Provincial chapter 1881 convocatory letter

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Attribution: Passionist Archives, St Patrick's Province

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As such then, faithful and loving Children, I exhort all to pray, and to pray fervently, and without fainting, that the Divine Wisdom may direct the Councils - the Divine Light of…

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No. 6 7/3/10/1 — Dear Christi Passio. — Appronesse of the Pleased Virgin Mary, Provincial of the Anglo-Hibernian Province of St. Joseph. To the Very Rev. St. Consultors, Dectors, Superiors, Master of Roomes, and all the Triests, Students and Lay Prothers of the Anglo-Hibernian Province of the Congregation of the Passion. Sealth and Peace in the Lord. Having obtained the required permission of the Most Rev. St. General, I have now great pleasure to announce to you the Convocation of the Ninth Provincial Chapter of our Province. We appoint the Least of St. John the Paptist, 24th day of June, as the date for opening the Chapter, and we destine this Retreat of St. Joseph as the place for holding the said Chapter. At all times the conversing of a Provincial Chapter must be a subject of deep interest to all true Religious, because it is an event pregnant with results of a vital nature for the good of the Province - the Girl of God, and the spiritual advancement and happiness of the Religious.

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Themselves - But in the present instance, a more than usual importance attaches to the event by reason of preceding circumstances and our present position - It is not unknown to you, most dear Patherin in Chick (for you have been our participators in some) that it pleased God to send us some heroy crosses - But thanks to the Biscuit Mercy (and we would have you be participators of our fog, we have not been without our consolations - Not the least unought there crosses, have come from those of the Household - "The plagatis surin in dome crown qui deligebant one" Vae-XII-6 - Those whose vocation have been shipwrecked - those who having first unfully treated, have afterwards turned against our common Mother the Congregation, and abandoned her - But if defections in the ranks have been numerous, there is a manly spirit of devotion, fidelity and love filling the breasts of the Congregation's Stue Chilbren, which has been communaredly intensified - For is this the only good which God has drawn out of evil - It is well known that those who lose the spirit of the Congregation, become infectious to those centres of discontent and disloyalty, drawing around themselves weak but here to be unminned dangers of their vocation - That an element of this dangerous nature was kept alive, was sensibly felt and seen in its bangful effects, yet baffling for years the best efforts of superiors

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