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501 Text, 19  |              making reparation to the offended Divine honor, which are
502           | often
503 Text, 2   |             Coloss. ii, 3). For as in olden time when mankind came forth
504 Text, 2   |       youthful Emperor was at once an omen and a cause of the victory
505 Text, 19  |             virtues; hence lastly, to omit other things, come the devotions
506 Text, 8   |               its own force it can go onward to higher things; but the
507 Text, 10  |           supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every
508 Text, 8   |           Apostle rejects these false opinions of human pride, admonishing
509 Text, 2   |             XIII, admiring the timely opportuneness of the devotion to the Most
510 Text, 4   |               against them in keenest opposition the voice of all the clients
511 Text, 9   |              taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that
512 Text, 20  |              on this occasion we have ordered to be raised to the degree
513 Text, 1   |              end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly (Wisdom
514 Text, Ded |          archbishops, and other local ordinaries~in peace and communion with
515 Pray      |                to make amends for the outrage offered to the Divine honor,
516 Text, 15  |            one who, as we said at the outset, will examine the world, "
517 Pray      |               O sweetest Jesus, whose overflowing charity towards men is most
518 Text, 15  |          Churches are thrown down and overturned, religious men and sacred
519 Text, 1   |             satisfaction which we all owe to the Most Sacred Heart
520 Text, 19  |               of the faithful, but by parishes, dioceses and cities. ~
521 Text, 10  |               in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the
522 Text, 17  |             the traitor Judas, either partake of the holy table rashly
523 Text, 11  |             faults, and perfect it by participating in the sufferings of Christ,
524 Text, 9   |             Nor do those only enjoy a participation in this mystic priesthood
525 Text, 12  |             things to be done, and in particular the following as most pleasing
526 Text, 4   |          waged against the Church, by passing laws and promoting plebiscites
527 Text, 21  |           gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly
528 Text, 18  |          voluntary mortifications, by patiently bearing the afflictions
529 Text, Ded |            our venerable brethren the patriarchs, primates,~archbishops,
530 Text, 3   |            religion and therefore the pattern of more perfect life, contained
531 Text, 8   |        following the ancient error of Pelagius, ascribe to human nature
532 Text, 21  |          heart (Isaias xlvi, 8), lest perchance being hardened in their
533 Text, 5   |             brought to completion and perfected, by God's grace, when at
534 Text, 17  |       satellites of Satan, and in the perfidy of those others who following
535 Text, 16  |             is brought into proximate peril. ~
536 Text, 1   |               been assailed by graver perils and difficulties. For the
537 Text, 14  |           said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest" (Acts ix, 5), clearly signifying
538 Text, 14  |          clearly signifying that when persecutions are stirred up against the
539 Pray      |              that great gift of final perseverance, to keep us most faithful
540 Text, 4   |           those things which properly pertain to the worship of the Most
541 Text, 21  |             He is moved by the humble petitions and happily appeased by
542 Pray      |             for ever and ever. Amen. ~PIUS XI ~ ~
543 Text, 9   |             together with Christ, and planted together in the likeness
544 Text, 9   |            Holocausts for sin did not please thee: then said I: Behold
545 Text, 4   |            passing laws and promoting plebiscites repugnant to Divine and
546 Text, 12  |             the acts of the Sovereign Pontiffs. For when Christ manifested
547 Text, 21  |               the seventh year of Our Pontificate. ~ ~
548 Text, 16  |              an unbounded ambition of popular favor, a depreciation of
549 Text, 15  |            such events foreshadow and portend the "beginning of sorrows,"
550 Text, 2   |         standard of peace and charity portending no doubtful victory in the
551 Text, 4   |        re-established (Ephes. i, 10), possesses by native right as His own,
552 Text, 7   |             iii, 30), and for all our poverty may offer Him some little
553 Text, 1   |            them up to put the same in practice. ~
554 Text, 12  |            power, and the distinctive practices of this form of devotion,
555 Text, 2   |              God, was creeping in and preaching that God was not to be loved
556 Text, 3   |           wonder, therefore, that Our Predecessors have constantly defended
557 Pray      |        implore Thy mercy on us, being prepared by voluntary expiation to
558 Pray      |              with all our strength to prevent injuries being offered to
559 Text, 8   |               false opinions of human pride, admonishing us that we "
560 Text, 9   |              the same manner as every priest and pontiff "taken from
561 Pray      |               to Thy Vicar and to the priestly order, for the neglect of
562 Text, 9   |           offering by the ministry of priests, who then offered Himself
563 Text, 5   |               Encyclical Letter "Quas primas," we Ourselves, consenting
564 Text, Ded |              brethren the patriarchs, primates,~archbishops, and other
565 Text, 9   |          people rightly called by the Prince of the Apostles "a chosen
566 Text, 15  |             comes up to us, and their princes or rulers have indeed stood
567 Text, 4   |            time, individual men, then private families and associations,
568 Text, 11  |       Wherefore, even as consecration proclaims and confirms this union
569 Pray      |       Sacrament of Divine love or its profanation by horrible sacrileges,
570 Text, 10  |          Communion of Saints which we profess in the Catholic creed, both
571 Text, 12  |            supplications and prayers, prolonged for a whole hour, - which
572 Text, 1   |             the beginning this Divine promise lifted up the despondent
573 Text, 21  |             that our Redeemer Himself promised to Margaret Mary that "all
574 Pray      |              or because, spurning the promises of their Baptism, they have
575 Pray      |              of all pious Christians, promising from our heart that so far
576 Text, 3   |               it with high praise and promoted it very zealously, as the
577 Text, 4   |           Church, by passing laws and promoting plebiscites repugnant to
578 Text, 2   |                     2. Among the many proofs of the boundless benignity
579 Text, 7   |            Angelic Doctor teaches, is proper to consecration (2da. 2dae.
580 Text, 4   |              among those things which properly pertain to the worship of
581 Text, 17  |           draw near of which Our Lord prophesied: "And because iniquity hath
582 Text, 10  |               abundant fruits of that propitiation and expiation shall we receive
583 Pray      |            neglect and contempt, see, prostrate before Thy altars, we strive
584 Text, 1   |             with more present aid and protection whenever she has been assailed
585 Text, 20  |              same expiatory prayer or protestation as it is called, to Our
586 Text, 16  |           injured, or is brought into proximate peril. ~
587 Text, 4   |            has been denied and war is publicly waged against the Church,
588 Text, 7   |               the supreme justice may punish our shameless unworthiness,
589 Pray      |             love, by firm faith, by a pure way of life, and by a perfect
590 Text, 1   |              you, and stir them up to put the same in practice. ~
591 Text, 7   |              consecration (2da. 2dae. qu. 81, a. 8. c.), there must
592 Text, 5   |             in Our Encyclical Letter "Quas primas," we Ourselves, consenting
593 Text, 7   |            matters we are impelled by quite the same motives, none the
594 Text, 17  |             partake of the holy table rashly and sacrilegiously, or go
595 Text, 4   |                in whom all things are re-established (Ephes. i, 10), possesses
596 Text, 1   |        supplied by Divine Wisdom, who reacheth from end to end mightily,
597 Text, 13  |               men, since - as we also read in the sacred liturgy -
598 Text, 3   |           from it inasmuch as it more readily leads the minds of men to
599 Text, 4   |            acknowledging that we have received all things from the everlasting
600 Text, 3   |               hence too the custom of receiving Holy Communion on the first
601           | recent
602 Text, 20  |              letter shall be solemnly recited, so that all our faults
603 Text, 12  |               be washed away, He then recommended several things to be done,
604 Text, 5   |          Christian charity and in the reconciliation of peace, in the Heart of
605 Text, 12  |         devotion, as appears from the record of history and custom, as
606 Text, 9   |              man's nature in order to redeem it. This, indeed, the Savior
607 Text, 9   |               Yet, though the copious redemption of Christ has abundantly
608 Text, 16  |              of future beatitude, nor refreshed and cherished by the fire
609 Pray      |               in their unbelief, they refuse to follow Thee as their
610 Text, 15  |              ii, 2). Throughout those regions indeed, we see that all
611 Pray      |             the Holy Ghost livest and reignest God for ever and ever. Amen. ~
612 Text, 13  |                when Christ is already reigning in the beatitude of Heaven?
613 Text, 7   |           shameless unworthiness, and reject our offering as hateful
614 Text, 8   |               things; but the Apostle rejects these false opinions of
615 Text, 3   |             For is not the sum of all religion and therefore the pattern
616 Text, 14  |              the head; there were yet remaining the sufferings of Christ
617 Text, 1   |             and difficulties. For the remedies adapted to the condition
618 Text, 9   |               to do. But we must ever remember that the whole virtue of
619 Text, 5   |             will gladly and willingly render obedience to the most sweet
620 Text, 15  |            Church, and are induced to renounce Christ, to blaspheme and
621 Pray      |              men is most ungratefully repaid by such great forgetfulness,
622 Text, 7   |             the violated order may be repaired by penance: and of love
623 Text, 13  |                My Heart hath expected reproach and misery, and I looked
624 Text, 7   |            suffering and "filled with reproaches" (Lam. iii, 30), and for
625 Text, 4   |             and promoting plebiscites repugnant to Divine and natural law,
626 Pray      |          public sins of nations which resist the rights and the teaching
627 Text, 2   |            above it shining with most resplendent brightness in the midst
628 Text, 16  |              which all Christian life rests, by which domestic society
629 Text, 2   |              special worship, and the riches of its bounty was made widely
630 Text, 17  |         against our will, the thought rises in the mind that now those
631 Text, 9   |               in every place from the rising of the sun to the going
632 Text, 20  |       Venerable Brethren, just as the rite of consecration, starting
633 Text, 13  |                 13. But how can these rites of expiation bring solace
634 Text, 16  |                and the Church is even robbed of the power of giving the
635 Text, 21  |               to your care. ~Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on the
636 Text, 1   |              succor, whenever we look round from this watch-tower raised
637 Text, 15  |              us, and their princes or rulers have indeed stood up and
638 Pray      |                for the neglect of the Sacrament of Divine love or its profanation
639 Text, 9   |              office of satisfying and sacrificing, whom our Pontiff Christ
640 Pray      |               profanation by horrible sacrileges, and lastly for the public
641 Text, 17  |             the holy table rashly and sacrilegiously, or go over to the camp
642 Text, 2   |             Encyclical Letter, "Annum Sacrum," "When in the days near
643 Text, 15  |               whole Christian people, sadly disheartened and disrupted,
644 Text, 13  |               well-nigh worn out with sadness, with anguish, nay "bruised
645 Text, 16  |               sanctity of marriage is safeguarded; the education of children
646 Text, 21  |             have spared Sodom for the sake of ten just men, will much
647 Text, 9   |            celebrated with legitimate sanctification, unless our oblation and
648 Text, 21  |             be justified and shall be sanctified still (Cf. Apoc. xxii. 11)
649 Text, 20  |               may also be more firmly sanctioned by Our Apostolic authority
650 Text, 16  |          society is governed, and the sanctity of marriage is safeguarded;
651 Text, 17  |       surrounded by the satellites of Satan, and in the perfidy of those
652 Text, 17  |          anguish or surrounded by the satellites of Satan, and in the perfidy
653 Text, 9   |       priesthood and in the office of satisfying and sacrificing, whom our
654 Text, 14  |             explain when, speaking to Saul, "as yet breathing out threatenings
655 Text, 18  |             of souls. And indeed that saying of the Apostle: "Where sin
656 Text, 15  |              will examine the world, "seated in wickedness" (1 John v,
657 Text, 1   |               a cause of all hope and security, and they bring us, Venerable
658 Text, 1   |              that they might cast the seeds of the Gospel teaching throughout
659 Text, 21  |          sacred, civil, and domestic, seeing that our Redeemer Himself
660           | seem
661 Text, 9   |            liii, 4-5), and He His own self bore our sins in His body
662 Text, 9   |         different" (Council of Trent, Session XXIII, Chapter 2). Wherefore
663 Text, 21  |              day of May, 1928, in the seventh year of Our Pontificate. ~ ~
664 Pray      |           amends for each one of them severally: for the want of modesty
665 Text, 18  |               of the faithful of both sexes who with eager mind endeavor
666 Text, 16  |            sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Moreover, among
667 Text, 7   |        supreme justice may punish our shameless unworthiness, and reject
668 Pray      |               to follow Thee as their shepherd and leader, or because,
669 Text, 1   |               hand of the Lord is not shortened" (Isaias lix, 1), more especially
670 Text, 2   |              of the Caesars the Cross shown on high to the youthful
671 Text, 18  |              it cannot be but he will shrink with horror from all sin
672 Text, 15  |           with his mind. For from all sides the cry of the peoples who
673 Text, 21  |           John xix, 37), moved by the sighs and tears of the whole Church,
674 Text, 2   |         divine sign is offered to our sight, to wit the most Sacred
675 Text, 14  |    persecutest" (Acts ix, 5), clearly signifying that when persecutions are
676 Text, 21  |              Heart of Jesus "upon one sinner doing penance" (Luke xv,
677 Text, 16  |               that they truly seem to sit in darkness and in the shadow
678 Text, 14  |        breathing out threatenings and slaughter" (Acts ix, 1), He said, "
679 Text, 17  |               after the manner of the sleeping and fleeing disciples, wavering
680 Text, 17  |              in the cowardice and the sloth of those who, after the
681 Text, 21  |           benign Virgin Mother of God smile on this purpose and on these
682 Pray      |               impurities, for so many snares set for the minds of the
683 Text, 15  |           bands of boys and girls are snatched from the bosom of their
684 Text, 21  |             God who would have spared Sodom for the sake of ten just
685 Text, 19  |                come the devotions and solemn demonstrations for the purpose
686 Text, 6   |               confirmed by the sacred solemnity of Christ the King, something
687           | something
688           | sometimes
689 Text, 13  |               too, already He derived somewhat of solace from our reparation,
690 Text, 1   |            over the gates of hell. In sooth, Our Lord Jesus Christ has
691 Pray      |          therefore with most vehement sorrow, in the first place we implore
692 Text, 13  |             the soul of Christ became sorrowful unto death, it cannot be
693 Text, 13  |             see Him laboring for man, sorrowing, suffering the greatest
694 Text, 6   |             violated by offense, some sort of compensation must be
695 Text, 2   |               the salvation of men be sought and expected." ~
696 Text, 13  |                but were foreseen, the soul of Christ became sorrowful
697 Text, 12  |           liturgy and the acts of the Sovereign Pontiffs. For when Christ
698 Text, 21  |            will much more be ready to spare the whole race of men, when
699 Text, 21  |           merciful God who would have spared Sodom for the sake of ten
700 Text, 10  |      crucifixion of which the Apostle speaks, the more abundant fruits
701 Text, 2   |             cause of the victory that speedily followed. And here today
702 Text, 18  |             befall him, and lastly by spending his whole life in this exercise
703 Text, 4   |             us; she herself, with her spiritual father, Claude de la Colombiere,
704 Text, 1   |            error has crept in and has spread far and wide, so that it
705 Pray      |               and leader, or because, spurning the promises of their Baptism,
706 Text, 7   |             God, by that holiness and stability which, as the Angelic Doctor
707 Text, 8   |                infected by hereditary stain, subject to concupiscences
708 Text, 2   |            the nations lifted up as a standard of peace and charity portending
709 Text, 2   |           Redeemer, there is one that stands out conspicuously, to wit
710 Text, 20  |             the rite of consecration, starting from humble beginnings,
711 Text, 1   |          which we set before you, and stir them up to put the same
712 Text, 14  |            that when persecutions are stirred up against the Church, the
713 Text, 15  |         princes or rulers have indeed stood up and met together in one
714 Pray      |              also strive with all our strength to prevent injuries being
715 Text, 1   |           world; so ever since it has strengthened the Church unto her victory
716 Text, 8   |         infected by hereditary stain, subject to concupiscences and most
717 Text, 20  |           words according to the copy subjoined to this letter shall be
718 Text, 20  |            was at length crowned with success by Our confirmation; so
719 Text, 1   |             Venerable Brethren, ready succor, whenever we look round
720 Text, 14  |             of St. Augustine, "Christ suffered whatever it behoved Him
721 Text, 14  |                27), whatever the head suffers, all the members must suffer
722 Text, 9   |              But no created power was sufficient to expiate the sins of men,
723 Text, 3   |              Brethren. For is not the sum of all religion and therefore
724 Text, 9   |          place from the rising of the sun to the going down (Malachias
725 Text, 12  |               likewise make expiatory supplications and prayers, prolonged for
726 Text, 1   |             circumstances, are always supplied by Divine Wisdom, who reacheth
727 Text, 10  |         together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation
728 Text, 17  |               oppressed by anguish or surrounded by the satellites of Satan,
729 Pray      |               Prayer of Reparation ~O sweetest Jesus, whose overflowing
730 Text, 1   |               and ordereth all things sweetly (Wisdom viii, 1). But in
731 Text, 11  |               us bearing about it the symbols of the passion and displaying
732 Text, 17  |            either partake of the holy table rashly and sacrilegiously,
733 Text, 19  |        enriched with indulgences, who take upon themselves this same
734 Text, 1   |                each of you, carefully teach your own flocks those things
735 Text, 7   |          which, as the Angelic Doctor teaches, is proper to consecration (
736 Text, 21  |          spared Sodom for the sake of ten just men, will much more
737 Text      |                                       Text~
738 Text, 13  |    continually wounded by the sins of thankless men, since - as we also
739 Text, 7   |               His boundless bounty by thanksgiving; but besides this we must
740           | Thereafter
741 Text, 15  |              God or is worshipped" (2 Thessalonians ii, 4). ~
742 Text, 17  |            even against our will, the thought rises in the mind that now
743 Text, 14  |           Saul, "as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter" (Acts ix,
744           | through
745 Text, 15  |              confounded. Churches are thrown down and overturned, religious
746 Text, 8   |          depraved, it would have been thrust down into eternal destruction.
747           | thus
748 Text, 2   |                Leo XIII, admiring the timely opportuneness of the devotion
749 Text, 2   |              so in the most turbulent times of a more recent age, when
750 Text, 21  |           mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His
751 Text, 7   |               by a certain more valid title of justice and of love,
752 Text, 2   |           speedily followed. And here today another most auspicious
753 Text, 21  |               heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection
754 Text, 15  |            men and sacred virgins are torn from their homes and are
755 Text, 17  |          following the example of the traitor Judas, either partake of
756 Text, 16  |              an unbridled cupidity of transitory things, a want of moderation
757 Text, 2   |               In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (
758 Pray      |            loving Heart is everywhere treated.~At the same time, mindful
759 Text, 9   |          being different" (Council of Trent, Session XXIII, Chapter
760 Text, 14  |               is Himself attacked and troubled. Rightly, therefore, does
761 Text, 21  |         piously called a reparatress. Trusting in her intercession with
762 Text, 15  |          cruel death. These things in truth are so sad that you might
763 Text, 2   |              covenant; so in the most turbulent times of a more recent age,
764 Text, 1   |        expected of men, for their own ultimate profit, it is our pleasure,
765 Pray      |              being obstinate in their unbelief, they refuse to follow Thee
766 Text, 9   |           renewed on our altars in an unbloody manner, "For the victim
767 Text, 16  |       moderation in civic affairs, an unbounded ambition of popular favor,
768 Text, 16  |           dress of women; there is an unbridled cupidity of transitory things,
769 Text, 6   |               namely that to the same uncreated Love, if so be it has been
770 Text, 13  |            one who loves, and he will understand what I say" (In Johannis
771 Text, 12  |          injuries were done to Him by ungrateful men - and we would that
772 Pray      |           charity towards men is most ungratefully repaid by such great forgetfulness,
773 Text, 5   |           Christ holds over the whole universe, over civil and domestic
774           | unless
775           | until
776 Text, 14  |          which is the Church. For, to use once more the words of St.
777           | used
778 Text, 9   |              our Pontiff Christ Jesus uses as His ministers to offer
779 Text, 21  |            xxvi, 64), too late and in vain they shall bewail themselves
780 Text, 7   |           expiation by a certain more valid title of justice and of
781 Pray      |            the insults offered to Thy Vicar and to the priestly order,
782 Text, 1   |            all things sweetly (Wisdom viii, 1). But in this latter
783 Text, 4   |              as it were one voice, to vindicate His glory and to assert
784 Pray      |              of the innocent, for the violation of feast days, for the horrid
785 Text, 15  |              religious men and sacred virgins are torn from their homes
786 Text, 19  |      exercises of devotion and of the virtues; hence lastly, to omit other
787 Pray      |         homage of this expiation, and vouchsafe, by that great gift of final
788 Text, 14  |                Our Lord Jesus Himself vouchsafed to explain when, speaking
789 Text, 4   |            denied and war is publicly waged against the Church, by passing
790 Pray      |             for the sins of those who wander far from the way of salvation,
791 Text, 4   |              Lord has been denied and war is publicly waged against
792 Pray      |       instituted. Would that we could wash away these crimes with our
793 Text, 11  |              begin that same union by washing away faults, and perfect
794 Text, 1   |               we look round from this watch-tower raised on high and see all
795 Text, 17  |       sleeping and fleeing disciples, wavering in their faith, miserably
796 Text, 13  |             His Heart, oppressed with weariness and anguish, might find
797 Text, 13  |               and for our salvation," well-nigh worn out with sadness, with
798           | whereas
799           | wherein
800 Text, 5   |             that most auspicious day, whereon the whole world will gladly
801 Text, 7   |              not only by that worship wherewith we adore His infinite Majesty
802           | whether
803 Text, 18  |                              18. Now, whosoever of the faithful have piously
804           | why
805 Text, 1   |             in and has spread far and wide, so that it might well be
806 Text, 5   |           whole world will gladly and willingly render obedience to the
807 Text, 8   |               indeed is denied by the wise men of this age of ours,
808 Text, 3   |            Him more closely? It is no wonder, therefore, that Our Predecessors
809 Text, 16  |             lastly a contempt for the word of God, whereby faith itself
810 Text, 13  |             our salvation," well-nigh worn out with sadness, with anguish,
811 Text, 15  |              that is called God or is worshipped" (2 Thessalonians ii, 4). ~
812 Text, 15  |          blaspheme and to attempt the worst crimes of lust; the whole
813 Text, 9   |           Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast
814 Text, 8   |            were by nature children of wrath" (Ephesians ii, 3). And
815 Text, 8   |               concupiscences and most wretchedly depraved, it would have
816 Text, 1   |       Merciful Redeemer, after He had wrought salvation for mankind on
817 Text, 9   |               Behold I come" (Hebrews x, 5-7). And in very deed, "
818 Pray      |            ever and ever. Amen. ~PIUS XI ~ ~
819 Text, 21  |           return to the heart (Isaias xlvi, 8), lest perchance being
820 Text, 10  |            made perfect in one" (John xvii, 23). ~
821 Text, 9   |             Council of Trent, Session XXIII, Chapter 2). Wherefore with
822 Text, 17  |              shall grow cold" (Matth. xxiv, 12). ~
823 Text, 21  |            there in my blood?" (Psalm xxix, 10), and likewise on the
824 Text, 1   |    consummation of the world." (Matt. xxviii, 20). These words, which
825 Text, 18  |            and more than this he will yield himself wholly to the will
826 Text, 16  |               the power of giving the young a Christian education; there
827 Text, 2   |            Cross shown on high to the youthful Emperor was at once an omen
828 Text, 21  |               all will they burn with zeal for the eternal salvation
829 Text, 3   |           praise and promoted it very zealously, as the needs of time and