The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-06-27
|,rniug Star and Catholic Messenger.
4 m M OpIEa vs., SUBWAY JUNE 81 1875
JUBILEE PASTORAL
REV. JOHN QUINLAN, D. d, BISHOP VI
MOBILE.

81 Christ by legitimate right possesses, Our |
s Father, Pope Plus TX, Sovereign POntiff, |
infallible Teacher Of the Church of God |
81 earth, has, in the tender charity of his
at and loving beart, proclaimed to the
4kistisn World the privileges of the Universal
bilee. Faithful to duty, as one of the Prelates |
the Catholic Church, and obedient to the |
Ice of the Chief Pastor on earth, Pope Plus |
l, earnestly beseeching and imploring them
bhe name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince
( all Pastors, that they will announce THIS
$eat benefit to the people committed to their
&arge, and will exert themselves to the Ut
|eet that all the faithful may be reconciled TO
cG by penance, and may turn the grace OF tne
ntilee to the profit and advantage of their
zes SOULS" we hereby announce to the faith
il of our Diocese of Mobile the glad tidings of
I'D great Jubilee, and the conditions, the OBJ
<vance of which will bring to them in fullest
|pasure the graces and blessings that it is its
rpose to bestow.
With this view we address, Beloved Brethren,
this occasion some pastoral words of in
fuotion touching the meaning, purpose, con-
'tions and effects of Jubilee.
There are differences of opinion amongst
pse who make languages their special study,
to the primitive meaning of the word
ubilee;" but as applied to the fixed year
ntoned in the Old Law and the different
fiods called Jubilees in the history of the
urch, or New Dispensations, all admit it to
III q word of sacred and joyous import-Says
Lord to the people of Israel, throug gh Moses
hon shalt sound the trumpet
"a thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and
Hp1t n m to oil he hah
the land: for it is the year of Jubilee"
Levitt. XIV, 9-10). The benefits of this fiftieth
Bar consisted mainly in the restoration to
berty of all Hebrew slaves and their families,
y well as the right to re-possess the lands
3hich they inherited from their ancestors
hether their lands were sold at legal sale OF
ienated to satisfy just Indebtedness God,
Be Proprietor of the whole world, which His
mnipotence created out of nothing, could
one make this regulation. This Jubilee,
hich conferred only temporal blessings, like
u the institutions of the Old Law, was but a
badowy type or figure of the substantial
Aings of higher and better order, which he
Served for the world that would accept them
trough His Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus
srist.
Z he Christian jubilee does not promise to
Pase from temporal servitude, nor insure
nunity from the importunities of earthly
ditors. The Kingdom of this world is not
Kingdom of God. The bondage from which
Chsrch of God, through her Sovereign
pad, redeems is the bondage of sin: and the
bits that she cancels are the penalties which
main to be paid to the Divine Justice, even
ter the guilt of the sin has been by Gods
.:.I, I,x-
e favor of the Vicar of Christ, embraces the
hole of the year of Oar Lord, 1875, the fullest
DIVERS are bestowed on the priests of the
hurch, Regular and Secular, to reconcile sim
prs to heaven: that turning from their
licked ways to the Divine Being whose
ercy and goodness they have, many of them,
long abused, they may once more, and it is
ped forever, attain to the liberty and in
ritance of the sops of God.
The Plenary Indulgence, beloved brethren,
corded to the faithful of the Flock of Christ,
aring the holy time of Jubilee and other
nilar occasions, by him who holds the Keys
the Kingdom of Heaven" does not, as you
Pill know, in any way whatever favor the in
rests of Satan; it, on the contrary, has for its
hole plan and purpose the overthrow of sin,
Fhicb is the stronghold of Satan), and the
umph of grace in the human heart
Our Holy Father tells us that the motives
mich impel him to open at this present
ne the spiritual treasures of the Church
hich are the superabundant merits of Christ
"a His Saints), are: 1st. The sight of the
many evils that afflict the Church and many
Forts of her enemies directed to tear the faith
s Christ from souls, to corrupt her sound
Pctrines and to propagate the poison of i'm
ety so many scandals which present them
ives everywhere to true believers, the de-
aVlty OF manners widely spread, and the
Famous emancipation from divine and human
ties 80 amply diffnsed, SO fecund of ruin, and
nlch tend to destroy all sense of rectitude in
souls OF men," I'd. His apostolic duty
nlch forced him to endeavor, that faith,
pheion and piety should be fortified and
akened, that the spirit of charity should be
nented and increased, that the fallen be
'useu TO penitence of heart and to the mend
ol their ways, that the sins which merit
u wrath of God be redeemed by holy works