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Show EASTER SUNDAY AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL Magnificent Services at St. Mary's Cathedral-Father Morrissey's Eloquent Sermon. "Re.surrexit, non est hie!", (''lie is risen; He is not here!") were the words of the angel over 1.000 years ago at the door of the Holy Sepulchre. The same words were joyously repeated last Sunday throughout the entire Christian world, when the feast of feasts was celebrated with all solemnity and joy. The prayerful Ronton davs, the holy Passion Pas-sion time, the gloom of Holy Week, the agonized cries of Calvary were lost for the time in the Easter songs of praise, and the entire world sang Alleluia, Alleluia to the risen Savior. Easter Sunday was gloriously beautiful the morning dawned in a golden burst of sunshiue, with not a cloud in the sky. "The smile of God and breath of Heaven greeted the earth on the Resurrection Resurrec-tion morn." Easter was in very truth a flay of gladness at St. Mary's. The early Masses were well attended and hundreds received Holy Communion. The angels of the Resurrection rolled away from many saddened hearts and burdened souls the stones of sin, ushering in the Easter of hope to the despairing. despair-ing. During the Paschal time still, remaining; many more hearts and souls will come, penitent and Jov-ing, Jov-ing, like Magdalen 1o the tomb, offering their love the sweeter after many days of sin and gloom. The great feast was celebrated at the Cathedral with the usual impressive ceremonies. ' The altars were banked with hundreds of Easter lilies, festooned fes-tooned with dainty ferns and smilax. . Solemn Pontifical High Mass was celebrated at 11 o'clock by Rt. Rev. Rishop Scanlan. with. Rev. Father Guinan, deacon: Rev. Father Morrissey, sub-deacon, sub-deacon, and Rev. Father Kiely, master of ceremonies. cere-monies. The grandly eloquent Easter sermon was delivered by Rev. Father Morrissey. THE SERMON. ' "He is risen; lie is not here;" .' ' My Lord Bishop, Very Rev. and Rev. Fathers and Dearly Beloved Brethren: When victorious generals return from their wars. it. is the custom for their nations to give them a triumph. They come in state into their country or city and all the people turn out to do them honor. It is the culmination of their campaign, the reward of their f-kill and valor. From the days of Rome to our own day lhe triumphs of great captains have been considered the height of earthly ambition the cap and crown of earthly glory. Today we celebrate the triumph of the great Captain of our Salvation, Jesus Christ a triumph the greatest the world has ever seen, a victory to which no man before or since, has ever attained the victory over death. And it is a victory whose reality and greatness no man can' doubt.-,-Relying on the Gospel narrative, and upon the' innumerable innumer-able references throughout the Xew : Testament,. 1 v- we must conclude that no fact, in the world's history is more ineontestabiy established; and yet we. are. brought face to face with its denial, by some at least. But it is undeniable. The Xew Testament gives us evidence after evidence of the truth. God himself him-self foretold His resurrection. The spirit of prophecy proph-ecy rested upon Him, and at times, for the sake of Ilis followers. He lifted the veil that hangs beyond and revealed the vision, dimly it may have been, of future triumph and glory. When some would ask Him for. a sign, He spoke of the sigh of Jonas the Prophet: "For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the ear.th three days and three nights." When about' to go up to Jerusalem for the last time, He foretold what would happen to the Son of Man: "They shall deliver Him to the Gentile to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and the third day He' shall rise again." ' At the. time of his glorious transfiguration on Mt. Thabor, when his favored Apostles would have rushed through the world proclaiming the miracle, ''He charged them to tell no man what things' they had seen, till the Son of Man be risen again from the dead." Again, ''destroy," said he, "this temple, aud in three days I will raise it up. But he spoke of ' the temple of Ilis body." These are but examples of His declarations to the effect that His suffering would be followed by joy. His night by daj-, His death by victory, His words were so understood and acted upon by the ' rulers of the Jews: "Sir," they said to Pilate, "wo have remembered that that seducer said while he was yet alive. After three days I will. rise again. Command, therefore, that the sepulchre by guarded lill the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: - He is risen from the dead. The J ews, therefore, were prepared -for any trickery. The lifeless body was placed in the tonib, a special detachment of Roman soldiers, with instructions instruc-tions to more than ordinary vigilance, was placed on guard and the tomb itself was officially sealed. Despite these measures, defying the seal of Rome and its Roman guardians, Chrisf rose triumphantly from the dead. On the very dayof His" Resurrection Resurrec-tion He appeared unto the repentant and the rejoicing re-joicing Magdalen, then to Peter, His Chosen Vicar, Vi-car, and to John, Ilis beloved disciple. In the, evening of the same day, He walked with. two of Ilis followers to the town of Emmaus, and later appeared to His assembled Apostles. - ' After the first day at least six separate appearances ap-pearances arc recorded. As bqfore' His death, now after His resurrection, He conversed with Ilis Apostles, spoke to His disciples, ate. and drank with them. He brought certainty to the doubting Thomas, the sceptic apostle, whose fault begot be-got those consoling words: ''Blessed are they who have not seen and have, believed." Upon a mountain in Galilee, in the midst ' of ' five hundred people, beside the sacred shores of 'the Lake of Tiberias, He appeared and spoke the words of light before which all lingering shadows of doubt were dispelled and the flower of hope . was newi born. ' '':: ifSV-'-i All these proofs of Resurrection, however, fade into jjosignificancc before the .grtatestLlj?roor, of all the testimony of antiquity. The Apostles and their successors preached, not only in Jerusalem and Judea, b(ut in the whole world, that Christ died in the Cross for the redemption of mankind, and arose again from the dead on the third day. The Jews and Gentiles were convinced of its truth and believed, and this belief has now existed for nineteen nine-teen centuries, and is spread over all the earth. How could it be possible for this universal belief in the Resurrection of the Lord to rest upon error? Would not its fallacy, if fallacy it had, have long since been exploded ; If the Jews and the Gentile , had not been completely convinced of the truth of ' this mystery, upon which Christianity rested, what'-could what'-could have induced them to embrace Christianity, , which condemned their vices and established cus-1 toms, and imposed self-denial, abnegation and mor-i mor-i titication of the flesh as a strict duty, while it held out to them in life, not a hope of reward, but contempt, con-tempt, sufferings, persecutions and even death? "If Christ be not risen again," says St. Paul, ''vain is our preaching vain is your faith." Vain, indeed would have been the preaching of the Apostles Apos-tles and their successors against such odds,' if this ! foundation stone of Christianity were but a myth; and vain indeed would have been the people's faith which rested on it. A vain preaching anil a vain faith would have long since perished. Nineteen centuries of time would not have passed to find that preaching and that faith as fresh and as strong as ever. Had it been a vain preaching it would have been annihilated in the ten great persecutions perse-cutions which the power of mighty Rome had concocted con-cocted for its destruction. Had it been a vain preaching it would have succumbed to the efforts of him who when dying was forced to exclaim: "Galilean, thou hast conquered." . Had it been a' vain preaching, it would have been swept off the face of the earth in the avalanche of paganism, which from the north, broke through the gates of the empire. Had it been a vain preaching the third, second, aye, the first century would have stood beside its grave. In reality, brethren, if there be one fact in history, his-tory, which is better entitled to credit than any other, I do not hesitate to. say that that fact is the glorious resurrection of Jesus from the tomb. And this is the fact we commemorate today. Year by year on Easter Sunday the whole Christian world comes together to rejoice in this victory of Christ. He has gone through the valley of the shadow of death, He has broken the bars of the prison of hell. He has led captivity captive, and as he comes laden with the spoils of death. His people pour out to meet Him with the cry: "Resurrexit sicut dixit'' ("He hath risen as He said.") True, on the day of Ilis death the enemy seemed to triumph Beside the Cross the vo ice went up: ''Bah! thou that destroyst the temple of God, and in three days buildest it up again; save thyself, come down from the Cross." Even then a word would have brought an army of smiling angels bearing fiery swords. Even then o word would have struck down His persecutors. .Even then, did He desirq it, that scene of death and defeat could have been changed into a heavenly victory. He could, but He would not, for He was then suffering for sv goiilt 1 - ; (Contiaued tin Page 2.) - ' EASIER 5UMV AHUIARyS (ATHEDHAL (Continued from l'age 1) that was not His own. . Ou lhe morn of the resurrection resur-rection another voice spoke. When the holy women arrived at the tomb, an angel in white stood before them and cried, out: "He is risen, lie is not here. 1 ''Bah! save thyself come down from the Cross, shouted the infuriated rabble and the triumphant answer, coming" forth from the tomb, rolls on through the centuries: ''He is risen, He is not here." Through the world it echoes "He is risen, as He said.". The Apostlea preached it and they knew whereof they spoke. "He is risen" it is a confti- sion to the deuiers of Christ's Divinity, for well-InimfWI.nB well-InimfWI.nB it in. it nontint; rcasonablv be denied. "He is risen," it is the tocsin of faith inspiring that belief without which there is no salvation. "Ho is risen,"-4t is the promise and the hope of our own Insurrection on the last day. Xow the lesson to be learned from this day's mystery, brethren, is that we make our Kesurrection like unto that of our Divine Lord. We must conquer con-quer with Him and by Him, not so much the temporal tem-poral death lie has undergone, and to which we aro all justly condemued, but a death a thousand times mpre cruel and dangerous the death of sin. We must bravely endure the hardships of His warfare, if we would share the glory of His victory, vic-tory, lie is our leader, wo must be His loyal soldiers. sol-diers. And it is a constant fact iu human history that men always and everywhere need a leader. In tho first place man is a social animal. From tho beginning wc find him organized into clans, tribes, towns, f tatcs, nations. Even within tho body xxn JVIIUO HUU, BUtlfl (C!, tatuuus, JUllfn. Philosophers may discover the evils of such asso-soations asso-soations and moralize on them, but human nature is too strong for Philosophy. Theoretically we may admire the stern temper of those who are able to stand alone, to think alone, and to remain masters of their own actions; but practically we find that no man is sufiicient unto himself. We are born to the ranks, children the regiment. Xo matter what banner we follow, wo find ourselves in some state, in some party. If perchance we move our ancient seats we incorporate ourselves at once into some other nation, and we set at learning the watchwords watch-words of some other faction. In tho second place every society must have a head; every army must have a general. Government Govern-ment is necessary if the society is to be preserved; leadership alone can keep the army from disintegra tion. It matters little in the scheme of human affairs how the leader is provided. He may be born to the office, he may seize it by force, he may be chosen to it by the suffrages of the people. This much is certain, tho position is rooted in the necessities neces-sities of things, and where men are organized, they must have some captain to direct the organization. organiza-tion. Again, in the third piaep, as the king or president presi-dent acts for the community, he must have tho loyal support and obedience of the community. . "v" e-v'"un;Hv pu uusuiuic iuar. ji can exist ex-ist against popular opinion. Where they is no loyalty there can be no leadership. A ruler may ' rule for a time by fear and force, but if his people are not reconciled to him, go he must. In the last 'analysis the Czar of all the Russias holds his position by the same tenure as the President of tho United States. Xow, brethen, what js true in civil affairs is to a great extent true in religion. God does not deal with each one of us directly in the sense that He communicates to the individual a scheme of belief and conduct for himself. ; When Christ came upon earth He hd not try to visit every country, or to speak to every man face to face. The efforts of His public, life were for the uiost part directed to the' training and confirmation of the Apostles and to the foundation - of a society which would do His work when he had ascended, to the Father. The Church, therefore, responds to the human need lor society, .We are all commanded to belong to it, to hear its voice and to obey. It is the means by which we are put in line for salvation. We have indeed our own individual, personal work to do just as the traveler who is on the right road mut himself move on if he is ,to reach his destination. The Church is the road, and beside this road there is none other by which men may reach their destination. T, Th? Church, being a society, must have a head, lhe visible Church ou earth has as its leader the successor of .St. Peter, the Bishop of Rome. But the Pope rules because he is the Vicar of Christ. The invisible I ead of the Church, of the Church in Heaven of the Church in Purgatory, of the Church on earth, is our. Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ He js our King, we are His subjects. He is our Captam, we His solders. lie is our Leader, we are His disciples. If the safety and permanency of an earthly government gov-ernment demands , loyalty, how much more loyal are we bound to be to our King and Savior? Men have thought ft little to sacrifice their fortunes i he cause of their lawful sovereign, and it is writte in the wisdom of every nation that it. is SWeot and seemly to die for the fatherland.- Chrjst has h gher claims on, us. It is a question pot of our bodied but of our sou s; it is a question, not of a feWar, .vears of hU, but of the everlasting years of God It is a question, not of the earthly fatherland that soon devours it8 children', but of that sweet coun ty . the heavenly City of Jerusalem, the ble'sed InT? PTtl There God sha11 wiPe W a" tears and there shall be no more death nor sorrow, no And as in ciril affairs, lovaltv become v lantry of the leader, so it is with us. There has never been eueh a right loyal prince, never so lender cZT'lT r 1 .bnVe a knight as OQr ord Jesus Christ. Jlence it is that the history of the Church has been so full of examples of loyaHy to Hi, person. Uen the Apostles first went out fhey wen as martyrs or witnesses. For love of Him L ,c titled before kings' and princes, in the synagdgnes of the Jews, m the assemblies of the pagans Xy andb 011 1" r thh h thei' Pcutor thing to the godless heathen to say but one word agamst a man who had died a felon's death let, sooner-than say thatVord they endured all' J triaK0J m0cker' a"d Gripes of bonds and prisons: They were stoned, they were Pawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain worthy 6 WUrVthCy f'hm A or by Who does not feel a thrill of exultation lL atr,0 in Vie Asia thce ea though he looks at ,t through the mists of seventeen cenurief n oee tlr'ad olycarp stands before S b riritlg"-?,an ?nt of the faith thS is n doT;n .11 R?J1'crs had been hunting him down and when at last he was betrayed by one of his own they marvelled, saying: "Why so much attrLt0-t8,ke 80 Va r And now e h blooH T?! I 10 heathpns. crying out for his gray na jrs, says to him : "Swear, and I trill 8ct then an wer 5'bfl?Pr0aCh Chist'" B-ck came th" S answer that 'even at th a day stirs our blood- llZXC0VB an4tcn ycars h I served Hfm, and bL "evc?ne au inju, how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior ?" . " is this same feeling of love and lovaltv W is uppennost in our minds today, Te hrSn we celebrate the victory of our King. Th ' i the S'SS6 Tr3 hard and the en(1 i - , ; 1 1 Against Him were ranired not only tho rebel spirits and the cohorts of hSi in iquity.but ihe very men He had chosen to , hrip JKm' betrayed and forsook Him. Who would' have thought of Him as a conqueror that Christmas night as He lay in the manger, or when He was carried away in haste .into Egypt to escape tlvj wrath of the cruel king ? Who "would have considered con-sidered Him the victorious champion that-night in the garden when His enemies bound Him and His disciples fled away? Who would have recognized Him as the Great King of Heaven and Earth as He sat in the courtyard, clad in the purple robe, with the crown of thorns on His head, and a reed, the sceptre of His Majesty, in His hand? Who would have adored Him as God, when, with pierced hands and feet and opened side. He reigned from the Cross over the world which he had redeemed with His blood? ' j But He snatched' victory from the very jaws of, death. They laid Him in tho tomb, they sealed the door, they set the guards, they went their way rejoicing re-joicing that they had vanquished Him at last." But in Ilis own good time He rose like a giant refreshed re-freshed with sleep. He came forth from the tomb and the earth trembled before Him. Death was vanquished, its victory broken, its sting destroyed for evermore. . Xever in the histor" of mankind was there such a battle, ' While in strange and awful strife. Met together Death and Life." And never was there such a conqueror. Alexander Alex-ander Caesar, Xapoleon filled the world with their ' renown. They went from land to land, shattering armies, deposing kings, overthrowing dynasties, disposing of kingdoms and sighing that there were no more worlds to conquer. But one day there came a mightier than they. Death knocked at their door, and at his call, like the meanest of their subjects. 1 "" u"ui'u mm. jsut tnere is one onqueror who has put death under His feet Our ' rd Jesus Christ "the first fruits of them that deep." Apparently conquered, Ho invaded the kingdom of the dead and set free the spirits that were in prison, and then returned to proclaim that the enemy before whom all mankind man-kind trembled had lost his power. "I will deliver them out of the bauds of death; I will redeem them from tho grave: O death, I will be thy death; O grave, I will be thy destruction." destruc-tion." ''Death is swallowed up in victory; O Death, where is thy victory ? O Death, where is thy sting ?" Wherefore today, dear brethren, it is meet that we should rejoice in the victory of our Lord and King. His Resurrection Js the 'promise of ours. He triumphed not for Himself alone, but that we, too, might triumph over the grave. "If the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of His spirit that dwelleth in you." Relying on this blessed hope and promise, let us animate ourselves our-selves to deeper loyalty and more willing service. Let us show our gratitude and loyalty not by words only, but by deeds also. In this way alone "can we prove that we are really His followers for they have no claim to share His triumph who are not willing wil-ling to obey His commands. A joyous and holy Easter to you all. After Mass Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan administered adminis-tered the Papal Benediction. The musical programme was the most elaborate ever given in the Cathedral, which included a grand programme for vespers and. Benediction in the evening. , The choir consisted of eighteen voices, assisted by John P. Fanning on violin and T. J. Fanning on 'cello. PROGRAMME. Introductory Voluntary Violin John P. Fanning Mass Pro Pace La Hache eni Creator" Browne Mrs. Al Whiteman, Miss Julia Jones, Malcolm Lloyd, R. c. Dunbar. ' "Gloria In Excelsis" Soloist, Miss Owen j Credo v Solists, Miss Owen, Mrs. Whiteman',' Messrs R t C. Dunbar and M. Lloyd. Offertory, "Regina Coeir ...Tedesco Soloist, Miss Julia Jones. Sanctua .Soloist, Miss Goldthwait Agnus Dei Soloists, Miss Goldthwait,' Messrs. T. ',' C. ',' Craw- frd and J. D. Sullivan. ' Haec Dies .. . LambiHotte Soloist, T. C. Crawford. - Ior esPcrs and Benediction in the evening at i :C0 the programme was : This Is the Resurrection Day" Dreler Soloist, T. C. Crawford. e5pers in G Roewie- ::venl Creator" J"...::;..;;;". " 'SJnf O Divine Redeemer" Gounod .. . Miss Owen. O Salutaris" -Browne . C- Dunbar. Tantum Ergo" T.a H..fc. TTDaeLD Sopranos-Mrs. Whiteman, Mrs." Greene." Mu4ls " M?W'en;,.GoIdthwait Ha,I Cuddy. McAllister, son" JU'ia Jone9' Kuhl' MrF- Fred Wil- Tvl'Ier J- D' Sullivan, M. Lloyd, O. veltz, C. Kuffner. BacfnrMerSrs; R'C- Dunbar. T. C. Crawford, G. - Soffe, T. Leyland and W. Crawford. lolfnJ. p. Fanning. Cello, T. J. Fanning Organist and Director-Mina Nora Gleason. Hundreds were unable to enter tho church but many remained outside listening to the beautiful melody coming through the open windows |