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 “ Though the above rules and regulations oblige not of their own nature, under any sin whatsoever, yet the associates, we persuade ourselves, will not on that account be less exact in the performance of what the rules prescribe, or less faithful in their purposes entered upon between God and their own consciences.”

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus ever live, be praised, and adored.

We Brother Francis of S. Reginald, Prior of the venerable Arch-confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, at Rome.

''To our beloved in Christ, the associates in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the faithful of either sex, who are any ways British Subjects, or descended from them 9 wheresoever they dwell; greeting in our Lord. ''

Whereas, his Holiness of pious memory, Clement XII., has by sundry