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Show 1 Cburcb Universal i ; ; ' A ! CHURCH CALENDAR. The General Intention Recommended I by His Holiness, Pius X. I The Month of the Sacred Heart. 1 11. S. Pentecost St. Barnabas. T.. Aft ii. 1-11; G. John xiv, 23-31. 124,- 04-! for First Communions. 1 V2. M. St. John of St. Facundus. 1 for parents. I 13. T. St. Anthony of Padua. 150,- 1 4)3 for families. i i 14. W. Ember Day, Fast. St. Basil f f the Great. 381,783 for reconciliations. ' 15. Th. St. Vitus and Com p. 106.553 ',t; for work, means. I 16. F. Ember Day, Fast. St. John I l-Yanois Regis. 271,214 for the clergy. 17. S. Ember Day. Fast. St. Aviius. I 442 for the religious. I A THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH. Had I. dear Ixrd! no pleasure found Hut in the thought of Thee. j'ayer would have come unsought, and I been I A truer liberty. Catholic Columbian. THE LEAGUE'S OWN MONTH. Sweet Thoughts in Verse and Prose. .lime is pre-eminently the month, or i til-- Sacred Heart and later wTes have tiiri'-hed it with many inuTif-ices. I y.,r ;ny exercises of devotion, public i private, in honor of the Sacred ; li. art. Pope Pius IX granted an indul- f w'p of seven years for each day, and ; ;t plenary indulgence, on the usual con- .iitions, for any one day in the month choice. Fore leo XIII added 300 .!:; more for each time that a person insisted at the aforesaid devotions, and ;i pl'-:iary indulgence for being present at t hem ten times. Therefore, as many holy masses as possible should be heard, visits made. holy communions received, during Th" month. Like the tender heart of a mother, the heart of Jesus cannot re-fi'se re-fi'se what we ask; and there are many ;md great things to be asked that the 3ii;Hiy souls which perish may be saved; That evil may be prevented: that the kingdom of Ood may be spread over the .mire earth; that the heart of Jesus 3!iH.v be worthily loved bv all human 1 hearts. The general intention for the month rp recommended by the Holy Father, is The Month of the Sacred Heart. I RELICS OF SAINTS. Explanation That Discounts a Familiar Famil-iar Sneer of Protestant Traveler. (From the Ave Maria.) Who has not heard sneers about the i rciics of saints venerated in continental countries? The Protestant traveler is jiecoui.ted witty who tells, for instance, of seeing in different churches two or more skulls of the same saint or 7v,iiyr. The opportunity for this fnrm of stultification is rarely missed. r and the usual tirade fellows against priests for their impostures and peasant? peas-ant? for their superstition. We are gratifi d to find the ignorance or malevolence mal-evolence of many travelers regarding sirred relics fittingly rebuked by a writer in the "Athenaeum" (April 22). He says in a notice of "Shrines of British Saints." a recently published book by-Mr. J. Charles Wall ("Anti- quary Books." Methuen & Co.): "One of the curious results of the , strange custom of dismembering the t bodies of saints was the making: of X shrines or relicuaries that took the form of that member of the body a ' piece of which was enclosed, such as th head, arm, foot or hand. The con-. con-. st ruction of such reliquaries gave scope for the exercise of the highest art of th goldsmith and jeweler. When it tonic the fnrm of a head it was usually aid a chef. The British museum lias ' fin early example (eleventh century) of The head of St. Eustace, which is here ! f. eared. This chef formed part the treasures of the cathedral church I of Bar.Ie. The early shrine or I case of St. Lachtin's arm, of beautiful engraved native workmanship, in. the ' museum of the Royal Irish academy, V is of bronze, but the hand is of ! silver, as well as the enriched base of the arm. "Mr. Wall aptly remarks that it is . ibis description of the reliquary that has led from time to time to undeserved unde-served c harges of fraud, made by those who were ignorant of or wilfully mis-r mis-r represented the usual nature of such shrines. Thus 'a head of St. Eustace" or 'an arm of St. Ijachtin! did not. of necessity imply that the whole head or the whole arm was enclosed in such a reMquary. hut merely as w'as well i w known and understood by the faithful f th;it a fragment of hone from that particular par-ticular part of the saint's body was therein 'nclosed. Doubtless there were . fisos of fraud in relics: but, when the truth is known about these member re- I'ejUHri'es, it becomes obvious that there is no ned for cynical surprise at a snii t possessing several heads in dif-I dif-I ferer-.t localities." it ' 1 ? MARY IN SCOTLAND. I Early Devotion and Its Present Day I i, Inheritance. I Ti the current number of the Ameii- I "a.n catholic Quarterly Review. Rev. 1 Mi hnel Barrett. O. S. B., has an article j I "p. "Ancient Scottish Devotion to i i j Mary," which shows how warmly the j -ary Scotch loved the Mother of God. ' 1 how devotion to her permeated j 'l'rir national 1 ;e. Father Barrett t f--;'8 this veneration was chiefly shown !' 'h following ways: The dedication 'hurches, chapels and altars in the 5 I-a me of Mary: the traditional placets place-ts r.sjmr-s of the country; pilgrimages to ii s'riT- and wells: the veneration paid ,r her imag'e' . nd the cherished I j l-ymr;? of the - t II Among: all t.i, r.'li- -us orders, de-fc de-fc "!"r. to Mary m sted itself in the1 I r:-n- ation of'tl' r hurches in her I ta re, nn,j ajSlj, 8 r,,ng the secular r';-rgy. three Cat.'-evlra Is had Mary as I ,ri"ir titular pat'on. ' To enumerate all '6 'hurches Hnd chapels which. i-irnjth the lenpth nd breadth of ? '''th.nd rejoiced in having the Mother I r'' H as their '.itular would be an im- II r"-ss;V,jity." said Father Murphy, "not IS "!-'v r,n a-count of their number, but l'''nu; the title of so many has 5 f'":i altogether lost sight of." Scot- : ,;,;ifJ ",s full of places najned after Mary, i rd '. title "Our Lads" is still more : ft'irnrous. as Father Murphy shows. Thi're were "Mary Fairs"' in those j Xc. nnd many generous bequests for Lfojy Altars" and churches dedicated ; ,n ihe Mother of God. Among holy which bore her name were not a t--a to which miraculous powers were i' fc'trihijted. "The number of such wells I , ,,;r,nnt now bo accurately estimated," A- ii 0 'he chronicler. "In a list compiled by Mr. J. Russell Walker fur ij 'nr Society of Antiquaries, seventy- i v" Mary wells are mentioned, but it W . probable that many are lost sight I "The devotion of centuries." con- j 'Mj.it-ri Father Murphy.- the honor ''lr;rid"d by fervent "donorp to witness I , "ir love in after ages though neg- 5 '""1 and forgotten by faithless '"s'ndams must surely bear fruit. It "I'M s-eem, indeed, that the seed so , apo is alreadv showing blossom. 4 .',r" to the Catholic Directory for i 'otian(i for poof. j the six dio- r-s which th? country has possessed I 'rire the restoration of her hierarchy. !" i " many as eighty-two churches at ) pt will be found to rejoice in Our r1 as Htual, either alone or in con-tr'or."0'1 con-tr'or."0'1 wilh anothpr heavenly ra-ary ra-ary lias indeed come back to Scot- -v land, even though her presence is tg- j nored by so many thousands of the Scottish nation. Her name is lovingly a' 1(1 daily Invoked for the conversion i of Scotland,-h r images publicly hon-ored, hon-ored, her altars rise again on every j side. We may surely hope that the prayers poured forth and the Masses offered in her honor during the ages ot faith, combined with the lasting worship wor-ship paid her by her loyal .children du- j ring centuries of persecution and ridicule ridi-cule and contempt, are beginning now to draw down from heavni more abundant abun-dant shower? of grace, and will in God's good time be still more fully ; answered in the return of the people of the land to the faith they once cher- ; ish d so dearly." j ' . THE CREEDS IN ROME. j Interesting Religious Statistics of the Eternal City. A very interesting chapter of the last Italian census is that which contains con-tains the religious statistics of Rome. The total population of the Eternal City, says the London Tablet, is given as 442,783. and about a tenth of these is made up of foreigners residing here: the population has doubled in the last thirty years. The number of Catholics in Rome is given as 422,404, or P5.5 per cent of the whole. The Jews come next, but longo intervallo, for the number according to the official returns is only 7.121, or 1.5 per cent.; their own authorities assign to them about one thousand more, and probably with reason, for many Roman Jews are reluctant to admit that they belong to the "chosen people." Their numbers do not seem to have varied much during the last century, as we find that in 1S71 they represented about two per cent of the entire population, in 1862 two and one-fifth per cent, and ir. 1832, three and one-third per cent. The number of Protestants is 5,9L3, or l.l por cent. Thirty years ago, when they numbered about 4,000. They have increased enly 50 per cent, while the whole population has increased in-creased 100 per cent. It is quite certain cer-tain that the great mass of these six thousand Protestants, belong to the 45,000 foreigners who happened to be in Rome at the time of the census; a considerable portion of them is furnished furn-ished by the Waldensian colony in Rome.- It is a pity that we have no means of judging of the exact number of "Roman "Ro-man Protestants" living under the shadow of St. Peter's, or of the number num-ber of good Knglish sovereigns and American dollars that have been expended ex-pended in "converting." The "converts"' do probably run some little distance into the hundreds, and each of them is (or should be) worth to the Methodists and Baptists at least 10,000. Radium and "Roman Protestants" are apparently appar-ently the most costly things in the world today. There were in Rome at the time of the census 312 Greek schismatics, all of them foreigners, and there were 3S individuals who belonged to other religions. re-ligions. The number of persons who declared tht they belonged to no religion re-ligion was 2.6S2. and most of these are affiliated to the socialist and anarchist anar-chist parties, and to the Freemasons. By the way. it is worth noting that in Rome Socialism pro f esses to be as much opposed to Freemasonry, as it is j to "Clericalism." There were 5.213 i persons? who refused to make any declaration dec-laration as to their religious beliefs among them, very probably, being the thousand Jews above mentioned. RULES FOR CHILD TRAINING. To. so educate children as to make them capable and virtuous nun is a difficult task. A task that demands sound principles, rare tact, keen insight in-sight into human nature, a firm will and no little self-ontrol and perseverance; persever-ance; above all it reunites absolute accord ac-cord with !h will of (Jod. Without the divine assistance the education of children chil-dren cannot succeed. . It is self-evident that in dealing with children their inborn disposition, their tastes and their intellectual development develop-ment must be duly considered: absolute abso-lute uniformity -in the bringing up of children is therefore out of the question. ques-tion. . Ne'verthslef?.? there are certain rules which are to be observed in everv case. They are the following: 1. Do all things to the greater glory of God and teach your children to do likewise. 2. Love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself. 3. Your children belong to God; you are His representative. In this spirit you must bring them up. 4. Do not merely teach virtue, but practice it yourselves; words instruct, example moves the will. - As the parent, par-ent, so the child:. 5. Let your daily educational work begin, continue and end with prayer. It is only with the help of God's grace that you can succ-ed: often commend your children to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to the Blessed Virgin, to the guardian angel and patron saint. 6. Day and night, at home and abroad pray; for your children and match over them. Watch also over the other members of your family, your servants, male and female. The evil one "goeth about and seeketh whom he ma:' devour." ' 7. Above all things bring up your eldcst child with the greatest care: the other children 'will follow its example. ex-ample. 8. From their tenderest years accustom ac-custom your children faithfully to do their duty: usually the result of the child's education depends on the work of the first seven years. 9. Insist on order, cleanliness and moderation in all things: disorder, as j well as lack of cleanliness and self-control, self-control, breeds diseas and other evifs, both in soul and bodi 10. Teach your children self-denial, even in things permissible; otherwise ! their lower instincts will gain the upper up-per hand. 11. Accustom your children to industry indus-try and frugality; thuy are the secret of success in life. But caution them against avarice. 12. From their very birth check all evil Inclinations, such as pride, impurity, im-purity, envy, stubbornness, sloth and lying. 13. Accustom your children from their infancy to habits of obedience, humility humil-ity ar.d kindness.. 14. Avoid bad habits, for the men-tal men-tal as well as the bodily faults of the parents descend to the children. , 15. Do not permit your children to indulge , in spicy or exciting food and drink. Do not tolerate over-indulgence in daintics. Disregard of this caution m8kef children passionate, stupid and clothful. 16. Punish your children when guilty guil-ty of deliberate and malicious wrongdoing, wrong-doing, but not through caprice or in anger, but through love, and with a good intention. God Himself chastises those' Ha loves. 17. Correct your childrrn by depriving depriv-ing them of some pleasure or privilege or by appealing to their sense of shame rather than by corporal punishment. pun-ishment. Use the rod in caser of cursing, curs-ing, stealing, obstinacy. vindictivness, etc.: these are serious offenses. IS. Censure and warn your children first, then threaten, but if your thrfats are unavailing, carry them out without with-out fail. Moderate punishment actually actu-ally carried out is . far more efficient than the mere threats of violent correction. cor-rection. Wholcsome fear leads to improvements. im-provements. 19. Never wound the sensibilities of a child by abusive language.' much less j by cruelty: chastisement is intended to correct, not to ventilat? or cool off vour bad temper. 0 Chastisement should be just, that is it should fit th fault committed and the character of the child. A look , or a caution often suffices. Injustice begets hatred arid obstinacy. 21. Above all things parents must be harmonious in the correction of their children." Beware of preferring one child to the others. 22. Send your children to the parochial paro-chial school, and regularly. - Without religion there can b: no true education, educa-tion, ' , 23. Respect the teacher; never criti- j ci:i him in the presence of your children. chil-dren. He must be respected as well as yourselves if the education of your children is to be a success. 24. Assist the teacher by seeing to it that your children faithfully perform per-form their home work. If your children chil-dren are punished, in school, do not be angry with the teacher, but rather inflict in-flict additional punishment on the offender of-fender to support the authority of the teacher. 25. Above all, reflect upon the awful warning of the Saviour: "What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul." The world is transient but the soul lives forever, either in heaven or in hell. Catholic Univers MARY. There's very little in a name If you call our Mary, Mayme, And then ujion some other day She writes, herself. Mamie or May. i Why should we change to sour, what's sweet ? Does May or Mamie look more neat? If not, then let us never vary, But say, she is our own sweet Mary. From early morn till close of day. From first to last of the month of May, In every land, in every clime, The voices sing, the bells all chime-Sweet chime-Sweet Mary. That name is praised from rise of sun Till sleep o'erpowers us, every one: And even in our dreams we speak Of her whose love we daily seek j Sweet Mary. i It is the fountain of all love That gushes forth from heaven above, Millions praise it far and near, 'Mong earthly names it has no peer .Sweet Mary. From life's beginning to the end Let all our voices praises lend. And may that blessed name so dear, On our dying lips appear Sweet Mary. F. J. George in Catholic Columbian.- HIRE A SEAT. The plaster in the Church of the Assumption As-sumption in Morristown, N. J., protested protest-ed on a recent Sunday against the habit some young men have of attending a low mass every Sunday and of standing stand-ing in the aisles. At the close of the sermon a big patch of the ceiling at the end of the church broke loose and fell down .on five young men who want to get their religion cheap and to give to God only a brief half-hour a week. It struck them on the head, it bruisfd them to the oor. it cut and soiled their clothing, cloth-ing, it got into their eyes and mouths, and, altogether, it nearly killed them. Moral: Hire a seat in a pew and when possible attend the parochial mass. Catholic Columbian. REQUIEM MASS FOR NON-CATHOLICS. In reply to a query as to whether a ' mass may be said for a deceased Prot- : estant. the current Ecclesiastical Review Re-view says: i "Mass as an act of simple interces- i sion may be offered for any person, liv- j ing or dead, who is not known to be beyond the pale of God's redeeming ' mercy. Unless we have a sure revela- tion which no one has a right to claim for himself we may not assume of any 1 person, Protestant or infidel included, ! that at their dying moment the redeeming redeem-ing grace of Christ through a silent act of repentance was denied them. There- ; fore, we are free to believe that inter- j cessory prayer and the mass will ben- ; efit them. j "But while we are at liberty to assume as-sume this for ourselves, and offer our j prayers or the mass in their behalf, we i may not call upon the church in her solemn or public function to attest this j assumption or belief in the case of a I person who outwardly gave testimony that he or she did not' belong to the ! church, whatever the inward disposi- i tion. of which God alone judges, may . have been. For the church is a visible communion standing for the external j profession of faith: and as she solem- I nizes mass for those who belong to the outward communion, although they may be faithless at heart, so she excludes ex-cludes from her public solemnities those who do not-belong to her outward communion, com-munion, although they may die in God's pleasure, not having known the Catholic Catho-lic faith. Hence the celebration of solemn mass is not allowed in the latter lat-ter case, for that celebration is more than an intercessory act; it is a public profession that the deceased was in union with the outward communion of the church militant." TEACH US, DEAR LORD. Teach us, dear Lord, all that it means to say The words "Our Father," when we kneel to pray; Our Father thou, th;n every child of Thine Is" by the bond, a brother. Lord of mine. Teach us, dear Lord, all that it means to say, "Thy will be done," when we do kneel ' and pray. Thy will be done, then our proud wills must break And los: themselves in love for Thy dear sy.l:e. Teach us, dear Lord, all that it means to say. VI "Give us our daily bread," when we (k riray; We will be truthful when we understand. under-stand. Not grasp the loaf from out a brother's hand. Teach up. dear Lord, all that it means to say. 'Forgive our trespasses," when we do pray; Forgive! the word was coined in Para- And this world's hope and trust within it Hos. Teach us. dear IOrd. all that it means to say This prayer of Thine whfn kneeling day by day; For when we know and live its mean-ins mean-ins deep. No hearts will need to break, no eyes, to weci1. Selted. A GREAT TEMPTATION. The summer resorts by the seaside are open and already the hotels are well filled. There is no more delightful. healthful and wholesome recreation for our worthy people, their means and leisure permitting, to take a ten days off, hie themselves to see old ocean's wonders and take in the invigorating draughts of the salt sea breeze. A great mistake is made. however, by those who go to the. seashore, and this is to make their visit one of dissipation, dissipa-tion, long hours at social functions, and what is far worse promiscuous tippling tip-pling at all hours. When, recently, we referred to the growing spread of the love of drink among women, so shameful shame-ful and abhorrent in the sex. we might with truth have said that the odious habit is too oftentimes acquired at the seaside resorts. What some would not do at home they give way to in the absence ab-sence of restraint, painfully and palpa- ; bly shown in these vacations. "But nobody no-body seems to mind it here." "Nobody!" "No-body!" Most excellent woman, are you not somebody, a mother, a daughter, nay. a christian, a child of Mary Immaculate? Im-maculate? Hespect yourself. Let not. the pleasant hdur of your deserved rest be the one td teach you a wretched habit. Pittsburg Catholic. PATIENCE. Be patient oh be patient! Put your ! ear aaii ?t the earth; Listen there hw noiselessly the germ n 1 of the sen! has birth. How noiseless!' and gently it upheaves itn little ay Till it parts th scarcely broken ground and the olade stands up in "the day. Be patient oh be patient. The gfrms of mishtj thought Must have tlrir silent undergrowth, must und'r ground be wrought. But as sure ik ever there's a Power that mak s th? grass appear Our land sha! be green with liberty, the Made1 time Phall be here. Be patient o. . be patient! Go and watch th' wheat ears grow. So impzreeptiily that ye can mark nor change ijor throe; Day after dai. day after day, till the ear is filly grown. And then agan day after day till the ripened field is brown. Be patient olj. be patient! Though yet our hop an green. The harvest field of freedom shall be crownedjwith the sunny sheen. Be ripening, lje -ripening! Mature your silent vp.v Till the who,'2 broad land is tongued-with tongued-with Anion freedom's harvest day. William James Linton. i THE HOPE OF MISFORTUNE. Pain is ajsoul tonic. Sorrow oftfn brings out te best there is in us. Happiness Hap-piness does jnot develop character. It gives it surface brightness and decks it with prismatic bubbles. It takes the deep rfaehihg arm of misfortune to trouble thefdepths and mring out the pearls thatjlie there. The most magnetic mag-netic faces) are lined by thought and noble care. (Strong, unselfish love, even if misplacfd and unappreciated, ennobles en-nobles the1 lover. It is the frivolous, vanity-borij emotions that fritter away character and make faces insignificant. To fail in high aim after earnest and honest effort, is not failure. The gain it brings in strength and discipline will appear in other directions. Misfortune has often in the "history of the world been the means of making a poet, orator, ora-tor, philanthropist, scientist or statesman states-man out of a person whose career but for the misfortune or physical disability disabili-ty would have been commonplace and influence United. Medical Talk. |