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Show GENTLEMEN, RAISE'YOUR HAT -WHEN YOU PASS THE CHURCH j? Archbishop Walsh of Dublin takes occasion of his recent pastoral letter to make known to the faithful of his diocese that a marked spiritual favor fa-vor has been conferred upon them by the Holy Father, as a reward for habitual public manifestation manifes-tation of their devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and as an encouragement to persevere in it. ' "On being recently informed by us," says his Grace, "of the edifying practice that has long been widespread among the faithful of the diocese, in both town and country, of piously saluting our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament by some external sign of reverence rev-erence when passing a church or oratory in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved, his Holiness felt himself moved to express in some special way the satisfaction with which he has heard of this, and his desire to encourage our people to perseverance perse-verance in so laudable a practice. He has now done so by issuing an extraordinary faculty authorizing au-thorizing us to grant in his name an indulgence of 100 days, to be gained bv the faithful of this city or diocese each time that, in passing a church or-oratory or-oratory in wliich the Blessed Sacrament is reserved, re-served, they manifest their devotion to our Lord by some external sign of reverence, as it has long been their pious and edifying practice to do." The pious practice thus warmly approved and indulgenced by the Sovereign Pontiff is not eon-fined, eon-fined, we are glad to say, to either Dublin or Ireland Ire-land at large. It prevails in many portions of this country, and still more generally, perhaps, in Canada, Can-ada, notably in the province of Quebec. The practice, prac-tice, it need not be said, is thoroughly congruous; is indeed, merely a consistent recognition of . the real presence on the part of those who profess their belief therein. Calendar. |