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Show i I . i j jgburcft tinipersal ; CHURCH CALENDAR. ' 1 , ,2S"S' th aftPr Easter. SU Paul of I Hie Cross. E. James i, iT-n- j St 1 I ,,jhu xvl. 5-14.-316,607 for spiritual fa- I ors. 29 St- Peler. 1.036,661 for tem- ! J jioral favors. I r0;-T; St Cat'witie of Sienna. 1,- 1 IGlfio, for special, various. ! A Reporter's Error. The daily paper is very often uneon- I roously funny whn it pets to report- l Jil anything connected with the I church Last Mondav one of Boston's I enterprising sheets had the following: "Key. Father Rathntr. by his pres- :l r-noe of mind at the 7:30 mass last i Sunday in St. Francis1 church. Tren- 1on- x- -averted a panic by throw- a rig a blazinp sacrist y, set lire bv a I candle, out of the church before "the Jliinies spread. e Now, a sacristy, according to the. Standard Dictionary, is "a room at- II; ached to a church or religious hou.e iii which the sacred vessels and vest-jrients vest-jrients are kept and in which the ilorgy robe." Hence it will be seen that the reporter who saw the priot throw a "blazing sacrlstv' out of the church must have been ''seeing ihings H night." Sacred Heart Review. Manning Reminiscences. The Very Rev. Canon Vere i willing will-ing his reminiscences of Cardinal Manning in the St. Andrew's Magazine. Maga-zine. Among others things lie relate? ihat Fa tiiers Burge and lawless, 'anon Keens, and Father Thomas; 3avis w?re known us t he "Ener- j getics." because of their pioneer work in parochial missions, and the cardi-j v pave them every encouragement, j 3Ie reckoned about sixteen years as) a he average work of a priest's life. j The. cardinal used to entertain 'the j'liests at Archbishop's house. One cf them was tolling a story of sue-' -'-ts in a mission n little out of the "wny, "Rravo, Condor!" exclaimed the cardinal. alluding to Lord Charles Beresfords exploit with the little gunboat st Alexandria. The cardinal was not fond of the term secular priests." He spoke of them 1 us "my priests." Once in a con versa - 1 lion with anon ere. ne. asitoa a ciuestion which seemed somewhat ab-' ab-' ; j li pt and. irrelevant. "When," he Fi id. '"did the power of old Rom Vicgin to decay?" The canon began f 1o think of dates, but he answered' bis (nvn riuestion. "When they ceased to i Jight their own battle and called on j Mid trusted to the auxiliaries." Canon Vere (includes with a tiiuehing personal reminiscence. He Fays: "1 have remarked that Cardinal (Manning was devoted to his clergy. "Whenever I visited him he was always busy, but never difficult of access, jiever hurried in big manner. He ever h.id a kind word and a welcome greeting. greet-ing. Well do I recollect a certain occasion oc-casion on which I climbed those dark j. told stairs in that big bleak house in j Carlisle Place. I was very depressed, I t'iseonraged and downhearted. As usual I 1 found him much engaged, there were several people waiting to see him. I excused myself and apologized for calling, and said I would come again p not her day. as it was only a personal i. matter on which I wished to consult him. 'If it concerns yourself the 1 ethers must wait. My first duty Is j to attend to my priests." Then he made jne sit down and talked to me for ' jiearly an hour. That interview was one of tire turning points of toy life. Vhat he said I have never forgotten." The Home Woman. The hom-3 woman is the indispensable indispensa-ble woman. It has been wisely remarked re-marked that we could do without the women who have made careers for themselves in all other directions; but without the home woman we I f-hould have to shut up shop at once. 1 ; The home-maker is the absolutely .1 .-' necessary element, the woman the world cannot do without. It is a pity, therefore, that the home woman hIIows herself so often to fail of her full development and reward. She. is' fpt to be so unselfish and so consci-i-ntious that she. lets the four walls rf home narrow about her. The j "household" woman, as she has been called, does not get enough exercise i-very day. nor does she breathe rnough of the outside nir of thoughts f mid action to refresh her spirit. The ' j timplest remedy is that of at least ! one outside interest. The woman j Vho takes up one hobby, one charity. ; cue line of work beyond the household 't rares. and follows it steadily, will find J that it brings freshness and power with it. It becomes both outlook and I inflow to her. The study and collection ' nf old chins, reading up a special subject, sub-ject, making a garden, any one of these. I If pursued thoroughly, will bring her in ; touch with others, and open vistas of Interest unendingly. And the woman with a hobby grows old so slowly tlv.it yhi often never grows old at all. but keeps to ihe last that freshness of interest in-terest which is the mark of youth. State of Religion. ; Since men have left the abstract f. iences and devoted themselves to lite applied, or natural sciences, such vast improvements in life, in commerce and wealth have been made that, common -Iv, men have come to accept the world as the best and have come to make a god of the material prosperity, and r !iequently. look gratefully upon 'science-' as the creator of it. '"Wh;t-Fwr '"Wh;t-Fwr science says is so. because it has delivered us the goods in all form of t bodily gratification and earthly com- I fort " Th result is an age of niatc- , Mahsm and a decay of faith among the i inasses. ) So a local Presbyterian preacher re- I t'-ntly abandoned his pulpit .for the tinge of a theatre, and a Baotist minister min-ister in New York deserted his 'pulpit for a theatre also. The metropolitan pr-aehed. in giving his reasons for his net ion. said that the pulpit is "a cow-nrd cow-nrd s castle and that every one who knows the emptiness oi tne pews m tiearlv a'l the Protestant churches in N. w York knows that so far as Protectants Prot-ectants are eonverned.- New Yorkors have ceased to be a church-going people peo-ple The failure of the church to reach the people i not only a numerical failurenumbers fail-urenumbers do rot always represent power and influence but it is a failure of quality as well as quantity; by far Die vast majority of those outside the Catholic church never enter a Protest-fc Protest-fc Hiit church except possibly to attend a I funeral or witness a wedding. Roch- I l.ter Catholic Citizen , Diocese 99 Years Old. The archdicese of Philadelphia was pinety-nine vears old on April S. Xo Fpecial celebration marked the event, but alreadv plans are being made for the centennial celebration next year. I The archdio.-e.se is second in he ! Cnited States in point of years. Balti more having been established two venrs earljcr... VP to 1808 the Balti- : tiiore diocese embraced the enure l - United States. On April S of that year Pope Pius 'TI issued a bull erecting erect-ing the se of Philadelphia, and appointing ap-pointing the Rev. Michael Eagen to the bishopric. The diocese extended over Pennsylvania and most of Xew Jersey.' Bishop Eagen did much for Catholicity Catholici-ty in Philadelphia, but he was not ! spared long, for in ISM lie died. After that the See wa governed in succession by Bishop Henry Conwell. who died in 3842; Bishop F. P. Ken-rick, Ken-rick, who was transferred to Baltimore Balti-more i:i 1S31: Bihon John X. Neumann, who died in lfifiO; Archbishop James F. Wood, when the diocese had been elevated ele-vated to the ditnily of an archdiocese, who died in 1S83, and the present archbishop Patrick Jphn Ryan. The archdiocese now comprises all of Philadelphia as well as Berks, Bucks. Carbon, Chester, Deieware. Lehigh. "Montgomery, Northampton and Schuykill counties. My King Divine. I love Tiiee. my Cod! My siiirit longs for Thee. But I beneath Thy chastening rod ButI beneath Thy chastening rod Must pass, most great and glorious God, I Ere yet. Thy face I see! Th" grace to walk Within Thy path, live me. dear Lord. That not in wrath Thine eyes may turn on me! Oh. blessed Jesus, see my heart , And pierce it with . ,; .. Love's burning dart. For every beat, dear Lord, is Thine, My Jesus dear, my King divine! Miserere mei! L. H. Wimmer in Weekly Bouquet. |