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1 1 | 1. All the Eastern Churches,
2 10 | 10. However, long and difficult
3 54(16)| Acta Conc. Oecum. IV, ii, 107. ~
4 11 | 11. On the same day our predecessor
5 12 | 12. This council was held at
6 15 | by the schismatics and on 12th November 1623 he was inhumanly
7 36(12)| letter Omnem sollictudinem, 13th May 1874, citing Gregory
8 6 | Ruthenian Church when, in 1439, at the ecumenical council
9 7 | of time. For example in 1458 Gregory Mammas, patriarch
10 8 | this Church was then in. In 1585 the Ruthenian nobles, meeting
11 9 | the less, on 2nd December 1594, the metropolitan and six
12 16 | 16. Nonetheless the difficulties
13 30 | shown by the letter sent in 1608 by the general of the Society
14 15 | schismatics and on 12th November 1623 he was inhumanly wounded
15 15 | to the Catholic faith in 1627 and, after a period of vacillation,
16 17 | did not lose heart even in 1632, when a great part of the
17 29 | opinions; on 28th September 1643 a decree was published to
18 18 | peace of Andrussovia in 1667, he bade more peaceful days
19 18 | happily came about that in 1691 the eparchy of Przemysl,
20 18 | eparchy of Przemysl, and in 1700 that of Lvov were united
21 18 | Christianity, and so in 1720 the metropolitan and the
22 18 | Apostolatus officium of 19th July 1724 - no small benefit resulted
23 33 | of Lvov and Przemysl in 1751 in which inter alia this
24 33 | Your letter written on 17th July has reached us; in
25 22 | partition of Poland. In 1807 the metropolitan title of
26 22 | metropolitans, Michael Levitsky (1816 - 58) and Sylvester Sembratovitch (
27 34 | promotion of the faith in 1863, it was laid down that this
28 36(12)| sollictudinem, 13th May 1874, citing Gregory XVI: Inter
29 21 | dissident Church imposed in 1875, were shamefully punished
30 50 | singular steadfastness in 1877, when he died a most holy
31 22 | that of Stanislavov in 1885. Six years later the prosperity
32 1(1) | gratulationis, 20th June, 1894, Acta Leonis XIII, 14, p.
33 24 | notable instance occurred in 1895, the third centenary of
34 45 | the Greeks, and then in 1897 another of our predecessors,
35 52 | the Ruthenian districts in 1905, when liberty to profess
36 23 | abandon all religion. In 1907, therefore, he appointed
37 64 | Peter's, on 23rd December 1945, the seventh year of our
38 18 | Apostolatus officium of 19th July 1724 - no small benefit
39 29 | Congregation of the preceding 1st August, that the Ruthenian
40 20 | 20. It is impossible to describe
41 52 | this way in a short time 200,000 faithful were duly received
42 1(1) | Acta Leonis XIII, 14, p. 201. ~
43 1(1) | Praeclara gratulationis, 20th June, 1894, Acta Leonis
44 42 | of worship or parishes 2,226. Besides this, outside Galicia
45 27(7) | Theiner: loc. cit. p. 237. ~
46 24 | 24. It is not, therefore, surprising
47 11(4) | Poloniae et Lithuaniae, III, p. 240 sqq. ~
48 11(5) | A. Theiner, loc. cit. p. 251. ~
49 26 | 26. For indeed, after summarily
50 27 | 27. In the first place it must
51 42 | 3,600,000, the priests 2,275, and places of worship or
52 28 | 28. Furthermore, our same predecessor
53 29 | and fanciful opinions; on 28th September 1643 a decree
54 29 | 29. From all this it is evident
55 9 | unity. None the less, on 2nd December 1594, the metropolitan
56 30 | 30. The tireless and solicitous
57 31 | 31. But, as complaints became
58 36(12)| gravissimos, Pius IX Acta, VI, 317. ~
59 32 | 32. However, when king Sigismund
60 33 | 33. Thus already in the preamble
61 34 | 34. But the Roman pontiffs
62 35 | 35. From this brief historical
63 36 | 36. However, ostensibly for
64 38 | 38. There now comes to our
65 39 | 39. Before the return to unity
66 40 | 40. When at last peace and
67 42 | they may be estimated at 400,000 or 500,000. Thus the
68 41 | 41. It seems useful to make
69 42 | 42. In more recent times the
70 43 | 43. While cursorily and briefly
71 45 | 45. Mention must also be made
72 46 | 46. The Ruthenian community
73 47 | 47. The first of their number
74 48 | 48. Not much later, in the
75 49 | 49. Besides all this a new
76 5 | 5. We think it will be useful
77 50 | 50. Not inferior to these in
78 42 | estimated at 400,000 or 500,000. Thus the number of
79 51 | 51. Equally conspicuous for
80 52 | 52. But a wonderful and happy
81 53 | 53. However, even in more
82 54 | 54. We have now seen, from
83 55 | 55. But now, with the greatest
84 56 | 56. For we have learnt with
85 57 | 57. We are well aware that
86 59 | 59. Amid these heavy calamities,
87 6 | 6. It follows that the action
88 60 | 60. In this sad and anxious
89 30(9) | loc. cit. Col. 602. ~
90 31(10)| loc cit. Col. 603. ~
91 33(11)| loc. cit. Col. 606. ~
92 61 | 61. As a father we next address
93 62 | 62. Lastly we address all of
94 63 | 63. We think, beloved sons,
95 64 | 64. We have absolute confidence
96 9(3) | VII, Rome 1596, App. p. 681. ~
97 7 | 7. However, although it might
98 8 | 8. Towards the end of the
99 12 | but in spite of this on 8th October 1596 the union of
100 22 | Sylvester Sembratovitch (1882 - 98), who both displayed great
101 9 | way of salvation in the absence of this union of the Churches
102 38 | flowers of all virtues and an abundance of salutary fruit are brought
103 8 | then borne down by grave abuses, except by restoring union
104 43 | science; an ecclesiastical academy was erected in Lvov in which
105 27 | Clement VIII graciously acceded to their petition, and prescribed
106 43 | assiduity, making himself most acceptable to his flock on more than
107 37 | already in part happily accomplished. In this edition the Apostolic
108 | according
109 38 | Catholic Church, by whose life accordingly it lives, by whose truth
110 57 | the very same way the Jews accused the Divine Redeemer himself
111 24 | fathers with the Apostolic See achieved at Rome and confirmed at
112 8 | that there was no hope of achieving the desired renewal and
113 9 | continued in this union; they acknowledged one supreme pastor and first
114 6 | 6. It follows that the action of the metropolitan Isidore
115 30 | matter at heart. In the actual decree which in 1595 happily
116 54(16)| Epist. ad episcopos Istriae, Acta
117 44 | monastic communities have been added equally praiseworthy new
118 19 | under grave penalties from administering the sacraments or other
119 10 | 1595 the emissaries were admitted to the presence of the supreme
120 32 | to obtain by advice and admonition what, for special reasons,
121 63 | fittingly than by these admonitions of the same Apostle of the
122 33 | encourage the lay faithful to adopt it. Warnings to the same
123 19 | policy was deliberately adopted of entirely breaking the
124 31 | young Ruthenian nobles were adopting the Latin rite, the Sacred
125 33 | July 1624, by which the adoption of the Latin rite was forbidden
126 26 | Church? What profit and advantage did they receive from this
127 32 | endeavored to obtain by advice and admonition what, for
128 16 | the Ruthenian Church by affectionate letters, such helps as they
129 60 | as are the trials which afflict you, you are more burdened
130 20 | nation of the Ruthenians was afflicted at that time, for no other
131 62 | We share your sorrows and afflictions with a father's heart. We
132 60 | attack of your enemies, and afire with a divine love for the
133 33 | Przemysl in 1751 in which inter alia this is found: "Your letter
134 30 | reasons which were utterly alien to their will, they could
135 60 | creation, men and angels alike,"22 that all the faithful
136 57 | brought cunning and subtle allegations that Catholics were plotting
137 62 | betray their sacred religious allegiance. For that reason we even
138 4 | would mercifully ease and alleviate the present distress and
139 21 | whole Catholic world, in his allocution of 22nd November 1839. But
140 27 | and prescribed that no alteration was to be made in these
141 23 | jurisdictions and in the South American countries. ~
142 50 | well-known priest, Joseph Ancewski, who was kept in harsh confinement
143 18 | length, after the peace of Andrussovia in 1667, he bade more peaceful
144 60 | whole creation, men and angels alike,"22 that all the faithful
145 55 | with the greatest fatherly anguish of heart, we see a new and
146 9(3) | Baronius: Annales, VII, Rome 1596, App. p.
147 19 | in the areas which were annexed to the Russian Empire. After
148 55 | with anxiety. It is the anniversary of the day three hundred
149 12 | union and association, which answered so perfectly the needs of
150 26 | and useful service in duly answering this question, especially
151 60 | 60. In this sad and anxious state of affairs our fatherly
152 | anyone
153 61(25)| Apoc. ii, 19. ~
154 9 | our Savior and his holy apostles, as the canons and councils
155 18 | the Apostolic Constitution Apostolatus officium of 19th July 1724 -
156 9(3) | Annales, VII, Rome 1596, App. p. 681. ~
157 11 | patronage to the bishops and all appertaining to them, and also to pay
158 19 | would become the lackeys and applauders of the civil power. In the
159 4 | the present distress and apprehension of this beloved people,
160 10 | careful examination and approval. Discussions of the whole
161 15 | martyrdom. Josaphat Kuntzevitch, archbishop of Polotsk and Vitebsk,
162 22 | permanently attached to the archdiocese of Lvov. This province flourished
163 44 | is called; they join an ardent apostolic zeal to the love
164 19 | harder and more bitter in the areas which were annexed to the
165 48 | every effort, by prayer and argument and labor, to bring the
166 53 | was occupied by Russian armies, he was expelled from his
167 61 | the power of God; by the armor of justice on the right
168 8 | nobles did not hesitate to arraign the metropolitan himself,
169 56 | of its priests have been arrested; and at the same time it
170 10 | bishops before the illustrious assembly and then in their own name
171 32 | Urban VIII could not but assent to this most illustrious
172 37 | the Apostolic See, gladly assenting to the wishes of the Ruthenian
173 54 | predecessor Pelagius II asserts, "whoever is not in the
174 43 | he labored with tireless assiduity, making himself most acceptable
175 43 | classes of citizens and to assist the indigent. ~
176 12 | hope that this union and association, which answered so perfectly
177 47 | slain with the sword, some atrociously flogged to death, some drowned
178 22 | restored there and permanently attached to the archdiocese of Lvov.
179 24 | many benefits and to its attachment to the Roman pontiffs. A
180 51 | bodies in the way of their attackers like a living wall; some
181 50 | Suzdal for thirty-two years, attaining the reward of his singular
182 28 | extended to all those who attended the schools established
183 41 | learning and share in their attractions and advantages. ~
184 29 | Congregation of the preceding 1st August, that the Ruthenian bishops
185 34 | Ruthenian bishops under the auspices of the congregation for
186 5 | the Russian empire as the author and promoter of their conversion
187 59 | help is seen to be of no avail, nothing remains, venerable
188 59 | justice to the needy and will avenge the poor,"19 that of his
189 46 | for behold, a rich reward awaits you in heaven."13~
190 18 | Andrussovia in 1667, he bade more peaceful days dawn
191 9(3) | Baronius: Annales, VII, Rome 1596,
192 31 | especially monks of St. Basil the Great, to go over to
193 61 | still more than others must bear the brunt of battle. We
194 38 | all things that the most beautiful flowers of all virtues and
195 48 | calamities and evils that had befallen them; they were determined
196 10 | Discussions of the whole matter began at once and finally reached
197 52 | severe penalties. There they begged the lawful ministers of
198 | beginning
199 46 | rejoice and exult over it; for behold, a rich reward awaits you
200 30 | that those who had never belonged to the Latin rite could
201 21 | later the eparchy of Chelm, belonging to the Polish kingdom united
202 11 | from the Apostolic Letter Benedictus sit Pastor, issued on 7th
203 42 | Ruthenian community has benefited no less from its union with
204 24 | them with fatherly joy and benevolence, and he extolled the union
205 10 | VIII received them very benevolently and committed the document
206 41 | left home and country to betake themselves to these homes
207 62 | befall those who refuse to betray their sacred religious allegiance.
208 7 | might well have been totally blotted out on account of the sorry
209 51 | unarmed, put their crowded bodies in the way of their attackers
210 5 | Christian faith, St. Vladimir, borrowed liturgical rites and sacred
211 61 | the greater number of you, borrowing the words of the Divine
212 56 | take them away from the bosom of their mother, the Church,
213 58 | power, within the sphere and bounds of its authority, is a duty
214 19 | deliberately adopted of entirely breaking the union of the Ruthenians
215 60 | of all to you, venerable brothers, the bishops of the Ruthenian
216 61 | than others must bear the brunt of battle. We are deeply
217 45 | we have said, since this building had become inadequate for
218 60 | afflict you, you are more burdened with anxiety for the safety
219 27 | were sent to Rome on this business, asked "that His Holiness,
220 62 | sell all that he has and buy that field."27 Remember,
221 57 | the payment of tribute to Caesar."18 But faces and events
222 55 | tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness
223 39 | less, contrary to all human calculation, not only did this auspicious
224 59 | kindness he would himself calm this terrible storm and
225 14 | very outset on account of calumnies and dissensions, in which
226 45 | premises, so that in them candidates for the priesthood should
227 29 | enjoyed the privileges fori, canonis, immunitatis, libertatis,
228 9 | his holy apostles, as the canons and councils make clear,
229 29 | to the following effect: "Cardinal Pamphili reported divers
230 10 | brought to a committee of cardinals for careful examination
231 10 | committee of cardinals for careful examination and approval.
232 60 | future uncertain and full of cares, but do not lose heart.
233 49 | less bitter persecution of Catholicism was begun a few years before
234 23 | to Latin rites, might be caught by the fallacies of heretics
235 37 | of this rite, it rather caused the Ruthenian Church to
236 4 | Catholics, so that they may ceaselessly give thanks to God for this
237 4 | those directly involved to celebrate this happy event in a spirit
238 24 | recalled with appropriate celebrations in every part of Galicia,
239 24 | occurred in 1895, the third centenary of the happy union of their
240 3 | the Chair of Peter as the center of Catholic unity, persevere
241 7 | holy city, consecrated a certain Gregory as metropolitan
242 38 | the Ruthenian community certainly derived from this union
243 49 | their faith were put in chains, insulted, scourged and
244 3 | they have recognized the Chair of Peter as the center of
245 15 | zeal, and was an intrepid champion of Catholic unity. He was
246 63 | Obey those who have charge of you,"31 your bishops
247 8 | monasteries, bringing serious charges against them. The mere fact
248 61 | in distresses . . . in chastity, in knowledge, in long-suffering,
249 37 | the Ruthenian Church to cherish most religiously the traditions
250 14 | Catholics took part, was chiefly due to the metropolitans
251 39 | everywhere prevailed in the choice of bishops and other sacred
252 19 | Apostolic See. Soon bishops were chosen who were imbued and inspired
253 1 | result both for the whole of Christendom and for the orientals in
254 18 | day, to the great gain of Christianity, and so in 1720 the metropolitan
255 51 | only one place, but in many cities, towns and villages. First,
256 36(12)| sollictudinem, 13th May 1874, citing Gregory XVI: Inter gravissimos,
257 43 | of the poorer classes of citizens and to assist the indigent. ~
258 43 | the needs of the poorer classes of citizens and to assist
259 25 | will add some fuller and clearer account of the great and
260 28 | had been bestowed on the clerks regular of the Society of
261 36 | openly denounced their clever and hidden machinations
262 61 | must therefore follow more closely in the footsteps of Christ, "
263 55 | and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds."17 ~
264 49 | from hunger, thirst and cold. ~
265 51 | instruct, to exhort and to comfort them, they welcomed them
266 59 | illumined, by whose heavenly command their wills are directed,
267 28 | and freely and lawfully to commit them to any directors and
268 10 | document they had brought to a committee of cardinals for careful
269 18 | best of their ability by common counsel for the growing
270 46 | being graced with a noble company of confessors and martyrs.
271 33 | reached us; in it you justly complain of Ruthenians going over
272 56 | the Ruthenian rite have complained in a letter to the civil
273 31 | 31. But, as complaints became more and more frequent
274 36 | for the protection of the complete integrity of their rite
275 54(16)| episcopos Istriae, Acta Conc. Oecum. IV, ii, 107. ~
276 28 | letter of 23rd February 1596 conceded that the election of those
277 16 | factions to make ever greater concessions to those, and there were
278 15 | 15. This work of conciliation was consecrated not many
279 29(8) | Acta et decr, SS. Conciliorum rec. col. 600, nota 2. ~
280 34 | in the agreement styled Concordia entered into by the Latin
281 16 | Ruthenian bishops themselves confessed, this holy cause was left
282 33 | warned not, when hearing confessions, to encourage the lay faithful
283 46 | with a noble company of confessors and martyrs. To preserve
284 50 | Ancewski, who was kept in harsh confinement in the monastery of Suzdal
285 13 | neglected, there followed sharp conflicts and protracted calamities,
286 14 | members of monasteries should conform to ecclesiastical law and
287 45 | our immediate predecessor, conformably to his special love for
288 36 | ceremonies thought to be more in conformity with liturgies approved
289 2 | 2. In this connection it should be borne in mind
290 58 | authority, is a duty of conscience. But, unfortunately, the
291 12 | Przemysl unhappily withdrew the consent they had previously given,
292 56 | people are in dire straits in consequence of their fidelity to the
293 1 | restored the most fruitful consequences would result both for the
294 29 | Latin rite. They have also considered it most important to defend
295 19 | entirely subjected to the consistories of the eparchies. Then the
296 22 | the Galician Church was consolidated in an extraordinary manner
297 39 | highest moral standard; to consoling the flocks committed to
298 51 | 51. Equally conspicuous for fortitude were the many,
299 9 | the Ruthenians was prince Constantine Ostrozhsky and he was in
300 36 | and decreed that "without consulting the Apostolic See no innovation
301 44 | themselves above all to heavenly contemplation and works of holy penance,
302 57 | Ruthenian Church, a letter which contributed not a little to the initiation
303 5 | author and promoter of their conversion to the Christian faith,
304 42 | every eparchy they showed a correspondingly outstanding zeal for virtue,
305 39 | dissipated, the morals of monks corrupt, the discipline of monasteries
306 9 | apostles, as the canons and councils make clear, our predecessors
307 36 | the Catholic faith, some crafty promoters of schism endeavored
308 60 | spectacle . . . to the whole creation, men and angels alike,"22
309 51 | blessed. These iniquitous crimes were not, however, perpetrated
310 59 | Ruthenians from this hurtful crisis. ~
311 51 | but, unarmed, put their crowded bodies in the way of their
312 58 | deeply because while the cruel war was yet raging almost
313 20 | crime or guilt but that of crying out against the wrong done
314 43 | all this, sacred art was cultivated in accordance with the tradition
315 43 | 43. While cursorily and briefly recalling the
316 43 | higher studies in the manner customary in universities; every kind
317 59(19)| Ps. cxxxix, 13. ~
318 10 | progress had been made that Cyril Terletski, bishop of Lutsk,
319 37 | of the Apostolic See to damage the integrity or hinder
320 62 | injuries, to be moved by no danger of exile or risk even of
321 60 | sheep."21 The present is dark and the future uncertain
322 55 | calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of
323 62 | of me, that loves son or daughter more; he is not worthy of
324 18 | bade more peaceful days dawn for this people after so
325 44 | Holy Family, of St. Vincent de Paul--who work for the education
326 56 | the sway of Russia, our dear brethren and sons of the
327 39 | discipline of monasteries in decay, and even the bond of obedience
328 29 | some Latin bishops even declared that the Ruthenian prelates
329 29(8) | Acta et decr, SS. Conciliorum rec. col.
330 1 | ever been the object of the deep affection of the Roman pontiffs,
331 43 | encourage the clergy in a deeper and more fruitful study
332 57 | openly exalts and preaches defection from the Catholic Church
333 15 | rest of his life stoutly defended the return of the Ruthenians
334 17 | instructed clergy to a higher degree of learning in sacred doctrine,
335 27 | change in this matter, would deign to preserve and confirm
336 19 | Alexander I the rash policy was deliberately adopted of entirely breaking
337 48 | were profaned, pillaged, demolished, and their furnishing and
338 61 | exteriorly or verbally, to deny or abandon Christ and His
339 21 | the faithful who would not depart from the true faith, and
340 21 | predecessor Gregory XVI deplored and lamented this deed,
341 38 | Ruthenian community certainly derived from this union with the
342 5 | Apostolic See. Not a few of his descendants also received the legates
343 41 | in all these matters have deserved so well, so excellently,
344 48 | bishops themselves were despoiled of their goods, ejected
345 33 | preservation and not the destruction of the Greek rite."11 The
346 48 | befallen them; they were determined therefore to use every way
347 33 | predecessors have detested and we detest these changes of rite, since
348 33 | that our predecessors have detested and we detest these changes
349 25 | when the first world war devastated those regions and during
350 42 | was before the ruin and devastation wrought by this savage war.
351 43 | institutions were begun and developed to meet the needs of the
352 51 | with the greatest joy and devotion. ~
353 50 | steadfastness in 1877, when he died a most holy death. We recall
354 42 | eparchies students were duly and diligently educated in preparation
355 2 | our successors will ever diminish your rights, the privileges
356 29 | to erect schools in their dioceses for the instruction of their
357 4 | protect its most holy region, direct its constancy and preserve
358 59 | command their wills are directed, to spare his people and
359 4 | especially incumbent on those directly involved to celebrate this
360 28 | lawfully to commit them to any directors and teachers they pleased.
361 28 | Ruthenians should not be at a disadvantage compared with the rest of
362 22 | opportune liturgical and disciplinary regulations. ~
363 57 | governor, saying "We have discovered that this man is subverting
364 10 | examination and approval. Discussions of the whole matter began
365 51 | secretly went to them, in disguise and at the peril of their
366 22 | Sembratovitch (1882 - 98), who both displayed great prudence and zeal
367 14 | account of calumnies and dissensions, in which not only the dissident
368 56 | enter the communion of the dissidents. Thus it is reported that
369 39 | that Church goods were dissipated, the morals of monks corrupt,
370 24 | part of Galicia, but a most distinguished delegation of the metropolitan
371 61 | tribulation, in necessities, in distresses . . . in chastity, in knowledge,
372 28 | Catholics as regards the distribution of spiritual favors; they
373 52 | be seen in the Ruthenian districts in 1905, when liberty to
374 39 | troubled by every kind of disturbance and opposition! What persevering
375 29 | Cardinal Pamphili reported divers decrees of the special Congregation
376 45 | Rome for young Ruthenians divinely called to the priesthood.
377 47 | death, some drowned in the Dnieper, so passing from their triumph
378 44 | their glory by the reform of Dobromil, as it is called; they join
379 30 | specially laid down in the documents of the union under Clement
380 61 | Redeemer: "I know of all thy doings, thy faith, thy love, thy
381 16 | their foreign foes and by domestic factions to make ever greater
382 11 | Apostolic constitution Magnus Dominus et laudabilis nimis.4 How
383 52 | the Church to open their doors to them, receive their profession
384 23 | or might be ensnared by doubt and error and miserably
385 44 | from on high which they draw from the rules and example
386 30 | from the course of the long drawn out question of the change
387 47 | atrociously flogged to death, some drowned in the Dnieper, so passing
388 7 | then subject to the grand duke of Lithuania; and again,
389 50 | abandon their religious duties. Among these we wish to
390 54 | to let all completeness dwell" in Christ,14 no one can
391 | each
392 63 | against your faith. Be "eager to preserve that unity the
393 39 | everywhere, especially in the early days; so troubled by every
394 4 | also may join with us in earnest prayer that He would mercifully
395 59 | venerable brethren, but earnestly to implore the most merciful
396 9 | in the Church of God on earth, no other than the holy
397 61 | of those who promise men earthly advantages and greater happiness
398 4 | that He would mercifully ease and alleviate the present
399 3 | all the peoples of the East returning to the fold, we
400 30 | prohibition of going over from the Easter to the Latin rite. Nonetheless,
401 23 | of the twentieth century economic conditions led to the emigration
402 6 | Church when, in 1439, at the ecumenical council of Florence he signed
403 40 | restored, especially in the eighteenth century, the flourishing
404 48 | despoiled of their goods, ejected from their sees and forced
405 57 | patriarch Alexis, recently elected by the dissident bishops
406 28 | February 1596 conceded that the election of those who had been duly
407 | elsewhere
408 39 | contrary storms, but it emerged from its victorious battle
409 23 | faithful of this rite who had emigrated from the Podkarpatska Rus,
410 23 | economic conditions led to the emigration of many Ruthenians from
411 10 | On 23rd December 1595 the emissaries were admitted to the presence
412 27 | the Ruthenians ought to employ it while retaining the liturgical
413 56 | See; every means are being employed to take them away from the
414 64 | Father, the God who gives all encouragement.35~Meanwhile, as a pledge
415 45 | Janiculum and munificently endowed by our predecessor Pius
416 60 | Courageously, and steadfastly enduring this attack of your enemies,
417 13 | 13. However, "an enemy came and scattered tares
418 32 | should not be absolutely enforced - he wished it to apply
419 32 | special reasons, was not enjoined by law, and there are many
420 18 | inhabiting Poland were in enjoyment of Catholic unity. All prospered
421 38 | lives, by whose truth it is enlightened, in whose grace it shares.
422 52 | profession of faith and enroll them again among the Catholics.
423 51 | of their own wishes, were enrolled in the dissident Church.
424 23 | schismatics, or might be ensnared by doubt and error and miserably
425 34 | agreement styled Concordia entered into by the Latin and Ruthenian
426 52 | churches of the Latin rite, entry to which had previously
427 54(15)| Eph. i, 23. ~
428 63(32)| Ephes. iv, 3-4. ~
429 29 | prelates did not enjoy full episcopal rights and functions but
430 43 | profit. In the course of his episcopate a theological society was
431 54(16)| Epist. ad episcopos Istriae, Acta Conc. Oecum.
432 54(16)| Epist. ad episcopos Istriae, Acta
433 43 | other homes of art were equipped with outstanding works of
434 29 | bishops should be able to erect schools in their dioceses
435 23 | be ensnared by doubt and error and miserably abandon all
436 35 | always that the chief and essential rites remained whole and
437 42 | in America - they may be estimated at 400,000 or 500,000. Thus
438 53 | Szepticky. During the first European war, when Galicia was occupied
439 | everyone
440 | everything
441 46 | reject your name as something evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
442 57 | bishops of Russia, openly exalts and preaches defection from
443 10 | of cardinals for careful examination and approval. Discussions
444 41 | outstanding ability, an excellent education in divine and
445 41 | have deserved so well, so excellently, by their great and zealous
446 | except
447 18 | his people to be tried by excessive affliction and at length,
448 15 | deed, renounced schism and execrated their crime before they
449 48 | their dire straits they exerted every effort, by prayer
450 63 | reinforce this fatherly exhortation of ours and bring it to
451 11 | Finally he fraternally exhorts the bishops to meet as soon
452 8 | than had ever previously existed or could ever be in the
453 25 | grave peril of its very existence, we will add some fuller
454 53 | by Russian armies, he was expelled from his see and deported
455 61 | abandon Christ and His Church; expose the cunning wiles of those
456 52 | sacred pictures publicly exposed for veneration, to the churches
457 8 | course of a sharp and vivid exposition to the metropolitan of their
458 24 | bishops was sent to Rome to express the love of the Ruthenian
459 24 | offered, to give public expression to its gratitude for so
460 11 | asked the king of Poland to extend the protection of his patronage
461 28 | necessary conditions. Paul V extended to all those who attended
462 52 | any religion was to some extent granted. Innumerable Catholics
463 61 | absolutely unlawful, even merely exteriorly or verbally, to deny or
464 40 | Church manifested itself even externally. Witnesses to this are the
465 22 | Church was consolidated in an extraordinary manner when all the bishops
466 56 | Church has been placed in an extremely difficult position; all
467 46 | that day comes, rejoice and exult over it; for behold, a rich
468 26 | sometimes very sad, we are faced with the question: what
469 57 | tribute to Caesar."18 But faces and events themselves plainly
470 16 | foreign foes and by domestic factions to make ever greater concessions
471 23 | appointed a bishop with special faculties for them. Later on, since
472 48 | storm, their spirit did not fail; they did everything possible
473 36 | people might more easily fall off from the Catholic faith,
474 23 | might be caught by the fallacies of heretics and schismatics,
475 62 | disown us. If we play him false, he remains true to his
476 39 | whose faith was wavering and faltering! None the less, contrary
477 15 | Polotsk and Vitebsk, was famed for his holiness of life
478 50 | were torn away from their families, which were left in wretchedness,
479 44 | St. Josaphat, of the Holy Family, of St. Vincent de Paul--
480 29 | rejected these unjust and fanciful opinions; on 28th September
481 21 | suffered the same wretched fate. Those of the faithful who
482 24 | the happy union of their fathers with the Apostolic See achieved
483 18 | opinion every day grew more favorable to a return to the Catholic
484 28 | distribution of spiritual favors; they wished them to share
485 23 | predecessor Pius X was therefore fearful that these beloved sons,
486 25 | rest of the clergy, their fellow-workers. Then, alas, came the second
487 4 | is the three hundred and fiftieth year since it was happily
488 55 | to cause solicitude and fill us with anxiety. It is the
489 9 | great are the hindrances men find in the way of salvation
490 62 | a field and the man who finds it "hides it again, and
491 21 | shamefully punished with fines and flogging and exile. ~
492 63 | bring it to an end more fittingly than by these admonitions
493 48 | their sees and forced to flee. However, even amid the
494 6 | and compelled to take to flight and leave the country. ~
495 21 | punished with fines and flogging and exile. ~
496 38 | that the most beautiful flowers of all virtues and an abundance
497 16 | the fear of their foreign foes and by domestic factions
498 31 | Ruthenians, whether lay folk or ecclesiastics, secular
499 13 | had been neglected, there followed sharp conflicts and protracted
500 51 | were handed over to the followers of schism, all the clergy
501 6 | 6. It follows that the action of the metropolitan
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