The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-02
LEO'S LATEST MESSAGE
THE POPE'S RECENT ENCYCLICAL ON
CATHOLIC SOCIETIES.
Warm Praise and "a Blessing for the
Confidently Known as the
''Most Holy Rosary"

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The New York Free
mans Journal tomorrow will publish a
translation of Pope Leo's most recent en-
cyclical, of which the following is an alb
stract:
40 our Venerable Brothers, the Patriarchs,
Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and Other
Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with
the Apostolic See
Venerable brothers, health and apostolic
benediction.
How important it is both for public and
private interests that devotion to the most
august Virgin Mary should be maintained
assiduously and spread with ever-growing
zeal will be understood by everybody who
reflects on the eminent position of honor
and glory. in which God has placed Mary
From all eternity He chose her to become
mother Of the word who was to clothe him
self in human flesh.
ION the APPROACH Of the month of October
we were unwilling, venerable brothers. to
fail to write to you again this year; with
our utmost ardor we exhort each one of you
anew to merit grace for yourselves and for
the church militant by the recital of the
rosary. This species of prayer seems, in the
providence of God, to have taken on a
marvellous growth at the end of this century
in order that by its means the tagging piety
of the faithful might be stimulated, as wit
ness those temples, those noted and re-
nowned shrines consecrated to the service of
the mother of God.
I'm the month of May we offered flowers
to this divine mother, and now we would
that October, the month of fruits be en-
ployed by all to honor her with special
devotion.
MO n InH
manifold forms those salutary societies of
which we speak-such as clubs, rural
bands, gatherings held on feast days for
the recreation of the mind patrenages for
youth, confraternities and many other
unions founded for excellent ends. In the
course of time they were confirmed by law,
distinguished by insignia, endowed with
privileges, devoted to service in the
churches consecrated to the wants of soul
and body they received different names and
different epochS.
Amid these groupings we have no hest
tation In assigning. the place of honor to
the confraternity known as that of the
Most Holy Rosary. for, considered in it's
origin, it is distinguished above all similar
institutions 1 ms by its antiquity since It r has
ing accounts of its privileges, it has, thanks
to the munihcence of our predecessors. OBJ
bers. The form, so to say, the soul, of this
institution. is the rosary of Mary.
THE power and efficacy of this same
rosary, regarded an obligation imposed
on the members Of the confraternity to
which IL has civ en- it's name, are especially
important. Stimulated by the example Of
our predecessors we; too, venerable broth
ers fervently exhort and encourage you,
as we have often before done, to chclish
with especial solicitude this sacred hosr, in
such wise that it may, thanks TO your ef-
forts, see a daily increase of eff
fective membership enrolled under
currence and that Of those oe the
clergy under your charge to whom the care
of souls is chiefly intrusted the mass of the
people may arrive at a true knowledge and
appreciation of the virtues of this associa-
ton and of it's utility for the eternal saliva
ton of men, We urge this the more earnest
ly since, within quite recent times there
forms of devotion to the mother of God
in the rosary--the perpetual rosary We
heartily bless this institution and earnestly
desire you to consecrate your zeal and ac-
tivity to it's increase.
I'VE entertain a most lively hope that the
praises and prayers of the rosary will prove
most powerful when, issuing from the lips
and hearts of a great multitude they go on
increasingly, and when day and night al
ternately in the different regions of the
globe the continuous concert of prayerful
voices rises in harmony with meditation on
divine things.
And now. as a pledge of heavenly favor
and in testimony of our paternal love. we
grant the apostolic benediction most affec-
tionately in the Lord to yourselves. venera-
BILE brothers, to your clergy and to all the
people confided to your faith and Vigilance
--s-o-S----