The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group
The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group
For the bishop and priests of the Raleigh, NC Diocese.
Devotions
The modesty spoken of by the Council of Trent springs from piety within, and regards the whole outward man. It is not the composed correct air of the Pharisee, but it is the proper disposition, and regulation of the external which is the sign and reflection of internal virtue. The Council, not satisfied with a general exhortation to this clerical modesty, enumerates in particular the things in which it should appear. The first is dress, "habitu". All clerics should have their dress so regulated, that nothing indecent, or vain, or worldly, or superfluous should appear. These things would only excite the contempt, or ridicule of the world, and not the piety or the edification of the people. The dress of the priest should become the gravity of his profession, and bespeak it; and since they cannot wear that holy soutane with which the Church clothes her ministers, they should endeavour to wear the dress always worn by good and holy priests, and which wherever they go will distinguish them as ecclesiastics from all other priests.
Ecclesiastical meditations suitable for priests on the mission and students in diocesan seminaries (1866)
For the Bishops, and the People committed to them
Almighty and Everlasting God, who alone dost great wonders, send down upon Thy servants, and the congregations committed unto them, the spirit of Thy saving grace; and that they may truly please Thee, pour forth upon them the continual dew of Thy blessing. Amen.
A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (1930)