The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-17
Diocese Of Natchez.

ID 10 onE % Venerable Brethren the Clergy and eGo
l. of hatcher:
Is Dearly BelOred-God in His mercy has end
the fatal sickness with which He recently v
b tied us.
The prayer For averting mortal sickness.
D. viii cease on the last Sunday before Adveu
Q November Gath.
For all Coos manifestations Of His ho
Will, we owe Him thanks even for His father
cnastisement. But we have special reasons
thank Him now. We are grateful that He b,
Pu' an end to the terrible epidemic of yello
fever, which has been scourgipg us since tt
middle Of August. We are grateful that q
has spared entirely various portions of til
Diocese; grateful for those whom He ha
spared from sickness, and for those whom II
has restored to health. And in behalf of on
dear lsmented neigh bors, friends, relation
and fellow-laborers, who have died, we ar
grateful. too, for the many and abundant mer
cies He showed them on their bed of death.
consequently we direct that during the last
week before Advent, beginning with Sunday
November Oath, at ell Masses shall be recited
the prayers of Thanksgiving, as found at the
end OF the votive Macs of the Blessed Trinity.
And that on Sunday, Novemb ber 24.h, Bene.
diotion with the Blessed Sacrament be given.
at whatever hour is most convenient: and
the Litany OF the Saints either surg in Latin
or rec1ted in English, concluding likewise
with the above prayer of THANKSGIVING,
And, If we owe thanks to God, we owe them
likewise to all those charitable persons who
nave been Gods instruments in lesseuipg our
amiction tby their generous outpouripgs of
nonstiops for the sick and poor, and by their
earnest prayers in our behalf.
From the North and the West, and even from
'ur poor neighbors in various parts of the
SOUTH, contributions have been steadily flow
ng in to the various associations for the relief
4 the ST ftsrers and to public fficers
10 ourself, as Bishop of the Diocese. liberal |
contributions have been sent, which we have
re laid out literally wherever we found tbev
Tere needed. What may remain in o,r banas
o will apply to the benefit of the mauy
'phans left by the epidemic.
The only return we can make ia onr nray.rs
must oner them for all who have shown
cir oharlty to our people, whatever channel
cir contributions may have flowed through
all; for our brethren in the faith, and still
ore earneatly for those who have not the
pplness of the faith. The good works of .
Centurion, presented to the Son of God by =.
prayers of the Jews (st Luke, vii. 81, OBJ :
ned for him the temporal life of his servant
the eternal life of his own soul. =
We direct, then, that in behalf of all our
nefactors, all the Clergy, secular and reli.
'us, recite the prayer "Pro wis a:que de- q
ctis,' No. 35 in all Masses in which the I,
brics allow it, for one year, from the first g,
nday of Advent, inclusive, until the Advent o.
next year. And we direct that during the h
ne time, after every Mass at which the faith o.
assist, be recitsd three times "Our Father U
Hail Mary" for our benefactors, and the II
Inn, " Ont of the Depths" for the souls in W
'gatory, recommending especially those that b,
'e died in this recent epidemic, and who are Ia
st destitute of friends to pray for them, and th
luding tie souls of all benefactors of the .o
oeae from the beginning. r.,
astors will do we'll to take the occasion to a.
uce the faithful to learn that Psalm by 70
nory.
iVen at Vcksburg, Diocese of Natchez, this tn
St of the Patronage of the Bic led Virgin, an
en- Der 10tb, 1873.
WILLIAM HENRY, tn
Bishop of Natchez. tb