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Show j I CHURCH CALENDAR. f I t.Ca piasius. 2,368,749 for J l'1;1"1"' Marcellinus and Comp. 1 I .,'-- for 'those in affliction. I I -" st. Clothida. 4G2.532 for " the ? 1 '.i.- infirm. 1 ''j Tli- James Carraccolo. 737,514 j - f First Friday. St. Boniface ! for l'-cal centers. I J,'' vigil St. Norbert. 176,456 for j;,fMO!"S. - V priitiooRt. St. Tiobert. E. Acts i"l-Yl: ?. Jhn xiv. 23-31. 230172 for jifpniotcrs. THE GENERAL INTENTION. Recommended by His Holiness Pius X. pt-VOTIOX TO THE SACKED 1 HEART. It czv.not be too often repeated that ricV'''ti'in lioos not consist in emotion, I or frciinc. or sentiment. Pious tend-I tend-I ,ncie nnd inclinations may help devoir devo-ir ,oni but in . themselves they are not j4vi"'i- This great grace in our spirit u.: ! life is not in the feelings, but n tho will, and may be defined as "thf. i ftrni:? will to execute those things vhiih belong io me uivme service. I p:iirf the devotion to the Sacred I n'pr.rt viil consist in the strong will to Ia.Tomplish those things which apper-tiijVi apper-tiijVi to the service of the Sacred Kfart. pevoti'in. after all, is only love, and love, if it merits the name, consists in I csrryir.p out the reasonable wishes of I the '"beloved. Our Lord Himself tells I u, this in the Gospel: "If you love me, ' I 'kpt inV commandments." True devo-I devo-I ,nn to 'the Sacred Heart is the carry-1 carry-1 ing out iti our daily lives the wisher I n't pur Blessed Savior. These wishes I msy often run counter to our emotions, feelings and natural inclinations. j When this is the case, no number nf pious practices, no special acts of! njety. how over agreeable, no religious fjiproiFfs are really the devotion of ihe Sabred Heart unless they have for their siim the obtaining of strength to .f.rry out practically what is the will ,if the Sacred Heart. The devotion, then, to Our Savior's Heart, must be. not an ornament in i nur lives, not something which merely amuses devout feelings, but it must make us grow from day to day'in the practice of self-conquest for the love nf that Heart which bled for us. I A Remarkable Tribute. (.me of t ho finest tributes called forth hy the centennial celebration last week nf the archdioecese of New York, is rs the fillw ing from the Evening Post of that city: Remembering the old and bitter anti-Catholic feeling, it marks the i great transformation that today it J TiouM be true to sny that the Protest- I- churches would look upon the extinction ex-tinction or withdrawal of the Catholic churches as a great calamity. This dies not imply that religious or even theological conviction has broken down but that tolerance has broadened and that uur exes have opened to see tTie J farts. We are certain that Protestant 1 denominations would be simply aghast and appaiied if they were asked to take over the work of the Catholic i church in New York. They could not begin to do it. Even if they had the physical resources the men and money and buildings they would have neither the menial nor moral ability. For long yars ii"w the Catholic church in this erf at pott has been receiving and con-t-miing and assimilating one influx of foreign peoples after another. It has i mem tor religio- nd it has held I Tin i"i viiiicuMi - one can so-I so-I lr!v reflect upon .-st labor of J jurcl!on and rest)- t ; out becom-I becom-I convinced that it ins been an in- I n Fper.ca;,, force ir o.. public life, j T ;- Protestant enure 'vr have been :.ie now more tlv- r over unfitted, 1:hk- by tempera n-cti; or methods, '" a-.iack so gigantic a p-oblein. They tne authority the compelling o; supernatural fears, if one in-N'-thing but a venecable and -...i'txI institution, always the same, iay! changing, could have taken - incoming children the raw mate- - o, Americans and done for them ;! .he catholic church in this city ('line during the memorable cen- nnw rolled past. tnose w ho cannot pretend to j -, ( atholic dogma with entire must confess that some of ': rnoral results have been admirable - d useful. The firm stand of 'the m the mattc-r of marriage and ;... for exampie. seems more and a blessing as the laxness of law ; t c nf 'is;crn jn that respect goes on . i i-iMiij. Other churches have, been ' ' ' J- if "t.iy out of shame at the marital telations into which " "! society seems sometimes to I 1 i. k. to imitate and : pproximate 1 j standards of Catholics. We I i (intain that the Catholic I -,! if jin unmixed good: it has I i ial evils; but th testimony I h i, ).? borne to the ideal of the r -i .ami.'y is something which p oerlooked when those who - ''is of the church are reckon-' reckon-' ? t!:",r f!in to ner 1 ' ' ism often made is that the ''Mr rnureh in this country, par-t.. par-t.. i;i .xv York City, has been , ftiven to going into politics I n d mat it has accei)ted with- !' -.-'i gifts from sources that -a t - j 1 -3 not have looked at with i .. i cyes. - - ut we I ' !' Protestant church that is i ' '" ' a stone on this account. .,B " ': thst all churches, under .-teni. Jiave to take their f-ver they find it, devoutly ..:.:.- "" T"e Lord will sanctify the 1 .. r' ' ;'s for ;t church in politics, J . ''m. k the Methodists against I s ;iny day." jf Is Ycur Girl With Them? I c,;ls "ith trim little tailored 1 s.""d nsjtiy hHts, with snooded hair - t, h 7" ra,Jr'd facs; pirls who ought 1 f.r-7 !K,TT,P with ,nrit,1:T and father, I r;i 'JP o" the streets with- t 'hr-e.!"C'r,f: r Rrour,s OI" twos and f L hours Ions: past curfew time, j hr,v''V r":f,'t r,f thp "eek. There is, i 'h ff' -""'hfng in the round faces rhprr'P"s a hn at th" 5lart' and ''Pht 1,1 "ftftV- a swagger to the nV 'TPd wa!k that Ferris out of ,s ' '" with sweet girlhood. There their rrKk r",ort- a flippant Jest from ,.: i.1'. a cold glance or a brazen jna,r T','1"1 eyes that should be veiled i,r,t xf 'oodesty. Poor little girls, I thai, ,,ow how much more precious 1 I thev ,hligs born they are, when orhPrC,pf'rlly ('Etimate thr own Hut ?i- an1 prizo themselves at it! I I --lf y ;,,nifi o be unprized by them- I tfcr,tn'ri "f'c!-ctod by their proper pro-n,M0 pro-n,M0 1' :ui(3 taken at their own esti-; esti-; J.bv tho Mx.rld. i Ul! - mothers and fathers who can i''rT "f llle pitfaI1s tliat Iie in iIov-t""r of van'ty and disobedience. wl cl them have homes that should -wsr4 be their shelter after th sun clown and m6st of them would listen to advice properly given and in tfnfP Tile mother and father who think thf; duty done in sending th ," v S daughter to school, dressed as wen g the neighbor's mtle giri, wfll McFauianSWer fr SO"ie day-BilhoS renStsUr g5rI W,th them' Catho1 pa- Methodists and Catholics on Divorce. Tho uncompromising attitude of thl Roman Catholic church toward tion tofnthedwrr CVOkeS a?ml2! '.V-0," ..th.e ePtern Christian Advocate Advo-cate (Cincinnati.) "Protestants have JVj . greed with Roman Catholics that Christian marriage is one of the r raments of the church,' 'observes thN organ of the Methodist denomination "yet. nevertheless, when Sb Ireland speaks of it as an act perme a ted to its inmost core wi th I nSnl sanction and that it should be under he control of Christian laws befit Un" its supernal character, we must L," The'V'1 time,y W0I"ds-" Mo ov r The Roman Catholic conception of marriage may be the rigid . ecchlas !la2 ne',.but H is infinitely be ttTr extreme6 ,3Xlty at ,he other rtictf ;,, 6 beIieve that all Methodists Metho-dists will say -Amen' when they read the words of Archbishop lreS fllmf- th,'S fCarful social iniquUy of ,d'v?rce which threatens the social so-cial fabnc itself and the verv foundation founda-tion of the family and the virtues" that caVuenon?- ' u "chbishoi calls upon h,s church to throw even stronger safeguards around marriage and to remove from the espousals and from the contract of marriage the fit n Peril of haste and thoughtlessness- and he counsels all priests to ascertain clearly whether any pre-existing im pediment to the marriage e" 1 and to give to the parties who are "to be married such salutary counsel as win fit them for the reception of the Solemn Sol-emn rite, and secure to them the pien-jtude pien-jtude of its virtues and grace. P He In the teaching of Christ the marriage mar-riage contract is indissoluble. Human laws can not dissolve it. The church i its .8:piriiual supremacy, can not dissolve dis-solve it. The cessation of the contract the remarriage to another of husband or of wife, renders fatherless or motherless moth-erless the children of the first Carnage Car-nage dissipates in their souls the sane ,ty of the home. Divorce breaks up the home, which n,. i irJ , , as tlie sancutuary of love and safety for husband and for wife, for son and for daughter. It undermines civil society, so-ciety, which in its vital construction s am organized aggregation of families, fami-lies, finding in the stability of the family its own stability; in the purftv and integrity of the fa mil v, its own purity and integrity. Today, as never before, war is made upon Christian marriage. The contract of marriage is stript of all religious ceremonial, of all sacred meaning. It becomes a mere natural barter of hearts and fortunes hastily entered into as the most in-signitcant in-signitcant of commercial exchanges burst asunder and forgotten. Divorce is almost the fashion. Nations vie with one another in yielding up their statute books to its decrees. Our own America leads in the race to do honor to its empire. Our record in this regard re-gard is most shameful.' " A defense of Dogma. That clever and satirical epigrammatist. epigram-matist. Gilbert K. Chesterton, has the following passage in his book entitled "Heretics": "The vice of the modern notion of mental progress is that it is alwavs something concerned with the breaking break-ing of bonds, the effacing of boundaries, boundar-ies, the casting away of doe-mas. Km if there be such a thing as mental j growth, it must, mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas. The human hu-man brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions con-clusions it is rusty. When we hear of a man too clever to believe, we are hearing almost the character of a contradiction con-tradiction in terms. It is like hearing of a nail that was too good to hold down a carpet, or a bolt that was too strong to keep a door shut. Man can hardly be defined after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers any many other animals make tools, in the sense that they make an apparatus. Men can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and joncIuslon on conclusion in the formation of some tremendous scheme of philosophy or religion, he is. in the oniy legitimate sense of which the expression is capable, becoming be-coming more nd more human. Wihen he drops one doctrine after another in a refined scepticism, when he declines to tie himself to a system, when he says that he has outgrown definitions, vhen he says that he disbelieves In finality, when in his own imagination he sits as God, holding no form or creed but contemplating all, then he :'s by that very process sinking slowly slow-ly backwards into the vagueness of the vagrant animals and the unconsciousness unconscious-ness of the grass. Trees have no dogmas. dog-mas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded." Made Way for Malachi. It was a colored church in - one of the rural counties of Virginia, says the Baltimore Xews. The pastor was fervent, but he was long in his sei-i mons, while his flock was often short on patience. One particular Sunday he broke all his records. His subject sub-ject was the prophets: he had gone throueh a long list, giving the genealogy geneal-ogy of each, his career from boyhood to "old age. his family relatives, his work, his prophecies: his influence and numberless other points, until the audience au-dience was weary. "We hab now cqme. my bclubbcd breddern and sisters, to de second half nf our discose. We will now take up do minor prohpefs: de fust is Malachi. Now. what placo shall we gib to Malachi." There came a clear voice from an irreverent ir-reverent worshiper in one of the back seats: "Oh: say. Brudder Jones, give Malachi my place, I'm dead tired and I'm gwine home." The Human Heart. We mav, if we choose,, niake the worst of "one another. Every person has his weak potots: every one has his faults; we make the worst of these; we may fix our attention constantly upon these. But we may also make the bet of one another. We may forgive even as we hope to be forgiven. We may put ourselves in the place of others oth-ers and ask wha't we should wish to be done to us. and thought of us, were we in their place. By loving what is lovable in those around us, love will flow back from them to us, and life will become a pleasure instead of a naiir and earth will become like heaven; heav-en; and we shall become not unvsthyl j followers of. Him whose name is Love, inere is a story of a German baron JTlade a Sreat Eolian harp by eu s w,res from tower to tower or his castle. When the harp was ready he listened for the music. But jt w-as in the calm of summer, and, in the still air the wires hung silent. Autumn came with its gentle breezes and there were faint whispers of song. At length the winter winds swept over the castle, and now the harp answered m majestic music. Such a harp is the numan heart. It does not yield its no-oiest no-oiest music in the summer davs of joy, but in the winter of trial. The sweetest sweet-est songs ou earth have been sung in sorrow. The richest things in character charac-ter have been reached through pain. (Washington Catholic.) DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY. If you'd help the world a bit, Do as you'd be done by; If you'd help to brighten it, Do as you'd be done by; If ycu have a blessing, let Some one share it; don't forget, Selfishness will bring regret-Do regret-Do as you'd be done by. If you'd help the world along, Do as you'd be done by; If you'd help to fight the wrong, Do as you'd be done by; Sing a happy, gladsome song, Sing it steady, sing it long. Sing it to the list'ning throng-Do throng-Do as you'd be done by. If you'd help the world today. Do as you'd be done by: If you would its grief allay. Do as you'd be done by; Say your kind words .while you may, Do your good deeds right away. Peace shall come with you to say-Do say-Do as you'd be done by. St. Ephrem's Prayer. In their devotion to her, no modern client of Mary will ever surpass, says the English Messenger, the fathers and saints of the church. Read, mark, learn by heart, and use the following prayer written by St. Ephrem in the Fourth century: "O Virgin Mother, arouse my soul to penance and guide me to the wav of salvation. When I shall have found it, be thou still my leader, that under the guidance I may attain to eternal bliss. O Mother of the God who loves men, melt and" humble my heart, fill mine eyes with tears of repentance, and enlighten en-lighten them by the light of thy intercession inter-cession that I may not die the death of the soul! Sprinkle me with the hys-nop hys-nop of thy pity, that I may become clean and whiter than snow! O Mother of my Lord Jesus Christ, accept my humble confession and praver. and dur ing the life that yet remains to me, keep me without stumbling on the path of penance! But when my poor soul must leave this body, then. O my Lady, appear to me with thy merciful eyes, and deliver me from the terrible accusations accu-sations of my enemies and of the prince of this world. Be thou my defender, cancel my debt of sin. and lead me saved and fearless before the judgment seat of thy Son. Amen. What Are the Children Reading? (Eleanor C. Donnelly.) Parents in their households, teachers in their schools, superintendents and spiritual directors of Sunday schools, should ever be impressing on their charges what old St. Hugh of Lincoln used to call "the duty of reading"-,-reading that is sound in doctrine, clean, instructive and elevating in even its lighter forms. You are careful enough as to the pure table food of your children: as to the regularity of their baths and all healthful exercise. But what do you know about the character of their mind food? Are you solicitous as to the cleanliness of their souls or the sound ness of their morals? Dangerous or deadly are the average books of the day. Magazines and papers swarm with the sensational and sensual, the grossly realistic. They are suggestive of skepticism and free thought on every ev-ery topic, earthly, heavenly, Infernal. Yet children and younger people eagerly eager-ly devour without question all this seductive se-ductive trash. And when their elders, later on, lament their precocity, they are amazed and shocked to discover that character is infallibly formed for better or worse by the quality of one's habitual reading. Souls become pure through good reading, just as the mountain moun-tain hares of St. Francis de Sales became be-came all white by feeding only on snow. And vice versa. At the root of the whole question is the failure of modern Catholics to realize real-ize and appreciate their faith. Saturated Sat-urated with worldliness, their spiritual sense relaxed and dulled by the enervating, ener-vating, poisonous atmosphere they breathe, they seem to forget that while faith comes by hearing, it is increased, enlightened, strengthened by certain vitalizing vi-talizing practices, among which a proper prop-er kind of reading holds an important place. The Use of Slang. Language, lige everything, is subject sub-ject to abuse. This abuse is threefold: First, there is the abuse of language for immoral and profane purposes; secondly, there is the abuse most pardonable. par-donable. of the three for some unfortunate unfor-tunate persons of inaccuracy in speech: thirdly, therev is the abuse of speech in the shape of slang. Upon the use of the last mentioned we wish to say a few words: The use of slang has become so prevalent pre-valent of late years that it is affected by many who would not be guilty of making grammatical blunders in their conversation. The reason for this is a ctesire at times to nee tree from restrictions re-strictions in the matter of correct speech or a desire 1o emphasize one's statements, or a foolish desire of appearing ap-pearing deliberately careless, funny and insouciant. Possibly nt times this sort of thing is pardonable: but as a matter of fact, indulgence in the license of speech leads to the habit of using slang constantly, and one may suddenly and much to his chagrin find himself using slang at most inopportune inoppor-tune moments. And to be reprimanded reprimand-ed on such an occasion for the use of slang is decidedly embarrassing. Slang is inexcusable. There are plenty of good solid expressions, even timely and correct expressions, that should suegest themselves when one's speech is to be plain and familiar. To be satisfied to express' some of our thoughts in slang causes us to forget how to exprees tnem otherwise; ana good thoughts are surely deserving of a good dress. There is a little crusade being preached against the use of slang, and what Is needed Is a larger number of crusaders. Let only each individual addicted to this form of language-abuse language-abuse eschew it once and forever and discountenance it among his friend. The result will be that every self-respecting person will learn to abominate abomin-ate its use both in himself and in others. Rehearsal for members of Junior choir, this Saturday, May 23. St. Cecilia Chorus rehearsal Sunday morning, 9:30. |