The age-herald., 1901-03-04
THE EXTENSION
 OF THE JUBILEE
Letter from Bishop Allen Read in Catholic Churches
 Services at St. PauI'S

At St Paurs Church yesterday at high mass the Rev. Father O'Reilly preached sermon of exceptional interest and force on the Transhguration.
 The choir, under the direction of MT. Memon, sang Farmers Kyrie and Bait manns Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei During the offertory a trio. consisting of Mrs. Satterfield, Mir Arrico and MT. Her bert, sang a beautiful "Veni, Creator"
 At all the masses in this diocese the following episcopal circular was read:
 Rev. Dear Sir: Our Holy Father Leo XIII, by apostolic letter dated December 25, 1900. has extended the jubilee, which was celebrated last year In Rome with great solemnity. to the whole world for the space of six months.
 The Holy Father ardently desires that Christians throughout the world may ob tain the same graces and blessings from the jubilee which were received by those who visited Rome during the holy year; hence he has generously opened the treasury of the church to the faithful, and granted to confessors extraordinary powers which may be exercised in the sacred tribunal of penance.
 The encyclical letter of the Pope and the faculties granted to confessors have already been sent to every priest of this diocese. Therefore, to carry into effect the directions of his Holiness, we here by announce and promulgate this jubilee and appoint the time for gaining 1t in the diocese of Mobile from the 10th day of March to the 10th day of September. both inclusive.
 The conditions necessary to gain the ju- bilee indulgence are a good confession, worthy reception of the holy eucharist and sixty visits to churches, during which prayers are to be offered for the exalta- ton of the church. the extirpatdon of heresy, union among Catholic rulers and the salvation of all Christian people. The visits to the churches are to be made on fifteen civil or ecclesiastical days, not necessarily consecutive. (An ecclesiasti- cal day begins at first vespers of the pre- oeding day, that Is, about D. m-. and continues until dusk on the day follow ing)
 In Mobile and vicinity. each one will pay fifteen visits to his own parish church. and the same number to the ca thedral and. two other churches. Those living in the cathedral parish will visit St. Vincert's and two other churches be- sides the cathedral. In Pensacola and Birmingham, thirty visits will be paid to each of the parish churches. Where there Is but one church, the sixty visits four a day, are to be made to that church. In this case, a special journey need not be made for each visit, for having en- tered the church and said some vocal prayers, such as the litany of the B. V M; the litany of the Holy Name of Je- sus, or five Our Fathers and five Hall Marys' for the intentions of the Holy Father, we may leave the church for a few moments and then re-enter for the second visit and so on. These visits may be made on Sunday before or after mass
 When a jubilee procession of school children, sodalities or people of the par ish is made under the direction of a priest, such a visit shall be equivalent to three visits.
 Children who have not made their first communion can gain the jubilee indul- gence by complying with the other condi- tions and reciting the litany of the Holy Name of Jesus four times instead of holy communion.
 The confession and communion which satisfies the paschal precept will not suf- fee for gaining the indulgence of the ju- bilee.
 The members of religious communities and those under their charge as well as the aged and inf1rm are dispensed from visiting the jubilee churches. They may make an equal number of visits to their parish church or to their own chapels. The jubilee indulgence may be gained more than once. indeed as often as we wish. provided the good works enjoined are repeated each time
 We should remember that the end of the jubilee Is not merely to obtain relief from the temporal punishment due for past misdeeds and negligence. but also to secure the sanctiflcation and elevation of our thoughts to a higher plane of Christian life, where we will have a more abiding love for the Man-God, Jesus Christ, and greater appreciation of the