mandari, bet ex nunc, et pro tune abrogamus, omnia statuta Diocesana, in nostra Diœcesi hactenus publicata; et ordinamus, præcipimus, et mandamus, ut hæc statuta Diocesana, Bab omnibus, nostro spirituali regimini subjectis, præcipuè verò ab omnibus Presbyteris, tam regalaribus quam sæcularibus, à die Epiphanie Domini, An. Rep. Sal. 1832, semper et accuratè custodiantur et observertur sub pœna gravis inobedientiæ et censurarum, quæ, vel ipso facto latæ sunt, vel à Nobis, aut à Vicario Nostro Generali, sunt ferendæ.

Volumus quoque, ut hæc statuta, semel in anno, à singulis sacerdotibus attentè perlegantur : et ut in unaquaque hebdomada, singuli sacerdotes, curamitranimarum unoquoque modo habentes, unum capitulum perlegant. Vicariorum Foraneorum conscientias graviter oneramus, ut horum statutorum observationi, assiduè

invigilent, et si alicubi, ex incuriâ vel malitiâ hominum, eadem negligi vel pessumdari, ad eorum notitiam pervenerit, mandamus, ut statim trans, gressores aut ipsi corripiant, et corrigant, aut ad Nos, vel ad nostrum Vi, carium Generalem remittant, ut condignè puniantur; et ita facientes "cum apparuerit Princeps Pastorum percipiant immarcescibilem gloriæ "coronam."

Et nunc Adm. Reydi. et dilectis simi Fratres, "quicumque hanc re"gulam secuti fuerint, pax super "illos, et misericordia, et super Is"rael Dei ;"+"Et Deus pacis aptet "vos in omni bono, ut faciatis ejus voluntatem, faciens in vobis quod "placeat coram se, per Jesum Chris"tum, cui est gloria in sæcula sæ"culorum. Amen." ‡

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* 1 Pet. v. 4. + Gal iv. 16. + Heb. xiii. 21.

APPENDIX. I.

Rules for Conducting Ecclesiastical Conferences in the Province of Dublin.

Conferences in moral and dogmatic theology, and on the rites and ceremonies of the Church, are to be held from within the first week of July to October, both inclusive, in each year. The places where they shall be held, are to be determined by the Ordinaries respectively. The Archbishop, Bishop, or master of Conference, will preside.

All the Clergy are to attend the Conferences of their respective districts or deaneries, unless any of them be exempted therefrom by special license of the Ordinary, which license, however, shall not exempt them from the fines to be paid by absent clergymen; which fines are here. after specified. All and each of the Clergy are equally bound to act as respondents,

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when called on in conference; but Parish Priests, when three years collated, are exempted from preaching at Conference. Whoever presides at Conference, is, whilst presiding, vested with the authority of the Ordinary, in all that regards the office he then fills, and his authority is accordingly to be reverenced and obeyed. The subject matter, for the Conference in each year, will be published in the Directory.

Conference shall commence precisely at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. It shall be opened with the recital of the hymn, "Veni Creator." The Clergyman who has previously been appointed to preach, shall then deliver his discourse. When it is ended, the Clergy shall then retire to the sacristy, or other convenient place, and the master, having taken his place, (the Clergy being ranged at each side, according to their seniority,) will require of one Curate, and, after him, of one Parish Priest, to make a few remarks on the sermon-its composition and delivery-pointing out, with modesty and charity, the defects or good qualities he may have observed therein. The master will conclude

with such observations as he may think it expedient to add to those already made.

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The master of Conference will then desire the two Clergymen, previously appointed to defend, to take their seats before him, and will call successively upon one or two more of the Clergy then present, to propose or argue, with either of the defendants, one or more of the propositions, or of the questions arising thereon, which have been marked out as the matter of the Conference; taking special care, that the order of the propositions or questions, as set forth in the printed schedule, be adhered to that no irrelevant matter be introduced, or desultory conversation, whether relating to theological or other subjects, be permitted. When the Conference will have been thus conducted for one hour, the defendants will resume their former places, and the master of Conference will himself proceed to interrogate the Clergy present, each in his turn, for a short time, on the propositions or questions remaining to be discussed, and will continue to do so, until three o'clock in the after

noon.