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Show . , burclv Mum) J . , . j CHURCH CALENDAR. I 3". M. St. A Vitus. 701.210 for religious. IS T. SS. Mark and Marc-ellian. 054,- for feminarists. novices. 1 1?- w- St- Juliana Faiconieri 737,724 for vocations 20. Th. St. Sllvcrious. 528.880 fur par- ishes. I 21- F- St- Aloysius Gonzaga.l. 356.801 for schools. j 22. S. st. Germaine Cousin. 76fi.S5G for superiors. ' THE GENERAL INTENTION. He commended by His Holiness, ! Pins X. FREQUENT COMMUNION. i 1 This is the same title as we had last I year for the general intention. In I reality, the title recommended this year is '"Devotion to the Eucharist Through the Efforts of the Apostelship I f Prayer." Frequently Communion expresses fully all that is suggested by the long title, because the object of all devotion i .in the Holy Eucharist is union with j Christ in His Holy Sacrament, and this j union grows more and more perfect in proportion to the frequency with which one approaches devoutlv the Holy J Table. I To ask that the practice of frequent I Communion be adopted everywhere in I 'ur churches, implies that, besides rraying for this object, we should also J put forth our earnest effort for it. Ev- -ry one of the nillions of associates of f the Apostleshin of Praver can do this jl work by example, and 'the vast num- ; bcr, especially of the Promoters, can I recommend the practice by advice and I exhortation prudently directed. Frc- I quent Communion means that one re- I -fives Holy Communion offenter than one is obliged, an l therefore, at stated I intervals and oftener than once a year. I How many times oftener depends upon I the opportunities and needs and the I devotion of each communicant, thus, j for some people, once a month, for ! others once a week, or several times a week, or even every day. The practice prac-tice of receiving Holy Communion fre-qucnt'y fre-qucnt'y has increased wonderfully I through the efforts of the Apostleship of Prayer. There is every reason why. as time goes on. the practice should grow more and more common Among our members. And, therefore, luring the month of June, when so many of us will receive the Holy Euch- , arist several times, we should pray ihat all the members of the League should acquire the habit of honoring the Holy Eucharist in every possible j way. by visiting the Blessed Sacrament jii our churches, by attending lienedic-tion. lienedic-tion. by making spiritual Communions, by contributing to the beauty and splendor of the altar and sanctuary, but, most of all, by perfecting their own souls as spiritual temples worthy always to welcome Christ as guest in His most Holy Sacrament. New Central office, S01 Slst street, i New York. I Gregorian Summer School. Tn- Most Reverend, the Archbishop f Cincinnati, has been pleased to approve ap-prove of and recommend a Giegorian Summer School, to be held in the Cathedral Ca-thedral City of Cincinnati. O.. beginning begin-ning on Thursdaj-. Aug. 1 (Feast of St. " Poor's Chains and the Patronal Feast J of th-. Cathedral), and closing on f Thursday, Aug. 15 (Hie Feast of the j Assumption), of this year of 1S07. I The program for each day will be as j follows: High mass in the cathedral at j fa. m.; classes from 10 till 12 noon: j Vespers at 3 p. m., and classes from I after Vespers until 5 p. m. On Sun- I -lays. Aug. 4 and II. the program will I be as follows: Classes from 9 till 10; J High Mass at 10:30: Vespers and P.ene- I diction at 3, and classes from 4 till 5. The "xehool" will be directed by the cathedral organist and choirmaster iHorald Becket Gibbs), under whose il lir' iion th: music at all the services will be given. He will be assisted by inmiy professional musicians, all of vihoni have been closely identified with ihe restoration of the Liturgical Chant hich has undoubtedly been brought :'b"dt by the learned Benedictine Monks of Solcsmes, Sarthe, France, all of whom are now exiled in the Isle of Wicht. England. It is also interesting 1 1o note that it was a former abbot of .1 this monastery (Dom Gueranger) who !i gave to the world those priceless vol- times of "The Liturgical Year." a work which is to be found in every language in every country throughout the Catholic Cath-olic world. As there is an abundance o? hotel (both public and private) and boarding , house accommodation to be had. espe cially in the immediate neighborhood of ihe cathedral, it may safely be asserted assert-ed that no difficulties will be presented to those Mho prefer to leave their I ,-hoioe of rooms until the day of their s .arrival. I The school fee for the fifteen days I -il! be $15. For 1his sum each "stu- 1 df-ni" will be furnished with a card of j .admission which must be presented I ;;h day to the doorkeeper, j P.y kind permission of the Rev. I Michael Mulvihill. pastor of the cathe- f lial, the schools (which almost adjoin j the cathednil) will be used for all the j classes and lectures. It is scarcely ne- cesary 1o add that the subjects will I include Tonality. Khytnm. Structure. Notation. Method of Practice, Accom- I panimcnt. Choir Training, Voice Pro- if "The "school" will be opened and J losed by the Most Rev. Archbishop. S W ith the immediate anproval of the Right Rev. Rector and the Rev. Pro- fessors of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, a 1 special choir has been formed of stu- dents residing in and near Cincinnati. w ho will be largely responsible for the services in the cathedral, and in this they will be assisted (with the kind j permission of the Rev. Rector and fa culty f.f St. Gregory's seminary) by an- 1 other choir of students from the "Lit-t "Lit-t le" seminary. -Jt is also encouraging to note that in I it ihn churches where the Gregorian I 'hant iias been restored the pastors ! have kindly consented to allow their f respective choirs to take part in the j I t-orv ices, recitals and illustrated lec- I 'tures. ft A complete program of arrangements f will be given to each "student" unon arrival, and it is expected that all re- j s : sident students will be regular in their ; f daily attendance. : The number wil be limited, and no I application can be entertained after the ; L'Oth of June, as the director of the ! "school" will be absent from July 1 to f I Julv 30. and is anxious to have all ar- ' f rangements completed before he leaves. ; I Application to be made to ihe secre- ' Imv of the Summer School, 325 "West i 'Eighth street. Cincinnati. O. A Peasant's Faith. j Tlie devotion and faiilo" the Hutt- garian pea.sant are demonstrated in the. story of Fritz Metzler. who. for more) ' i than twenty years has stopped night and morning at the calvary, of hie na-j 4 . I ' the village to pray for the recovery of his wife, who has been an invalid almost al-most ever since the day of marriage. On his way to his small farm, and again when returning to his humble cottage, the man kneels before the crucifix cru-cifix to ask this one favor, and to a recent re-cent visitors from Dudapest lie said he would continue to do so as long as life and strength remained to him. not deterred de-terred or discouraged by his long waiting. j A Twilight Incident. I And here is the third picture which the words of Mrs. Craigie bring to mind a picture which haunts me more persistently per-sistently than either of the foregoing, and with a pathos that is denied to them. It is a dark autumnal evening, and a student for the priesthood is kneeling in an alcove at the side of the sanctuary sanctu-ary in an Irish church. From where he kneels he can see into the body of the dimly-lighted, poor little building, himself remaining unseen. An old, old woman, whose life of sorrow and of poverty he knows, is alone before the Blessed Sacrament or so deems herself her-self to be. She is making her adieux for the night to the sole Friend whom death and the emigrant ships have left her. A slow and painful genuflection a. slow and reluctant turning of the bowed back upon Him she loved and then she turns again smiling, and holds out withered hands to the tabernacle. "Good-night," she says aloud. "Goodnight "Good-night Mavourneenl" John Kevin Manner in May Donahoe's. The Empress Eugenie. How long has it been since we have heard of the Empress Eugenie? asks a writer in the Boston Thanscript. They call her the "Empress of Solitude." Soli-tude." She still lives, an animated memory, in the Hotel Continental, in Paris, not a stone's throw from her one time regal home. When she drives about Paris now, it is in a brougham with a single horse, where so few years ago she drew to herself the eyes of a city in her $20,000 coach and her eight spanking nags. Or in her Villa Cyrnos, on the shore of the Mediterranean, under palm and eucalyptus swaying in the coolu breeze, the exiled Empress walks, a d:irk lig-ure lig-ure leaning on an ebony stick, leading an ebony life, aimlessly watching the sea. For a Spaniard her tastes were simple sim-ple too simple to. please her imperial spouse. She banked her own money, speculated, built up a fortune with her own wits and disgusted her open-handed open-handed emperor, i When Eugenia was to meet Victoria ! tiie emperor himself superintended the confection of her gowns. And what was his vexation when, arriving at Windsor, he found that the greater part of the consort's baggage had been left behind! He insisted on her pleading fatigue and remaining hid till her dresses could be found which she refused to do. Borrowing a pale blue frock of a lady in waiting she appeared before the queen of England with a single rose in her hair. And the sensation she created thus, thirty years ago, has never yet been forgotten. But this evening of her life is so placid, her mournful and solitary figure fig-ure in it. her quiet beauty, her dignified digni-fied submission to her fate are so tender ten-der a picture that enemies of Eugenie have ceased to be. They will write of her some day as they write of Napoleon and Marie Antoinette. Advice to the Discontented. Whenever you are tempted to growl against fate or complain of your lot, Just look around and find out" what others oth-ers are bearing. You will find many men with more-brains end better education edu-cation worse off than you are. Then compare your lot w!th that of such men and if you don't quit complaining and go in for rejoicing there's something radically wrong with your mental balance. bal-ance. "When an obstacle gets in your way, don't waste time and energy in complaining about it. If you can't push it out of your path, get over, it, under it. or around it any way you can and leave the obstacle behind you. The second obstacle will not appear half as big if you get past the first. Spare Moments. Divorce and Separation. (The Monitor, Newark.) There is a distinction to be drawn between a separation end a divorce. In extreme cases the Catholic church allows a separation, but never with the right to remarry during the lifetime life-time of either party. And as sometimes some-times a civil approval is necessary in the separation, the church sometimes concedes permission to obtain a civil divorce in the limited sense. But a divorce, as commonly understood, the Catholic church never allows. It is beyond her power and authority. God has fixed the indissolubility of the marriage mar-riage tie. A Great Service to Public Morality. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) It may turn out. after all, that W. E. Corey has done a great service to public morality. Is-fs conspicuous men than he have been outraging decency and making mock of the marriage tie until the general conscience had grown dull and the increasing laxity of cusr j torn with regard to divorce and remar- i riage had almost ceased to be regard- j eu as a r,i-imuLl jni uii-giair. iiii. vulgar millionaire, flaunting his contempt con-tempt of the sanctities of domestic life, has aroused an acute resentment that rot even his millions will enable him to withstand. - The only possible possi-ble correction of such an example as that set by the president of the Steel corporation is in public opinion, in general public reprobalicn emphatically expressed. Such expression Corey has called forth, and has thus given impulse, im-pulse, to a healthy sentiment that should be of much more than temporary tem-porary value. The Negro and the Catholic Church. (New Orleans Morning Star.) At the meeting of the archbishops after Easter, the big cent will be the inauguration of the negro bureau. This will bring the evangelization of the negroes into considerable prominence. There has just been finished a great mission to the non-Catholic negroes in Washington at St. Augustine's church. The very large crowds drew a good deal of public attention to the subject of the negro and the church. "To make the negro race Catholic is merely a question of' means and of men. There are some of the most devoted de-voted secular priests in the United States who are working in this field, while the Josephltes and the. Holy-Ghost Holy-Ghost Fathers, and now the Lyons missionaries, are bending all their efforts ef-forts to secure results. But with all the energies and zeal tl.ey show, yet they realize the colossal task that is belore them. A conservative estimate 4 place the negro race at 10,000,000, while' there are but a meager quarter of a .rn'llion Catholics. If the men were multiplied mul-tiplied a hundredfold, they would readily read-ily find work to do in the most promising prom-ising vineyard, and work that would; be rewarded with most gratifying results. re-sults. The colored people will be found exceedingly responsive to any ministrations ministra-tions bestowed on them, and if the leaven of Catholic teaching and restraint re-straint could be made to work among this raturally religious people it would go far to enable them to work out their own destinies as a race in the United States. A Sermon That Prevented a' Murder. (Catholic News.) One of the sermons preached at midnight mid-night on Good Friday in a Manhattan church produced swift and very gratifying grati-fying results in one case, at least, known to the preacher. His theme had been the Passion of Our Lord. With all the eloquence at his command and the preacher is rated highly among his brethren for his elocutionary ability the priest told the story of the cross and pleaded the cause of the Saviour dying to redeem a sinful world. Close to where he stood a realistic picture of the scene on Mount Calvary with image of the crucified standing out in strong relief was visible to every eye, its effect intensified by a brilliant flood of electric light arranged to fall on the central figure in the picture. A few minutes after the service the rectory bell rang and the pastor was told that a gentleman desired to see a priest at once. The caller proved to be a tall, well-dressed young man of rather distinguished looks and bearing. His face was pale and he seemed to be laboring under some excitement. "You wished to see me?" began the priest. "Are you the preacher of the sermon I have just heard?" asked the stranger. "No." said the pastor; "but if you prefer to see him I will send him to you." "Never mind." replied the young fellow, fel-low, hurriedly. "You will do." Then, before the astonished eyes of the priest, he drew forth from one hip pocket a gleaming revolver and from the other a handsome leather receptacle recepta-cle full of cartridges. "Father," he said. "I have been carrying car-rying these around with me for the last two weeks hoping to meet a certain man. And if I had seen him he would have been a dead one. I dropped into your church this noon and heard that sermon and saw the calvary. Well I have changed my mind. Take these," thrusting the revolver and cartridges into the priest's hands. "I want to leave them with you." When the preacher, who is a well-known well-known missionary, is tempted to discouragement, dis-couragement, he looks at the trophies of his Good Friday sermon andVreceives fresh stimulus to preach the good word in season and out of season. Words. Soft words soften the soul. Angry words add fuel to the flame of wrath and make it blaze more fiercely. Cold words freeze people, and hot words scoi . !. ihem. Bitter words make them hotter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. There is such a tremendous rush of words in our day, that it is especially desirable for each one of us to see that kind words have their chance among the others. There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and spiteful words, and silly words, and profane words, and warlike words. Don't forget the kind words. They produce their own image in men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. hear-er. Why .not let them have a larger place in all our lives? Boosts the Bachelors. (Catholic Tribune.) The repeated bills offered in our legislatures leg-islatures to punish bachelors remind one very forcibly of the heathen conditions con-ditions when man and woman preferred celibacy to the duties of matrimony and family life. Modern progress rer sembles fashion, which is continually turning in the same vicious circle, and therefore again and again comes to the same points where it had been before. Just as the ancient heathen emperors of Rome sought to force men to marry by means of laws the same necessity seems to reappear nowadays. The realization of this fact is a cause for shame and should make us blush at our so-called progress. Heathens and protestants appear to see no place wncre oacneiors ana oia maids can fill a mission in human society. In the Catholic church, the virgin is given the highest position within the gift of God, and the religious life, the life of the unmarried, or the old bachelor and the old maid who live in celibacy in honor of God and to serve their neighbor, neigh-bor, rise to a height unknown to many others. In the Catholic church, and according ac-cording to the Chif stian order of things in humanity, there are four conditions of life: priesthood, religious life, the state of virginity, and matrimony. Protestantism and heathens know but of two conditions in life: matrimony and the preacher. Control Your Temper. Would you be well? Then control your temper. Do you not know that fits of passion, this giving away to the worst that is in you. do you not only moral and mental, but actual physical harm? Temper invariably intereferes with the process of digestion. It carves ugly lines on jour face; it wears upon the tissues and leaves you physically and mentally exhausted, as well as morally weaker after each indulgence. |