Chapter D: V. S

Come Fratello,
L. CARD. ANTONELLI, Prefetto,
Stefano Borgia, _Segretario_.

Mons. Troy, Vescovo Ossoriense.

Amministretore di Armach.

[TRANSLATION.]

Having taken into its careful consideration the resolutions
adopted at a meeting of the Suffragan Bishops of the Province of
Armagh, held last year at Drogheda, on the 8th and 9th of August,
this S. Congregation of Propaganda, by authority of our Lord Pope
Pius VI., after a protracted examination, has finally given
judgment thereupon. This judgment it now signifies to your
lordship, as Administrator of that Metropolitan See, in order that
you may speedily communicate to the above-mentioned Prelates the
decision which it has been led to take. First of all, however, it
has been established that the meeting cannot be called a
provincial synod, seeing that it wanted all the formalities
prescribed for the holding of synods, and especially the presence
of the Metropolitan Chapter, which, when immemorial usage to the
contrary has not interfered with its right, ought always to be
invited to synods. But although this meeting of bishops may not
claim the character or the authority of a provincial synod,
nevertheless its resolutions could not be published without the
consent and approbation of the Apostolic See, since the decrees
even of provincial synods, lawfully convened and celebrated in
canonical form, require at all times the approbation of the Holy
See before their observance can be made obligatory. The example of
St. Charles Borromeo in the Six Provincial Synods of Milan, is of
itself a sufficient guide for Bishops in this matter.

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In the first place, then, the third resolution passed by the
above-mentioned Bishops appears very ambiguous and obscure. In
case of a private marriage, both the Ordinary of the man and the
Ordinary of the woman have power to dispense with the publication
of the banns, and as a matter of fact this dispensation is granted
by the Bishop in whose diocese the marriage is celebrated, whether
he be the Ordinary of the one or of the other of the contracting
parties. If, then, the sense of the resolution be to limit this
power to the Ordinary of the man, to the exclusion of the Ordinary
of the woman, the resolution ought not to be carried out, as being
contrary to the canons and to custom. But if, on the other hand,
the meaning be, that when once the dispensation has been obtained
from the Ordinary of the man, there is no need to obtain it also
from the Ordinary of the woman, the resolution thus interpreted
may be put into practice, and is not deserving of censure.

The fourth resolution, however, cannot be softened by any
interpretation. That resolution prescribed that every dispensation
in prohibited degrees of relationship should be granted by the
Ordinary of each of the contracting parties. And yet the Bishops
ought to have reflected that relationship being a bond which
affects two persons, and prevents them from contracting matrimony
one with the other, the moment one of these persons becomes free
from this bond, the other, by a necessary consequence, is also set
at liberty, it being impossible that one can be free whilst the
other remains bound. Whenever, therefore, the bond of relationship
between a man and a woman has been removed by lawful authority,
either of the Holy See or of one of the Ordinaries, no second
dispensation is required, nor is it necessary to have recourse to
the other Ordinary to obtain such dispensation....

II. Decrees Granting An Indulgence To A Prayer To Be Said Before Hearing Confessions, And To A Prayer For A Happy Death.

_Oratio recitanda ante sacramentales confessiones excipiendas._

Da mihi Domine, sedium tuarum assistricem Sapientiam, ut sciam
judicare populum tuum in justitia, et pauperes tuos in judicio.
Fac me ita tractare Claves Regni Coelorum, ut nulli aperiam cui
claudendum sit, nulli claudam cui aperiendum sit. Sit intentio mea
pura, zelus meus sincerus, charitas mea patiens, labor meus
fructuosus. Sit in me lenitas non remissa, asperitas non severa,
pauperem ne despiciam, diviti ne aduler. Fac me ad alliciendos
peccatores suavem, ad interrogandos prudentem, ad instruendos
peritum. Tribue, quaeso, ad retrahendos a malo solertiam, ad
confirmandos in bone sedulitatem, ad promovendos ad meliora
industriam: in responsis maturitatem, in consiliis rectitudinem,
in obscuris lumen, in implexis sagacitatem, in arduis victoriam,
inutilibus colloquiis no detinear, pravis ne contaminer, alios
salvem, meipsum non perdam. Amen.

_Urbis et Orbis. Decretum._

Ex Audientia Sanctissimi. Die 27 martii 1854.—Ad preces humillimas
Reverendissimi Patris Jacobi Pignone del Carretto Clericorum
Regularium Theatinorum Praepositi Generalis, Sanctissimus Dominus
Noster Pius PP. IX. benigne inclinatus omnibus et singulis
Confessariis in Universo Orbe Catholico existentibus
supraenunciatam Orationem, antequam ad Sacramentales excipiendas
Confessiones assideant, corde saltem contrito, et devote
recitantibus centum dierum Indulgentiam semel tantum in die
acquirendam, clementer est elargitus. Praesenti perpetuis futuris
temporibus valituro absque ulla Brevis expeditione.

Datum Romae ex Secretaria S. Congregationis Indulgentiarum. F.
Card. ASQUINIUS praefectus—Loco ϯ Sigilli.—A. Colombo secretarius.

_Oratio Caroli Episcopi Cracoviensis pro impetranda bona morte_.

O Maria sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis, qui confugimus ad Te, o
refugium peccatorum, mater agonizantium, noli nos derelinquere in
hora exitus nostri, sed impetra nobis dolorem perfectum, sinceram
contritionem, remissionem peccatorum nostrorum, Sanctissimi
Viatici dignam receptionem, extremae unctionis Sacramenti
corroborationem, quatenus securi presentari valeamus ante thronum
justi sed et misericordis Judicis, Dei, et Redemptoris nostri.
Amen.

_Ex audientia Sanctissimi die 11 martii 1856_.

Sanctissimus Dominus Noster Pius PP. IX. omnibus et singulis
utriusque sexus Christi fidelibus, qui corde saltem contriti, ac
devote supradictas pias preces, jam adprobatas, ab bonam mortem
impetrandam recitaverint, centum dierum Indulgentiam semel in die
lucrifaciendam, clementer est elargitus. Praesentibus, perpetuis
futuris temporibus valituris.

Datum Romae ex Secretaria Brevium.—L. ϯ S. Pro D. Cardinali
MACCHI.—Jo. B. Brancaloni Castellani _Sub._

III. Decree Concerning The Prayer _Sacrosanctae Et Individuae Trinitati, Etc._

Urbis et Orbis. Decretum. Cum Sacrae huic Congregationi Indulgentiis Sacrisque Reliquiis praepositae in una Melden. inter alia exhibitum fuisset dubium enodandum “An ad lucrandam Indulgentiam vel fructum orationis _Sacrosanctae et individuae_ etc. necessario flexis genibus haec oratio sit dicenda, vel an saltem in casu legitimi impedimenti ambulando, sedendo recitari valeat?” Eminentissimi Patres in generalibus Comitiis die 5 Martii superioris anni apud Vaticanas Aedes habitis respondendum esse duxerunt. “Affirmative ad primam partem, negative ad secundam”. Facta itaque Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Pio PP. IX. relatione per me infrascriptum S. Congregationis Secretarium die 12 ejusdem mensis, Sanctitas Sua votum Eminentissimorum Patrum approbavit. In audientia vero Sanctissimi die 12 Iulii ejusdem anni ab Eminentissimo Cardinali praefatae S. Congregationis Praefecto habita, eadem Sanctitas Sua ex speciali gratia clementer indulsit, ut Oratio _Sacrosanctae_ etc. pro lucranda Indulgentia a Sa. Mem. Leone PP. X. adnexa, seu fructu dictae orationis, etiam non flexis genibus recitari possit ab iis, qui legitime impediti fuerint infirmitatis tantum causa. Praesenti valituro absque ulla Brevis expeditione, non obstantibus in contrarium facientibus quibuscumque.

Datum Romae ex Secretaria ejusdem S. Congregationis Indulgentiarum die 7 januarii 1856.—Loco ϯ Signi.—F. Cardinalis ASQUINIUS, Praef.—A. Colombo Secretarius.

IV. Plenary Indulgences And The Infirm.

“_Decretum Urbis et Orbis. Ex Audientia Sanctissimi die 18 Septembris, 1862._—Est hoc in more positum quod ab animarum Pastoribus Sanctissimum Eucharistiae Sacramentum in aliquibus tantum infra annum praecipuis festivitatibus ad fideles habitualiter infirmos, chronicos, ob physicum permanens aliquod impedimentum e domo egredi impotentes solemniter deferatur, proindeque hujusmodi fideles tot Plenariis Indulgentiis privantur, quas consequerentur si conditionibus injunctis adimpletis ad Sacram Eucharisticam Mensam frequentius possent accedere. Itaque quamplures animarum Curatores, aliique permulti Ecclesiastici Viri humillimas preces porrexerunt Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Pio PP. IX. ut de Apostolica benignitate super hoc providere dignaretur, factaque per me infrascriptum Secretariae S. Congregationis Indulgentiarum Substitutum Eidem Sanctissimo de his omnibus fideli relatione in Audientia habita die 18 Septembris 1862, Sanctitas Sua spirituali gregis sibi crediti utilitati prospiciens clementer indulsit, ut praefati Christi fideles, exceptis tamen illis qui in Communitate morantur, acquirere possent omnes et singulas Indulgentias plenarias jam concessas vel in posterum concedendas, quasque alias acquirere possent in locis in quibus vivunt, si in eo physico statu non essent, pro quarum acquisitione praescripta sit Sacra Communio et visitatio alicujus Ecclesiae vel publici Oratorii in locis iisdem, dummodo vere poenitentes, confessi, ac caeteris omnibus absolutis conditionibus, si quae injunctae fuerint, loco S. Communionis et Visitationis alia pia opera a respectivo Confessario injungenda fideliter adimpleant. Praesenti in perpetuum valituro absque ulla Brevis expeditione. Non obstantibus in contrarium facientibus quibuscumque.

“Datum Romae ex Secretaria S. Congregationis Indulgentiarum et SS. Reliquiarum, Loco ϯ Signi _F. Card. Asquinius_ _Praefectus. A. Archip. Prinzivalli Substitutus._”

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