtue and their patience to the utmost.
81 remeu. Der, and 1 think l have pre-
served it, letter written in the year 1914,
in which the proposal was submitted to that
holy Pontiff, to re-establish the Religious
Orders. 1t described all measures needed
to produce them again in their purity ana
beauty; fruitful of all good and resplen-
dent with all the virtues that ought to
adorn the souls of those athletics called as
they are to an incessant conflict against the
world, the flesh and the devil. There mag
be at the present time-why do say, there
may be.S the fact is but too real-there are
unhappy men who have forgotten their
character as priests and Religious, and are
scaBdalising the world, instead of setting
an example Of virtne.. Their uun1ber, how
ever, fs 30 limited, that think may ex-
press the hope that it 10 not their apostasy
which is occasioning the fluctuations that
have come down upon us. In the persecu-
lions of which ann speaking, there is pro-
badly hidden another mystery of Gods
Providence, which 1 do not know, but
which will one day be revealed, when man
shall once more be brought Ito wonder at
aud adore the working OF this Same Provi-
dence.
meanwhile, l will tell you that, for my
own part, besides what L have written and
everyb body may have read, upon this ones.
ton of the Religious OIders, do not cease
to exert my self to save those faithful sold
iers of the Church and to rescue them from
their enemies. My eyes, full of suIicitude
OF love and anxiety, are ever on the watch
Il to seize favourable opportunity / pray