42 - Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

42

Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

3 pp; manuscript

Letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, addressed to Br. Patrick McLoughlin OFM Cap. and Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. The correspondence serves as an official notice of re-assignment and a dispensation from certain communal obligations in recognition of their advanced age and long service. Fr. Thomas informs the brothers that the Superiors have decided to relieve them of the pressing duties associated with living in large city communities, officially fixing their new place of residence at Rochestown to afford them rest and quiet. To facilitate this transition, they are formally exempted from attending the community’s midnight and morning exercises.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition