Provincial chapter 1902 - Convocatory Letter

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Attribution: Passionist Archives, St Patrick's Province

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Divine(2)

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Sutton(1)
Paris(1)

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These continued proofs of the Divine love favour ought to draw us more closely to Jod, and should give us confidence in reserves with fervour in his holy service.
We live, dear brethren, in evil times, when the great majority of men, neglect God, & when so many persecute Him in his errorants. We then who have been the objects of the Divine P…
elected Rector of St Mary's Rebreak Arborese to succeed the Very Rev Dr Michael of the Gard Heart of Mary who had resigned in order to take charge of our Davis Mission, and that th…

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No 5. 7/3/17/1 (1) Jesu Christi Passio. The Philips of the Immaculate Conception Provincial of the Anglo-Hibernian Province of St Joseph. To the Very Revd F. F. Consultors, Rectors, Master of Novices, Superiors, and to all the Priests, Students and Lay-Brothers of the Anglo-Hibernian Province of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Health and Peace in the Lord. Having obtained the requisite permission of the Most Revd Fr General I have now to announce to you the Convocation of the Sixteenth Provin- cial Chapter of our Province. We appoint the 13th day of June next as the day of the opening of the Chapter and St Paul's Retreat Mount Argus, Dublin as the place for holding the Said Chapter. The holding of the Provincial Chapter is an event of great importance in the life of each Province, and this chiefly because

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2 therein are elected the Superiors on whom the well-being of the Province in great measure depends. Experience shows that as the welfare of the Church at large depends on the character of her Pastors, so the welfare of religious Orders and Congregations depends on the character of the Superiors. It is for this reason that Holy Scripture holds out such a high ideal of the character of those who alone ought to be chosen to govern the Church of God, and that the Fathers require so much virtue in those who are to be selected to bear the burthen of Superiorship in monastic and other religious situations. We know that there will be always found pious souls who will do their duty independently of the character of those who are set over them, but all have not this virtue; and it may be said that the religious life of a Community as a whole will seldom rise above the level of the religious life of those who bear the rule over it. That saying of the Holy Ghost which has passed into a proverb "Like people, like priest", has also its particular as well as its general application. The

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