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Show ! THE (ATHGLK WORLD. I "r -r i i 4-fi MIDNIGHT MASS DEC. 31. Solemn Homage to Our Lord Jesus . Christ, Our Redeemer. In order to sanctify the night of Dec. 31, 1900, the international committee for the Solemn Homage asked the Holy Father to grant permission for the celebration. of Midnight Mass in all the Churches of the World, and for the faithful the privilege of receiving Holy Communion at that time. The Holy Father not only graciously acceded to tne request, Dut in order that the faithful faith-ful might at the beginning of the Holy Year greet the Author of time, he extended ex-tended the concession so that the Midnight Mid-night Mass may be said ori the 31st of December, "1S99, as well as on. Dec. 31, 1900. During this Mass the Blessed Sacrament Sa-crament may be solemnly exposed, with the prudent permission of the Ordinary, Or-dinary, and the faithful may receive Holy Communion. This is the most extraordinary permission of the whole reign of Leo XIII, and it shows how irtftently his wishes are fixed on the celebration of the Holy Year as well as on the International Homage to the Redeemer of mankind. . UNIVERSAL DECREE. .Jt is most becoming that we who are about to celebrate the commencement of the Holy Year, happily proclaimed by our Holy Father, Leo XIII, should in the depth of night, rise to greet the Author of time, and, prostrate before be-fore His Altars, to offer the most acceptable ac-ceptable Victim, who is the'lmmaculate Lamb, assisting at the Sacred Banquet, so that at this most opoprtune time we may find the assistance of His grace and mercy: for our salvation is nearer. Behold now is the acceptable time; behold be-hold now is the day of salvation. And if the Kingdom of Heaven, which , is the Church on earth, is likened to the ten virgins going forth in the night to meet the - Bridegroom, each one of us may, on the occassion of this solemn festivity, consider more attentively these Sacred Words: Trim you? lamps; for behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet him. S'ince, moreover, at midnight of the last day of December of ' the coming year, the present century will come to an end, and a new one begin it is very appropriate1 that thanks be given to God by some pious and solemn cere mony tor tne Denehts received during the course of the present century, and owing to the urgent necessities of the times, that greater favors be implored in order to begin auspiciously the new era. Therefore, in. order that the approaching ap-proaching year, 1900, may begin happily happi-ly through the supplication of the assistance as-sistance of God and His Only Begotten Son, our Redeemer, and that It may end, after a, prosperous course, by ushering ush-ering in a still more happy century, as it is right for us to expect: Our Most Holy Blather, Leo XIII, graciously concedes con-cedes that, with the prudent consent of the Ordinary' of every place, at midnight mid-night on the 31st day of December, both -of the closing and of the coming year, in all Churches and Chapels where the Most Blessed Sacrament is rightfully, right-fully, kepit, the same Most August Sacrament. Sa-crament. may be exposed to adoration; ana permission is given to read or to sing at the same hour "Coram Sanstis-Fimd,' Sanstis-Fimd,' 'one Mass of the Feast of the Circumcision, of Our Lord and the Octave Oc-tave of the Nativity; and permission is given, by special favor, to the faithful' faith-ful' to .receive Holy Communion either during the Mass' or after it; ail necessary neces-sary conditions to be observed. . All things to the contrarv, notwithstanding, notwith-standing, "'13th day of November, 1S99. (Signed) C. Bishop of Praeneste Card. Mazzella, Perfect. Sacred Congregation of Rites. D. PANICI, Secretary. Archbishop Keane spoke at the Boston Bos-ton Cathedral on Sunday last in behalf of the Catholic University. Mr. John Fairclough, recently elected mayor of Leigh, England, is the first Catholic so honored in that place. Dr. Farrelly, adviser on international law to the Transvaal government, is a Glasgow Irishman, and was at one time well known in Catholic circles in Sect-land. Sect-land. 45 Examinations will be held at the parish par-ish house of the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, on Dec. 15 to determine appointments ap-pointments to the irremovable pastorates. pasto-rates. I I Lieutenant Colonel James W. Powell, I U. S. A., has been appointed professor ' of military science and tactics at the College of SL Francis Xavier, New j York. The Catholic who does not say his morning and. evening prayers, and hear mass on all Sundays and holidays holi-days of obligation, is unworthy the j name. ' The Rt. Rev. J. J. Glennin of Kansas ', City recently suppressed a charity ball : which was to have been given in that city for the benefit of the Catholic , orphans. Haiti is now again represented by a minister to the Vatican, J. J. Dalbein-ar, Dalbein-ar, who has presented1 his letters to the Pope. His ao-DO-iriitment is a ner- manent one. Professional experts have recently valued Raphael's picture of the Transfiguration Trans-figuration in the Vatican Art Gallery at 51,500,000 and the Vatican Library at $20,000,000: Sister Nepomuc. who was fatally injured in-jured by fire in Baltimore on Nov. 19, has died of her injuries. She was born in Germany in 1854, and was christened chris-tened Catherine Korb. Cardinal Gibbons has returned to Baltimore Bal-timore from the south. The train upon which the Cardinal traveled north was run Into by another train, but the passengers pas-sengers escaped without injury. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn is seriously seri-ously ill at his home in Newburgh, N. Y., suffering from congestion of the lung3, complicated with heart trouble. A later account reports his recovering. The Rev. Charles McEwen Hyde, who slandered Father Damien after death, has himself gone to his reward. Friends of Father Damien need not say a word against the dead traducer. Robert Louis Stevenson has already written Mr. Hyde's epitaph. 5' The Westminster Gazette states that Miss Adelaide Sergeant, the novelist, has become, a Catholic. It appears that she was confirmed by Cardinal Vau-ghan Vau-ghan in his private chapel on Friday, the 27th ult. She is one of the first converts con-verts of Father Maturin. The Metropolitan See of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, in which the diocese of Salt Lake is included, had an audience with His Holiness. Pope Leo XIII, on Tuesday. Archbishop Riordan was accompanied by Bishop Wigger of t Newark, N. J. Bishop Hopkins, who was consecrated conse-crated for the Vicariate of British Honduras, at St. Xavier's Church, St. Louis, Mo., recently, is a native of England. British Honduras is in charge of the Jesuits, and belongs to the Missouri Mis-souri province of the Order in the United Unit-ed States. An association has been started in connection with the Apostolic College, i Limerick, Ireland, having in view the training of students who, as priests, i . will devote themselves) to the service of the navy. The title of the associa- lion is "St. Joseph's Royal Navy Fund." j It seems that the Catholic aristocracy of England are not pleased that Car- fHnnl VancrVion, Viae inv-iteI Portlnol Gibbons to speak at the dedication of the new Cathedral. They object to His Eminence of Baltimore because he wrote a preface to the life of John Boyle O'Reilly. By the will of the late Vice President Presi-dent Hobart, probated in the office of the surrogate of Passaic county, New Jersey, be juests of $5,000 each are made to five charitable institutions, two of which, St. Joseph's hospital and St. Joseph's Girls' Orphan Asylum, Pater-son, Pater-son, are Catholic. Bishop Blenk of Porto Rico has left New Orleans for his new home. He will stop on his way there at Santiago, where he has been commissioned by Archbishop Chappelle to confer the pallium on the new Archbishop of Santiago, San-tiago, Mgr. Barnado. A remarkable dinner was given in the City of Mexico recently to 2,000 pdfcr people in honor of the return of Archbishop Alarccn. from Rome. The dinner waa excellent, and the bishops and higher clergy, as. well as fashionable fashion-able ladies, waited on the poor people and distributed to every one articles of clothing suitable for cool weather. Four Sisters of Charity sailed on the Hongkong Maru of the Toyo Kieen Krsha for Honolulu, on their way to the leper settlement at Mo'.okai. They arrived in San Francisco from France last week. Mother Judith Brassier is the leader of the party. With her are Sisters Elizabeth Del, Louise Marga- ' ret . and Albeno Labreno. They will devote their lives to the care of the lepers. |