Doc. 25. the Archbishop of Baltimore. Address to the Reverend Clergy of the diocese of Baltimore.
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His Excellency, the President of the United States, having appointed the last Thursday of September as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, and recommended its religious observance, in order to obtain Divine aid, and the return of peace and prosperity, the Archbishop of Baltimore directs that the collect Pro quacumque tribulatione,1 with the Litany of the
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Saints, and the prayer for the authorities,2 be recited on that day in all the parochial churches of this diocese, at the hour which the respective clergy in charge shall appoint.
In order to establish uniformity in the public offices of the Church, he also directs that the last-mentioned prayer — which was framed by John Carroll, the venerated founder of the American hierarchy, and was prescribed in the first Synod of Baltimore, held in the year 1791--to be recited on all Sundays at the parochial Mass, and which is entirely irrespective of all political and personal considerations, shall be henceforward read on each Sunday, as has been hitherto generally practised, in all parochial churches, without addition, diminution, or change.
By order of the Most Reverend, the Archbishop.
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