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Show I j burcft Universal CHURCH CALENDAR. . M. St. Vincent Ferrer. 425,699 for Local Centers. 6. T. Bl. Juliana. 298,441 for Direc-t Direc-t ors. v W. Bl. Joseph Herman. 489,877 for Promoters. I S. Th. Holy Thursday. St. Per petuus. 427,243 for the departed. 9. F. Good Friday. St. Mary Cleo-phas. Cleo-phas. 898,671 for perseverance. ; 10. s. Holy Saturday. St. Mechtil-J Mechtil-J dis. 75S.403 for the young:. ' H. S. Easter Sunday. St. Leo -the Great. E. 1 Cor., v, 7-8: G. Mark xvi, 5-7. 546,572 for First CoCmmunions. I" N W'ORLDLl NESS. To be in the world yet not of the world, is a program of Catholic life hard to understand, and harder to practice. For the world is a pleasant enemy, and its spirit manifold; and we are prone to think that worldliness is hardly blame- , worthy in laymen. Yet nothing can be more false. Worldliness is the appreciating things as they appeal to our passions and it rests on the assumption that this present pres-ent life is tlie end for which we were made. Unworldliness is seeing things -, as God sees? them: and it is based on the belief that the only reason why we ' are in this world is to get ready for the next. It remembers that Jesus was an artiean, and Mary the spouse of a carpenter, car-penter, and St. Paul a. tentmaker: and that not merely to monks and nuns but also to laymen Christ said: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice." jus-tice." Unworldliness does not mean that we give up all amusement, but it does mean that we keep our pleasures with- i in bounds: and that we do not make 4 them ends, but means to serve God bet ter. Again, we are worldly or unworldly unworld-ly not merely by what we do or avoid. Two men may live side by side the same external life, with the same occupation, occu-pation, the same pleasures, the same family circle; yet one be wholly worldly, world-ly, and the other wholly unworldly. Where is the difference? In their motives. mo-tives. The worldly man lives for this ) world alone, the unworldly for God and the next. To avoid worldliness. therefore, vue (jicca courage: tve need laith. to show us the shadows that surround us; we need hope, to tell us of our everlasting: in-,,pri'ance; in-,,pri'ance; we need charity to unite us f to God; wo need the sacrament of faith a"d hope and charity, the Holv Euchar ist. ' No Longer a Joke. lt is objected by the Methodist elders to the appointment or Bishop Lillis as a memlcr of the Kansas state text book j commission that a Catholic bishop can have no possible interest in the public schools. Has a man who contributes largely to the maintenance of an institution insti-tution no interest in its management because he happens to donate his share of the use of it to some one else? Bishop Bish-op Lillis has in the public schools of Kansas merely the interest of the representative rep-resentative of those who furnish about one-third of the funds to support the publie schools. Also., as the head of a large and successful school system, he may know s-omething about text books. This constant assumption on the part ' j of the denominations that the public ' schools of this country are a Protestant institution is no longer simply ridiculous. ridicu-lous. Catholics have a pretty broad sense of humor, but it begins to look as if it wcro time they ceased regarding regard-ing this attitude of mind as a joke. Catholic Universe. |