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os Motoritato praesentia concilii, diatrictiua inhibemus, ne de cetero quispiam servilibus, ipsa die, intendat operibus, Vel quaevia alia exerceat, quae a pietatis cultu fuerint aliena. Per Me tamen legem pauperibus non imponimus, nisi inseri divitibus prohibemus, quin ad agriculturam pauperum promousndam, suffragia consueta, caritatis intuitu Eubministrent.' Gone. Mnainen. I3273, c. i, ibid., 829. At Dublin, on tho eonis D the festat ol

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This Was an opportune and a Prudent meamre. Every here lamess inereased. The devotion of

many had been exhausted by the introduction

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os Translation by E. Wright..a Item. in diabus beatorum Marci et Mino Mangeliatarum, et quatuor doctorum Meleaiae, Gregorii, Ambrosii, Augustini, et Hieronymi, quorum festivitatis fellela memoriae Bonifaelus papa mandavit in univerata Meleatia, sub ossicio dupliel solemniter Venerari. Et populus in sua parochiali ecclesia divino omoto peraudito, ad auR opera licite ae eonvertit.' Smod. Hasten. I366 , o. xlvi. Manal, t. XXVI, 398.64 Cupientes tali morbo pestifero obviare, atatuimua praesentis auctoritate concilii, per ordinarios jurta remedita provideri, et si non obtemperaVerint, temporalem euriam per quemlibet nostrum in dictis nostris dinoossibus requirendam, quae nubditoa lyma compescat talibus poenia et remedita allia quibus videbitur expedire.' M. Apten. I366 , e. xiii. Manai, ibid., 460-MI.

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the matteri

ness that is fuit os perus; for, instead os using

eternat salvation into occasions of sin and damna

ηε 'Multi jam dubitaro rideantur quaenam ex praecepto, quamem libera eviusque voluntate, aint aerianda, pietatia servore ob nimiam eorumdem numerositatem tepescenis; quinimmo et clamor pauperum frequens ostendit ad nos eamdem multitudinem ob quo fidiant vicina laboribus auia comparandi neeessitatem, sibi valde damnosam conquerentium, et quod summopere dolendum est, magno eum animi nostri moeroro didicimua tanta saepe ineptus malignatum inimicum in Sancto, ut ipsa multitudine non ad aedisseationem, et ad laudandum in Meleatia Deum populi utantur, Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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aed ad olla, vanitates et vitia frequenter abuti non formident, ita ut quas ad glorificandum divinum nomen nunt primitua instituta, temporia decursu inimicua homo corruperit at in magnam illi offensionem, gravemque jacturam eonverterit animarum. 'Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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continued.

es In nonnullia di ossibus numerua dierum festorum de Pr- Pto ... BRtenus Est imminutus, ut nemps in aliquibus Datiactriatindelea et mimam audire, et ab operibus servilibus abstinere debeant; in allia vero populo permissum ait opera servilia exercere, firma remanento obliotione audiendi missaε Bacrificium . . . Benedict. XIV, Constituti Cum semper, Is August, I744. Hominibus, sqvi manu et laboro in sudore vultus vescentes ne suo, ob ingentem festorum numerum, obtenta alendae vitactneoomitato, vetitia labori a jam late aperuerunt , at per omnes dies featos hujusmodi a servilibua operibus abstineant, ad vitam lucro a tentandam haudquaquam tempua a ciat. Conat. Cum

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But iness partial concessions did nes seem sufficient. Publio opinion demanded more. BenedictXIV himself narrates hori under Pressure, beasked the invice of forty theologians and ea misis of repute, among them many cardinala, indiniri'three declared a reduction os feast days tobe necessary or hight y expedient. Fineen med his to ordor this reduction by a species constitution for the entire Churoh, While eightesu belleved

a vis reliquia die a festis . . . praeespus, audita missa, lR r-i is auorum artium exercitationibus, aervilibusque operibus, sine ullo prorsus eo cientiae scrupulo vacare possint, auctoritate nostra Amatolica concedas . . Ibid., 3 2. The concession iaa ut the samo for tho dio se of Nice. Constit. Inter aollicitas,

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as muta uniformisy as possibis, decided in grant an induit to a diocess oesy When the nolo ring dioceses had manifested the fame desim. Ths discussiona raised by this affair became so animaled

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On May 3, 18b8, Pius IX, by the Constitution

Amantissimi, reneWed in express tems the declamation os severat of his predecessors that the obligation os celebrating Mass pro populo, not oesy onSundays but also on the feast days suppressed sines the Constitution os Urban VIII, remalaed infuli force.7'Η-eVer, the popes did not ignore the faes that this part of the laW, line the Precessing one, Wasos ecclesiastical institution, and that the supremelegislator has the pomer to modisy or abrogate What custom or laW has created. Whon needa litainose Which had ted to a reduction of the feast Mys in favor of the people, manifestin them- serues in mutters concerning the generat Welfars of the Churis, ins poma consented in similar

τε 'Declaramus, atatuimus atque de mimus, Par hos allosque Omnes mimarum curam actu gerentes sacrosanctum Mimae naerim

etum pro populo sibi commisso celebrare et applicare debere tum omnibus dominicia aliisque diebus, qui ex praecepto adhue aervantur, tum aliis etiam qui ex hujus Apostolicae Sedis indulgentia ex dierum de praecepto festorum numero sublati ae translati sunt, quemadmodum ipsi animarum euratorea debebant, dum memorata Urbant VIII Constitutio in pleno suo robore rigabat, antequissuri do prae pio diea imminuarentur et transferrentur.'