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 Cm,u.. XIII.] mmn, sv.oms. 41 associates of the most holy Mary of Mount Carmel, by the overeign pontiffs; a. far as I am able, and ought, I pronounce thee to have ful't pardon and the remission of all thy sins, if' thou shalt now depart  life; otherwise I reserve the same pardon for thee till the moment of �thy. death. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy' Spirit Amen. "The siri man haoing tken itmoked, either in urds or mentallt, t/re ' s'red ntmes of Jesus and of Mary, tIw priest procsedet: "By the same authority I exempt thee from all negligence, if thou hast contracted any, by deferring that sacred habit; and I declare and signify thee to be a creature of Cod absolved here, and before the tri- 5unal of our Lord Jesus Christ, from all the punishments due to thee in purgatory, on acount of the sins which thou hast committed against tha goodness of the living and true God; and I pronounce thee to b restored to that innocency with which thou wast invested in baptism, by the sacred washing of the $aviour. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." 5. Indulgences granted to tlw faithful in general. The following indulgunces we present to our readers as they are found in Ferraris, a distinguished Roman Catholic divine, who in his Bibliotca Prompta has accurately arranged the various points of doe- trine, under their proper heads, in alphabetical order. We collect from his 6th article under Indulgences, translating it from the Latin, omitting, however, the greater part of his references or authorities. "Those who salute others by saying in Latin or their own language, �et Jesus Clrrist be praised: and those who answer, Fvr str, or Amen, or Ahva/s; shall obtain fifty- days indulgence. They shall, moreover, by the concession of Benedict XIII., in 1738, obtain one hundred days more. "Those who name reverently the name of Jesus, or the name of Mary, shall obtain twent--five days. "Those who possess a pious disposition of thus saluting, respondihg  or naming the name Jesus; so that if in the article of death, with mouth or heart, they invoke that name, will obtain a p/chary/ndu/gen. Those that recite the litanies of the blessed name of Jesus will obtain three hundred days indulgence. Those who recite the litanies of the Virn Mary will receive two hundred days. Preachers, who in their rmons will exhort their hearers to observe this mode of salutation, invocation, or recitation of the name of Jesus and Mary, and whosoever will duly respect this form of salutation, will obtain the same indul- gences. "Those who devoutly hear or recite mass shall obtain thirty thousand sight hundred years indulgence, applicable by way of ,'rage to souls in'purgatory. The thirty thousa. nd was by the grant of Innocent IV.; and the eight hundred by the grant of Urban IV., Martin V., Sixrue IV., and Eugenius IV., each one of whom granted two hundred for t'aeh mass. "Those who recite the Patvr and Ave �e times, in honour of the pas- sion of our blessed 8aviour, and of the sorrows of the blessed Virgin, will obtain ten thousand years of indulgence, by the grant of Leo X., lo all the faithful, obtained at the instance of the Brothers Minor. "Those who recite the third it of the Rosary will obtain five -I

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