DECRETUM.

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uum Cæremoniarum Magister Ecclesiæ Cathe

dralis Neo Eboracensis Dioceseos in Statibus Foderatis America Septentrionalis de consensu Episcopi a Sacra Rituum Congregatione declarari petierit :

"Utrum pro majori Fidelium utilitate, qui linguam "latinam non callent, licitum sit addere versionem "in lingua vulgari textui latino Pontificalis Romani, "et præsertim illi parti, quæ Ordinum collationem 'respicit. uti exhibetur in exemplari cui titulus. -"Ritus Ordinationum juxta Pontificale Romanum.— "Curante Rev. J. S. M. Lynch in Seminario Pro"vinciali apud Trojam, N. Y. Sacræ Liturgiæ Pro❝fessore, etc., etc."

Sacra eadem Congregatio, referente subscripto Secretario ita rescripsit:-Detur Decretum in una Neo Eboracen., diei 4 Augusti 1877 Atque ita rescripsit die 3 Februarii 1879.

D. CARDINALIS BARTOLINIUS, S. R. C.

Præfectus

PLAC. RALLI, S. R. C. Secrius.

DECREE.

Then, with the consent of his Ordinary, the

master of ceremonies at the Cathedral Church of the diocese of New York, United States of America, petitioned the Sacred Congregation of Rites to declare "whether for the greater benefit of the faithful who do not understand the Latin Text of the Roman Pontifical; in particular to that part which treats of the conferring of Orders, as has been done in a volume entitled "The Rite of Ordination," according to the Roman Pontifical, by Rev. J. S. M. Lynch, Professor of Sacred Liturgy in the Provincial Seminary, at Troy, N. Y., etc., etc. The Sacred Congregation, through the undersigned secretary answered, on Feb. 3d, 1879, as follows: Let the Decree of Aug. 4th, 1877, in a case proposed by New York, stand.

CARDINAL BARTOLINI,

Prefect.

MONS, PLACIDO RALLI, Secretary of the S. C. R.

D

irector quarumdam Ephemeridum Catholicarum,

quæ typis cuduntur Neo Eboraci, a Sacra Rituum Congregatione declarari petiit num prohibitum sit in libris nuncupatis Devotionis textui latino Ordinis Missæ, ac præsertim Canonis, addere versionem in lingua vulgari? Sacra vero Rituum Congregatio, referente infrascripto Secretario, audito voto R. P. D. Laurentii Salvati S. Fidei Promotoris, declarare censuit: Libros eorumque versiones in lingua vernacula, de quibus agitur, a canonicis præscriptionibus et Apostolicis Decretis, Episcoporum auctoritati omnino reservari; ideoque licitum non esse Fidelibus horum uti editionibus, nisi istæ expressam præseferant Episcoporum adprobationem. Atque ita declaravit die 4 Augusti, 1877. (5703, Neo Eboracen.)

Th

he director of a certain Catholic journal published in New York, petitioned the Sacred Congregation of Rites to declare if it were forbidden (in books of devotion) to add a translation in the vernacular to the Latin text of the Ordinary of the Mass, and particularly to the Canon. The Sacred Congregation of Rites, after hearing the opinion of the Rev. Lawrence Salvati, Promoter of the Faith, declared through the undersigned Secretary: "that books of the kind under consideration, and translations of them in the vernacular are entirely reserved, by the canonical regulations and Apostolic decrees, to the authority of the bishops; and that, therefore, it is unlawful for the faithful to use any edition of the same unless it bear the express approbation of the bishops." And so it was declared August 4th, 1877.

(5703, New York).

DEDICATIO.

Ill ac R Domino Doctori Henrico Gabriels Ep Ogdensburgensis.

ILL AC R DOMINE:

Dum libellus cui titulus "Ritus Ordinationis" sub prelo esset, placuit Beatissimo Patri Leoni XIII Te Sedis Episcopalis Ogdensburgensis Præsulem renunciare. Faustum hoc nuntium bonis omnibus et Clero jucundum, jucundius fuit et mihi qui doctrina et exemplo Excellentiæ Tuæ formatus, ad sacerdotalia munia assumptus fui. At animo revolvens quid, tanquam sinceræ lætitiæ argumentum Excellentiæ Tuæ præbere valerem, felix mihi occurrit opinio nomini Tuo parvulum hoc opus, iterum typis datum, dedicare; præsertim quia, Te Rectore, libellus iste