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"To further stimulate the piety of your communicants," it read,
"and arouse them to more generous contributions to our glorious
cause, you will inform them that, if their monetary contributions
do not diminish in amount for the coming year, they will be made
participants in the four solemn Novenas which will be offered
by His Grace, the Bishop of Cartagena. Moreover, if their
contributions increase, the names of the various contributors will
be included in the one hundred Masses which are to be offered
in December at the Shrine of Our Lady of Chiquinquia for their
spiritual and temporal welfare. Contributors will also have a High
Mass after death, offered by one of His Grace's assistants, as
soon as the notification of death is received here. In addition
to these, His Grace, always mindful of the former importance of
the parish of Simiti, and acknowledging as its special patron
the ever blessed Virgin, has arranged to bestow the episcopal
blessing upon an image of the Sacred Heart, which will be shipped
to his faithful children in Simiti when the amount of their
contributions shall have met the expense thereof. Let us keep ever
in mind the pious words of the Bl. Margaret Mary, who has
conveyed to us the assurance which she received directly from Our
Blessed Lord that He finds great joy in beholding His Sacred
Heart visibly represented, that it may touch the hard hearts
of mankind. Our blessed Saviour promised the gracious Margaret
Mary that He would pour out abundantly of His rich treasure upon
all who honor this image, and that it shall draw down from heaven
every blessing upon those who adore and reverence it. Inform your
parishioners that the recital of the offering, 'O, Sacred Heart
of Jesus, may it be everywhere adored!' carries a hundred days'
indulgence each time.

"You will bear in mind that the General Intention for this month
is The Conversion of America. Though our Church is founded on the
Rock, and is to last forever, so that the gates of hell shall
never prevail against her, nevertheless she has been called upon
to withstand many assaults from her enemies, the advocates of
_modernism_, in the land of liberal thought to our north. These
assaults, though painful to her, can never be fatal to her
spiritual life, although they unfortunately are so to many of her
dear children, who yield to the insidious persuasions of the
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