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Show " : Cburcft Universal I : : - CHUECH CALENDAR. 1 6. M. Rogation. St. John before the 3;Uin Gate. 115,822 for directors. - 7. T. Rogation. St. Stainislaus. 3.142,508 for promoters. S. V. Rogation. Apparition of St Michael. 956.226 for the departed. 9. Th. Ascension of our Lord. St I Uregory of Nazianuzen. 1.133,557 for j :J"rsovoranco. 3. F. St. Antoninus. 1,044,001 for the ;j j-oung. I 11. St. Francis Ilicronymo. S. .T. j 3.152,531 for 1st Communions. ! 12. S. AVithin the Octave of Asccn- : fuon. SS. Ncreus and Companions. E. J. Peter, iv. 7-112: G. John, xv, 26, xvi. 1.243.961 for parents. THE GENERAL INTENTION. Recommended by His Holiness, . Pius X. I THE HEART OF MARY. ; The reason this devotion is spoken of fcs Devotion to the Heart of Mary, in- ! Head of devotion to the Blessed Vir- i Sin, simply, is because the mention of I Jier heart suggests the unselfish love f I God of His blessed Mother and of our fellow beings, with which this devotion fchould inspire us. Under different titles is the heart of 3 Mary honored. There is first, for in- stance, her "Sorrowful Heart." her I "heart which was pierced by a sword of f grief." according to the prophecy of I Simeon: and we are all familiar with I the pictures which represent her heart pierced over and over again, as each I new sorrow afflicting her divine Son 'i J'lid herself came into her life from His I very infancy, when Herod sought to destroy Him, until His enemies actually actual-ly succeeded in putting Him to death. Then, the "Immaculate Heart of Mary" reminds us not only of her immaculate im-maculate conception, but of her stain-lessness stain-lessness all through her life and of her perfection in every grace that could make her pleasing to God and to man. Finally, there Is the "Most Pure Heart" of our blessed Mother, which means not only that she was stainless and full of gr.irc, but that her every affection was (without division or reserve centered upon Almighty God, as worthy above all things of the love of His creatures, r upon those creatures, only in so far as they image His perfections. No matter how we regard the heart of Mary, the thought of it should inspire in-spire us with high and beautiful ideals, and our trust in her should renew our courage to endeavor to be worthy sons if such a beautiful mother. Hail, Holy Queen! Hail, holy Queen, our dear Mother, wc say: "Welcome, again, to thee, Queen of the May, Month of the sunshine and bloom, pure and sweet. Month of the lily, that wakens to greet Thee, who art fairest of heaven's array, ar-ray, Welcome, dear Mother, the Queen of the May! "Welcome to thee, who art Mother :uid Guide, Jjoving and gentle, whate'er may betide: be-tide: Happy to guard us. to shield and lo bless, Ready to yield a fond mother's cares.?; Helping tils'- children, who strive on the I way I ft More worthy to be of thee. Queen ct the Mar. ! I Amadous. O. S. F. Harvard Professor's Son Enters : Trappist Order. 'S A dispatch from Cambridge. Mass., 5 Fays: "Tired of the pleasures of life, -o-feph Dwight, son of Professor Thomas Bwight of the Harvard Medical college, col-lege, has entered the Trappist Mondav " astery of Our Lady of the Valley, r.t Ixmsdale. R. I. Although only 21 years old, Dwight gave much reflection to ibe matter, and after a consultation with his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Thomas I. Gasson. S. J., president cf Hoton college, he announced his i.-.ten- 1ion. His decision did not meet with any opposition from his parents, j : "Young Dwight was formerly a stu- I . 1nt at Technology, but left Ihe jnsti- ! i tute before the completion of his ?mirso ':, lo enter the employ of Houghton. Mif- j f.in & Co.. with whom he remained a I year. A severe illness compelled him I to give up his place, and on his recov- 1 ry he decided to devote his life to re- 5 3igion." j ; The Clergy and the Catholic Press. j ; Discussing the attitude which should ; 1'e assumed towards serious Catholic j ; ); wspapers, Bishop Gallagher of Goul-burn, Goul-burn, Australia, in his Lenten pastoral, j i paid: I ! "No Catholic family, even in th ro- i motest corner of the bush, should be j without some one or other of our well-! well-! written and well-conducted Catholic ! papers. Speaking for ourselves as we i journey on our tours of visitation I through the diocese, we feel that sonie- thing is wanting: that there is a lnne- ; llness and void; that we aw not altu-; altu-; gether at homo, no matter how kind I iind Catholic in every other respect the i : liome may be, if we cannot have a 'read' of the Catholic paper of n Satur-5 Satur-5 day afternoon when the labors of the day are done. The Catholic press has !- fen apostolats. Let us help it by every , fr.eans in our power, by encouragement, t ly patronage, by contributing original jnatter to do well the duties of the postdate to correct error, lo spread f.-- 1 ruth, to Illustrate the beneficent influ- rnoe of our holy religion in every ages': age-s': for the advancement of learning, for ; lessening the ills that life 5s heir to, ' Jfor the elevation of the masses, for the f . safeguarding of well-balanced freedom, f 2 or the instruction, enlightenment and j : salvation of mankind." Go Now. i The Catholic who puts off the per formance of his Easter duty until the jast moment is not to be commended. Midway in the period within which he s bound to go to confession and Com-, Com-, jnunion the laggard finds that he is as j. Jioar discharging this obligation as he : was on Ash Wednesday. Where wis- j rlom rules there is no delay in souaring i (ine's conscience with one of tho n st I urgent precepts of the church. !'(jst- V one it no longer. Go to confession at Jhe first opiKjrtunity. Cathoiic Tr.in- :; script. If One Great Family. A diocesan -newspaper, purely ai d truly Catholic, brings together the par- Ishes, ooments them and makes them ; ine great Catholic family, knowing one another, encouraging one another and ; . Jielplng one another. The 'Record, j Jyouisville. The Cathedral choir will have re- j,,arsal on Saturday of this week, at 8 j p'clock. t Mary. ) J Mary, when that little child Lay upon your heart at rest. Did the thorns. Maid-mother, mild, Pierce your breast? Mary, when that little child Softly kissed your cheek benign. Did you know, O, Mary mild. Judas' sign? Mary, when that litll.; child Cooed and prattled at your knee, Did you see with heart-beat wild, Calvary? Rose Trumbull. DEFENDS CONFESSION AL. Protestant Professor's Answer to a Charge Made by M. Clemenceau. "1 notice." says Professor Charles C. Starbuck, the Protestant theologian who writes for the Saced Heart Review, Re-view, "that the Congregationalist presents pre-sents a portrait of the present prime minister of France with the inscription. M. Clemenceau. the resolute opponent of the nayacy." "This is interesting. But it would he far more interesting if the Congrega-tionalist Congrega-tionalist would present us with the portrait por-trait of -his noble father, the Devil,' j as it seems that M. Clemenceau is ac- eusomed to call him. Without dispar-j aging the eminence of the son, the edi- I tors will allow that it sinks into nothingness noth-ingness before the immemorial and world-wide celebrity of the father. If the Congrogationalist could only secure an indisputably authentic delineation of the elder member of the family which is now in charge of the government govern-ment of France, it would have such a run as mortal journal never had before. "However. I wonder that when the Congrogationalist begins it does not alsi make an end. M. Clemenceau is much more than an opponent of the papacy. He H a resolute opponent of th? w hole Catholic religion, of the whole Christian religion, or religion altogether. alto-gether. "M. Clemenceau lias always been self-consistent. Twenty-five years ago. we know he detailed to the Grand Orient which has the chief control of his father's affairs in France, and of his own and of the Pandeinonian family fam-ily generally his scheme for suppressing suppress-ing the Catholic church. "First, he says, legislation should be secured forbidding confession, as something some-thing which corrupts youth. "True. Froude himself attributes the superior virtuousness of Catholic Ireland Ire-land over the northern province to the priesthood exercising influence. of course, chiefly through the pulpit, the catechism class and the confessional. "True, Thackeray, whom no one will accuse of a Catholic tone, says the same, emphasizing the confessional. "True. Sir Aubrey de Vere, father of jthe poet, became a Catholic because he found the young Irish peasants with whom he wrestled and ran chaste, and the young Irish Protestant gentlemen whom he met in the drawing room unchaste. un-chaste. "True. Reran, brought up with priests and for a priest, declares that he has never found any influences proceeding pro-ceeding from the priesthood but influences influ-ences of goodness, and that he does not know by any experiences of his own what a bad priest is. "True, George Sand, an advanced unbeliever, un-believer, says of the priest-instructed nuns who brought her up that 'these ladies exemplified everything that is beautiful in religion.' "True. Father Hyacinthe. notwithstanding notwith-standing his religious break with them, used to send his son to the neighboring Jesuit school, doubtless because, as Matthew Arnold reports after examination, examina-tion, he had found that the Jesuit schools were fully equal to the government govern-ment schools intellectually and greatly superior to them morally, which goi s I far to explain government animosity KT'lillL-t Vir. ..t ll.nl of all orders. "True. Pore Hyacinthe has written to me indignantly denying the foul charge against the confessional put into his j mouth by Shiniquy. and slavishly echoed by Lansing. True, in falling out with his friend, the old Catholic arch-! arch-! bishop of Utrecht, who insisted on requiring re-quiring confession, he has nothing to say against the confessional in itself i or against the eminent morality of the j Dutch Old Catholics, who strictly observe ob-serve the Roman discipline concerning the sacrament of penance. "True. Llorente. by overwhelming statistics, found in his 'History of the Inquisition.' has pulverized into ridiculous ridicu-lous impotence Limrooh's abominable accusation against the Spanish confessional, confes-sional, an accusation which, lie says, has no truth, even if confined to bad priests. "As to New England. Colonel Higgin-son. Higgin-son. we know the soul of dispassionate accuracy, remarks that the Irish Catholic Cath-olic immigration has distinctly raise, me sian.jaru oi cnasiuy, ine very point (especially attacked by ihe foul-I foul-I mouthed and foul-minded demagogues who go about, like the devil before them, seeking what mischief they can do in rending society to pieces. Who of us has any more hesitancy in committing commit-ting his young children to the care of an Irish than of a New England girl? The present writer's childhood was largely passed under the care of the Irish and in the neighborhood of Ameri-can Ameri-can Catholic women the latter nieces I of a bishop and he need not say tha t he never heard from the most -careless j of them a breathing that could taint the mind of a child. "The two most perfect domestics of whom I know, aunt and niece, both of them now for many years in the service of a kinswoman of mine, maintain their excellence, in my cousin's judgment, chiefly by steady attendance at mass, by steady attendance at the sodality,, except when Christian charity keeps them at home with their aged mistress, and by weekly resort to confession, like the pope himself." Beyond the Deep. Beyond the deep God grant us sloop And everlasting peace, God grant us rest among the blest. And from all ills surcease. Beyond the night God grant us liqht. And happiness supreme Without a care in castles fair By some celestial stream. Beyond the flood where vapors brood God grant we reach the snro Of glorious skies in Paradise. And joys forevcrmore. Our labors done at set of su.i J Let twilight's shadows como. While from afar the evening star Shines sweet as we go home. Thomas A. Walsh, in Donahoe's. Another Panic. I "The expense of living is becoming j frightful! Would yon believe it. a sin-I sin-I glc ham cost my husband four months' imprisonment!" Flieger.de Bluettor. t TEMPUS FUG1T. Do not stop to kiss your wife Hurry! There's a car! Drop fork and knife, Hurry! When you go to get your lunch. Push and struggle with the bunch, Anything will do to munch. Hurry! If you wish to catch a train , Hurry! One may never come again. Hurry! If you v.vc a second late And you find they've shut the gale, Climb the fence but never wait, Hurry! Now remember, life is brief, Hurry! Even though you come to grief. Hurry! Save a minine. time is cash; Grab your hat and make a dash. Don't care jf you conic to smash, Hurry! April Bohemian. The Boasting Minister. 1 once heard of a minister who boasted boast-ed from his pulpit that he was able to preach from arty text in the Bible, offhand, off-hand, without thought or other preparation, prepa-ration, and. as a test of his talent in extemporaneous speaking, lie invited his congregation the next Sunday morning to hand in any texts they would like him to preach from, when he would show them what he was abie ! to do. In order that he might not be suspected of surreptitious preparation, the passages of scripture .were ti Vie written upon slips of paper, sealed up in envelopes and placed upon the pulpit pul-pit immediately before the opening of the service. t The next Sunday morning the paster came in, pride and confidence gleaming in his eyes, and found a number of. seaica enveiopeu lying upon toe Dig Bible. After the preliminary service he called attention to them, and said he would preach from the text contained in the envelope that lay on the top of the pile. The remainder he w m'.d re-i serve for future Sabbaths. Tearing it open he unfolded a sli.i of piper mid read the words, once addressed to the prophet Calaam: "Am I not thine ass?" The Answer. Through the dark houis she watched beside her dead. "Grant me a sign. O God. of life and light, Lest in the ocean of desoair and drcid My lost soul sink tonight!" Then in the east the sudden roses stirred; A soft breath crept amid the whispering whisper-ing corn: And the sweet shrillness o'." the piping bird Hailed the awaking morn. Mary Elizabeth Biakc. Reprehensible Indifference. The indifference Protestant churches display in regard to the attacks made upon the Catholic church in France may be traced to two causes, namely, inherited anti-Catholic prejudices and a failure to realize that the war French theists are making upon the church is only preliminary to an attack all along the line upon Christianity in all its different dif-ferent forms. The professed atheists who are at the head of French Freemasonry Free-masonry make no secret of their i designs. de-signs. They have on more than' one occasion openly proclaimed that they will not rest until they have uprooted all vestiges of the Christian religion. . . . . There can, therefore, be no doubt that the successful carrying out of the program of Clemenceau & Co. would mean a triumph for the principles princi-ples of atheism. Such being the case, every professing Christian, whether he be a Catholic or a Protestant, should feel it incumbent upon him to denounce the infamous war waged upon the Christian religion by its professed enemies. ene-mies. As we have already stated. Protestant Prot-estant sentiment throughout the worli, and especially in the United Stales, has not made itself felt as t should in condemnation con-demnation of the attempt to substitute atneism lor Christianity on which our verey civilization is based. Freeman's Journal. |
