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Show ' j I r 1 1 W ' jar "This is the X I ) h ? Cburct) Universal - : I faith." I Sat 1 CHURCH CALENDAR. .uu.-i Icvuiioii. Mot Pure Heart of ilary. jcntuhiy. 11. Twelfth after Pentecost. St. Euscb-' n in-. Si. ";n-li;(ii;iii, Jjisliop. D. j 3j..:...-iy. i.V -Assumption Jilcssed Virgin 31 jut. Utah. I I 1 !! J,;l' ,,f Oi'-iition. Su- f 3'tlt-kv. C St. Hyacinth. St. Peril. St. )io-' ni.-'ii'-. Miiiivr. - ' I 'r,I:!. m;,.v. 17. (M;)v- St. Lawreneo. St. Mamas, I I M.-u-tyr. S;. J.il.cralus, 3Iar(yr. ! Thur-kv, K Si. Helen. Wi.lmv. St. Aeapilus, M. St. Flora. St. Laura, Martyr, j r;,;;,v. !. St. dure of. .Muiitefalco, Virgin I. I ;ii.in IL Vpe.""St. IA,uis, risliei. . .;:!!,'. -".St. Bernard, Abbot. St. Lucius, f . THE PENITENTIAL LIFE. ': "Jiinibiaii"s advice to young' ieole 1 a-I a-I .. iU.,n.J,... ' ti.:. i .. i. .-. I ; f . """'"- una iiic jiuiu wruer oi ;m. 4 . .j St. Francis i roniniciidaMc- but I am ;::'Mi'! 'I'-'it very few will avail ibomsrlves of Ihe j inlv-n. Tbe Third Order of St. Dominie for i jn. 'I"' world intent ujion 'what is called the n i ilzhrr life involve some penitent ial practices lliat, l- ' j m h "ut men and women ordinarily shrink from, u m. A '.-f- One discipline is a perpetual Lent j ...,,1 .' !i more rigorous than that season, in some i. u j--! Ilw niany prisons will agm; to fast or J ! ' three r four days in every week f Yet this .in. r -:!!"';. even j rem a human point of view.' would I- d.- i'"-t thing ihey could do physically. I know I i:ti. -ix-riticia men and women who actually im- . tn. : -''"' 'iuU 1nv absolutely require fiesh food not J ,,ly -.x days in the week, but several times a day. "' ; '''! was there a greater ludluci nation; but it ,n ( . -H;- their iniaginaiion with insurmountable ' l v:-i!"!'',v. and it would require' a miracle to dis- j I I l...k.- '!' dehision. Then there is "The Little-. I n5r -f the Bles.-ed Virgin" to be recited daily, ex. ' m ' i-t "" Friday, when "The Office of the Dead' is ZX j s,i.-tii tiled. It is true that one can, if so disposed,. I J'-r t".d reasons, dispense himself from the fast i ;h' ''iiice by recitation of certain prayers the J.'ri'- Prayer and Hail Mary and Gloria twelve I t : m - i-epcated but a sincere Dominican will not r "ft lo these shifts unless in cases of rare ; 1 t."-' A gentleman says: "Although' I was, I urii.g a spiritual mission, in my town, selected by J . ! '!' li'imiuican friar-preacher to be a member of 'in Third Order, there were men and women, per- V !; n-e many, in the same congregation, whose zeal 1 : 1 worth Mere far beyond mine.- Indeed, I might f cLu-aeterize myself among ihc least worthy. Xot : :i "Mier man or woman followed by example and I re d to lead this life of penance. The same priest, s .!i:e year afterward, gave another retreat in the I town. and. being in a distant part of the eoun- i :-y. I imjilored him to induce Other persons to keep i in'- ironi being the lone member of ihe Third Order. Wiiai lie tried to dol know not, but this I know that 1 am still alone in that respect." John 11. Randall, ( ; in 'atholie Columbian. AN AMERICAN PAPAL CHAMBERLAIN. While there are more than 100 ordinary cham-V cham-V rlains of the rape and sword at the Vatican, .-icing them half a dozen or so Americans, whose - 'ice is purely titular, entitling them to wear a s :;-tii:etive garli and also the insignia of their rank, C , ' M'.-peiidnl Iy a fiilt chain from tlicir neck, there j "idy six grand chamberlains io the holy father, ; ';::' of whom arc Italians and three foreigners. . f J"f 'he first time, in the history of the. church, mi .inriean jiann-ly: Francis MeXutt has now i appointed to till a vacancy in one of these of- ' !!'. hich. a.-ide from the four great hereditary 'Unities belonging 1o the princely house of i' -'1 '-t to which a layman can aspire at the court ; of the supreme ponliff. It ia a life appointment, and ' 'i'.' i! con-lant residence at Pome, as the six I '!'-'" id eiiamberlains in question are required to be !'i'e-ent at all the great functions and ceremonies in !v lii' h the pope takes part. The garb is picturesque, t " "!'. although of Idack. the cut is altogether medi-' r and includes a ruff. In fact, it is almost the r..m;tfrpart of the costume in' which Prince ; ; ' "!"ima is in variably represented' as figuring by the v-'le of ihe holy father just to the left of his throne hi die pictures that have portrayed the grand, ccre-m ccre-m 'i i i at the Vatican and in the basilica of St. . V ! FEW DONT'S FOR CHURCHGOERS. I'"ii"t lalk in church it shows a lack of faith. : ! -o rv bud l.i reeding. i'oii't chew- gum in church it's an indication " ":'-ier" habits and back-fence leaning. M":ft ignore tile collection basket it makes you , -ry -heap and ungenerous, whether you feel I I ii"t make only a half genuflection if it is not i V'.'h while bonding our knees to the floor in adora- ' ' ; !" "in- Lord, it is hard to understand what i us to Mass. , 1 I 'n"i come up to the ftltar mil after everybody received (.'onimunion and the priest has re- : d io ilie altar. Such actions disclose a carc- that cannot be explained. . "ii i tay in the back seats when you can get 'he altar. When you go to see your neigh's neigh-'s ' nil don't stand or sit at ihe door you go into; i ' :' !'-! room. Why can't you treat the Lord with j ' -atne courtesy . I i'eii't ;iy it's too hut to go to 'church during the I I " " !' Jnoiiths it's not too hot for anything else, L ' ' -ii-'iil'i it be too hot to serve G"d I ) : PROPERTY OF A DEAD POPE. i - oecisioii lias just lieeii render-d by the court j " ippeal in Italy which lias, created no end of ; : urbat ion at the Vatican, says Marquis do Fonte-:ti Fonte-:ti t hicago Tribune. In Italy, as in France and !:..ny other continental countries, the law only j "'v- i! tc-tator the free disposal by will of a eer- amount of his pnipeity, his r.ext heirs being I ' ' :!ed to a porlivn thereof unless they yre out-' out-' I ini! now it ha- always hivn held that the ' v :ieir- .f a jMtntiff were th- three cardinals, ' ' cum.is of his will, aeling in behalf of the only 'lie executors in question holding ihe nrop- ' ' i:i tru-i f oil the (.lection of his successor, to i ' "' i" it was 'Men turned over, all ihe property of I eluirch at Pome being vested in the pontiff. ' '' dead pope must be treated like that of any ; ' lie Italian eourls now decide that the property . ' dead pope must be treated like that of any i " i person dying in Italy, which has the result of i 1 'wing the nearest relalives of Pius IX. and the ? 11 !'ii"vs and nieces oi Leo XIII. with extensive I i';M:ts upon the property left by these two pontiffs. I flic matter probably will be a llied by means of 1 a 'empromise. But ihe latter is sure to cost the I'l'al treasury a heavy price, and new measures will i '-v: have 10 be devised for safeguarding the posse s- I Si.""- of the '-hurch from pretensions which' may be f j ' thereto by the next heirs of those pontiffs in, ; M ir,'n .iho property has been vested. j l '" : h MIRACULOUS CURE. ' ' t Chicago. 111..,. July . oU.M'atilda .Cunheaii, ' I 'fiichter of the president of the Calum?t National ";i,k. for vears, an invalid unable to move from her: ci r.r. wits suddenly cured while praying before a'-.': n I I ( shrine of St. Anne at St. Anne, 111., and walked, unassisted from the church. Ker father when informed of his daughter's restoration to health, was so overcome as to be unable un-able to speak. The cure occurred at the shrine of St. Anne, in St. Anne, 111., whither thousands of pilgrims made heir way to participate in the feast dav exercises iieJd in honor of the-saint. - Miss Cunnea was accompanied bv a Sister of' St .Joseph, of the Hotel Dieu hospital, Fnglewood. .Hot devotion there attracted the attention of the priests, and as the relic of ihe saint was passed around the priests brought it to heivand rubbed it over licr lifeless limbs. I T feel that I am cured, that I can walk,"' she s .', "l'.lp lllf' please, to my feet.' .The sister, in astonishment, helped the girl to stajid. The crowd fell back before her an amaze- ,,1UM M'c ncgau io waiK slowly but steadily forward. for-ward. SCENES AT BISHOP'S CONSECRATION. At the consecration of Bishop Fox of Green Bay, st which as aleardy stated in the Observer, Archbishop Messmer officiated, .assisted by Bishops Fis, of Marquette, and Sehwebach, of La Crosse, sealed in a front pew were Mrs. Paul Fox, the: aged mother of the bishop; Sister Ccelia, ihe superioress of St. Catherine's academy, at Pacine, a sister of Bishop Fox, and Sister Paula, a cousin. The crosier used by Bishop Fox was presented by the clergy of the diocese. It cost $1,000 and is. studded' with thirty-six large amethysts and five diamonds. It is to be used in Cathedral ceremonies only, the Catholic Foresters . of the state having presented him with a traveling crosier. The mitres were the gifts of the St. Mary's , KojucSisters and the Dominican Sisters of Pacine a nL they'd onor of the episcopal ring was M. II. Wiltzius, of Milwaukee. SATOLLI CROWNS AGED NUN. Cardinal Satolli opened the three days' celebration celebra-tion at the Ursuline convent, Bedford Park, X. Y., in honor of the golden jubilee of Mother Superior Dominick of the Eastern Community. At thp con clusion of the Mass Mother Dominick renewed her vows and was crowned with a golden crown by Cardinal Satolli. Mother Dominick's name before she took, vows was Ivatherine Weiss. She -was born in Bavaria on 2s ov. 1G, 1534. She took her first vows in the L rsuline convent in Bavaria when she was eighteen years old. and went to St. Louis with severaf nuns, starting the first Ursuline Order1 in this country there. Two years later she took her final vows, and one month later came to Xew York. BELIEVE AND BE BAPTIZED. Cardinal Gibbons spent a few days recently at the Catholic rectory at Southampton, P. L, and preached a sermon on Faith in the church last Sunday. Among the truths brought out, this is one: "Some weeks ago I received a letter from a gentleman in Albany who was without faith and was in great despair. In the letter he said : 'Would to God that I could believe in a personal God. I have prayed to God to make Himself known to me by some sign or revelation, but I can get no light, no knowledge.' I wrote to him referring to a passage pas-sage in St. Luke's gospel describing Lazarus and Dives, and when Lazarus died lie was taken to Abraham's bosom, and after Dives died he looked up and saw Lazarus and said to Abraham : M pray that thou wouldst send Lazarus to admonish my brothers that they may escape this torment.' But Abraham said: 'They have Moses and the prophets; 1 1 .1 ' l.i. j.v" l ,i i , ' i ici mem near inem; let mem react tne propnets ana believe in Moses.' But Dives said: 'Oh, if only one rose from the dead, then they would believe.' but: Abraham said: 'If they hear-not -Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.' "If w;e believe not Moses and the prophets today, to-day, then we would not believe though one rose from the dead. We have not only Moses and the prophets, prop-hets, but we fcave also miracles. We have the great standing miracle of the church which has endured ; throughout so many ages and had led so many ihousands into its fold. If we will not believe after all this, neither would we believe though one rose from the dead." : 4 |