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Show f ,! CHURCH CALENDAR. If -r ' ? The General Intention Recommended I by His Holiness, Pius X. I The Month of the Sacred Heart. I ::. S. Second after Pent. St. Wil- ! liani. K. 1 John iii. 15-18; G. Luke, xiv. I jiJ-lM. 1.fi. 4.202 for conversions. 2. Sis. John and Paul. 300,946 for : tinners. I ; 27. T. St. La dislaus. 149,410 for the j l jut emigrate. I 1 i 2. W. St. Irenaeus. 11.891 for spirit-' spirit-' ; f ual favors. j ' :x Th. SS. Peter and Paul. 141,755 t innnnral favors. 1.1 ::. F. Feast of the Sacred Heart jj ,-raui. THE MONTH OF THE SACRED j HEART. id the first day of June, there came 1 nie from a dear friend a gift of that j :! volume, the Manual of the Sacred 2 It cmne breathinp forth the 5 ions personality of the giver a j vi kr. lovinjr forethought had pasted upon one of the fly-leaves a beautiful 1 - -!' "ii 'he Sacred Heart of our Lord, ? lii- Messed mother and of St. Anthony, j VI. e loving- thought of the giver, thus I i, Mlci-ly and tactfully shown, made the jjifi one io be prized, as a gift in the : si sense of the word, even had it ! , n other than the treasure house of I ,i..-otion that it is, illustrating the beuu- I iy ;tw the power of prayer. f Who does not know the beauty, the I p.v.v i-r. the indescribable, inexpressible ! i ..iisnUition of prayer, the "golden chain I nimiit the feet of fiod," whose every !; k is cemented with the love which i'mi'.s from the Heart of Our Lord? Did : .-t liiith strengthen us to believe that f it is- so. how might we find courage to ' j i. p.- that the prayers that we so im- I t-fectly, and alas, at times, improper- lv. pray, would even be heard, much ! .-ss that our poor thoughts should be ' uaiislaled into the beauty of Divine j! .riiuunication, should be strong to M i..:npel the Tulfillment of our supplica- I t!..::s? Surely of the record of answered ; i;-ayi-rs was written out. the world it- .- :!' could not contain it. As for our j i answered prayers, lot us know that it ; is w-ii with them and us. A certain I !. writing late in life, lifted up her v..i. iu fervent thanksgiving to God, j i .it for answered prayers, but for the i unanswered prayers." She had come i t last to pray, in perfect spirit, "Not , j r-.y will, but Thine, be done." ; y Throughout the beauteous month of ,1,:ne. let us try to fix the eyes of our lii-arts upon the sweet and wondrous jn.it to for the meditations of this in. mth of devotion. "Behold the Heart ' v liich has so loved men." "Sweet Heart of Jesus, on this day ii i:ach art I do. each prayer I say, ' ! All sufferings that wait for me, ( In union with the Mass Divine, j For each intent and wish of Thine 1 Through Mary's Heart I offer Thee. To me Thy saving grace impart i And with Thy love inflame my heart." Lydia Wi ight, in Catholic Universe. THOUGHTS ON THE SACRED HEART. ! ur dear Lord's Blessed Heart is a -very ocean of mercy. Peter and i Th-mas and Magdalen found it so. Then courage, my soul! I. too, shall I iind it so. J How near to the Sacred Heart we should be if would could only love ' souls: and if we could only grieve for j defects, not because they annoy us. j 1 ut because they are displeasing to i ;d: and if we strove to help others to be perfect for his sake. t All hail to the red. red rose of royal j June, that symbolizes the wealth of f l.ive and sweetness of the Sacred Heart: j I'nion and Times. In thee. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, j pinners find , their pardon: martyrs ! their courage: virgins their chastity; ! families, union and concord: and re- lizious zeal for their perfection. St. r j i aiK i? Jiorgia. ; '.a-.e upon the Heart of Jesus, who j lied for thee: and his evident love, y longer than death, more vigorous j than life, will expel fear, will remove t distrust, will cast aside faint-hearted- pes? will enkindle love, and thou -wilt Co to immerse thysef in this ocean of 5 HModness. I The Heart of Christ is still warm in ! its affection for tho?e who love it. It j .Iows with love when they make sacri- 1 liees for its sake. It throbs with ten- ; oerness for those who. in the midst of s trows and Mjffering. cling fast to the j conviction that it is faithful and kind flti.J true. Catholic Record. MIXED MARRIAGES. The one impediment above all other? Vf tVlP church has to deal with most fre- J v;--ntly in the states arises from the i liifferem-o of religion in the contracting i t attjoF. Too many non-Catholics, in- 5 iie. ii. when choosing a wife are attract- - -d to our Catholic women. These i 'mixed marriages." as they are called. 1 ihe c hurch would fain prevent. As she I i -cognizes Christian baptism wherever i i-l p finds it, a marriage of a Catholic ' v ith a baptized Protestant is valid. I '-."ii if contracted without dispensation I l this is called the impediment of n iei religion mixta religio). But dis- ' pirity of worship fdisparitas cultus) i t iilifies marriage between the baptized pe.j the nnbaptized. The basis of this, f ! t-'linient. according to St. Thomas 'ciinas is the distantia between the ' ... the immeasurable pap that yawns f I t (...ii the natural and the supernat-j " order. I As to the power of dispensation m i ehnrch. it need hardly he stated 'I .! he has no authority in the invali- f -tincr impediments of the naturs.1 or t divine lKisitive law. Her author-:'; author-:'; of dispensation is reptricted to the i I' i" ditnents of ecclesatstical origin, r i is i-orrelative with the authority 1 ' ena. tcd them. The one sole inten-' inten-' . ..f a legislator, if he be wise and ' ' ;!' nt. in the enactment and promul- i -'on of any law. must be to conserve moral order in the community; and. ' : -hould happen, as it will from time line, that for some reason or other law fails to accomplish its pur-- pur-- it. a particular ease, a dispensa-may dispensa-may not on1 be permitted, but ; .11 he gram- .. sufficiently rea- -! i-le cause. ' n-pensatioti i: "t ot be -onfound : -'ith the ju'ji-.. J relaxation of an-" an-" i " i , . n t by a c it ij c'.?nt ecclesnastical 'filial. Disperf-aiio.i is granted di- ' y by the bis'v-p. ucting as the dele- of tho holy se; and no judicial e -in iff. is necessary beyond the ob- . vance of the usu.i laws respecting ' iim-nts. But a question of fact ' arise as to whether one of the '-cues Im? free to marry, on account of ! ' i j.rcvious marriage. Neither a 'top nor much less a priest, will at-' at-' i't to decide a question of fact - 'tout submitting the case to the ' ! a . The personnel and process of ; iribunal are most formal and ju- E ial. Before a judge appointed by : bishop the plaintiff submits testi- ! y through ta competent advocate " establish the non-existence of the Sis-ability charged, while the validity r Hie former marriage is presumed 1 i maintained bv the "Defender of i- Marriage Bond." an official to be d in every diocese, distinguished :"" his learning, prudence and experi- " The decision of this court nei-creates nei-creates nor abrogates the impedi- 9 ' 1 :t. but legally determines, after an !!x"-ndei deliberate and conscientious '"initiation of the testimony, the va-''''ty va-''''ty or the invalidity of the mar- ace as it was in fact at the time it as contracted. Quite frequently no ision can be reached because it is i i impossible to secure the unques- f t j i"t,ably convincing testimony required. Although this process entails no little Itrpens". it is open 1o the ioor as well to the rich; and the most humble : : : v orkingman may have his cause pleaded plead-ed gratuitously. Divorce and dispensation differ, toto coelo, in nature and consequence. Dispensation Dis-pensation is antecedent, removing the impediment to make marriage indissoluble indis-soluble till death; divorce is subsequent dissolving the bond, and it may be repeated re-peated again and again bv the same parties. The impediments of the Catholic Cath-olic church generally arise from permanent per-manent conditions in which a man finds himself, and over which he has little if any control, whereas divorce owes its genesis to human weakness and passion. pas-sion. Catholic World. PARISH AREA, 13,000 MILES; CATHOLIC POPULATION, 200 Life of a Pastor in Charge of a Vast District in Oregon. (Father M. J. Hicken, in Occidental Magazine.) Kingsley is a small village of some half a dozen houses in about the center of Wasco county. Oregon, and twentv-live twentv-live miles from The Dalles. Two and" a half miles from this vallege there is a small frame church, and a frame house, where the priest lives when "at home." When the priest reaches this isolated little home, dusty and tired in summer, or half frozen in winter, after six hours' staging from The Dalles, he proceeds to open up the house for ventilation, shut for a month or more. He next kindles a fire, gets his buckets and goes some 500 yards for water to a neighbor's in the ravine or canyon near bv. But he enjoys one great luxury which can never nev-er be appreciated by one unfamiliar with our novel conditions and surroundings. surround-ings. He can go out on his front porch and take a most refreshing, generous wash undisturbed and unobserved by living things, save, perhaps, bv the ubiquitous jackrabbit or hungry covote. Kingsley parish embraces all Wasco county except The Dalles and a narrow , strip along the Columbia river to Hood river: all Sherman county and at present pres-ent the counties of Crook and Wheeler' over 13.000 square miles. The total population of these four counties is only 23.0.S3, and the Catholic population -00 souls, or some forty families, of whom about one-half mar he counted on to support the church and pastor. Within this immense missionary circuit there are some half a dozen pretty fair towns, from 350 to 800 of population each Du- fur. Wasco, Moro (the county seat). Grass Valley. Kent, Shaniko. Antelope in all of which there arc but four Catholic families. There are also quite a number of small villages and hamlets Briggs, Grants. Rufus. Boyd. Xansine, Wapanitia. Wamic. Victor. Tigh Ridge. Ashwood in which there is not a single Catholic family, or, I believe, individual. individ-ual. There is not a Catholic "in business" busi-ness" or in the "professions" in all these towns, big or little. But we labor on undismayed, traveling lrom one Catholic Cath-olic family' to another, teaching the catechism, visiting the - sick, lecturing to non-Catholics, hearing confessions and celebrating mass when and where we can. Occasionally we "gather in a stray sheep." and sometimes we are rewarded with a good conversion. Usually it takes three weeks or a month to make" the circuit of our missions. "But." said a dear friend to us once, "how do you reach these terrible places these mountains and canyons how do you travel?" "Well." we "replied, jocularly, jocu-larly, "any way, except to fly." Our dear Protestant friends are more than kind. They take a deep interest in our churcb work, and contribute readily to all Catholic institutions. Indeed, it is but just to them to state here that the beautiful little church which we have just built at Wasco was almost wholly the result of their liberality. lib-erality. It is the first Catholic church in Sherman county, and with the exception excep-tion of The Dalles, thirty miles distant, there, is not another Catholic, church within a radiuft of 100 miles. The church is-76x28 feet, has living apartments for the priest and a line basement throughout eight feet in the clear.- It is finished in the natural wood hard oil and varnish and is the pride of all Wasco. When completed and furnished it will-, with the ground donation, represent a cash value close to $5,000, with a total outstanding- indebtedness in-debtedness of about $SC0. Were we able, through some benevolent benevo-lent agency, to build even one little church in each county, great things could be" accomplished for religion. The priest would be within reasonable reach of the widely-scattered little congregations, con-gregations, the timid and the wavering would be strengthened and the poor fallen-away Catholics receive new hope and encouragement. CATHOLIC SINGERS IN PROTESTANT CHURCHES Violation of the First Commandment, Participation in False Worship. The Question Box received the fol- ! lowing inquiry: "Why does the church forbid a Catholic girl, gifted by God with a good voice, to sing in a Protestant Protest-ant church in order to support herself? " Many of the newspapers of late have been hinting ;st an exodus of Catholic" singers to Protestant churches. In other oth-er forms the matter has been brought ! to our notice, so we give a more prominent prom-inent place to this question than its merit really deserves. The law prohibiting a Catholic from singing in a Protestant church is not a I law established by the church, but a law of God contained in the first commandment: com-mandment: "I am the Lord thy God. thou shalt" not have strange Gods be-i be-i fore Me." The little child learns in its catechism that this commandment forbids for-bids the worship of God in any other way than directed by God, and that the taking part in any false worship is ? sin. The Catholic child is taught that Christ established but one church, to which all must conform in order to be saved, and consequently the child is taught and believes that all other forms of worship established by man are false and erroneous, and that no Catholic Cath-olic can be present or take part in any of these religious exercises. The mere presence of the singer at such a service is a violation of the first commandment. She deliberately attends a worship which her conscience tells her is false. By her singing she takes an essential part in this worship, and by her aid helps to keep her hearers active in what she believes to be an erroneous faith. The non-Catholic, while he is bound bv the commandments of God just as much as the Catholic, does not act against his conscience, for in the majority -of cases he honestly believes one religion is as good as another,' and that Christ left to man the selection of the method and manner of worshipping him. In attending the different c hurches he acts according to his conscience. The Catholic acts against his con-I con-I science in attending another form of religion, and sins by so doing, even if-it were not a question, as it is, of violation viola-tion of the first commandment of God. Moreover, all Catholics know that such persons cannot receive absolution while engaged in this practice any more than they could while habitually violating anv" of the. other commandments. The gift of a good voice is no argument argu-ment to the contrary: if it were then the gift of a pretty face would justify the leading of an immoral life for profit' the. gift of deft fingers would permit the altering of checks and for-trefv for-trefv She is not obliged to use a gift of God asainst God, and there are other ways of earning a living at better pay than most singers receive, hough these ways mean harder work and Sve beVhat the Catho-lie Catho-lie girl really loses the respect of non-Catholics non-Catholics by singing in these churches. Non-Catholics generally understand Sur position, viz.-. that we firmly belief Christ 'founded but one church, that he did not give to man the power of changing his teaching, and that we cannot conscientiously take part in any other form of worship. They respect our belief and never ask us to take part in union services which are so often a feature of opposite sects among non-Catholics. This does not prevent any social intercourse with others of a different faith, which is encouraged, as is all that promotes harmony and good will among neighbors and fellow-citizens. The honest Protestant married to a Catholic respects her belief, and will not ask her to attend his church. Does he not lose respect for the person who will act against her belief for mercenary mercen-ary purposes? Is the financial gain sufficient suf-ficient to recompense for the loss of respect re-spect the peace of mind? Xo; it is not a violation of a law of the church, this singing in a non-Catholic non-Catholic church: it is the direct breaking break-ing ofthe first commandment of God, given centuries before the church was established. The church is powerless to change this law. This reference to the respec t in which Catholics are held by their non-Catholic brethren suggests another thought. In every community, large or small, the Cathqlics who command universal respect re-spect are those who most strictly and exactly live up to the rules of their church, who admit no compromise in principle or practice. Their position is known on every question, and they are spared useless approaches on dubious propositions. They are on the best of friendly terms with their fellow citizens of all creeds, and are looked upon as pillars of the state as well as of the church. Model citizens these, active and energetic in public life, always on the side of law and order! Unswerving loyalty to the teaching of their church has compelled the high esteem in which they are held. Our young men and women may well pattern their lives after aft-er those of these giants of principle, and reflect that to say nothing of the loss of their own self-respect no mercenary mer-cenary motive in forsaking ideals will win even, the regard of others. The Guidon. WOMANLY WOMEN. Some day men and women will both realize that gentle moral lives are best for women; then they will become conscious con-scious of the fact that they can get the most out of life when they live the lives of gentle women. It is a pretty old word. Prettier, I think, than "ladies."" "la-dies."" And it seems to me that you and I would rather have our daughters daugh-ters be that today than anything'-else. Wouldn't you? I would. To be gentle and to be a woman means to lie everything every-thing to those about you. And to be a j woman without being gentle well, do you like the type? I do not. I do not. I like manful . men and womanly women. wo-men. But I do not like the "advanced woman." Her speech and walk are alike strident. She has lost all that is best in woman, and gained all that is worst in man. There really, is no place for her. She does not care for a home. She is not a builder of homes. And what will the world do when homes are done away with? The Catholic Sentinel. |