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Show NEW HOLY CROSS ORDER. The Order of the Holy Cross is well know in America. In most dioceses and archdioceses, where the Fathers and Sisters of the Holy Cross are engaged en-gaged in missionary works, be it the education ot the youth or the nursing of the sick or the care of the orphans, their works are anoreciated and their labors extolled. In Xotro Dame, Intl., their university univer-sity stands at the head of educational institutions. Locally we point with pride to the great work accomplished ac-complished in the schools and academies that are conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, whilst their good work in our hospital and orphanage cannot be sufficiently praised. But the very name Holy Cross, so dear to the members, is now confiscated con-fiscated by the first established -monastic order of the Protestant Episcopal church in America. They have their monastery of the Holy Cross at West Park, "on the west bank of the Hudson, opposite Poughkeepsie. The Churchman thus describes the new monastery: "The. sight is one to charm and attract a medieval medi-eval Benedictine. In front sweeps the broad Hudson, Hud-son, beyond rises the stately country house of a Vanderbilt; but as a reverend father said, with a gleam in his eye, 'The river flows between.' Vine-I Vine-I yards all ft round the monastery on the hillside slop-in slop-in gsteeply toward the river, suggest, with the friendly aid of a little imagination to picture their full growth, those monasteries that nestle amid their vines on the banks of the Danube. "The Order of the Holy Cross ha.s earned this home by twenty years of faithful prayer and work for the church. Founded in 1380 with Father J. O. S. Huntington, now its superior, as its first professed pro-fessed member, it has grown until it now counts six professed monks, seventeen celibate priests intimately inti-mately associated with the order as the Society of Oblates of Mt. Calvary, and eighteen other priests associate bound to it by a rule less strict. Beside these there are some 600 lay associates banded together to-gether as the Confraternity of the Christian Life, and a smaller society, the Confraternity of the Love of God, M-hose distinction is its especial devotion to the blessed sacrament." Wonders will never cease in the religious world. Whilst all "the new lights" that are springing up daily and claiming Christian origin are receding farther and farther away from the old church and true Christianity, the oldest fallen away churches-are churches-are retracing their steps, and coming, so1 close that "the paper partition," which, we are so often told, "only separates them from the Catholic church," will soon disapper. Instead of parson, you have Father J. O. S. Huntington. The new Order of the Holy Cross has six professed monks. How this name Protestant monk will jar the cards of a j good, pious Methodist! There are "seventeen coIi- bate priests." The one great boast of the reformers always has been that Luther (a monk and celibate) did away forever with celibacy. "The new order of the "Holy Cross" has also introduced "the confraternity con-fraternity of the love of God, whose distinction is its special devotion to the blessed sacrament." The Churchman should capitalize the two last words. What will our evangelical brethren think of this rapid stride and adoption of Catholic superstition? It would now seem to dawn upon Father J. O. S. Huntington and the members of the confraternity that our Lord meant what he said when at the Last Supper he took bread and blessed it, and said: "This is my body." But to whom did he speak the words? "Do this for a commemoration of me." That miraculous power was not given indiscriminately indiscrimin-ately to all his followers by Christ. It was conferred con-ferred on the apostles, and through them on their successors. Here the question of the validity of Anglican An-glican orders comes in. They appealed to the late Pope Leo XIII asking his opinion thereon. His decision, de-cision, given. in 1396, settles the matter for all time. A writer in the London Times at that time said: "They have been referring to every possible authority au-thority in the hope of obtaining somewhere an opin ion favorable to their case. They have appealed to the Greek church (Greek priests are validly ordained), or-dained), but the Greek church will have nothingto say to them. They have tried the Jansenist authorities au-thorities in Holland, but the . Jansenists, after a long and careful inquiry, found that they could give them no comfort. As a last hope they turned to the Holy See, and they have now got their answer an-swer from it." Tho missing link could not bo supplied, sup-plied, and notwithstanding their exalted ambition, their playing at the Mass is a vain pretension, and "the devotion to the blessed sacrament by the confraternity con-fraternity of the love of God" is an illusion." We recall our correction for the use of capital letters for blessed sacrament, which is supposed to be in the monastery of the Holy Cross. The new monastery was recently dedicated, and among other things Father Osborne, of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, had this to say: "When Protesetantism had come to wreck the faith of England, he said, the religious life seemed gone; its restoration seemed au impossibility, a mockery. Yet thirty-six years ago at Cowley the religious life came back to England and here was the first monastery for priests of the church in America." He does not state why the monastic or religious life seemed gone, though strangely enough he speaks of "Protesetantism coming to wreck the faith of England.' He falls into the old error that was so common among the laity at that period, namely, that monasticism was superior to the secular secu-lar priesthood divinely instituted by Christ. Father Osborne, of the Society of St. John the Evengelist, evidently never read the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, who in his "Siunma" writes: "In view of the difficulty attaching to the cure of souls, the state of the parish-priest is far more perfect than . that of the religious," or of StTjTnTrT" I who said, "The contest in which monks I oreat and their labors manifold, l.u f ' A be compared with those of rho P-,( tnii' F fereuee will be seen to be as great a ; a sl;bi-t "I'd a king." Sf. Au;., monk, and afterwards bisho... ',:! t than the founder of the new r.i,, : f" Cross, and its aFoIgist, the uprri..rir-'(ll-m l: ' toral or secular clergv to the ,:..; '. J,fi" t"to. He wrote: "Priests . . " " 1 appears to me more wonderful (riu-.tC' ehorites cud eoenolites') a.5 it. js ,,,!,.' ,r'....."V'ln' preserve it in the manifold race of",,,,'.,, '.' more turbulent life of the world." Tl,. '.,1 ? ' dinal Manning, a convert fr-.u, M--r.. ' futes Father (!) 0,Ut.nr,-, W;u ,u .X' shows why "when Protcstanti-m h,d r,.,'-, ", ' . the faith of England, the Hi-iou-, JjfV n , ,, J'"""1 its restoration seemed an i-msihiiiu '"" cry." He. wrote: "I have ,', ,isn y"" unintended harm done to the epiM.,,pate ..., t ' 'Z priesthood of the church, whirl, i treated it V"' lower state of perfection. The low i(,j '. '! notion of the priesthood lias become trad it;,,, The laity took for granted that tl,.. ,!......, 'seculars,' and spoke of them as sueii. !., . a secular priest was often heard, and it ,.,...,"',"! a world of deprecation." With Pius X .,..,. ously reigning, we will eomnleie the I..,,; " his first encyclical he said. "Our prefer- nr. j ever shall be, fur those who dedicate t! ii"' ' k more closely to the welfare of ilie soul- . I those who exercise the sacerdotal ministry . I from the duty of their vocation that is. I toral or secular priesthood." ' j The new Order of the Holy Cross has :.. debut with monks, celibate clergy, Cat!,,.;,. : ices and practices. With all its paraphernal. 1 cannot become the genuine coin, and will ;ijnl..' remain a counterfeit. It lacks the governing- j stamp, and without that it is simply spurious r&1. I a little higher, it may be, than Dowie's semi-mona'I ) tic pretensions, but none the kss a counterfeit. 'IV true and real Order of the Holy Cross has :he of the fisherman. That stamp is a recognition ,,f i-: work and merits. But the name of the genuine U now assumed by the counterfeit. Be it so. "What's in a name? that which we call a r,,.,,. By any other name would smell as sweet." |