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Show j - brd) Universal I M. I CHURCH CALENDAR. living81' FerdInanrf 6T2,:t4 for thanks-j the' Im7cSati0n- B- V" M-4f3'116 for s&X&r0 R C-9120 for the , APsociates." ?ertha" M- 84.275 for dead i! ri' 7" P,rst FridaySt. Anthony Ma- CentfrsC.Carla C" F' 4.01-709 f0r cr' S- S- oar, C 635,013 for Direct- i j S- 71 h after Pentecost. Most Pre- ,,ous Blwd. St. . Fulcheria. V.-E. i I :0 "-23; -Alatt. vill, 15-21. 4.St8 for Promoters. I S- - St. Elizabeth, Q. w. 52S.SS4 ! I 3or the departed. I I 9- T-' st. Gerrnanus, Bp. 455,557 for r j Perseverance. I 10. v. Seven Brothers. 64.477 for the young. h r1- St. Margaret, Q.-431.735 for j irst Communions. 1 12. F. st. John Guabert. 595.534 for r parents. j 13. S. St. Anacleus, P. M. 341,509 for i families. I 34. R. Sth after Pentecost. St. Bona- venture. K. Rom. viii, 12-17; G. Luke, I xvi. 1-9. S67.459 for reconciliations. I 15. M. PL Azevedo arid Comps, MM. j -70.326 for 'work, means. I 36. T. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. 501,-I 501,-I S77 for th Clergy. 1". W. St. AJexus, C C99.90C, for reli- 18. Th St. Camillus de LelHs. C. F. 407.856 for seminarists, novices. V- St. Vincent de Paul. 52S.S21 for vocations. f 20. S. St. Henry, C, Emperor. 795.702 I for parishes. I 21. S. 9th after Pentecost. St Victor, M. K. 1 ror. x, 6-15; G. Luke, xiv, 41- 47. 521,054 for schools. I J THE GENERAL INTENTION I I Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. I SOULS OF MORTAL SIN. I Our Holy Father, filled with t he zeal v.hich characterized the life of Him I I whose Vicar he is, calls upon the mem- 5 hers of the -Apostleshlp to pray for I souls. This all lovers of the Sacred Heart will not fail to do. There are many people who stand In need of our I . prayers; there are .thousands for whom ii i we send up our petitions to the throne I ! f mercy; but there are none who need -i ! our pleading as do the souls in sin souls from which the image of their -j Ulaker has been blotted out: souls shorn of the divine life merited for I them by the blood of our blessed Lord. souls with no claim or title to God's mercy and love since by sin they have j made themselves His enemies, surely their needs and dangers will appeal to our charity. j Then, it is precisely for these souls our Blessed Lord came "I have not come for the just in Israel, but for the sinner" I have not come for the unstained un-stained and untarnished, but for the seiled and the slnfuL While, of course, He became Man for all, His Heart , yearned fn an especial manner for I those who had offended Him, repected His gTaee and refused His love. For these He turned "as the heart panteth for the living water." "I thirst," is the lying cry, which rang out on Mount Calvary a thirst not for the cold water wa-ter that ran in the Cedron to the east or in the'Pool of Bethsaida, to cool his S fevered mouth, but a thirst for the Fouls for which His life was ebbing J away in humkn blood. An Associate ' of the Apostleship -will ill merit that I honor who could stand on Mount Cal- Ivary on that dark Good Friday and hear unmoved that cry of pain and do nothing to' cool those parched and tracked lips. How much more then must that cry find an echo in our heart w hen it is not for the clear crystal wa-j wa-j ter, but for souls which have cost His i blood and His life. I '' NOTHING BUT LEAVES. (By Rav. William O'Brien Pardow.) j "He found nothing on the fig tree but leaves." St. Matt, xxi, 19. i '"Nothing but leaves." The spirit grieves Over a wasted life; Sin committed while conscience slept, i Promise made, but never kept; I Nothing but leaves. "Nothing but leaves." No garnered sheaves Of life's fair, ripened grain. Word. idle words, for earnest deeds. We sow the seeds lol tares and weeds. We reap, with toil and pain. Nothing but leaves. ''Noth'ng but leaves." Memory weaves No veil to screen the past; .And as we trice our veary way. v ounting eacn josi or misspent ciay, I We find sadly at last Nothing but leaves. .Ami s!m;1 we meet the Master so, Bearing our withered leaves? Th" Savior looks for ripened fruit; nJ s'n;;i we stand before Him muute. With nothing but leaves? j LOURDES. Some Interesting Facts About the Famous Grotto. luiinLT the year 1906 there were ccle-"hraled ccle-"hraled it the sanctuary 40.Ri0 masses, while 1,' , number of those who received j l!i.y ' unniunion amounted to 407,001). JYayers o the Immaculate Virgin were jnnde ' r 1.970,440 intentions and 41.595 were ti - acts of thanksgiving in return for t.i.'s obtained. They made 67.534 5nm -ri ins in the miraculous water. Th.- !i-d'oaI bureau alone has regis-l-n-d IK miraculous cures. It is worthy vf lu te that 2S0 medical men of repute vi.Mt.-d M,e sanctuary' during the year to i-Xi i itie and report upon the cures. The Grotto' witnessed ninety-five pil- i pinnmaces and forty smaller ones. ; Winging to the feet of the Queen of Ileavei, K1.S31 pilgrims in 240 special iriir.s. Anion?; the pilgrims are to be found j jtot u f..w illustrious names, such as ihee His Eminence Cardinal Katsrhtl-a!er. Prince-Archbishop of Saizbuir: His Excellency Mgr. Tonti Ar,rstolip Nuncio at Lisbon: forty-six jirchbishops nnd bishops and twenty-hven twenty-hven o:,,.r prelates. Leo Xlll's Handkerchiefs.. From the Lady's Pictorial.) Mnnv people have read of the beautiful beauti-ful lavette 'presented by Pope Pius X io his tnn. the Prince of the Astur-l.fs. Astur-l.fs. but the historical interest attaching attach-ing to part of it is not generally known. When giving the order for the layette ?; occurred to His Holiness that some- ! thing mi-h l be done in connection vith ;i in, some exquisitely firfc: new I cambric pocket handkerchiefs tliat had i I . LJ belonged to the late Pope Leo XIII. and which had in the course of events come into the possession of his successor. succes-sor. Accordingly, after consultation in the proper quarters, these handkerchiefs handker-chiefs were fashioned into some of the dainty little garments that help to swell the little one's wardrobe, and so during the next few months the heir to the Spanish throne will be at least partly clothed in what had once been the property of the great and good Pope who twenty-one years ago assumed as-sumed the duties of godfather to the royal infant's own father, Don Alfonso XIII. ENTERS DOMINICAN ORDER. Wealthiest Catholic Nobleman of German Empire Becomes Novice. (From he Record, Louisville.) From Germany this week comes, for us, the edifying and deenly interesting intelligence that Prince Loowcnstein-Vertheim, Loowcnstein-Vertheim, the foremost and wealthiest Catholic noble man of that empire, at the advanced age of 73 years, has just entered the Dominican order at Benin, Holland, as a novice. This step of the prince has occasioned no little surprise, not only in Germany, but in all Eu-tope. Eu-tope. For several decades, and "more especially in the troublous days of the Kulturkampf, he has been a leaded lead-ed in everything Catholic. There was not notable or national gathering of Catholics that he did not foster cr personally per-sonally preside over. He lent impulse to and presided over a number of German Ger-man Catholic congresses, and in recent years was the distinguished president of the Anti-Dueling League. The prince was twice married. His first marriage with Adelheld, Princess of Isenburg, who died in 1861, was child- less. His second, with, Sophia, Princess) "i a-nu io licnienstein, wno oiea in 1899, bore him seven children. The oldest daughter. Princess Francesca, is a religious of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis; another daughter is a Benedictine of the Abbey of St. Cecilia, in Cowes, Island of . Wight. We may best illustrate the high character of this Catholic prince from our own personal experience with him. One summer afternoon, thirty-two years ago, we were walking to and fro alongside a village church near the Rhine, and well known for its treas ures of ecclesiastical art. A plain carriage car-riage drove up the deserted street to the church door, and an equally, if not severely, plain-looking gentleman and lady alighted from it. Seeing us, they courteously inquired the name of the church. On learning from us that it was St. Michael's, they entered.' remaining re-maining therein about half an hour. On coming out, and again seeing us, they further inquired the name and residence of the pastor, to which we conducted them. Being ushered into his presence, they introduced themselves, them-selves, much to the surprise and embarrassment em-barrassment of the humble pastor, as the Prince of Loewenstein and his consort, con-sort, the Princess of Lichtenstein. The; good pastor entertained them as befitted be-fitted their rank and their honored Catholic name. On taking their departure depar-ture the prince quietly slipped into the hands of the pastor a generous purse with which he was. to place in his church a fine, artistic memorial window. win-dow. . Such was the unostentatious Prince Loewenstein of more thvn thirty-two years ago. and when t'Ae revenues from his estates were said to amount to fully 3.000 marks a day. A Catholic Church Built Mainly by Protestants. On June 13 Father Lough-Mi of Mc-Cook, Mc-Cook, Neb., dedicated a new church at Imperial, Neb. A little over a jear r-.To two of the business men non-Catholics of Imperial spoke to father Loughran about building a Catholic church at that place. They thought it would be a great improvement to the town it would be useful as well as ornamental. or-namental. A special meeting was eaiieu id consiuer uie proposition, in less than one hour $1,200 were pledged. A building committee of six was appointedthree ap-pointedthree of these being non-Catholics. non-Catholics. These three being business men of the town, had practically full control of the work. Plans were secured se-cured and the contract let and the building was completed early last winter. win-ter. The huiliing, with art glass windows, win-dows, but as yt no furniture, cost $3,032. Over one-half of this was subscribed sub-scribed by non-Catholics. There is still a small debt less than $300 but this will be secured by pledges in a very short time. Father Loughran told the assembly on dedication day that he did not know of another case in which Protestants built a church for Catholics. As a memorial me-morial to the sweet spirit of this work is in 'art glass" window donated -by Mrs. Shallenberger non-Catholic wif? of one ,of the non-Catholic building committee. When Saints Flourished. Read the lives of saints. There have been saints of all ages, all ranks, all conditions. Many retained baptismal innocence, others had been great sinners. sin-ners. They were subject to the same passions, habits and temptations as ourselves, and sometimes to greater that is. they had as many or more obstacles ob-stacles to surmount. And it is remarkable remark-able that the church never won more saints than in those first ages when the profession of Christianity was a pledge of martyrdom. Grou's Maxims." General Intention. We are asked to pray during July for souls in a state of mortal sin. As the Irish Messenger says, in presenting Ibis intention: It would scarcely be possible to propose to the prayerful consideration of our associates an intention in-tention that more intimately concerns the interests of the Sacred Heart and the extension of his kingdom on earth than the conversion of souls that are ! in the state of mortal sin. Just as when we look upon the ocean we can only see the comparatively tiny tract of sea that is contained within the very limited horizon of our mental vision, while a waste of waters stretches, boundless and unseen, for many thousand miles, perhaps, beyond they sky line, so when, with mental vision, we would strive to discover the extent and malice of a mortal sin, our weak human intellect can only see that tiny tract of wickedness that lies within with-in the narrow limits of our human comprehension. "And yet the wonder of it all is this, that, at the word of absolution from a priest. Or even pending sacramental absolution, at the first heartfelt cry of perfect sorrow in the heart, that perfect per-fect contrition, as it is termed, which is easier far to have than many people fancy, the poor dead soul is raised to life and restored to all its matchless beauty and it.i inheritance of never-ending never-ending joy. This is the work of grace, and grace is won by prayer. Each one of us, by prayer, may win the grace that saves the fallen soul. Every moment of the day full many a soul is passing through the gates of death. It trembles for a moment on the brink, then falls forever Into hell. A fervent prayer sent up, a mass well heard, a sacrifice or act of self-denial made, would, perhaps, have won that priceless price-less treasure of a soul forever for the Sacred Heart. But no, the agonizing Heart of Christ must bleed in silent anguish as it casts that soul from it forever, because no faithful lover of the Sacred Heart was there to give a helping help-ing hand and send the fervent cry to heaven that would have brought the grace of true repentance to the sinner's sin-ner's deathbed." Catholic News. ! The Habit of Cheating. How do people contract the habit of cheating? They begin too often to cheat in childhood. They cheat at their lessons and they cheat at play; they give a false excuse in order to escape punishment; they steal a ride or an apple, and say, "That's nothing!" They disobey, if they are sure they will not be found out; they have no sense of honor. So the habit grows upon them; it becomes easy for them to deceive; easy to steal, to cheat, to lie. Indeed, the fact Is a self-evident one. in science sci-ence as in conscience, that it is easy to go down hill. Then comes, perhaps, a fall Into some flagrant open sin. And where has been the sense of sin before that? Were not the various steps, onwards on-wards and ever downwards, sins? Let us bring it face to face with our young people, that "little sins" so-called are really sins. Sacred Heart Review. The Catholic Press. Our tabulation of the Catholic press of the United States is in some respects re-spects reassuring, and in others not. It shows: That Catholics sustain more church papers than any other denomination. That from a third to a fourth of all the religious publications in the United Unit-ed States are Catholic publications. This is rather more than our share. The aspect that is not reassuring is the economic waste involved. AVe are sustaining too many periodicals that are merely handbills, leaflets, begging propositions and "piety penances. All this does not make for a strong or effective ef-fective Catholic press. " There is too much catering to paroelnal vanity end special interest. The line of true development de-velopment is consolidation, co-operation and the making of better, more vr ried and higher grade papers. Catholic Citizen. |