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Show NOVEL WEDDING BANQUET. "The young ladies in training at the Holy Cross hospital gave a pretty and exclusive entertainment at the hospital last evening. The attendance at the entertainment was limited only to the nurses and one or two especially invited guests. The entertainment enter-tainment consisted of a mock wedding, with bride, groom, clergyman, flower girls and guests. "Miss Wieklund was the happy groom. Miss Stansh'eld the charming bride. Miss McMillin the staid mother-in-law. Miss Davis the dashing bridesmaid brides-maid and Miss Benedict the winsome flower girl. Miss Ladd and Miss O'Connor were fetching in their impersonations of physicians of the hospital staff. The fun took place in the nurses' parlor, and finished with a wedding banquet and a hop." The above clipped from last Saturday's Herald does not seem to be in accordance with Catholic feeling and sentiment. v In Lent-when marriages are not solemnized with all the pomp of the ritual, "a mock marriage with bride, groom, clergyman, flower girls and guests," in a Catholic institution, sounds in the ears of the ordinary lay man as a very profane and frivolous amusement. T. F. CAUILL. Salt Lake City. March 28, 100!). Our correspondent is quite right. Not only in Lent but at any season of the year, and not only in a Catholic institution but in any Catholic home the burlesquing of the sacrament is worse than profane. Marriage is one of the seven sacraments blessed and sanctified by Christ. To profane what our Lord elevated to the dignity of a sacrament is perilously near to a sacrilege. Disregard for the sanctity and indissolubility of marriage is the crying sin of the age. The Catholic church stands alone in fighting the evil of the divorce court or any attempt to cast approbrium on the sacrament of matrimony. Hence the action of the foolish nurses in parodying the sacrament of the church and in publishing their "Novel Wedding Banquet" is not only "a very profane pro-fane and frivolous amusement." but an undermining undermin-ing of the teaching of the church regarding the sacrcdness of the marriage tie. |
