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Show ! - ; . . j glnirc!) Universal r ; i - i : : ' ' ji : 1 : ! j CHURCH CALENDAR. t I Sunday.' Dec. 17 Third of Adver.t. j let. Lazarus. I Monday. 18 The Expectation. I I . Tuesday, 19 St. No.mesion. i I ." Wednesday, 20 Ember day. Vig-il. Thursday. 21 St. Thomas. riday. 2 Eitibfr day. I tcuurddy, 23 Ember daw Visii i I I ' Silent Wisdom. j ' K-r. still. "When trouble is br--vins, ' kep still. Kv.-oi wlier. sianV-r -is ge.- j Ir-K on hi? log kecy fi:1. When vour ! feelings are hurt, keep still till vou re- j fover from your excitement at any.' Vat Things look differently through : Br iunagitatPd eye. ., I'r. llurton leiaie.c now once in u ! -ommn:ion ho wro;e a V tier and sent it -mil wished "ho ; had not. "jy, tny later e;irs." he-said. "I had another com-vvtion com-vvtion .;nd -.vote a long Jotter: bat life "V.d rubbed a !:u!e sere i'-.u- me. and 1 liept that inter in my pocket a?alnt Tli" day wh--n 1 couid look it over vith-I vith-I "!it agitation and without tears. I was )ni I did. Less and iss it seemed 1 -fssaiy to send it. .1 was not sure y would do any hurt, but in my doubi- I Tu'tn'-ss T lea ned to relieepce. and even- I .-uaHy It was destroyed." Time works In nnders. "Wait till you can jjpon k '"tlmly, and thfii ; ou v ill riot need to .-i'nk. maybe. ' CHUKCH IN AMERICA j BEFOEE COLUMBUS CAME j At th Internationa! Hcientifie ",.n- ! Ci-'-ss of Catholics held in Paris from j vh- 1st to the 6th of April. 1S5-1, there -v;.s reiid an esay by M. d Dr. Luka ! .1-Me on "The Evangelization of Amcri- 1 f.t. liefore 'hrlstophT t'.lumbu." A ! romr-nd;um of that essay will be of in- j 3 crept to all Americans. ! After statins the ancient tradition "oi:eerhh fv the existence of a continent beyond the Atlantic ocean a tradition "f the Egyptians, of the .;red;s and of! the Middle Aaes tho author pueaks of' be voyj?e of Si. Erendai and his Irish roiiks in the sixth century :u search ! f a continen: beyond the Atlantic ' ocean; of the unsuccessful efforts maue j afterwards to rediscover, these trans-Atlautie trans-Atlautie islands, which are mentioned by Tlonorius of Auian nn2-n:;7. and V Oervaise of Tilbury (1211). the seog-'aphers seog-'aphers and found on the maps of the "Middle Apes; he shows thai ;he conri-'lit conri-'lit of Anieiiea was colonized by the Northmen at the V..alr.ninsr of the tenth "entury. Sagas' Traditions. TliC .-Scandinavian Spjras attribute the discovery ;md colonization of. Greenland Green-land To the Northman Gumb.iorn SST). and i;ricvthe Ued fS3): the discovery snd colonization of the coasts of northeast north-east America to P.jarn TTerfulfson .md Eief the T.ucky flO'd). The S.ngas us that the conversion of Greenland Green-land to hristinity was due to St. "Maf the Great, kir-a- of N'orwav GOiri-This GOiri-This testimony of the Sutras is 'on firmed by a TVoH of Pone Xicholas- V of the dafe ;n which lv speaks "i the existing tradition to that effect, alii'-h had been communicated to him hy the Greenlanders themselves. Our -inthor gives a copy of this P.ull in hi? ppendiv. Christianity on American Continent. As to the date of the introduction of Christianity on the American continent we have only vague indications. In T"i'-0, the Saxon Bishop Jason went as far as Vineland. and suffered martyr-dorn martyr-dorn there. In 1112 or 1113 Ei i--L"psi. ii! Irishman, was consecrated bishop of merica ' and ineaiviK-d the gospel !o h" natives of the continent., jn 1121 h- went, to Vineland. and determined viot to rtt.urn to Greenland.; in o:ltr to- fslvc his ntire attention to-(he evaij-pejization evaij-pejization of tin's new country. As to ft -lie fuccess of his work, ihe." Vatican a . archives give abundant tt-stinv.nr in A T'- reports made to Homo, of the colli col-li lections of Peter Pence "taken up by l the bishop in the, diocese Gardar; for J such co'ie .tions were based on the number of families, ar.d therefore in I '"27 there must have been at least one I thousand Catholic families in ihe-dio-I "-ese. judsiina: fiom the report . nvide to f JJoitoc for that year. Jurisdiction in Greenland. ! The colonies of Greenland by a rreu- I lation of Benedict IX Get!) were sub- i .Vet to the archbishopric of Hamburjr- I Bremen, which com7ris d all the nnrth- I rn countries of Euioo.e. . They wjre I 'under the iuinedi.i-e jurisdici 'ion of he bishop of Ir.;ia:;d. After Krie-lTsi liad decided tin! X' return to ;i.n-iand. ;i.n-iand. the colonis: then held a diet, in 1213. and -.etii;,;.:i,.d that Greenland ijieht b; erected into an episcopal see. "Xot having the requisite number of mhai'itar.is to constitute 2 diocese. Htill by reason of its distance from Europe Eu-rope iiift pet i lion was siar.ted. The lirst bif-hon.- Arnold, va chosen in 1124. 1 "insecrat-d by the archbishop of Bund. un-J fixed his se- at kirUar in 112, For f'M.ne years the new S'.e remained subject to the archb-.-di-in of Hamburs-J"!reirer.. Hamburs-J"!reirer.. Diocese of Gardar. "When the eccieiastica! proviiice f Xorway was . --pta Wished, in HIS. hy Pope Eugene in. (iutilar was attached "o if as one of its sufftajran ees. the vrovin.-e bcinar that ot Dro-.tiseim. and 'hu? v.-efmd "from the middle of the" twelfth century, the i ioc se of Gardar al'.'.ays mention el ;n the Provinciate Vet-s or Ali.ir.JS. llS3. in the Elbor '""riEun of CenI;:i Ca mere rarhss. llfl. and. later on. in the II Eibia To.xa-Tun To.xa-Tun . i In lt;s Gieeid.-n.i was imad-d by F'ares from the AnvTie.in cin inert. ; who j. ilia sod v.v.kI burn.t all i's town j and made captiv-j-. f .a'l its inhsb- j :''?rif". Only nitie- churchs.. In the ic- j ir-or. r sea peii des", : U'-i ion. Thirty years after, the Grcenlaiidevs r..ariaed j to return to tlc ir native !and. r.-bailf i b' st thev could- Some of their huv lies and becge.J o"" Poj- Ni.-hu'js ' to send them -a hishoo and soive : i--sts to rare for tlit-i!- H,o;is. They in-f"''ri:! in-f"''ri:! .1 the jxipe of the ileslruct ;on a? ' hejf homes, tlve mussa-re of their jests, and the tmff rinss they had ei-dured fr thirty years in eaptivity :. continent. The pole listened to th prayers, and it- T 4 1 s commanded the bis-hep of ilola aid Sk:i!h-f to te- ", iciiion iii Greenland: but for nuknown reasons the jiopc's decision :s r.ot carried rait. ! Benedictine Bishop. Sent. Over forty years elapsed, when the Gref-rlrruders reiewed their peiitioii ! "r spiritual aiti to Pope Innocent VIII ( Their sit uaibm -was most ' deplorabi.j. ; .Abandoned to themselves-' for almost : j cr.uiry without bishnps. without iests to instruct th'ra. wit!to:;f iht! sacrauT-nt., Hkv iiad ii'.nmst lie-olteii the faith of their fathers. The only memorial me-morial of tb:'! faith v hi.-h they hud 1 ben :.blo to p: eserve was a "ro-taV v Mch was every year exposed publicly j '."! the ver.eration of the public; on w't corporal, a hundred years before he las-; priest in t'rcenland had const. vat d tit--1 Body atid Blood of Our J.. l. .M-o-ed by thei- touching appeal ) M-x;inde-;-.VI. who had succeeded In- j - o- cm viil, sent to the sec of Gardar. ! Matthias, a Benedictine, who had bed. . made a bishop by bis predecessor, lie . was a man filled with holy zeal for the salvation of the poor Irecrdanders- This was the very year that hailed with j wonder the news- uf f ho discovery of j America bv Christopher Columbus t v j (H:2). The Mcssc-ser. L- n May Keep Holy Days. h Th':- f-uperintendent of the Milwaukee , J p'jb'ic schools has issued an order that l children and teachers may abw i.t '! themselves on Church holy da-s. f ! Teachers of any church who feel it a ; duty to remain away on the-v- days to ; i S attend chur h itiav 9l--o do so. For . i j - j! ; i I - , , - - X-.--'-. ------- j - , , them or for pupils no penalty will be : attached -for so doing. ' i j CATHOLIC SINGERS IN PEOTESTANT CHUECHES i Direct Participation in Heretical Worship Positively. Forbidden j . Participation Defined. 'From the Ecclesiastical Review.). Question Xow that the Beview is i urging forward the correct interpretation interpreta-tion of the pope's Motu Proprio on Chart and the music reform, our city pastors are threatening: to pel the bishops ir.to trouble by rrferrinjr the indignant lady soloists hitherto in possession pos-session of the lofty organ domain. t- the episcopal parlors for adjudication of their grievances. It is needless to say that explanations, are. out of the quefnion, but soo.thlngs are not. and a I bishop who knows his business will I no; fan the flume of female resent-! resent-! raw.!, But there is a serious aspect to this oxieslion. Some of our singers' who have been doing- their duty, and hive justly earned a salary, even as the piiest himself does in the exercise of the. sacred functions, are being 'deprived 'depriv-ed of a. living by being dismissed from the Caihoiic choir. Some of these could readily find the needed material j compensation and more in accepting positions as singers in non-Catholic, that is. Protestant or Jewish churches.-In churches.-In c few eases no other way of earning earn-ing a decent livelihood would seem to be open to such women, who for the refi and good and believing Catholics. Is there, any interpretation of the prohibition" pro-hibition" of eommuuicatio in sacris which gives these really worthy women wo-men a chance for their living? It seems to me that Pnyesant religions service is in large measure nothing mote than a sacred concert, and no theologian would object to our Catholic Catho-lic lovers of music attending sacred concerts in which Protestants take a leading part, since we live in constant intercourse with such: ;nu Catholic charity owes them undoubtedly a certain cer-tain amount of respec t for holding their views on religious matters in good fath, though perhaps . not in a very serious way. Are we not too severe in these matters? I felt as if it were so when not long ago a lady said to me, "Priests don't realize our position; they 'need not look for a living, and so it is easy for them to make Jaws." Response. The Review has had occasion oc-casion to express an opinion on. the above subject before .the present supposing sup-posing urgency arose by which ladies who have been singing professionally in Catholic choirs are thrown .out of positions. The; question is not whether we make hard laws, but whether the laws which God made may be explained ex-plained away , by our circumstances and needsv Xecessity dispenses from the law, but not every inconvenience or hardship implies a necessity, "and no inconvenience or . hards-hip could sanction an act of disobedience ' implying im-plying sin. The priests in France-who ; are deprived of their salary and in j some rases of a decent support or liv- j ing might do many things unbecoming i their sacred calling, but they could not lawfully go into Protestant, or Jewish houses of worship and take part in the. same under plea, of earning earn-ing a liviog. ' : -. ; ' ' ' Whilst -as Catholics .we are not for-j bidden honorably to assist Protest- ants, .lews or pagans, when they j stand in need of our -services, nor to ear;: our daily bread bv serving them 'n honest employment, the positive divine di-vine law forbids all conscious and direct di-rect participation in heretical worship. wor-ship. "VVe participate bv playing the himi or singing in the religious services ser-vices of those who deny the revealed truth of Christ as manifested through its only legitimate channel, the Catholic Catho-lic church. . i in the case of most sects. ; he vcry term "Protestant," accepted by them as their religious party name, is an unconscious admission of their denial of the Catholic teaching as emanating from Clod. Individual Protestants may not realize this fact: they may be, as they say. "in good faith;" nevertheless they have attached themselves to a a wrong or defective system of 'interpreting 'inter-preting the truth in which God corn- mands" us to worshin him. Catholics j w ho are supposed to know and rcailzo i the fac; that they are in possession of j the tipth faith, cannot couscnt under: any pretext to participate in such false 1 woiship without denying inipHeity the faith which they are pledged to maintain main-tain uncorrupted at the risk of their; lives. What is said here of Protestants is j true of Jews and of all other sects sep- i a rated from the one true church which, like an oven book, is accessible to all j who will nproach and examine its teaching without malice or prejudice, j What the' Catholic believes-'on this j subject today is precisely the same j as that which the early Christians be-j lieved when they shed their blood as ; martyrs rather than worship in the I pa -art faith; or which the Jews be- lieved before the coming of Christ, AS j is witnessed by Eleazar and the Mac- j echoes, who preferred - to' suffer tor-! tare and death rat Iter than nart icipo to j in ii religious worship which they knew to be false. Although there m-ry ! have been mr.n who belonged to it in j good faith. J If there should be any doubt as to ; he duty of Ciitholies -n this respect,! iB would be dipell-d by the declara-j ! tion of their sacred tribunal which) I a "is as 'the ojdinary legitimate .inter-, i pret'V of CiithoJie disciplinary law. j Cf Co'decian, n. is'l. Ex Eitt. S. C. j de Prop. lOle. s Jul. 1S9: ad Arehiep. MarianopolitJ I Ir must not be forgot ten. however, j thai, playing or sinking in churches or houses which are used for Protestant worship' is not ouite the' same as playing play-ing or singing at Prou-stain worship. Xor is Vvory gathering of non-Catholics for . purposes of moral culture, on! Sund iys, a religious worship In the j sense that it exclude? or opposes the 1 Catholic teaching of Christ's church., j This it may be useful for confessors to remember, not because Catholics are i in any way to be encouraged to assoei-l assoei-l ale. ijietv.sii ves with- any -movement ! which will crsr a 4ou bit upon th.Hr thor-j thor-j otigh and sincere fidelity to the one. I true church of Christ, but because Hr-i Hr-i eumsianees may bring a Catholic un-1 un-1 wittingly into associations wV.i-'h look ; like a. denial of faith without being such in reality. -.Tn these cases pi ttdencc and disvieiion counsel and lead a nc-r- son out of the danger, where blind and mechanical zeal would forthwith con-d-mn and refuse absolution under morally unchangeable conditions. Correcting an Error. It may be a shock to those pious souls who have at some time made petitions " for aid to St. Erpedit. to learn that there is. no such saicf and that his name was placed in the calendar through the innocent mi-ur.derstanding mi-ur.derstanding of some 'French nun;; in the sventfnth century. ; In the lattc part of that century : some-, relics from the Roman catacombs cata-combs were sent by request to a religious re-ligious community in France. It is a well knuwn fact that many bodies of martyrs ..ere deposited in these subterranean sub-terranean burial places, and when these b-,dis have ben identified as those really belonging to persons who have Kuffc-red death for the Church, she has pt oe'aimed them as relics of saints and authorized their distribution- to the faithful. It happened uhen. that w hen the box "-' relics w:s ree.dved in France the ;..ood iiuns. ;.- Uif inscribed on ".the .jid ! the one word "Expedit," concluded at ' once that it was the name of the saint whose -relics were contained therein. - About two months ago the Pope or-, dered a sort of inspection in all the churches of Rome called the "sacred ' visit,' and it seems . tha t in acme ; - churches of miner importance a shrine . i or tw-o of Saint Expedit us has been i ; removed as a reult of this visit. The . ! intention of the Holy Father is to abol- j ! ish devotion u ' Saint Expeditus. Catholic Columbian. |