The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-07-19

The intentions of the sovereign
Pontiff, for which prayer is to be said
on the occasion of each visit are:
"The prosperity and exaltation of the
Catholic Church and of the Apostolic
See, the extirpation of heresies, the
conversion of all who are in error;
concord among Christian princes:
peace and unity among all the faith
full"
The prayers are left to the devotion
of the faithful, as for example, one of
the Litanies: the recitation of the
Our Father and Hail Mary five times,
or the five decades of the Rosary, etc.
In the matter of alms-giving the
choice is left to the faithful. An ex-
ceIlent object would be to tighten the
burden of debt on the Diocesan Or
phan Asylum. A box marked Jubilee
Aims" will be placed in each church
for the reception of the offering, and
the amount received at the end of the
jubilee term will be forwarded to
the Chancellor of the Diocese.
To the faithful piously performing
all the above stated works, the Holy
Father opens the spiritual treasury of
the church, with grant of a plenary
indulgence-the full remission of tenn
poral penalties due to the sinner after
the guilt of sin has been RENTED
through the heartfelt sorrow and the
integral confession required for the
worthy reception of the Sacrament of
Penance.
The plenary indulgence may also be
applied by way of suffrage to the
souls in Purgatory.
Confessions may be made in the
| tribunal of any priest, authorized by
the Ordinary to hear confessions.
Holy Communion may be received in
any church at the choice of the com
municant.
The time for taking part in this
Jubilee closes on the feast of the I'm
maculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin, 9Th of December next.
For three centuries the infant
church was prosecuted by both Jew
and Pagan.
The whole power of the world was
brought to bear against Christ's King
dom, but the promise of the Divine
Founder, Behold 1 will be with you
all days even to the end of time
ensured it's growth and it's develop
ment. To one of His Apostles Christ
said: Chou art Peter, and upon this
rock, will build My church; and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against
it" Matt. xvi, 1S. This promise has
been fulfilled for we'll nigh nineteen
centuries. The history of the Church
is the story of blood and tears until
the time of Constantine, Emperor Of
Rome, who inheriting his fathers jus
tice, published general edict of toll
Grafton for the Christians and soor
took the Cross of Christ as his ban
ner, with the inscription, ''In this sigr
conquer"
Over five millions of Christians
men, women and children had up tt
this time of peace shed their blood fol
their faith, but now the Cross was
honored as the glorious sign of saliva
ton.
Of truth persecution never ceased
Christ said to His Apostles and tt
their successors, I'm the world yoI
shall have Distress" but now the
Church was given a breathing time.
Heresies and schisms, false philos
ophy and nationalism did not permi
the Church to rest long in peace
Every century down to the present
brought it's own sad burden of bitte1
opposition to the laws of the Church
and it's story of persecution for the
Church's children.
Today, with all our boosted civiliza
ton and progress we see him who sit:
in the chair of Peter, a prisoner
scoffed at and hated by some of hi:
own recreant children.
In our own land a wide spread effor
is made to vilify the Catholic Church
to utter the basest falsehoods agains
her teaching and practises; to excite
ignorant bigotry and promote discort
and disunion
1t is therefore particularly fitting
that we should offer our earnest pray
ers for the full freedom of our Holy
Father, and for peace and concord
amongst Christian people.
In this spirit of Jubilee we pray tha
the Almighty God may bless the
clergy and the laity of the Diocese o.
Duluth.
4JAMES McGOLRICK