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Show ' Church Universal CHURCH CALENDAR. 1- T. St. Caprasius. 602,241 for thanksgivings. 2- lumber Day. SS. Marcellinus an,d c- 9"2.164 for those in affliction. i , st- Clotilda 379,081 for the J v tick, Infirm. (' V T- Ember Day. First Friday. K y fet. Francis Carracciolo. 382,461 for ' I dead Associates. 20fi"qifiF; E,mber Da'--St- Boniface. -aU6,9l8 for local centres. ,, 6; f Trinity. St. Norbort. E. Acts, y"- 1-11 : Ct. John, xiv, 23-31.-276,670 for Directors, v THE GENERAL INTENTION, Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. Daily Communion. "Come to Me, all ye that labor and are burnened, and L will refresh you." How often in moments of trial have these words of Jesus sounded in oui soul, and we have yearned to know horn to approach Him and find peace: Prayer, suffering, toil, these are rath-ways rath-ways which His sacred feet have trod a.nd made holy for us to follow; but shorter and holier and more efficacious than any of these is the way to daily Communion. O ye of little ralth, why do ye doubt? This is our first mistake, and faith is weak! We are conscious of our sinfulness, and we fall be bring home to ourselves that Jesus Is still more conscious of It, and yet bids us come to Him. ForIe alone can take away sin, and give strength, daily strength, not to sin again. Our second I mistake Is a false humility; we think we know better than Jesus when we are worthy to receive Him: wheereas He knows that we are never worthy without Him. Let me say nothing of sloth which refuses to make the effort to go to daily mass and communion, nor of that most shameful of all un-worthiness, un-worthiness, the fear of what others may say; but consider the blessings which follow daily communion. First, we have the special benediction of His Holiness, and the assurance from his apostolic lips that dally communion is the spirft of the church today. TVe shall be like the first Christians, who communicated daily. We shall first concupiscence les--f -y ten its importunate clamors, and puri- f I ty of heart no longer impossible. Peace I ' I will come into our life with a sweet ln- slstence, because the God of peace will be daily in our breast. And death when it comes will find us ready, nay, glad, V to go to Him who has come daily, to us. fit . r 't The ame' A,ways and Everywhere, ij'" Although devotion to the Blessed Vir gin is now more widely spread and more universal than in former times, it is a mistake to suppose that It Is more r x intense or more practical. The prayers 1 W and hymns and litanies in use today J the best index of the minds of Christiansare Chris-tiansare identical with those of the first centuries. Take the example of St. Mary of Egypt. It is related that in the time of her sinfulness she endeavored endeav-ored to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and found herself repelled by an invisible force. It was on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, probably in the year 383. Lifting up her eyes and 'seeing an Image of the Mother of Christ over the porch, she hurst out into the following prayer: "O Lady and Virgin, who didst bear the word of God according to the flesh, I know that it is neither reasonable nor decorous that I, so foul with sin, should look on thine ima?c who were ever a stainless Virgin! Nevertheless, since thy Son became man to save sinners, help me in my desolation. Order the door to be opened even to me, that I may adore the Holy Cross." "It is no wild conjecture, then," as Father Dal-gairns Dal-gairns observes in his introduction to "The Fathers of the Desert," that the cry, 'Lady, Lady, forsake me not,' which she afterward used, must have been ever, on the lips of Mary of Egypt during her long wanderings in the desert." des-ert." The hymns composed by St. Ephrom in the fourth century are full of the most glowing expressions; for instance, "After the Trinity, thoja art Mistress of all; after the Paraclete, another paraclete; para-clete; after the Mediator, mediatrix of the whole world." Could anything be more like the litanies of the present than the hymns written for the Christians Chris-tians of Abyssinia in the sixth centuiy hymns in which Mary is called "Our Mother," the "Ark which contained the Law." the "Gate of Salvation," and so forth ? The Virgin and Child were an object of devotion in Christianity long before the Cross. In fact, everything goes to show that the Mother of Christ was honored and invoked in past times with varying enthusiasm, according to the necessities or temperaments of her clients just as she is honored and invoked in-voked in present times. That after the Resurrection of Christ Mary was venerated ven-erated by the Apostles as Mother of the Church and constituted the ' Help of Christians" for all time, is not Ihss in accordance with reason than with faith. The Ave Maria. FATHER GANSS Offers Invocation at Unveiling of Clark Statue. Quincy, 111.. May 22. Ellen Pearce Dodley, 12 years old. of Louisville, Kv.. great-great-grandniece of General George Rogers Clark, who wrested from the British the territory since carved into the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin, today unveiled un-veiled the statue erected to the memory of General Clark by the state of Illinois Illi-nois in Riberview park. The day's exercises began with a military mili-tary parade, in which Governor Deneen Mayor Steinbach. Rev. Andrew P Ganns. S. J.. of St. Louis, and others took part. ine program at the unveiling ceremonies cere-monies consisted of addresses by E J Parker, president of the park board; C. S. Heani, state senator, and George Gabriel, Ga-briel, who turned the memorial over to Governor Deneen. who. after accepting it in behalf of Illinois, delivered the address of the day. The invocation was pronounced bv Rev. Andrew P. Ganns, S. J., the representative rep-resentative of Right Rev. James Ryan. Bishop of Alton. The Catholic Woman's Paper. The Catholic paper is the Catholic woman's paper. A single copy is worth more to her than a thousand editions of any other kind. She doesn't buy it to read the current' sport results of the day and throw it away when a column or two has been hurriedly glanced over. How many copies of a Catholic paper has any business man seen cast away in a street car, or sweeping the streets before the wind? And why has he not seen these sights so familiar with other publications? Simply because the Catholic Cath-olic woman is not ready to part with her Catholic paper even after she !s finished reading it. It still has a value. The prudent business man will readilv recognize from these facts the value of the Catholic paper as one of the best mediums of reaching a large clientage of the best purchasers. Nowhere can he. invest the same amount of money to better advantage and with better results. re-sults. A little ' unprejudiced study of the subject will convince him of the fact. : I WHAT THE POPE REALLY SAID. The Holy Father's Misquoted Views on the Subject of Women's Rights. A short time ago the papers came out with "scare" heads, following which was matter alleged to convey the pope's views on the subject of woman's suffrage. What the holy father really did say follows: Referring to the Biblical account of the creation of woman whom God made to be the companion of man, and to the teachings of St. Paul who declares that woman is subject to man, the holy father fa-ther pointed out that it was an error to suppose that woman has the same rights and the same social function as man. She is not his slave or his servant, serv-ant, but his companion and helpmate. Their functions are different, but both equally noble, and harmonizing in the scope of forming the family and educating educat-ing the offspring. On man rests the duty of providing by his labor for the means of keeping and educating the family; on woman that of regulating the household, and especially of educating educat-ing the children. - "Some people will tell you," said the pope, "that religion is good only for women. They mean that to be a sign of their contempt for religion but do you accept it in its positive part, and remember that it is really only by the sentiment of religion that you can be of efficacious assistance to man, realize the responsibilities of being his helpmate, help-mate, and sow in the souls of your children that good seed which will make you great in them . Think how vast is your influence over man, whether as father, fa-ther, brother, husband, an influence summed up in the words of Scripture: 'A good woman makes a good man.' But do not think either that woman's duties are entirely confined within the circle of their families, for she has also a duty towards her neighbor, to dry the tears of the afflicted,to assauge sorrow, to band together for the alleviation allevi-ation of the spiritual and temporal miseries mis-eries of those who suffer, thus fulfill- I ing a social mission which makes of her an ansel of love amid human sorrows. sor-rows. I earnestly recommend, therefore, there-fore, your union for the accomplishment of this social mission. United you will be better able to attain the means necessary nec-essary for the fulfillment of your duties to your families and to society. You will do well to deepen and broaden your religious knowledge, for the catechism alone is not always sufficient to refute the errors that will come under your notice, and you will need a sound knowledge of the truths of religion in order to instruct your children and to rebut the charges that are being made against the church. I would suggest also that you give serious attention to the study of pedagogy, so that you may learn the rules for the instruction of the young and become better equipped for the difficult work of education. Today there is a tendency to spoil the child by sparing: the rod and to act on the belief that children will grow up good Christians and good citizens when nurtured nur-tured on kisses and caresses. Then, again, if you are to be good housewives you must learn something of the principles prin-ciples of domestic economy, which will enable you to regulate your households with thrift and order. But, above all else, be assiduous in your religious duties, du-ties, remembering that while the truly pious woman is the mistress of the house and of the heart of her husband, she becomes the bone of both when she is without faith." OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL. The way is long, the path is rough and bleak That leads through life and onward, nearer thee. I look for aid, and thy protection seek, O Lady of Good Counsel, pray for me. When doubts perplex, when for the light I grope, A beacon in the darkness thou shalt be, A radiance where centers all my hope, An advocate and refuge still to me. When shadows fall, and, closer to the end, With olden vision I no longer see. Illume my path, be yet the exile's friend, Dear Lady of Good Counsel, pray for me. The sinner's help, none asks of thee in vain; Thus tender I my heart's most earnest earn-est plea Let earthly loss be my eternal gain, Sweet Lady of Good Counsel, pray for me. E. A. O'Reilly, in Deaf Mutes. To Genuflect Properly. Upon entering a Catholic church and a light should be burning before the tabernacle, a Catholic makes a genuflection genu-flection to the Blessed Sacrament. It is rather remarkable how few Catholics perform this act of religion properly. To genuflect does not mean to kneel, nor is it exactly to courtesy, a sort of a bob down and up. The rule for making mak-ing a genuflection is the same for priest and people, for the young and old of both sexes, namely, to bend the right knee until it touches the ground. In genuflecting a person should preserve the upper part of the body in a rather erect position, bending the knee and arising with ease and gracefulness. To genuflect is an act of worship and should be performed slowly, with reverence rev-erence and recollection. To bend the knee to the tabernacle is to adore Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. It is the outward bodily expression of the faith that Is in the soul. |