Summus Pontifex operis huius promotoribus ac benefactoribus ex corde impertitur.

Interim Eminentiae Tuae manus humillime deosculor.

Romae, ex aedibus S. C. de Propaganda fide, die 13 iunii 1917.
Eminentiae Tuae,

L. S.

humus devñus servus

D. CARD. SERAFINI, Praefectus.
C. LAURENTI, Secretarius.

(Translation.)

I have learned with pleasure that, with the sanction of your Eminence and the other Bishops of Ireland, a new project has been very opportunely undertaken by certain ecclesiastics of founding in Ireland a college for the Foreign Missions where young men, called to the Priesthood, may be trained by suitable discipline for apostolic work among infidel peoples. While it is always desirable that the Church should have a suitable supply of ministers for the fulfilment of the Divine Command of teaching all nations, in these days especially, when so many and so serious losses have befallen the Sacred Missions, every effort should be made that her reserves may be enlisted for this sacred work. When I informed the Supreme Pontiff of the project, His Holiness ordered me to signify to you his most cordial approval of it, and desired me to add in his name a wish that the new work might be started with alacrity. That the desired fruits of your work, however, may be hereafter obtained, it should be carefully seen to that special diligence be taken in selecting the students and in solidly preparing them for so great an office. And, since the duty of providing for all that pertains to the welfare and guidance of the Missions has been entrusted to this Sacred Council for the Propagation of the Christian Name, I shall be pleased to be informed of the beginning and progress of the new College and to have before me the rules of discipline which it may seem good to devise for imbuing the minds of the young men with the apostolic spirit.

I have great hopes of the good that is to accrue to the Sacred Missions from the new Institute. Wherefore, may you have the gracious Apostolic Benediction which the Supreme Pontiff imparts from his heart to the promoters and benefactors of this work.

Meanwhile, I most humbly kiss the hands of your Eminence.

At Rome, from the house of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, 18th of June, 1917.

Your Eminence's

Most humble and devoted Servant,

D. CARD. SERAFINI, Prefect.
C. LAURENTI, Secretary.

Approval and Blessing of Project by the Irish Bishops in Maynooth, 10th October, 1916.

The Cardinal, Archbishops, and Bishops of Ireland, assembled in General Meeting, have received with much satisfaction a memorial signed by representative priests from several parts of Ireland asking for the approval and blessing of the Bishops on a project of establishing a Mission House or College in Ireland for the training of Irish priests who are prepared to devote their lives to the propagation of the Catholic Faith in China.

The memorialists state a fact which is already widely known, that China presents a fruitful soil for the labours of the missionary priest.

A beginning has been already made with notable success by a few Irish priests who set out a few years ago as missionaries to China. Encouraged by this experience, a number of young, zealous Irish priests, the memorialists state, are ready and anxious to give themselves to this apostolic work, and only await the approval and encouragement of the Bishops. But a Mission House or College for the training of those priests in their special work is a first necessity.

The Bishops, having given careful consideration to this important memorial, joyfully approve and bless the project, and earnestly commend to the generous help and support of the faithful the establishment of this Mission House for the training of Irish missionaries for China who, in a spirit worthy of our missionary race, offer their lives for the propagation of the Faith in a pagan country.

MICHAEL CARDINAL LOGUE, Chairman.
ROBERT, Bishop of Cloyne,
DENIS, Bishop of Ross,

} Secretaries

AUTHENTIC PUBLICATION OF INDULGENCES GIVEN TO CERTAIN EJACULATORY PRAYERS

(April 17, 1917)

ACTA TRIBUNALIUM

SACRA POENITENTIARIA APOSTOLICA
SECTIO DE INDULGENTIIS

VULGANTUR DOCUMENTA QUAEDAM CONCESSIONIS INDULGENTIARUM

I

Cor Iesu Eucharisticum, adauge nobis fidem, spem et charitatem.' Concedimus indulgentiam trecentorum dierum fidelibus praedictam invocationem devote recitantibus.

Ex Aedibus Vaticanis, die 5a aprilis, Feria V in Coena Domini, anno

1917.

BENEDICTUS PP. XV.

Praesentis concessionis authenticum documentum, prout de iure, exhibitum fuit Sacrae Poenitentiariae Apostolicae, Sectione de Indulgentiis, hac die 17 aprilis 1917.

In fidem, etc.

L. S.

BERNARDUS COLOMBO, S. P. Regens.

1. Signore nostro, Gesù Cristo, noi ricorriamo a Voi; Dio santo, Dio grande, Dio immortale, abbiate pietà di noi e di tutto il genere umano, Purificateci dai nostri peccati e dalle nostre debolezze col Vostro Sangue divino. Amen

'2. Gesù mio, in Voi credo, in Voi spero, Voi amo, a Voi mi dono. 'Madre mia santissima, datemi confidenza in Voi.

'Quando, Gesù mio, vedrò la Vostra bella faccia ?

'O Maria, Voi siete la fortezza mia, la liberazione, la pace e la salute mia.'

Concediamo trecento giorni d'indulgenza, applicabili alle anime del purgatorio, per ogni volta che si recitano queste preghiere.

Dal Vaticano, 21 dicembre 1916.

BENEDICTUS PP. XV.

TO THE MEMBERS AND NUNS OF THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE HOLY REDEEMER WHO RECITE A CERTAIN PRAYER IS GRANTED AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS

(June 15, 1917)

SODALIBUS ET MONIALIBUS CONGREGATIONIS SS. REDEMPTORIS QUANDAM PRECEM RECITANTIBUS INDULGENTIA CCC DIERUM, IN PERPETUUM CONCEDITUR

BENEDICTUS PP. XV

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.-Cum Deipara Virgo Maria de Perpetuo Succursu praecipua sit Patrona Congregationis SSñi Redemptoris, peropportunum Nobis videtur, eos qui se eidem Congregationi devoveant, peculiari erga eandem B. Mariam Virginem prece uti, qua se et Institutum tantae Matris pietati quam maxime commendent. Preces igitur, quas Nobis supremus dictae Congregationis Moderator ostendit, et quarum exemplar in Tabulario Brevium Apostolicorum, ne error deinceps irrepat, adservari iussimus, Apostolica Nostra Auctoritate rite adprobamus, easque, audito etiam dilecto filio Nostro S. R. E. Cardinali Poenitentiario Maiore, caelestibus Ecclesiae thesauris libenti quidem animo locupletamus. Quare omnibus ac singulis sive eiusdem Congregationis alumnis, sive Monialibus SSmi Redemptoris, qui, corde saltem contrito, infrascriptam orationem recitaverint, qua vice id egerint, trecentos dies de iniunctis eis seu alias quomodolibet debitis poenitentiis in forma Ecclesiae consueta relaxamus, quam poenitentiarum relaxationes etiam animabus fidelium in Purgatorio detentis per modum suffragii applicari posse indulgemus. Praesentibus perpetuo valituris. In contrarium facientibus non obstantibus quibuscumque. Oratio haec erit: 'O Maria, Mater de Perpetuo Succursu, tibi Congregationem Nostram, cuius peculiaris esse voluisti Patrona, humiliter commendo. Eam, quaeso, custodi et ab omni malo, praesertim cuiuscumque relaxationis vel minimae, defende. Floreant in ea paupertas, castitas, obedientia,

regularum observantia, spiritus orationis et zelus animarum, maxime derelictarum. Missionibus nostris ceterisque laboribus apostolicis impetra a Divino Redemptore abundantiam caelestium benedictionum. Superiores nostros, sodales et amicos continuo favore circumda et prosequere. Omnia tandem Instituti bona spiritualia et temporalia tuo semper materno tuere praesidio. O Domina Nostra, O Mater nostra, memento, quaeso, Tutricem te esse Congregationis quam possedisti ab initio.'

Datum Romae apud sanctum Petrum, sub annulo Piscatoris, die XV iunii MCMVXII, Pontificatus Nostri anno tertio.

P. CARD. GASPARRI, a Secretis Status.

THE LEAGUE OF DAILY MASS In the arcHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK IS ENRICHED WITH INDULGENCES AND PRIVILEGES

(June 26, 1917)

FOEDERI MISSAE QUOTIDIANAE IN ARCHDIOECESI NEO-EBORACENSI INDULGENTIAE ET PRIVILEGIA ÎN PERPETUUM CONCEDUNTUR

BENEDICTUS PP. XV

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.-Dilectus filius Noster Ioannes M. S. R. E. Cardinalis Farley, ex concessione et dispensatione apostolica Archiepiscopus Neo-Eboracensis, Nos edocendos curavit, se in id venisse consilii, ut in sua quoque Archidioecesi 'Foedus Missae quotidianae' institueret, quod iam in Hibernia insula conditum, recens a Nobis caelestibus Ecclesiae thesauris locupletatum fuit. Cum autem vehementer optet, etiam sibi concreditos fideles ad Sacrum singulis diebus audiendum allici, atque inde facilius divino convivio recreari; enixas Nobis preces adhibuit, ut constituendo Operi easdem ac pro Hibernia tum plenarias, tum partiales indulgentias largiri dignaremur. Nos igitur, quibus est omnino persuasum, uberes ex huiusmodi religionis pietatisque Foedere fructus in Domino perceptum iri, audito etiam dilecto filio Nostro S. R. E. Cardinali Poenitentiario Maiore, piis hisce votis benigne obsecundandum censuimus. Quare, praesentium tenore, Apostolica Auctoritate Nostra, omnibus ac singulis utriusque sexus Christifidelibus Archidioeceseos Neo-Eboracensis tantum, qui ad Foedus Missae quotidianae ' pertinebunt, die primo eorum in hanc Sodalitatem ingressus, si vere poenitentes et confessi Ssmum Eucharistiae Sacramentum sumpserint, plenariam; ac sodalibus in eadem Consociatione describendis, in cuiuslibet eorum mortis articulo, si vere poenitentes et confessi ac S. Communione refecti, vel, quatenus id facere nequiverint, saltem contriti, nomen Iesu ore, si potuerint, sin minus corde devote invocaverint, etiam plenariam ; nec non praedictis sodalibus, qui quovis anni mense saltem novem diebus continuis Missae interfuerint, atque uno quo cuiqu libeat ex novem hisce diebus, vere poenitentes et confessi Sacra se Communione refecerint, ac Missa durante pro Christianorum Principum concordia, haeresum extirpatione, peccatorum conversione ac S. Matris Ecclesiae exaltatione pias ad Deum preces effuderint, plenariam similiter omnium

peccatorum suorum indulgentiam et remissionem misericorditer in Domino concedimus atque impertimus. Praeterea iisdem Sodalibus, qui, corde saltem contrito, quolibet profesto die Missam audiverint, eaque durante, ut praefertur, oraverint, septem annos totidemque quadragenas; iis autem sociis, qui quodvis pietatis vel caritatis opus ex dicti Foederis praescripto peregerint, centum dies de iniunctis eis, seu alias quomodolibet debitis poenitentiis in forma Ecclesiae consueta relaxamus. Quas omnes et singulas indulgentias, peccatorum remissiones ac poenitentiarum relaxationes, excepta plenaria indulgentia in articulo mortis lucranda, etiam animabus fidelium in Purgatorio detentis per modum suffragii applicari posse indulgemus. Denique veniam Apostolica Auctoritate Nostra facimus, cuius vi Missae, ad quodlibet altare pro anima cuiusvis sodalis celebrandae, animae ipsi perinde suffragentur ac si ad privilegiatum Altare fuissent celebratae. Non obstantibus contrariis quibuscumque. Praesentibus perpetuo valituris. Volumus autem ut praesentium Litterarum transumptis, seu exemplis, etiam impressis, manu alicuius Notarii publici subscriptis ac sigillo personae in ecclesiastica dignitate vel officio constitutae munitis, eadem prorsus fides adhibeatur, quae adhiberetur ipsis praesentibus si forent exhibitae vel ostensae.

Datum Romae apud S. Petrum, sub annulo Piscatoris, die xxvi iunii мCмXVII, Pontificatus Nostri anno tertio.

P. CARD. GASPARRI, a Secretis Status.

DOUBTS REGARDING THE LITURGICAL GREGORIAN CHANT

(June 23, 1917)

SACRA CONGREGATIO RITUUM

DUBIA

DE CANTU LITURGICO GREGORIANO

A Sacra Rituum Congregatione sequentium dubiorum solutio expostulata est; nimirum:

I. An liceat in commodum cantorum, praesertim in ecclesiis ruralibus, adhibere cantum gregorianum notulis musicalibus modernis descriptum?

II. An decretum super editione vaticana eiusque reproductione quoad libros liturgicos gregorianos cum signis rythmicis, uti vocant, privata auctoritate adiectis, quod impressum quidem est sub n. 4263 et die 11 aprilis 1911, inter decreta authentica S. R. C. sed non insertum in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, maneat adhuc in suo vigore?

Et Sacra eadem Congregatio, audito specialis Commissionis voto, propositis dubiis ita respondendum censuit :

Ad I. Affirmative, iuxta decretum n. 4166 circa libros cantus liturgici gregoriani, diei 11 augusti 1905 ad VII; relatam inter decreta authentica S. R. C. et Acta Apostolicae Sedis.