THE BULL WHICH EXCOMMUNICATED McGLYNN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BULL WHICH EXCOMMUNICATED McGLYNN.

The bull of excommunication which has been issued against Dr. Edward MoGlynn, the late pastor of St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church, New York, is as follows; By the authority of God Almighty; the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubim, seraphim, and of all the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song of tho holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints together, with the holy and elect of God, We excommunicate and anathematize this malefactor, Edward MoGlynn ; and from tho thresholds of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester him, that he may be tormented, deposed and delivered over with Dathan and Abirham, and with those who say unto the Lord God, “ Depart from us, we desire none of thy ways.” And as fire is quenched with water, so let tho light of him be put out for evermore, unless he shall repent “ and make satisfaction.” Amen. May the father who created man, curse him ! May the Son who suffered for us, curse him ! May the Holy Ghost, who was given to us in baptism, curse him ! May the holy cross, which Christ, for our salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him ! May the holy and eternal Virgin Mary, mother of God, curse him ! May St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him ! May all the angels and archangels, principalities and powers, and all the heavenly armies, curse him ! May the praiseworthy multitude of patriarchs and prophets, curse him ! May St. John the precursor, and St. John the Baptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other Christ’s apostles, together curse him ! And may the rest of his disciples and four evangelists, who by their preaching converted the universal world, and may the holy and wonderful company of martyrs and confessors, who by their holy works are found pleasing to God Almighty, curse him ! May the holy choir of tho holy virgins, who for the honor of Christ have despised the things of the world, curse him I May all the saints who, from the beginning of the world to everlasting ages, are found to be beloved of God, curse him ! May the heavens, and earth, and all tho holy things remaining therein curse him! May he be cursed, wherever he be—whether in the house or the stable, the garden or the field, or tho highway, or iu the wood, or in the water, or in the church 1 May he be cursed in living, in dying, in eating and drinking ; in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in waking, in walking, in standing, in sitting, jin living, iu working, in resting, , , and in bloodletting, May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body ! May he he cursed inwardly and outwardly I —May he be cursed in the hair of his head ! —May he be cursed in his brains, and in his vertex, in his temples, in his forehead, in his ears, in his eye-brows, in his cheeks, in his jawbone, in his nostrils, in his foreteeth and grinders, in his lips, in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his hands, in his fingers, in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, and in his bottomest stomach, in his veins, and in his groin, in his thighs, and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe nails ! May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his bead to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! May the Son of the living God, with alt the glory of his Majesty, curse him ! and may heaven, with all the powers which move therein, rise up against him, and damn him, unless he repent and make satisfaction ! Amen. So be it!—so be it! Amen.—’Frisco News Letter.