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Show I ' ' - faith." TV? . CHURCH CALENDAR. 1 April .17 Tljird 'Sun.Jny of the month; second Sunday afVr K-ttrr. April S. Fr.mois Solano, Tricot. Zral for I ,). l';ii:h. 1 April 1ft S. Philip of Jon?, Tricot and Martyr. i ' April 2l S. Allies, 0. P., Virpin. Puritv.'" 0 April -21V,. Uiirtholomow, O.. P., Martyr. Hu- . j April i'- s- Turihius, Priest. Almsigivinp. ? Ai'ril ':; S. Casiniir, Trio-st (from March 4). . AT BENEDICTION. ii..r of frapr;.nt inr-ense tills the air, jV v.iis the lights upon the altar-throne; !" hymn rises in n reverent tone O l..u. tti.- tranced echo of an angel's prayer, x ii nt glory lingers everywhere, X t'i- rusting- ey.s of faith l.ok up and own Q TV i-- He conies triumphant; not alono, O y :.j-''-!s Iwnd in adoration there: p ,i, --.tun-bound .sonls,--ex'ultingtT'-1o trace X T 1' -uly of the Man-Gods wondrous face. : X .. Uv grow mute our hearts alono can tell ' Q Th- :hril!. of love, tin.; pleading- prayers that swell.' Q (',' r.i'"irous moment k-whn to earth is given P I ; I'l..- : faint glimpse of God this gleam of heaven' X , l-rouist' Murphy in Catholic World. 8 j ' CHURCH MUSIC. p Bithop Ludden of Syracuse Denounces Modern Q Choir; Abuses.- 8 i; -i "P l.ud.lon of SyracuVo-ha,s.mado the Pope's 0 ! r..-Mnmeiidations-;iii-n-'ara-'to church mu-5 mu-5 j ;! ''" ;'xt lor vigorous denunciation of present 3 t 's, i :"'",f ',10 music.' -he ay. -in our churches j. ;,l . -ther too fo-o l-lighty; 'The organists seem 5 j t.. Ii:nv no regard whatever foV'llie relevancy of 3 'li'ir 11 ,1u' t() -'be sacred ;fuuctioks-going on at 3 I j ilr rtlvr .-tid-'nf ilie.chureh. ' Thc-m'arinor of sinjr- 5 I "t lTii-- .'hm- of the selections at times would remind ti 'i-'1 !) r of a balky horse when it comes to a S I iuiMP. 'I ho singers in the choir make an attack in I ;( li. r;il jnoce and start for what seems to be the J J,wn. run, when suddenly they pull up, take breath 2 I Mi.M" in the same thing all over again.' 1 "Abuses creep ir. and the music of the Church, 2 i tirogorian Chant, is lost sight of. Light, ope-5 ope-5 ' r.-'f- airs Like ihe plaeo of the sublime chant and !i;:v hr-anl the ballad 'Kathleen' Mavourneen' sung ' ol ihe mist solemn services in the Church. 3 "I'hi- tearing apart of the sacred text is one of ( ; grealost si buses in our churches. Showers of ';:'.. lis an hear.1 a frepienlly and abundantly at ii. lose of a selection as skylarks in a meadow i ,!: ;' -lune day. What is intended to be. most rev- i"'iit in woriip is often a cause of irreverence ; Involity among the congregation as they listen 'li' distorted harmonies floating out from the Tiian lft. Such a word ',s 'saltare,' for instance, Iki- locn heard divided up into the' most meaning-K meaning-K -'lhd.l, . u-h as vah,'. alta,' 'saltar,' Saltan-. 'tare. laiv. tare.' 'tar. tar. tar,' re, re, re.' Mr-, r.rc are, and then in one grand finish, 'sal-trr-n-. CATHOLIC RELIGION A RELIGION OF LOVE. In an artil.- on "Some French Xovels of the .!." in the Fortnightly Kcview for February, writ'eu lv I- ( 'omtc de Segur. we come across the i"il'"'viiur altogether unexpected passage referring A , I-- tit-- atholie chur-h: ' f hatover the faith to which one owe allegi-anei-. may admit tltat the Catholic church has j irT.ri--tw arKnity with the soul. The frequent ob- II st a:!-- imposed on her adepts, intermingling I vidi the ;ici, of everyday life, become an intimate t p;irt e.itcnce. Above all, she addresses her- s'-!t t.-i the heart in a familiar language, for she ; :A t it of - love: and wielding this powerful iT -TiiinriH for the governing of souls, she thrusts f '!"l'n li-r roots the deeper as she iinds in the ca- ja'i'y of loving a fresher and more feVtile soil. In : sin has the strong-st hold. on the heart that, I : 1- liiof (li-iwwoil tn tendrrnocs. Tt is inmossllilp ' I j j 1 1 Joubert, 'either to speak against Christianity l v,j,,ut ana-er. or for it without love!" Her great- ! --t -aiiits. her martyrs, were lovers; it suffices mere- ! I'-' t i open at a venture the pages of the book par i -f-i.ee of Christian asceticism, 'The Imitation ' of Christ,' to be convinced that the doctrine it p!va-ii.-s is that of love. Xot a mere sentiment, in- ! !? :.nd fruitless. but a useful love, nour- i-'i--d by the spectacle of human misery, offered to i ';.- -i ri.-c of one's neighbor as totho glory of ;"1. and educated bv bng practice to the supreme -rinW. of s,.f." I THE BLESSED EUCHARIST. " i T!i- MoM-d Eucharist is ihe greatest treasure ! even od could confer on man, the richest gift t J tea von could confer on earth for it is Jesus I ll': !i personally present under Sacramental -ib. S;. John the Kvangelist, speaking of the in- i -'i-tttioi, of this sacrament, made use of these b: "When Jestix loved those who were in the f " ri I. Ib- loved them until ihe end,'' "and the !!; i aiiiei-s ay that the meaning of these words I - -: Tl,t Jesus loved those vho were in the j f ' I not .inly in ihe end of ibis mortal life, but 1 ' ', limit of Hi- niiinipolencc. That, in insti-, and giving in mankind this great sacrament ! - ili- li.ve. lie bned man unto the limits of His, J ; l . i, ,!, . onto iln- boundaries of His bound-' j j " l-.ve. Tliough Ciod i omnipotent. He could i I " ili- cliildn n nothing better than ibis. Though j - iiirinitoly wise. He could give them nothing j ! '. precious than this. Though He is infinitely ' . lb- could devise no means more powerful to j , - ' i i- man to attain to bis immortal destiny, than 1 the nie-in- of ihe I)l-sed Eucharist. "Manv 'a I ' '" ba Jesus conferred upon the Church. His ; ' i-e. but tliis is the greatest gift of all. Bishop j i V,"":- ' . ! .- i . FIVE-MINUTE SERMON. 'I 'i l.e i.iiL.wing sermon for - the Feast of ihe j j recti. ui of Our I.-rd is 1'Tcached at the oarly I - ;u tl,,. J'jMilist -htirch : . ! " 'i !e i- ri-en a- lb- said." 1 "After the lonir Lenten season and the sympa- I :! s, w ,,f i I'jissioii Time, Easter comes I 4 ii- wiili a cheering message of assured hope and ; i ' " ful gladness. This wondrous raising of Him-! : f i i the dead is ihe crowning proof of the I ' i.ity of .Our Lord. Others there have been who I ,., ,:I.'K u, life, 1,1 only Tv the interven- I 1i i; of pro, bet or ihe prayer of saints. But Our I 1 i raised Himself, having foretold that He would I ,: And none but ihe Maslor of Life anl:Deafh I j ' do that. And the Master of Life and Death I ;enl. IJence our allegiance to Christ, . being 1 I liiy i our iU nl, i- imiiK iiselv strengthened and J. ' "in-ag.-d 'by the great miracle of the Resurrcc- ! I 11 i. ".Lile our h aving Him and betrayal of Him I j -elfish mi) leaves us without any hopy in this : v' ii'l. There are two points in connections with .1 'c Iie.-urreetion, not often dwelt on, which it is I f v" 11 io think of lodav. ' . It "When ihe night tf. the Jewish Sabbath settled If rv' r 'he- lonelv tomb in Gethsemane where lay the i '""i.v of tjjf. Crueif! T.rd, there were none there II ae ii. -uar(J 0: i,'(o.: , -soldiets sent bv Pilate 1 ihe l.i.hling- of ei lei yriests 'lest His disciiiles ; 1 1 sii"uM come in the uIj,-'iK Meal. it. away-and then .: ft Liv' out lb- was rise-.. These were the men chosen - 1" 'ar un-(.nsci(!'jsi. im louht but still to bear ! j l"c' last mes'sage ef GoU's tireless nicrcy from Gol gotha o Jerusalem. Abandoning'their post oi4 ,lu-steer.fe ,lu-steer.fe telling all they met how at the first, light e-Lr'l tl,?7aw i of the tomb they guarded rolled avvay, ami he bo.ly of the deaM rise up in a glory so bright lhat they feli.down as dead men before it. Jhu.s it Mas that by the mouth of these stranger pagans, even after all the nameless insults and cruelties of the Passion and Death, sent once more to faithless Jerusalem the assurance and hnal proof that its great Messiah had mine. J oe same tireless mercy (Jf God is extended to the ohdurateeven unto this our day. Let them not follow fol-low ihe leaders of the Jews in their final impenitence. impeni-tence. "Ihe other point is in the words of ihe angel to those who came seeking Jesus in the empty tomb. "ou seek Jesus of Nazareth. He is risen, He is not. here. Go seek Him in Galilee with Peter and the brethren, there you will iind Him." In our day on this Easter morning thousands of well-meaning people who still hold by His sacred name will gather gath-er in temple-like buildings seeking Jeus.' But, alas, they are people whose not-distant ancestors broke with Christ's one true Church. In the anger of their revolt they abolished belief in the divinest of our sacraments His abiding presence in the Eucharist; they took away his tabernacle and broke down His altar! Thus they have rendered all non-Catholic non-Catholic churches but empty sepulchres. Would some angel voice could speak to them as they as-seble as-seble this morning, and tell them "Jesus is not here," and bid them if they would really seek and find Him they must go to where Peter is and the brethren in His one abiding faith. Amen." THE THIRTEENTH CENTENNARY OF ST. . GREGORY IN ROME. The observance of the thirteenth centenarv of St. Gregory the Great in Rome will begin on April t. with a solemn commemoration in the Church of Santa "Maria in Vallicella, the Chicsa Xouva, dedicated dedi-cated to St. Gregory. On the morning of April 7 the first meeting of the Scientific Congress will take place in the Hallof the Apollinari. and in the afternoon, a service at St. Gregory's on the Coelian hill, which is built on the site of the home of St. Gregory's youth and early manhood, where he abode while he was a practicing lawyer and chief governor of Rome, ynd which, after his father's death, he nwtde into a church and monastery.. He called the church St. Andrew's, but a later Pope Gregory gave it its present name. From this church St. Augustine amd his companions started on their apostolate to ngland, St.. Gregory standing at ihe top of the long flight of stone steps which jcaas o irs porais. to give the departing Benedictines Benedic-tines liis blessing. These are but, a few of the memories which cluster around this ancient church, and which will be the subjects of the lecture to follow fol-low the service. On the morning of April S will come the second meeting of the congress; and in the afternoon the visit of the English pilgrims and the English colony col-ony in Rome to the tomb of St. Gregory in St. Peter's. . The third meeting of the congress will be held on the morning of April 0, and in tire afternoon the people will chant the septiform litanips as they did thin mi centuries ago at the Church of St. Af arv Major's. On I -ow Sunday. April (). a Pontifical Mass will ,1k celebrated in St. Paul's by a Benedictine abbot, ab-bot, and another Benedictine will lecture on St. Gregory's connection with St. Paul's. . In the afternoon aft-ernoon there will be a great dinner for the poor, to commemorate St. Gregory's charities. On the morning of Monday, April 11, Pope Pius X will pontificate in St. Peter's. The music will be ' the Gregorian on a mighty scale. On Tuesday, 12th prox.. a pilgrimage will be made to Subiaeo; and the observance will conclude on a later day with a'Te Deum in St. John Latcran's, the home of St. Gregory as Pope. Boston Pilot. FEELINGS OF A CONVERT IN THE CITY OF PETER. . A lady friend of mine (an ex-Ritualist) writes to me after her conversion: "Verily if Catholics pressessed half the enthusiasm of these Ritualists the conversion of England would: soon be a thing of the past." She writes : - "Here, in' Peters own city. I felt the truth of all that you had taught, of all that we had dreamed. Here he Eternal is made manifest; one walks in the steps of the saints. I saw the Pope, a pathetic white soul, acclaimed by thousands, thousands upon their knees to the Vicar of Christ, and my own bowed with ihem. lie waved his hand, and the benediction dropped into my soul; 1 could have kissed his feet in my humility. How strange that one should feel so different here in Rome! Is it the tangible reality of Christ? 'Here 'in the seat of Christendom one feels what it is to be a Christian. Chris-tian. St. Paul's no, nor the wonderful Abbey never impressed me like this. One cannot imagine thousands of Englishmen kneeling to the Archbishop Arch-bishop of Canterbury or feeling the divine thrill of heaven emanate from a pale human hand. Yet this is the power of the Pope King, and English Catholics own his influence, no less readily than the most ignorant Tyrenean shepherd. For is not the soul at the root of all things? And before God the soul of the monarch and the peasant is the same. Here one may drink one's fill of sweet scents and sounds, nor heed the vulgar cry of the unregenerate. Aly soul passes from me in dreams; I live in the light of the True1 Faith. Three days ago I formally formal-ly renounced the heresy of Protestantism, .which, was but a weak and weedy thing ar best,, and was duly received into the strong, palpitating bosom of Mother Church.' .A |