Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Spirit in ivhich Re-union should be sought. 223
alone in conjunction with the grace of GOD
we can hope for an answer to our daily petitions
for Peace. No word should fall from us
which could in any degree widen the breach
which exists. The best and not the worst
motives should be ever imputed to the acts of
those who are now unhappily separated from
us, and a common principle at all times sought
for, by which, in the future, united action
When so much
might be honestly attempted.
is held in common, a sincere and Christian
hope should be expressed that, upon enquiry,
still more points of agreement might be dis
covered. In charity, too, we should pray and
labour. We should implore the Blessed Para
clete, Who is the "Guide of the Church and
"
of the World to overrule the infirmities,
Light
the ignorance, the narrowness, the violence and
the bitterness of our local sectionalism, to the
furtherance of the great work of
visible Unity to the Church Universal ;
restoring
so that
the unspeakable blessings which descended upon
mankind in the early ages of
Christianity, may
again, like the dew, water abundantly the
parched ground, now too barren and desolate.
May former triumphs be repeated, new conquests
made ! Finally let our prayer be, and GOD of
" His infinite mercy answer it : Turn Thee
again, O LORD, at the last, and be gracious
unto Thy servants. O satisfy us with Thy