THE AUSTRALASIAN PLENARY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 12, 16 July 1886, Page 11

THE AUSTRALASIAN PLENARY COUNCIL.

SYNODICAL LETTER OF THE ARCHBISHOPS AND 1 BISHOPS OF THE FIRST PLENARY COUNCIL OF TFTR ADSTRALIAS, HELD IN SYDNEY IN 1885 TO THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF THE UNITED STATFS WITH THE REPLY OF THEIR LORDSHIPS

Ch a rht Dg ° Ur BpidtUal lifß fr ° m the Bame DiviaewfS jSS when the first Vicar Apostolic set foot upon your shorS^ The spectacle ijffx 2?iiHtfi^ "" Shie"e? c a " 7 co -°P eration ""<*> """• cSid n,t have Teen hundred and twenty shared in the del.beratioas. At thS moment i r gß^^,=^n h ea^^ir£n r P eap ta'joy "" ««»»tri«, who .owed in teat, tiffwe might For thiß advancement of the cause of religion it both countries we are m do small measure indebted, under God. to the Sous freedom which constitutes so noble a feature of our reiecUve Governments. They hold over u» the iegis of their protection^ with oat intruding into the sanctuary; and by leaving Slate our Pl^ 11 * 6 "?. 11 US '< . Vene ' able Father., to express the hope that your t James Gibbons, Baltimore, Feast of St. Gregory fhi g'SMs 8111 ' 11110 ™ 1

Av^^si^i&^J 10 " the Plenary Councii ° f " Most Eminent Prince, Most Illustrious and Most Rev. Lords. H,p «, f G ™ ostf n rie " dl 3 r lett « your Eminence, together with the most Rev. Bishops, assembled in the First Plenary Synod of Australasia on the 29th November last, addressed to us La mark and tejiunoay of your fraternal chanty, has been tbe greatest**/ and Church US 1D the affllctions we BU^ for the liberty jj o 7f7 f the wh n ™ ?T? ly^ a W T ierf c Ui acd moßt J°y fui spectacle I Behold those whom the diversity o£ speech and immense space of land and sea separate from us, assembled in the un.ty of faith, think S U8 strengthen us by word and example, join thrives to us as mSiX SSon, n? ]U8t L Mo f "Iwtnous and Most Rev. Lords, that from he account alone! ' gg ' "* yy ° U thank8 ' aad tW QOt on °° c " For not only have you, by your most loving letter raised th P courage of us on whose shoulders presses the wei|ht of the pastoral office, always to be dreaded, but especially weighty in these our times, but also you have greatly increased the confidence aU courage | of the flock committed to us, confirming in this the saying of St othir a 117 °f b °i v m Chrißt - each the membelo the wHhVi? d i;° neme^ r suff,rs anything all the members suffer with h.m. Moreover, Mo.t Illustrious and Most Rev. Lords by this most gracious letter, you have made a good confession to those who S^T i° Ut Vf XblbltlD ? totbe world a twofold sample of charity and faith. Must not tho«e who are opposed to us confess the same as riV^Be^oMh 138 ° fthtbe,GeDtllf th tbe , GeDtll - «>Zsnin g the faitbiul ofthe^r ages- Behold how they love one another 1 ' Does not the elorv and splendour of the Catholic Church, as yet only beginning B aSongst the H-fv^ PalP a 1 - Bh .° W that < that WiU be mOre and more falfi "ed whfch the Koyal Psalmist sang- And he will reign from the sea to the sea and from the river to the ends of the earth ? ' ' " Certainly, the happy necessity is incumbent on us not only to give you hanks, but to congratulate you with joyful minds? Who f?J WrhglLatef^-mindwonderattheW r hgI L atef^- mindwonderatthe inc "«* and splendour of the Catholic « hurch in Australasia, so that those whom thebegS! ing of this century saw as yet few and scattered, believing in Christ the end of the same age beholds so greatly increased and multipHed m zeal and number ; strengthened by so many and so illustrious prelates, and the still youthful Australasian Church decorated with the purple. Ihis, indeed, is the change of the right hand of the Most tJ' We J 6^? with ? ou dicing, Most Illustrious and Most Bey Lords ; and while we rejoice with you a great hope and confidence at

mgsßsm HlB peace, that at length that day may dawn when her erring S ! dSi b^eopTeTe^a^v!!'; 8^ M '^ <&* " Tne Archbishops and Bishopa of Prussia. " By order " fPHILIP, «t +k xr i. n- • ** Archbishop of Cologne. Mnr a a l Dt and M °stßev. Lord, Patrick P. Cardinal Moran Archbishop of Sydney, Delegate Apostolic ; and to the SraiaaTa SDd MM ° 9t EeV - L ° rd^ the Bishop of of CologieTwrit 2r£ ta fouS W W !H liaVe aUth ° rißed th 6 ArobbUih0 P " f Robebt Hbbzoo, Prince-Bishop of Breslau ■John Bernard Beinckmann, Bishop of Munster. I ILLIAJI Jacobi, Bishop of Hildeshefm. ■Michael Fklix Kobum, Bishop of Trier t George Kopp, Bishop of Fulda. "f Bkknaed Hoisting, Bishop of Osnabruck "•John Christian, Bishop of Limburg • FaANcrs Caspar Drobe, Bishop of Paderborn fJoHN Nepomuck von Marwitz, Bishop of Kalm t Andrew Thiel, Bishop of Ermlaad. " Cologne, March, 1886."

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