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Show The Hurry Away Catholic. Writing in the Irish Monthly of the "hurry-out Cutholic," who hastens from the church before a!l Is over, the venerable Father iiattnew Kussell asKd the question: "How does he employ the i time ttiac he thus saves so carefully?" "What madness," he remarks, "to hurry over our religious duty in order to have more time for doing nothing, or for doing something immensely less important than the duty that we leave half done or much less well done than we could do if we gave to it full time and our full attention. "A very active professional man broke down in health and came up to consult the Dublin physicians. He and his son attended mass in one of the Dublin churches. At the end of the holy sacrifice, while the altar was being be-ing prepared for benediction, several persons went away without waiting for that beautiful and solemn rite. The dying man for such he really was had to drive to hlg hotel in a cab, and on the way he said to his son: 'You saw those people never do that! You may want that blessing yet!' And so the young man did. If he is alivo, I fc-ar he needs prayer, tfomt of those who scandalized scan-dalized the ood man by leaving church before benediction may have had a valid excuse for doing so: but, if they really could not spare the few additional addi-tional minutes, it might have been well for them to choose a different hour or place for filling their chief Sunday j duty, if it were within their power." |