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Show . . . A Dale of Difference, Holy days of obligation do not appeal to non-Catholics non-Catholics and it must be admitted, to some born 1 Catholics. . Irish Catholic devotion to the Blessed Virgin and the precept of hearing mass on the Feast of her Assumption are, however, well illustrated illus-trated in the following anecdote. A story has been told of a dean of the "English Church of Ireland," who ii:sisted.xon his Catholic workmen going to work w-ith i hearing mass on the Feast of the Assumption Assump-tion oi the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. "There's no more power to her," he exclaimed to a half-witted fellow among them, a privileged character char-acter in the country round about, "there's no mere power to her than to my old mother sitting by the fireplace there!" "That's as it may be, your reverence. rever-ence. That's as it may be," the lad replied, sagelj-. "But there's a dale of difference in the sons !" "Let the men hear mass!" quoth the. dean, sharply; and hear mass they did, on every holy day thereafter. Catholic Transcript. : A |
