PIO NONO'S PRAYER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 107, 15 May 1875, Page 5

PIO NONO'S PRAYER.

VEST PROBABLY COMPOSED BY HIMSELF. In a recent audience at the Vatican, our Holy,,Fathev distributed, with his own hand, to every one present, tho following beautiful prayer : " O good Jesus, otir Master and Lawgiver ! do thou deliver us from our enemies. O Lord and Mighty King ! all is submitted to thy Power, and none can resist thy sovereign will; if thou hast resolved to save Israel, thou art the Master of all things j no, none can oppose thy Majesty. Now, O Lord ! have pity on thy people, for our enemies are bent on our ruin j they have sworn to destroy the inheritance thou hast purchased for us. Do thou change, O Lord, ovir affliction into joy, that we may live and praise thy Name. In this sad disturbance and confusion of all things, -whom shall we invoke but thee, O Lord, our King? Remember thy Church, in tears ; thou alone canst help her. Since traitors and bund leaders have united for one object — to do away with thy promises, to ruin thy inheritance, to shut the lips that praise thee, to obscure the glory of thy House and of thy altars — O Lord, deliver not thy servants to those who hate thee, that they may not exult over our destruction ; but do thou turn their wicked designs to their own shame. Remember us, O Lord ! be thou propitious unto ua in our great tribulations, who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen." ■

The Catholics of Ireland and England will celebrate this year three notable Jubilees. First, there is the fiftieth anniversary of the episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Tuam ; secondly, Cardinal Cullen is twenty-five years archbishop j lastly, Archbishop Manning has been for ten years adding lustre to the see which Cardinal Wiseman had so long adorned. There is (says the ' Liverpool Catholic Times') a certain Protestant parson at Munster just now, who will speedily get into trouble if he does not mind what he is about. Seeing the tremendous peril in which all religion is in Germany, he has boen unwise enough (according to the blind wisdom of the world) to offer up public prayers for tho Catholics now being persecuted. Thus he spoko quite recently, to his own congregation in his own church : — " let us pray for the Catholic Dishops and priests ; they defend the_ cause of honor, of conscience, and of God — then* enemies are the enemies of the whole Christian Faith!" It is about time our English parsons began to examine closely this Bismarckian, and see what short work it will makeof.tilsm unless speedily chekged.