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I.
Reverend and Dear Sir :
As you are aware the heart of our Holy Father
Pope Leo XIII, profoundly touched by the miseries
which at present afflict human society, moved him to
proclaim a Grand Jubilee for all who would visit the
Eternal City during the year 1900. In his admirable
Encyclical, proclaiming the Jubilee, His Holiness de-
scribes and deplores the darkness, the errors, the
miseries, the evils, from which the greater portion of
the human race is suffering. He then urged mankind
to arouse their hearts from the lethargy into which
they were plunged, to advert to the danger in which
they lived — ncne other than of perishing eternally,
and to direct all their efforts to attain the heavenly and
eternal good for which only they were created. This is
the happy result the Church wishes to secure in pro-
claiming a Jubilee. By her prayers and supplications
she strives to satisfy the Majesty of God, outraged by
the sms of her children ; then opens her treasury and
pours forth with a lavish hand her favours and bene-
dictions.
The heart of the Sovereign Pontiff was gladdened
by the hundreds of thousands who flocked to Rome
during the Holy Year to avail themselves of these muni-
ficent privileges; but not unmindful of his less favoured
children, who could not enjoy that happiness, the Holy
Father has this year extended the Jubilee to the whole
Catholic world.
II.
Extension of the Universal Jubilee
CELEBRATED IN THE HOLY CITY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN
HUNDRED TO THE WHOLE CATHOLIC WORLD.
LEO, BISHOP,
Servant of the Servants of God, to all the Faithful who shall Read these
Letters, Health and the Apostolic Benediction.
The sacred season which we closed yesterday with
the solemnities of religion was a source of joy to us
while it lasted, and will leave many grateful memories
behind it. For the Church's desire and her sole aim
in renewing this celebration, after a lapse of seventy-
five years, was to give a salutary sti lulous to men's
minds, and this, with God's help, we are seen to have
attained. The number of those who have with glad-
ness and eagerness striven to avail themselves of the
extraordinary privileges of gaining the sacred indul-
gence has not been small — it has run into the hundreds
of thousands and has been made up of all classes of
society. It is beyond all question that multitudes of
souls have thus been cleansed by salutary penance and
renewed to the life of Christian virtue, and we have
every reason to believe that from this head and source
the Catholic name has derived a fresh influx of faith
and devotion all over the world.
Following the example set by our predecessors,
we now intend to enlarge still further the bounds of
Apostolic charity by oft*. ring a more ample opportunity
for obtaining the favours of heaven. We have deter-
mined to throw open to the faithful in all parts of the
world during the first six months of next year that
treasury of sacred indulgence which has been entrusted
to us, and which has been put within the reach of the
faithful in Rome during the last twelve months, for this
design will, we think, serve greatly for the revival of
Christian morality, for knitting men's hearts more
closely to the Holy See, and for obtaining for the
peon'e at large those other blessings of which we spoke
at length when we first proclaimed the Great Jubilee.
It will also be a fitting dedication for the opening of
the new century. For we know of no better way in
which mankind can initiate a new century than by
availing themselves abundantly of the merits of the
redemption of Christ.
We have not the least doubt but that all the child-
ren of the Church will welcome this unusual means of
salvation in the same spirit in which we offer it. We
are sure th.'*^ our venerable brothers, the bishops, and
all the clergy will, with their tried vigilance and dili-
gence, duly exert themselves to give fullest fruition to
the desires of all the faithful.
We do, therefore, by the authority of Almighty
God, of the Blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul; id *^v
our own, extend and prorogue, for a period
months, the Great Jubilee which has just be.
brated in the Holy C'.ty.
Wherefore, to aU the faithful of both sex
parts of the earth g even those who hivt
to Rome during '' year and there or fly
gained the Jubilee u . iei the conditions, we >;. '
accord mercifully in the Lord, for once the fi ,■ _.
dulgence, remission and pardon of their sins.
(Then follows a detailed explanation of the numer-
ous instructions required for the proper making of the
Jubilee, the privileges of the confessors, their powers of
dispensing from the impediments of marriage, etc.)
Given in Rome at St. Peter's, on the 25th day of
December, 1900, the twenty-third year of our Pontificate.
C. CARD. ALOYSIUS MASELLA,
Pro-Datary.
III.
The conditions of paining the Indulgence of the
Jubilee are the following :
1. Confession and holy communion, with worthy
dispositions. They must be distinct from the annual
confession and the Easter communion.
2. For fifteen days — continuous or interrupted —
the faithful of the City of St. John — east and north —
shall visit the Cathedral, and the Churches of St. John
the Baptist {^Broad Street), Holy Trinity and St. Peter's.
Those of the other parishes and missions of the diocese
shall in like manner for fifteen days visit four times
each day the Church of their respective parish or
mission. These four visits on the same day to the
same Church may be made one after the other by
simply going outside of the Church between the visits
and reciting the prescribed prayers each time.
The sisters and nuns of the diocese will visit the
Chapel of their Convents the same number of times
that the people visit their Church.
3. During each visit the "Our Father" and the
" Hail Mary" will be recited five times, or any author-
ized prayer of about that duration for the intentions of
the Holy Father — among others for the propagation of
the faith, the prosperity of the Church, for the salvation
of the Christian people.
4. Persons at sea or travelling, who, even after the
prescribed six months, return home or reach some
fixed abode, may gain the same indulgence by visiting
the Cathedral or their parish Church fifteen times.
5. Persons in prison or prevented by sickness or
any other cause from making the prescribed visits, may
obtain from their confessors, even outside of the sacra-
mental confession, a commutation of this obligation
into some other work of piety.
6. Children, who have not made their first com-
munion, will recite five times the "Our Father" and
" Hail Mary" instead of communion.
7. If any one, after having commenced the works
prescribed for the Jubilee, becomes ill 01 incapable of
completing them, he may gain the indulgence by mak-
ing his confession and receiving holy communion.
The six months granted for gaining the indulgences
will begin Sunday, the 2nd day of June, and end on
Sunday evening, the ist day December.
When it is remembered that no sin is expiated ex-
cept by penance and that the chief fruit of the Jubilee
is the aniendment of life, it will be readily seen that
the profit to each individual will be measured by his
dispositions. To foster the best and most worthy
sentiments, it is desirable, wherever possible, to have
spiritual exercises in the different parishes and missioiis.
They may continue from three to six or eight days
concluding with the Benediction of the most Blessed
Sacrament each day. During the exercises sermons
may be given on the great truths of religion, the duties
of parents, the occasions of sin, on luxury and in-
temperance ; as instruction on these subjects will aid
powerfully in the amendment of life.
The pastoral retreat for the clergy of the diocese
will begin July 29th, next. You will kindly pray and
ask the prayers of the people that God's blessing may
attend it, that it may contribute much towards the
sanctification of the pastors of their souls.
This letter, including the Pontifical Encyclical will
be read and published the first Sunday after its recep-
tion at the different masses in your Church.
Yours faithfufly in the Lord.
tT. CASEY,
St.John, N. B. Bubop of St.Jobn.
May 22nd, 1901.
IV.
AD CLERVM.
De Confessario lubilaei haec indulgemus :
I. Monialcs earumque Novitiae sibi ad hunc effec-
tum eligere poterunt Confessarium quemcumque ad
excipiendas Monialium Confessiones ab .ictuali Ordin-
ario loci approbatum.
II. Ceteri omnes utriusque sexusChristifideles tarn
laici quam ecclesiastici, Saeculares et cuiusvis Ordinis
et Instituti etiam specialiter nominandi Regulates pote-
runt ad eumdem effectuni sibi eligere quemcumque pres-
byterum Confessarium, tam Saecularem, quam cuiusvis
Ordinis et Instituti etiam diversi Regularem, ab Ordin-
ario actuali loci ad audiendas pcrsonarum saecularium
confessiones approbatum; vel, si agatur de Regulari-
bus, Confessarium proprii Ordinis eligere volentibus, a
Praelato Regulari ad suorum Religiosorum audiendas
confessiones approbatum.
III. Confessario ita approbato et ad effectum lu-
crandi lubilaei electo facultatem hac vice concedimus,
intra dictum semestris spatium in foro dumtaxat con-
scientiae absolvendi ab excommunicationis, suspensionis
et aliis ecclesiasticis sententiis et censuris a iure vel ab
homine quavis de caussa latis seu inflictis, etiam Ordin-
ariis locorum, ac Nobis et Sedi Apostolicae, etiam in
casibus cuicumque ac Summo Pontifici et Sedi Apos-
tolicae speciali licet forma reservatis, et qui alias
in concessione quantumvis ampla non intelligerentur
concessi, necnon ab omnibus peccatis et excessibus,
quantumcumque gravibus et enormibus, etiam iisdem
Ordinariis ac Nobis et Sedi Apostolicae, ut praefertur,
reservatis, iniuncta poeniteijtia salutari aliisque de iure
iniungendis. Excipitur crimen absolutionis complicis,
quod ter, aut amplius admissam fuerit. — Praecipue
vero haereticos, qui fuerint publice dogmatizantes, ne
absoivat, nisi, abiurata haeresi, scandalum, ut par est,
reparaverint ; item qui bona vel iura ecclesiastica acqui-
sierint sine venia, ne absolvat nisi iis rcstitutis aut se
composuerint, vel sincere promiset t, quam primum
se composituros apud Ordinarium, vel apud Sanctam
Sedem.
IV. Item vota quaccumque etiam iurata, et Sedi
Apostolicae reservata (Castitatis. Rcligionis ct obliga-
toriis, quae a tertio acccptata fuerint, seu in quibus
agatur de damno tertii semper exceptis, necnon poena-
libus, quae praeservativa a peccato nuncupantur, nisi
commutatio futura iudicetur eiusmodi, ut non minus a
peccato committendo refraeiict, quanr prior voti materia)
in alia pia et salutaria opera comm"; are; et cum poeni-
tentibus huiusmodi in Sacris Ordinibus constitutis
etiam Regularibus super occulta irregularitate ad exer-
citium eorumdem Ordinum et ad supcriotum assecu-
tionem, ob censurarum violationem dumtaxat contracta,
dispensare possit, dummodo ad forum ecclesiasticum
non sit deducta, nee facile deducenda.
V. Similique modo cum illis qui, scienter vel igno-
ranter, cum impedimento gradus secundi et tertii, vel
tertii solius, aut tertii et quarti, vel quarti solius con-
sanguinitatis, vel affinitatis etiam ex copula licita
provenientis, matrimonium iam contraxerunt dummodo
huiusmodi impedimentum occultum remaneat, dispen-
sare pro foro tantum conscientiae possit ad remanen-
dum in matrimonio.
VI. Similiter, pro foro conscientiae tantum dis-
pensare valeat super impedimento dirimente oc ^'o
tam primi et secundi, quam primi tantum, aut secundi
tantum gradus affinitatis ex copula illicita provenientis
in matrimonio contracto; atque etiam, dummodo causae
graves et quae canonice sufficientes habentur intersint,
in contrahendo : ita tamen ut, si huiusmodi affinitas
proveniat ex copula cum matre desponsatae, vel de-
sponsandae, huius nativitas copulam antecesserit, et
non aliter.
VII. Dispensare similiter, pro eodem foro, tam
de contracto, quam de contrahendo possit super impedi-
mento cognationis spiritualis, itemque super occulto
impedimento criminis, neutro tamen machinante, idest
quando solum concurrant adulterium et fides data de
matrimonio contrahendo post coniugis mortem.
VIII. Dispensare ad petendum detitum possit in
casu affinitatis incestuosae matrimonio supervenientis.
IX. Ad petendum pariter debitum cum illis qui
vote simplici castitatis obstricti matrimonium contrax-
erunt, dispensare valeat, illos monendo facturos contra
id votum, si extra usum niatrimonialem delinquant, ac
remansuros eodem prorsus ac antea voto obstrictos, si
coniugi supervixerint.
X. Nolumus autem per praesentes litteras super
aliqua alia irregularitate vel publica, vel occulta, seu
defectu aut nota, aliaque incapacitate, aut inhabilitate
quoquo modo contractis dispensare, vel aliquam fa jul-
tatcm tribuere super pracmissis dispcnsandi, seu habili-
tandi, et in pristinum statum restituendi etiam in foro
conscientiae ; nolumus ulli Confessario facultatem trib-
uere absolvendi complicem in quolibct inhonesto contra
sextum Fraeceptum peccato ; aut complici licentiam
impertiri eligendi confessarium huiusmodi ad effectuni
praesentium, ut iam in Constitutione Benedicti XIV,
quae incipit Sacramentum Poenitentiae declaratum fuit :
nee quidquam praefatae et aliis pontificiis Constitution-
ibus derogare volumus quoad obligationem denuncia-
tionum ; neque demum iis, qui a nobis et Apostolica
Sede, vel ab aliquo Praelato seu ludice ecclesiastico
nomir.Ttim excommunicati, suspensi, interdicti, seu
alias in sententias et Censuras incidisse declarati vel
publice denunciati fuerint, nisi intra tempus dictorum
sex mensium satisfecerint, et cum partibus, ubi opus
fuerit, concordaverint, ullo modo has eadem Litteras
sufTragari posse aut debere.
Datum Romat apud S. Petrum die vigesima quinta
Decembris, 1900, Pontificatus nostri Anno vigesimo
tertio.
C. CARD. ALOISI MASELLA,
Pro- Da t.