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A45924 The institutions of the Congregation of the Oratory, at St. Maries in Vallicella, within the city of Rome. Founded by St. Philip Nerius Congregation of the Oratory. Santa Maria in Vallicella (Church : Rome, Italy) 1687 (1687) Wing I233A; ESTC R215995 48,632 109

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above half dinner or supper be past The rest of the time at table is spent in putting a question as the manner is and clearing it by answers The Reader is not only at table to read the forementioned Books but to invite them to the putting of some doubt likewise every week once at least to rehearse the names of our Benefactors lastly to publish whatsoever he shall be enjoined either in word or writing by the President or Minister For he may neither read nor pronounce any thing more than what is by them imposed upon him The Reader when corrected is to repeat the Correctors words with the same pronunciation of the syllables as he gives them and the Corrector chosen for this purpose is to word mistaken without the interposing any other words When he hears the President say Etreliqua the Reader gives over Then saying the verse Tu autem Domine miserere nobis and giving notice aloud to the Priest who in his turn is to propose some doubt he goes down and making an obeisance to the President sits down to meat Doubts to be proposed at Table After reading presently some one of the Priests for all of three years standing in the Congregation are wont to do the same every day morning and evening propounds something out of the Scriptures or Morality or instructions for right informing the mind and conscience that may be questioned or disputed but avoids the putting any thing difficult obscure or too curious to which all are not able to speak Yet if at any time one make no other answer save that he stands to the common judgment of the rest it is rather to be imputed to modesty than ignorance And he that is to do that office when his day comes proposeth the question of himself tho the Reader according to the custome do not advertise him yet if any stranger invited be at the table not without the command of the President or his Substitute for then the Reader is not as at other times to put him in mind If the Proponent be absent he is to succeed him who useth to sit next him at table If any be long e're he propose the case either thro forgetfulness or neglect coming unprovided the President is either to demand it aloud of him or to mind him thereof by the whisper of some one that sits near him The difficult questions proposed at Table are usually two every one speaks to one or other thereof but the proponent in the last place to remove all doubt makes a premeditated answer to both The first Answerer is to be he that sits next below the Proponent at table then the other Priests of full three years standing in the Congregation in like order Let the answers which are to be very short have nothing of flourish and ostentation for the doubt is proposed as it were in the name of the whole company to have it explained that every one even the proposer himself may answer to it as a Scholar examined by his Master An Appendix Lastly Concerning the Constitutions themselves it is ordered thus If there be any thing dou●●ful in our Constitutions the President a●d Deputies shall clear it yet by no means may they change or impair them nor in any wise innovate or make new ones An Appendix to the first Chapter purposely set by its self In the Oratory everyday at evening upon tolling a Bell a lamp and candles being lighted and an hour-glass set upon the Altar before the Image of our Blessed Lady from the solemn Feast of our Lord's Resurrection till the first of September the hour before Sun-set and from the first of September to the Feast of Easter the first hour after Sun-set is appointed for Prayer but on Holy days from the first of November the second hour too for then there is both a Sermon and Musick Now the manner of the Prayers is this after they have spent half an hour silent in mental Prayer as it is called the Sacristan lighting the rest of the candles upon the Altar and giving notice the Priest whose week it is to officiate begins the Litanies alternately with him recited by the company assernbled excepting the following prayers pronounced by him alone Who when he comes to the Prayer for Peace which begins Deus a quo sancta desideria c. prefently two of the Brothers or Ministers of th● Oratory taking from off the Altar two little ●ictures of our Blessed Saviour first give them to the Priest kneeling to kiss he kissing them both and saying on the one side and the other Pax tecum they bowing their heads answer Et cum spiritu tuo and afterward offer them to be kissed by all that are in the Oratory with the like salutation Pax tecum as the Priest used The rest of the prayers in the mean while being ended he desires them all aloud to pray to God for per-severing constantly in his worship and service saying to themselves five times the Lord's Prayer and the Angelical Salutation his words are Petamus quaeso nobis in divinis perseverantiam recitantes c. Let us I beseech you beg perseverance in things spiritual rehearsing c. These Prayers ended he again desires them to repeat them both again twice for the Pope Cardinals and other more eminent Priests for the concord of Christian Princes propogation of Faith extirpation of Heresies and for obtaining the conversion of wicked livers Then again to recite them once more for the Brethren of the Oratory that are deceased begging for them eternal rest Afterward saying the verse Dominus det nobis suam pacem he repeats an Antiphon of our Blessed Lady either Salve Regina or some other best suting to the time At last they who with these sacred Images have saluted first the assembly and then mutually themselves with the kiss of peace relate to the Priest what things they have received from them to be at that time recommended to their prayers who thereupon intreats all that they would be pleased to say one Pater and Ave for those particulars and five times invoke the most Holy Name of Jesus Which done so soon as he hath pronounced the verse Divinum auxilium maneat semper nobiscum and all have bowed themselves even to the kissing the very ground the Assembly is dissolved This is the constant order of the Prayers excepting Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and the whole week before Easter for on these days in memory of the scourging wherewith our most innocent Lord Christ Jesus for our sakes was punished they all whip themselves in the Oratory And the custome and manner is unless these days be Holy days of fall in Easter week that after half an hours mental prayer as they call it made secretly straight some of the Keepers or Officers of the Oratory distribute whips made of small cords full of knots put forth the children if there be any and carefully shut the doors and windows and extinguishing the other
after which he that spoke last invites them to say three Pater Noster's and three Ave Maria's to themselves and so the assembly is dismissed But on Sundays and other Holy-days one of them who have such days allotted them to preach on after Vespers sung makes a Sermon in the Church who hath power to exceed the half-hour something but not their established rules of discoursing already mentioned On the same days from the first of November to the solemn Festival of our Lord's Resurrection as also on Sundays in the morning one of ours all the year makes a Sermon in the Oratory But of this elsewhere it sufficeth now to relate our Constitutions belonging hereto None of ours may be admitted to make a Sermon in the Oratory without the consent of the Fathers that have lived ten years in the Congregation No Stranger is to be invited to preach in the Oratory or Church but by leave from the President and the four Deputies CHAP. IV. Of the constant form of Government of the Congregation of the Oratory NOW we will lay down the State and Form of our Congregation that is never to be changed as it is expressed in two decrees The first of which is comprised in these words Whereas heretofore our Congregation was by divine inspiration so instituted by the Holy Father Philip Nerius as to be united only with the bond of mutual charity not bound with any obligations of vows oaths or such like promises as this always was and is his and all the Fathers of the Congregation their unanimous meaning that it should so continue it is ordered that if at any time any of ours intend to quit this course and to bind the Fathers and Brethren in any bonds of vows oaths or promises although these should prove the greater part it may be in their choice to go into what order they please but that the other part though in number far inferior do enjoy all the goods of the Congregation in what place soever situate so long as they shall continue in their first condition and that they shall not be tied to give any thing of what is or shall be possessed to that other part that would change it For so shall this Congregation be ever preserved in the Church of God that is circumamicta varietate Thus far the words of the Decree that from thence it may appear that our Reverend Father in Christ could not be perswaded to lead his Sons any other way who yet out of his Christian charity so extreamly honoured Religious persons and out of his singular prudence knew that the holy institutions of so many Orders as have been already founded were abundantly sufficient to such as desired to tye up themselves by the bonds of vows for attaining the greatest excellency of Christian Discipline The other Decree is Lest any under colour of enlarging the Congregation should destroy it and that such confusion and trouble may be avoided which a multitude is wont to cause and that those of the Congregation may be amongst themselves more strictly cemented together in the bands of love which daily conversation begets and nourisheth that also every ones inclinations may be more exactly discovered and that all may more reverence those persons whose worth hath been long known to them it is ordered that this Congregation shall not accept of any place elsewhere nor undertake the charge of governing any other Congregation abroad and if any Colledges and Societies in other places shall procure our Rules and desire to observe them let them not be annexed to ours nor their Priests accounted of the Congregation of the Roman Oratory But let every House or Body following our form govern and manage it self by it self apart from others CHAP. V. Of the Election and Office of the President and the four Priests Deputies FOR the governing of the Congregation and taking care of the things belonging to it first a President is chosen whom we stile The Father next four Priests are made Deputies Of the choice and offices of all whom the Congregation thus determines None shall be elected President who hath not continued in the Congregation fifteen years in the which time he hath discharged the office of Deputy or Minister and who is not at least forty years of age The choice of the President shall belong to all the Priests of the Congregation who after their tenth year past shall be admitted to giving their votes but the Laicks are to know that they have no power to elect the President Deputies and Prefects but only to perform the duties appointed them by the Rule As well the President as the Deputies and other Officers may be chosen in their absence That Priest that amongst ours holds the first place next to the President in the Congregation ought to preside as Superior in the Election and absence of the President Now the Election of the President shall be after this manner He that is Secretary shall give every Elector Tickets in which are written or printed the names of those that are eligible to put one of them which they please into a Box two appointed to that end looking on Then as every one is drawn out in the sight of those two he shall be named aloud by the Secretary and he shall be chosen President in whole Election more than half the number of the Electors do jointly agree This way of electing till they thus agree they may reiterate ten times but after the tenth Scrutiny if still a greater part than half light not on one let there be a com-promise namely that only five of the Electors choose a President only out of those two who in any of the trials formerly made have had the most voices Which is shewn by an instance For if two or more have an eighth part of voices or one or more an eighth and others a seventh then refusing all the rest the Electors are to choose out of these only But the Electors themselves the five Com-promisers who have the power of choosing a President are only to be elected by a major part of voices of the Congregation not required that each have more of the Electors voices than the half and let them be taken out of those that were not in nomination at the first election For these two at that time have no right at all to any such election but are deprived of both active and passive voice as it is called If at length when the papers are drawn the Com-promisers be even let him be chosen President who by his place in the Congregation precedes the rest of his Competitors The office of President is to last three years and may at the pleasure of the Congregation be confirmed every third year He shall come and sit down at the same table with the rest unless sickness hinder He is to have nothing singular either in the Church at Table in Bed at home or abroad except the chief place and a Laick of our own