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Show 9 j J Church tlntoersal I : a j Church Calendar. I .? Monday. St. Andrew Corsini. I W,S1 for dead As.eiates. I T. Tu.-sday. SSL Paul. John and j ; Jumos.-4,268 for local renters. J : C. Wednesday. St. Dorothy 577.444 for J Directors. 7. Thursday. St. Richard G07.939 I , for Promoters. j i 8. Friday. St. John of Mat ha. 777.- I ytrt for the departed. 0. Saturday. St. Appolonia. S2O.0'j7 I for perseverance. j ; 10. Sunday. Quinquagesima. St. J ! f-KlasUca.-E. J Cor. xiii. 1,13: O 1 Luke xviii, 31.34763.os4 for the young. I THE GENERAL INTENTION I Recommended by His Holiness, I Pius X. I Parish Priests. I The church tx aches us bv her cxam- I lie to pray for those whom God has in- i -trusted with the welfare .,f our souls. 3 . 1 after d:iy she places the names of , I ; our Holy Father and of our Bishop in I the mouth of her minister at the most I solemn part of .the mass, r.ut those 1 dignitaries are highly elevated above I the ordinary Christian, that praver for I them is fe.'t as a duty rather than ! comfort. There, are. however, priests j who are ordained by Jesus Christ 10 j some into immediate contact with the I little and lowly ones of his flock; they J fire responsible to God for the souls of I .their parish or 1heir district, thev aie I our Parish Priests. They know us. and I , we know them: prayer for them is not I merely a duty but ftlso a pleasure.' I It is a duty and a pleasure to prav I for our Parish Priests: but it also a most important apostolic work. As ns-I ns-I Socintes of the apostleship of prayer I arc faithful to. our various duties, . 1 :; na a matter .f course; bui at the samo y3 lime we are always eagerly looking for the apostolic tendency in whatever our present, duties may he. The old pro-i pro-i verb says: "Like priests. like people." ! Here is the apostolic drift of our duty ! of praying for the Parish Priests. If 'our prayer sanctifies an ordinary : Christian soul it does a gre ia Mid noble work indeed; but if it sanctifies the ' s ul of a Parish Priest, it does iin-! iin-! measurably more, because it uplifts all 1 the souls under the care of the Parish : Priest. "Like priest, like reonle." ! . It is a pleasure and a duty and a I most Important apostolic work to pray I for the Parish Priests. Our Holy S 'Father places this general intention be- I fore the associates of the apostleship : for this month in order to remind them that they can do more than merely pray for the Piiesls. They can assist their Priests in many ways: they can ; increase their influence by showing them public respect, by sneaking weil I of them, by bringing thorn into con tact with the black sheep of the ja- J " liph. by contributing their own little mile to the collections take.i up for the .1 '. .benefit of the church or of other charit- I .aide purposes. This kind of apostolic j work oiight to be very dear to us, be- cause charity begins at home. Lent. ' ut from His world my Savior went. Out from the ihimor of throng and street . J nit from the home hose shelter meant . Xazareili, happiness mother love I sweet. ) Out from the task and out from the y I'laii, J ut from pleasure and out "from ease, I Hit from the common haunts of man, V I, , Till the Desert, astonished, her Mas- ' i tcr sees. '1 have ntclJfead." tlic 'MVeFert cried. "You will hunger, Lcrd; I have only J . ston"-5" '' r " I " "Nay; yield Me your bread." my Lord replied. "The world is hungry; mn parish alone." Jlavk to His World mv Savior went. Pack to t he city and back to the 1 throng. Pack to where multitudes, hunger spent. Feeding on husks, had been starving lolig. ' Jnto their hands my Lord put food. Lread of peace and of sweet commands, com-mands, 1'read of faith' in a Father good; lie had found God s bread in the Jes-'it Jes-'it sands. Cut of our world we will go. dear Lord ; Out from our woik, for ease and hoard. To ask the Desert to give us food. For we starve in this world for the bread of God. "1 have no bread." does the Desert say? (Nay; tasting nor vigil yields not content.) con-tent.) Put Christ wails. Out from the world's highway He will break us bread. He w id bless our Lent. Carrol L. Bales in Living Church. I Marie Cahill's Gift. Marie Cahill, the actress, has offered to found a library of value to dramatic students at Georgetown university. ' 1 :ind the offer has been, accepted by the Hev. Father Buell, S. J.. the president of the college. Miss Cahill delivered 10 the college her first presentation, a valuable Bell edition of Shakespeare of twenty volumes, published in London in 17S7. The set is the only one of its kind, for while Bell editions of the above date are iwt extremely rare, this S is the one that was Especially -prepared . for Prince George of Wales, and con- jj tains not only a special dedicatory 1 Itook plate, but has also on the out- .' side binding the rcyal British coal-of- j v i ms. I The Name of Jesus. I (By M. K. Henry-Puffin.) I 3 murmur Thy name jr. the darkness. f And it brightens the pathway dim: 3 sigh it soft over grief's chalice, To sweeten the bitter rim. f 1 pray it clown deep in heart-tempests. And the lips of anger grow dumb; V A calm o'er Ihe strife of the spirit ) In its faintest whisper will come. , j Like ihe mastering sou! of true music. It bids hsrsher voices cea.se: And its tone, high o'er the world's dis-cord. dis-cord. Brings God's own harmony Peace. i i V.'hen the path . of. . my Foul grows tangled, ' . '. 1 At the touch of that Name so sweet, My hands fall out of their bondage I And free are the prisoned feet. O Name that is rest and a shelter, I I Aiid light to the heart perplexed, In this life. my last word and dearest f My rcjHurous first in the Next. i THE MOTHER OF MUSIC. Musical Science First Cultivated by Priests in Beautiful Catholic Liturgy. In conversation with an American visitor recently. Pius X declared himself him-self well satisfied with the progress of the- rehabilitation of the Gregorian Chant in the Roman Catholic churches of this country. At the same time he significantly asserted that he was not in favor of the complete exclusion of all church music other than the Gregorian; Gre-gorian; all that he asks was that there should be nothing worldly. Doubtless it has been the misfortune of the pope to hear the intermezzo from "Caval-leria "Caval-leria Rusticana" tortuied into an "Ave Maria." These utterances in icgard to the use of other music than the plain chant ought to serve to clear up a misconception miscon-ception which has been widespread. That Pius X would try to throw back the march of musical progress more than three centuries was hardly to be believed. The Roman Catholic church was the mother of modern music. Musical Mu-sical science was first cultivated in Europe by priests set king to build up a liturgy for their church. It was inevitable in-evitable that in doing this they should little by little discover the combinations combina-tions of tones lying at the basis of harmony and counterpoint. It was equally inevitable that having found them they should utilize them. Thus they led the movement away from the plain chant and carried mu.ic toward l thai splendid era hi which the works' 1 of Palestrina and Orlando Di Lasso j were produced. 1 These composition remain to this day the models for all composers of liturgical litur-gical music. They are heard eften in the Sisline chapel, and no man could dwdl long in the domain of the Vatican without coming under their mighty sway. After th? introduction of the orchestra or-chestra and the solo voice into the Roman Ro-man mass the descent from the lofty level of Palestrina was gradual but sure. Styles of composition utterly out of keeping with the eliurch spirit 'were used, and even where there was a feeling feel-ing of profound religion there was an absence of the Roman Catholic idea, as notably in the case of Bach's great B minor mass. Nevertheless, since Palesfrina's day many admirable pieces of ecclesiastical music have been composed, and it seemed altogether improbable that the pope would be willing to part with these and order his church back to the monotonous proclamations of the plain chant. A part of every sen ice can be effectively delivered in plain song, especially es-pecially since the Solesmes Fathers have restored the correct method of intoning in-toning it. But there always should be room for the employment in the service of the church of the loftiest music that human genius can create. To that the church is entitled by reason of her po sition as the mother of modern musical art. New York Sun. Three Evils. "I consider it my sacred duty to briefly call your attention to three evils which you will bring to the notice of your people . . . and which you will strive with me to eradicate as soon as possible. "1. Many of our children are seen on the streets at night until a late hour. Catholic parents who truly love their children will certainly not allow them to run the streets aimlessly after nightfall. night-fall. How can a Catholic father and mother close their eyes in sleep unless they know that their children have said their prayers and have retired for the night? "2. Our public thoroughfares are frequently fre-quently polluted by unbecoming and lurid representations and pictorial advertisements, ad-vertisements, and few of our magistrates magis-trates seem to have the courage or sense of propriety to prevent this outrage out-rage on public decency. Again, our cities and towns are flooded with sensational sensa-tional literature and filthy papers which debauch the mind and make serious reading an impossibility. I'se your best efforts in spreading Catholic books and papers and see that every Catholic home is decorated with pictures and prints representing what is sacred and dear to the Christian hesrt "3. The celebration of holy matrimony is often followed by ribaldry and ffen-sive ffen-sive merriment. The day that should be observed with reverence and serious reflection as the entrance into a sanctified sanc-tified state of life is turned into one of riot and shameless frolic by those who should follow the newly wedded coude with prayers and good wishes. You will denounce with righteous indignation indigna-tion all silly and pagan customs that are desecrating the Christian with due punishment all future offenders. The fair name of Catholic should 110 longer be disgraced by such noisy marauders and disreputable rowdies who under the plea of fun and amusement bring dishonor dis-honor on the church and scandalize the weak. "Unless we inveigh with holy zeal against these and similar abuses, disorders dis-orders will grow to an almost incurable state and lead innumerable souls to eternal ruin." Bishop Strong in The Morning Star. Inattention at Mass. Catholics who have formed the habit of looking in every part of the church while mas is being said, have become a nuisance. The practice has grown to such an extent that some measure should be taken to check its growth. The writer attended at mass on a certain cer-tain Sunday morning and it would seem that the entire congregation instead of following the priest was engaged in minutely observing the choir, to the embarrassment of the singers. There is hardly a man or woman that does not think that he or she is a music critic and we pity the choir that does not come up to these critics' standard of what music should be. If these people, whose necks we believe are elastic' would content themselves, for one Sunday Sun-day at least, with reading their prayer books, perhaps both choir and cone re-gat re-gat ion would be able to hear mass at-tentively. at-tentively. Catholic Register. ! Are We to Have a Puritan Sunday? ! Just as we anticipated. The law-I law-I makers at the state capital are getting busy grinding out crimes and misde-j misde-j ir.eanors with adequate fines and pen-j pen-j alties. One of the latest, dealing with lestrictions to personal liberty, is a law forbidding "baseball" on Sundays. In the name of common sense, what object ob-ject is to be attained by depriving people peo-ple of innocent and healthful recreation recrea-tion on Sundays? Ts it not a day of rest and recreation? If one attends to his religious obligations by devoting a considerable con-siderable portion of the Sunday to the worship of God. why put restrictions upon national and non-criminal recreation recrea-tion afterward? Do our lawmakers propose to introduce the Puritanical Blue Laws, that resemble the teachings of the Talmud, and turn the Sunday into a day of slothfuiness? Must we all restricted by law from ea joying our- selves spend the day in groans, and sighs, and gnashing our teeth as if anticipating an-ticipating a certain "blue law" place hereafter? Did not our Savior correct the cast-iron Pharisees whose laws made' the Sabbath observance too rigorous? rig-orous? Consider the large number of young men employed in offices, stores, factories, etc., during six days in the week. What better form of rest can they have than something that will help them to shake off the dull monotony of daily labor by vigorous outdoor exercise exer-cise and recreation and thus to give their bodies a restoration and a distraction distrac-tion so essential to health? Certainly, such recreation may be abused, or may be made a nuisance. Any abuse is wrong and should not be tolerated. But if religious worship is not disturbed, and the games are not unbecomingly boisterous or distracting from the Christian reverence due the Sabbath, if they are not occasions of sin. we cannot agree with any human proscription that would make such rational and restful recreation a misdemeanor. mis-demeanor. "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." It would, we think, be a sensible thing if legislatures would confine their deliberations de-liberations to politics and let the churches deal with the consciences of their people. We hope t he baseball prohibition bill will not pass. If it does pass like the prohibition laws about the sale of liquors, it will be another added to the bone pile of incomputi-b!es. incomputi-b!es. We arc convinced the local option idea is the most satisfactory way to deal with such conditions. If people in some localities do not want games on Sunday let them use their governing boards to make laws that are suitable. A state law forbidding baseball, however, how-ever, will not meet with general ap-pioval. ap-pioval. It will be "more honored in the breach than in the observance." Catholic Advance. j A Good Life. I If you would lead a good life and be jat peace with God and your conscience, j it is well to observe these rules: 1. As much as possible avoid all dangerous dan-gerous occasion of sin. such as drinking, drink-ing, bad company, sinful amusements, bad or dangerous readings. 2. If possible, go every month to the sacraments. Remember that without the strength of the sacraments, you cannot, resist your temptations and inclinations in-clinations to sin. for we all have within us a wonderful power of sinning. 3. Never remain away from mass on Sundays or holy days of obligation, when you are able to attend. 4. Never neglect your daily prayers. Prayer is the key to heaven. 5. Every day read a chapter of some good religious book: such as the "Sinner's "Sin-ner's Guide," the "Following of Christ." or "Memorial of a Christian Life," or one of "Challoner's Meditations." Medita-tions." 6. Every day offer to the Blessed Mother at least a third part of her holy rosary, or five mysteries of the beads; and may our dear Lord and his Blessed Mother watch over you during life, and at the hour of death, and finally bring you to -a happy eternity. The Morning Star. I Duties of God-Parents. The duties of god-parents or sponsors j receive little attention these days; at least not near as much as they deserve. Of course, the honor of being selected as a god-parent is appreciated; an offering of-fering is made at the baptism and perhaps per-haps an occasional little birthday present pres-ent marks the passing years. But how little is this compared with the demands de-mands of Holy Mother church on all who assume the great responsibility! Her purpose is not to impose an obligation: ob-ligation: hence she calls that relation which exists between the child and god-parent, "spiritual relationship." That the selection may be the best she restricts the office to two, a man and a woman: they must be practical Catholics of good character, and willing to assume' the grave obligation of taking tak-ing the place of the parents, not only in the case of death, but in the case of their neglecting the spiritual education of the child. With the greater duties go, of course, the lesser ones, and a special devotion to its temporal welfare wel-fare is also demanded. How far these obligations are respected may be best seen by considering the case , of the orphan.' How rarely do we find godparents god-parents .".ssuming these duties when the child is left homeless? Yet over uncles and aunts, over all natural ties, even that of brother and sister, stands this spiritual relationship. Western Watchman. Watch-man. Generosity of Irish Catholics. Archbishop O'Connell in an address to a Lowell. Mass., audience recently dwelt on the generosity of the early Irish pioneers and threw out this thought-bearing suggestion: "In that noble catholicity of spirit the Irish Catholic teaches a needed lesson. Not one of all those strangers who nave come to Lowell's gates but has asked from the children of St. Patrick aid and encouragement: a request that even until this day has never been denied. Indeed, it were none too much to say that in laying the foundation of every Catholic church in this city, abundant assistance has been received from this generous-harted people. And even though that glorious record should be little remembered, it is safe to r-ay that that forgetfullness would never close the hearts of Irish generosity which think only of the progress of the faith, 110 matter who carries it onward, and only of the glory of the church's standard, no matter who bears it ever higher. The priests and people of St. Patrick's and of old St. Peter's as w ell. v. hile rearing magnificent temples tem-ples of their own children, have always had. nevertheless, even in their poverty pover-ty hidden resources from which they drew liberally to aid the children of other races. That is what I mean by saying that Irish charity is true Catholic Cath-olic charily. Let all who listen learn and imitate. In such union of hearts alone is the security of the future of the faith. He who preaches charity, preaches Gcd's word and represents the church Catholicity. He who preaches another doctrine is f.ilse to his sucred duty." Minister Praises French Priests. In a sermon at St. James' Episcopal church, Chicago, on Sunday, Rev. James L. Stone, pastor of the parish, declared that "heroism of an exalted character has been shown by the Catholic Cath-olic clergy in the conflict between church and state in France." He predicted pre-dicted the ultimate victory of ihe church, and said: "Into the merits of the dispute between be-tween the state and the church I do not choose to enter, but L ma3r observe that were the state here to claim the ownership of the churches -we worship in, the vestments, books and other accessories ac-cessories we use in divine worship, or to insist that we use them only by the permission of the state, there is not a priest or congregation in the land that would not resist. "I know some will say that the church should obey the law of the land; but there ore times when it is better to obey God rather than man, and the government which refuses to recognize re-cognize a God can scarcely be said to bo divine. "Others will exult at ihe i adversity which has befallen the French church. Such peonle deserve cur pity. They are beyond our understanding. under-standing. If a country be better without with-out a God. without religion, without worship. infidelity is. better thp.n Christianity, then there is nothing more to bo said. The Catholic Side. You may meet Catholics everv day who think the church is wrong in th;-present th;-present conflict in Franch. How account ac-count for this? It is tasv. They read the daily papers. They don't read the Catholic papers. They get the news: but they don't set the Catholic view from the Catholic standpoint. The impression im-pression cultivated by the cable news is that the French government has been forbearing: and the Pope aggressive. aggres-sive. All the leading secular papers of 1 his country, with a few notable exceptions, ex-ceptions, have printed moderate (and for that reason more effective) editorials edi-torials favoring the anti-clerical policy. The Catholic press alone acquaints readers with the whole story and the true conclusions. So it happens that ! those Catholics who do not read th; Catholic press on this very Catholic matter, are adopting the non-Catholic attitude. Catholic Citizen. The Rear Guard. He strolls in to Mass at the "Sanctus," Or maybe a moment before: And lest he should bother his neighbors. neigh-bors. He drops on one knee of the door. Good seats near the altar are vacant; In fact, there is room and to spare: But why should he push himself forward? for-ward? He'd be so conspicuous there. He doesn't look up at the altar. But keeps his gaze bent on the f!w! We notice him yawning a little. As though it all were a bore. Ho squats for the last benediction. And then, ere the service is through. We look for him there in the background And find he- has melted from view. So strange! Now we fancied we saw him Last night at ihe vaudeville show; It seemed tp us then he was fighting To get in the very front row. He must have been there before seven Oh, surely some minutes before; He headed the line that was waiting Outside of the gallery door. And when the door opened, good gracious! gra-cious! How active he was" in the racs Upstairs, and then over the benches And down to the very first place. My! How he applauded the singing And laughed at the jokes that, were cracked; His eyes never leaving the foootlights. Transfixed till the very last act. This can't be the same man this morn in c This slowest and dullest of chaps: We must have seen some other fellow-Last evening his brother, "perhaps. T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard and Times. |