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Show , w fiurcft Universal I i ' I T. ; T CHURCH CALENDAR. '. The General Intention. b,.,-n'nrii''iKlod by his Holiness Plus X. ; jm: SPIRIT OF PRATER. . I i ,nuui Quinquagesima. B. I Cor. 'Xi-i l-13: G. St. Luke xviii. 31-34. I Adrian. 49,710. ! t Monday St. Colette. I I r Tuesday St. Thomas Aquinas. I j Wednesday Ash Wednesday. St. ; 1 joim of God. u t v t, i hurpJay St. Frances of Rome. ! I i', ;.-ijay Crown of Thorns. The I f Vortv Martyrs of St. Sebaste. i ! Haturday St. Eulogius. ; j IN THE SANCTUARY. j tlr. j v.-utiris. ever waiting, i i 'Through .the brightness of the.- day, i I rjiioisii tho sound of many footsteps ; I -bo clamor of the way, j I p. -in the first plad hours of moming I f To the solemn hush of noon, j I ""hrnujih the bleakness of December ' Ajidihe sultriness of June. , I j,-. ;? vailirrp. he is waiting. I -i h; ou2.,h the stillness of the night, j n.,j the moon rides high in heaven I . rj the silent stars are bright. ! ! V !,,-.(? the pale lamp burns forever ' l.iko guide to weary feet, i j the very silence murmurs, j ' - Wanderer, pause; the rest is sweet." j f Jin j.c 'waiting, ever waiting, I "Through the days and months and ? vears: ' ! t!o hiis "ace for cruised spirits, ' i ! H- has" balm for bitter tears. ! j Dr, th" cross, through death and an- ! I guish, ! (,ii-e he made us all his own: ir ph vo thoughtless sons of Adam, j ; k shall he wait and watch alone? j I MIXED MARRIAGES. I pme cf the Reasons Why They Are ' Heid in Abhorrence by v i I the Church, ! jl r-'i'i". i the Catholic Transcript.) I The Cathdic hurch abhors mixed j n-Livriagos. The abhors them, not :h rough an itching to be arbitrary, vit bocauFe they are usually, not to ? ny uniformly, fraught with evil. She y j fl1s 311 eye to tne happiness, temporal i- v. r ii us spiritual, of the contracting I rsais. She looks to the prospective inoinbTs of the household. New there f .i: bo no home worthy of the name J ith"iit friendship, pure, unsuspect-i unsuspect-i j g unqualified, and all-confiding. Yet, ' to have it on the authority of one n-l10 h;is analvzed that subtle relation- I ihin with master skill, that persons of .inflicting religious views are incap-; incap-; iMe -f friendship in the highest ac- 'cntation of the term. J Friendship is defined by Cicero as ;l complete accord on all subjects i ! luman and divine, joined with mutual i i tood will and affection." Wherefore, tf husband and wife are to be friends, ? ;hev must be "in complete accord on v ill "subjects human, and divine." Now, n holies and Protestants are in corns' corn-s' h!te discord, if not in all things hu-f hu-f man. at least in most things divine. I rhrv are in discord in the one thing 1 p hih is of first importance .because t ibsolutely identified, with the supreme I rood. . S The name Trotestant is an open pro- I t.-sion of discord with things Cath- I Hr It stands for an avowed re-puliation re-puliation of that which is most Bacred o the faithful. It rejects and con- I omns their belief in the Mass. the i ...nfcssional, the communion of saints. 1 ih, (fficacv of the sacraments, the ' ianctitv of marriage, the divine mis; 5 ' of 4Mo church. The union, of such i,t!ordant element, must be in some : ' l-crce at least, monstrous. And thos? -I I ,,o would seek to effect it "eoenly I n t uicins.-lvcs in open defiance to the ! findainental dictates of nature II - thing but a super-abundance of ! ra, e can' lift such a misalliance i. to rralms of true friendship and sub- TrfS"U -erish each 1 " ihinrul devotion of the intellect to j Vcw fc whom he believes to be en-i en-i Lvcl bv a sunerstition hideous to I -n and angels? "."ana j .ks upon transubstant,ation as a I! ,,ftiv mummery give "jL M in , , p io the judgment of a oma.i II H ' vo-ards it as Christ's supreme ;l ,,,,i1P,a(-,i? impossible. I ' T,:: hLb'd and wife may ( disagree if , nf taste and in the otnti I . -itertiaN of life, but on the things I.J C I:,'.; ;; the things which make . j' ": V 'f' :n evfrv thought and i h T ! none and fear, there P ' v 'Th- ot tc accord. Cicero was ,V b,You"- nan. learn wisdom from VoW-om.. barken to ' old i-.'vloophor. and in heaii ! c lU "! unli. hear the Ij-ord I i,a': ct--inw m m nature r You,- happiness, temporal and I n;al. may be at stake. TESTED BY ITS FRUITS. I . ::"M Rev" liishou Spalding.) .ti-a'-v of an organization to t--..,. p ;r. religious faith alive and , i, n-.o highest rest of its wn-tn- t: : th rauiolic church when tried by r , ,OM .!fai)1s pre-eminent. Her q. ;o to the mind, the heart, h,;a..at:ou. the whole man. is rro-f rro-f an-! dreaded by her enemies th..p who believe. in her are v n-.".l to tender and grateful thoughts i- :h- mention of the name of ner h 'in ih- v call Mother. She is dear to in lor a thousand reasons. Has sne ' lUir-d The .-arth with memorals Ol ! :v. souls trus- in God? Who has en-ic- . d he,- solemn cathedrals and not . :nd whisperings from higher worlds, -jo- liturgv. hf-r sacred rites, her grave i ;d n ea-ured chants: the dim lights :ht (v r burn In her sanctuaries: the 3 stir vestments with which her mm-M-rs are clothed: the incense dinus-l dinus-l - a hallowed fragrance thru,?h i.ng withdraw inff aisles: the bells that j ..ruins noon and night repeat the KriciV silutation to Maty and seem mio-t blessings from heaven on -.fv-iir la-ds all This speaks to tne, I n!, y.ibdues and softens the heart, t ;;! vr. ion- to bow the head in-j'Mver in-j'Mver and give free course to tne 'Vt iot ad in the countenances ' ib-.-e v.lio love her truly, the storj - Hv.s of patience and reverence, Mritv and mildness? How unweao-;.-lv" do thev labor! How rmei " ,u.,. rpst from nil'-:: datn comes u.j I 'n- iHborsl What a heavenly not thrown-does fhe not still 'n,:v,w-ovr innumerable souls crea -rr in them habits of though I. loe ;;i deed, against which theor es of Ir.tecr kind are advanced in ain; rhov have made experiment. the Pbn-e of the Lord than to dwell for a ;i usand years in the '. c lingers. Has she not the seciet oi U hine the poor and unlearned the V 2v wiFd,m-the wisdom that h es m a spiritual mind and Joj making them carable of feelI"J in r.ne and of viewing all th mgs i folute. under the guidance of he axon f-i -i tbnt though they die jet, hj-" m iVve- Thu she turns her. true r..wliiiur mass of matter and 02 m . Eiving them deeper convictions of the sacredness and worth of life, of the . possibilities that lie open to-the meanest mean-est soul if he but be converted to God, who even in the most degraded can still see some likeness of Himself. " DAILY MASS. The Irish Messenger gives the following fol-lowing reasons which should induce those who without serious inconvenience inconveni-ence to themselves can attend daily mass to form this habit: ' It will make your heart light and cheerful. 1 It will throw a halo of happiness cver your days. It will keep your conscience clean. It will bring you into oonstant; con- tact with the source of all grace. ' It -will teach you how 'to live on 1 terms of the closest intimacy with Godm. Tour understanding will be enlightened enlight-ened and your will strengthened. All the treasures of gold and precious pre-cious stones which the earth contains are outweighed by one mass. To assist at daily mass is a practice which is easy and consoling. The early rising which it usually necessitates is itself a grat blessing ot the natural order. What wonder if all these gifts and many more fall to those who go daily to mass, for at the solemn word of consecration an act takes place which, of all the acts which take place throughout the whole world, is the most pleasing to God. Consequently God is disposed to be most liberal on such an occasion. Now if we assist at mass we share in a special manner m that most pleasing offering. We offer j thot gife to God alone with the priest: and we receive in return immense bless-ings. You know the words of the priest when he turns to the people before be-fore the more solemn part of the mass, and says "Orate fratres." etc. That is, in English. "Pray, brethren that my sacrifice and yours may be favorably received by the Lord God Almi-hty. Note the words "mine and yours This Ka-rifiee is the greatest gift 01- fered on earth to God. If you assist, at dailv mass you are one of 1 10. ,.1 ferers of 'that great gift. It js Christ s offering, and the priest's offering ana vour own offering. A, vail vourself then of every opportunity oppor-tunity of assisting at mass. See if you have not hitherto been neglect mg-the most precious 'opportunities. V hen the church bell tings out f-"iafislnt the morning, think of the magnificent invitation that is offered to you-don t lose the opportunity-but leave jour bed in the fresh early morning and draw near to the source of all ligm and life and peace. THE CHURCH AND CHARITY. Dr Henry A. Brann. writing in the Catholic World of February, nays: "Christianity alone made hene-olence hene-olence universal and perfect, instead of being limited and national, among the Hebrews. The root of the spiritual and corporal works of mercj is found in the teachings .and in the life of Christ. . He was God who sacrificed sacri-ficed himself absolutely for the benefit of others, giving up his glory and power for the safe of others. He did did die for any transgression of his 1 own. His birth in a manger, his dea on a cross, the torture of his passion, were alV for the sake of others. His life and conduct are models of perfect benevolence, perfect martty. His learning that all-men . are brothers, children of the same Father in heaven, that we must love our neighbor as ourselves our-selves even though they be enemies a teaching of which he set a perfect example ex-ample on Calvary, by praying Jor the 'enemies who had tortured him logically logic-ally led to acts of charity among his followers. They prayer, -Our Father, the petition to be forgiven as we forgive, for-give, the lesson to look on every sick, hungrv and suffering man as his representative, repre-sentative, produced the wonderfully ranid change which Christianity and Christians made in the Roman world. The new commandment to love one another was manifested first in his apostles and priests, a body of men selected to be the servants of others, readv to sacrifice health and" life on the altar of dutv for those who suffer; a body of men halted by no physical dangers, repelled by no loathsomeness of disease, from socraficing themselves for their fellow man. What religion has produced such wonderful types of self-immolation as we find produced by the Christian religion in the Catholic church?" DON'T BE AFRAID. The Boston Sacred Heart Review gives the following bit of advice to our young women: , , People need not fear overmuch that their girls are going to "die young," simply because they want to join some religious order. Far from South Africa Afri-ca comes the account of the late Mother Gertrude, whom the secular papers pa-pers of Cape Colony uniformly insist on calling "Notre Mere," "Our mother," mo-ther," and who, it seems, has been for th past thirty-five years known and loved under that title through the southern half of the Dark Continent, where she worked for the ignorant, the afflicted and the poor. It is said that her brother. General de HemMigsen,' by the wav fought on the side of the confederates con-federates in our civ$ war. Then, off in Yokohama, Japan, we find a Mother St Mathilda, of the St. Mur nuns, celebrating no less than her seventieth anniversarv in the order and directing direct-ing her community at the ramarkable I age of 92 years. Twenty-one of those years she spent in Singapore, thirty in Japan, no easy field, surely, yet behold be-hold her record. Don't be afraid, girls. There is a -wellspring of elastic, joyful joy-ful youth in. the religious life. In fact; we may say that the fountain of perpetual per-petual youth is there, if anywhere. "HOLY RAGTIME." That the organists !n mose of the Catholic churches in this country are mountebanks, and that nvost of the music mu-sic that they play is "holy ragtime.' is the strong statement ma we by Rev. V Wagner of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Brooklyn. Father Wagner Wag-ner is an organist, and has made a deep study of music. A year ago in an audience with the pope the subject of church music in America was .discussed, .dis-cussed, and since, his return he has had some correspondence with the pope on the same subject. He said: "I believe th trotesiams are aomg more for good church music in this country than the Catholics are. Many neople are likely to complain, but it is not the purpose of the pope to have only Gregorian music. He also favors the Palestrina music. Some people do not understand this. His holiness loves the kind of music that has an artistic value and edifies. Some music is artistic ar-tistic but it is not church music. It is 'imply 'half ragtime,' as played by , the organists. They are simply piano players, and the pastors are being bluffed by them." ,', I Father Wagner has an idea that n. traveling choir in each diocese, to siow what can be done in the presentation of proper music, would be of great advantage. ad-vantage. Several weeks ago Pope Pius sent his picture to the young artist in recognition of his interts in church music Lrft us be steadfast for the right: but let us err on the side of generosity generos-ity rather than on the side of vindic-tiveness vindic-tiveness toward those who differ from us "as to' tb method of attaining the right. Theodore Roosevelt. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The seventh annual indoor meet of Georgetown college will be, held on Saturday, Feb. 25. Mother Catherine Drexel is to establish estab-lish in Nashville an industrial school for negro girls. It will open in September, Sep-tember, and will accommodate 100 pupils pu-pils the first year. Mother Mary of St. Anselm Wells, superior of the convent of the Good Shepherd . at Indianapolis, died on Thursday of last week and was buried on Saturday morning. She was 65 years old. She was a woman of deep piety and remarkable administrative ability and her death is a distinct loss to the order. St. John's college. Fordhom. N. Y., will hereafter be known as- Fordham university. Among the candidates now before the Sacred Congregation of Rites for beatification are the names of two queens of the house of Savoy. One is Marv Clothilde of Bourbon, the widow of the last Sardinian king, and the other is the venerable Mary Christina, the mother of the late king of Naples and wife of King Ferdinand. Over 4ftO niembfis of the Knights of : Columbus attended the reception given j to Archbishop Messmer at the Plankin-ton Plankin-ton house last Thursday nighty 'The guests were presented to the arch-biahon arch-biahon in th? colonial room, grand knights Malier and Rcbhan. introducing introduc-ing them to his grace. The archbishop was highly pleased with the reception and met and chatted with hundreds of Milwaukee Catholics. His grace complimented com-plimented 'the knights on the reception and expressed bis appreciation of the opportunity afforded of meeting and greeting the large number of the Catholic Cath-olic laity gathered on th? occation. Archbishop Farley accompanied by his secretary. Rev. J. Y. Lewis, sailed last week for the Bahama islands to make his triennial visit. The Bahama islands, though several thousand miles from New York, are part of th? arch- j diocese. As far as known, this is the only instance in modern church his- , tory where the seat of government is so. far removed from, the parish proper. The Catholic church at Hogansburg. N. Y., Father Brown, rector, was totally to-tally destroyed by. fire last Saturday morning. The fire broke out in the vestry and when first discovered hud gained such headway it was impossible to save the building or contents. The rectory adjoining the church took fire and was slightly damaged. The loss is estimated at-$23,000. Thirty-seven seminaries of the Jo-sephinum. Jo-sephinum. Columbus, joined the society soci-ety for the Propagation of the Faith, and have forwarded to Rev. Joseph Freri of Baltimore the monthly alms as made up among them. It is thfir intention, as announced in a letter to Father Fieri, to keep this up until their ordination, .when they hope to be able to do more to further the good work. In the Croatian church recently dedicated ded-icated at Kansas City by Bishop Lillis, .the altars, pulpit.-windows and statuary statu-ary were all brought from Croat io and are very different in appearance from those made in this country. .The church cost $25,000. . Although ho direct. orders have emanated ema-nated from the Vatican authorizing Italian Catholics to take an active part in future elections, the success of the Catholic party at the polls last November Novem-ber now has made possible the organization organ-ization of a large party among the voters. Inscriptions of future voters now are the order of the day, and many thousands of Catholics in the principal cities of Italy recently have been inscribed in the registers as such. In Rome along more than 6.000 voters have registered, and the movement is general all over Italy, forecasting a heavy Catholic vote at the next parliamentary par-liamentary elections. These might ; take place any. moment, according to j j the wishes of the minister. ! Last year the receipts of the Society 1 for the Preservation of the Iaitn among the Indian children amounted to $22,708.75. Of this amount the so-cietv so-cietv of the Holy Childhood collected J3.836.56 and the Marquette League $600. The Ludweg Missions-Verein- of Mupnich. Bavaria, sent $236.40. The receipts re-ceipts of 1903 were nearly $10,000 more than those of last year, a falling off greatly to b? regretted, since the need cf funds is so urgent. The tragic death of Grand Duke Ser-gius Ser-gius produced a profound impression in Rome, especially as his wife was known there, having often visited the Italian capital. King Victor Emmanuel Emman-uel sent his condolences to the grand duchess personally and was much affected af-fected by the assassination. The pope on hearing of the murder of the grand duke was deeply shocked. He said: "How sad it is that people think th-:y can find relief in violence." Mother Eleonore Lieber. a religious of the sacred heart, died trom nem-orrhage nem-orrhage at the acadepiy of the Sacred Heart, West Seventeenth street. New York, a few days ago. She was. born in Camberg, duchy of Nassau, Germany Ger-many in 1840. She was a sister of the late "Dr. . Ernest Lieber, the celebrated leader of the centre of Catholic party In Germany, whose death about a year ago was a severe blow to the cause he had championed so gloriously. Mother Lieber entered the society of the Ladies La-dies of the Sacred Heart, in 1861, and eight years later came to this country, or the last twenty years she had been stationed at the academy in Seventeenth Seven-teenth qtreet, and former pupils of this institution remember fondly the sweet-tempered, gentle, religious, who was a favorite with everybody. Mother Lieber is survived by a sister in Paris, also a religious. The first number o the Catholic Herald, a paper published by colored Catholics for readers of that race, has recently made its appearance, bearing the approbation of his eminence. Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbon.3 another objective proof of the universality of the church. The Jesuit Fathers, at. the close of a mission given recently at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New York City devoted a week to non-Catholics especially, with the result that twenty-five twenty-five converts received the sacrament of confirmation. - Father Triomas Sherman, Sher-man, S. J.. has been assigned to work of this kind exclusively. Missionary work devoted to non-Catholics is growing grow-ing in favor, and the harvest is gratifying. grati-fying. - Recent developments concerning t! management of the state institutions of Wisconsin indicate that religion-? bigotry-has not yet been stamped out in that commonwealth. It has seemed necessary to introduce a measure in the state legislature to secure to Catholic Cath-olic priests the right of ministering to rtv? .Catholics -as may be inmates of their institutions. 4.- The only Catholic chaplain that ever served in the congress cf the United States was the Rev. Dr.' Charles Con-stantine Con-stantine Pise,- who was elected to that office in 1S32. !An institution for destitute mothers will be established; in Manhattan by . the Guild of the Infant Saviour, and will be under the direction of the Mission Mis-sion Helpers of the Sacred Heart. r , 1 Sir Francis Crluse. vone of the most (eminent physicians of Ireland, ban just j completed a new- English, translation of the "Imitation of Christ," for Which extraordinary merit is claimed. Its most striking versions lies in the fact that its language is strictly modern. This should serve to popularize it I among the masses. The Catholic Truth society of San Francisco invites the gratitude of the American public for offering a most substantial edition of this new translation at the row price of 25 cents per copy. "The Imitation" has been pronounced the most beautiful beauti-ful book that has ev;er eminated from the hand man. No Catholic adult should be. for a 'single day, without thii volume of divine wisdom. Miss Mary Hassibald, the Swedish-American Swedish-American convert, has received the veil from the hands of Cardinal Mac-chi Mac-chi among the "Brigittine nuns, 'tx-ceremony 'tx-ceremony was . performed In the Church "of Santa UagiJa, Rome, and there the nun will pass her lite in strict enclosure. Pope Pius X sent an autograph' benediction .to this, the first American" meiiibc-r of the. community. Her 'main purpose' ui entering, so strict an order va'i to .bring her native conn- . try, Sweden, back tc the true faith. The Blessed. , Low is the lintel of our dear Lord's ' dot-.', And who would enter !n Must the new life begin With little children, 'and the crouching j ;-cor With mourner.", and with meek and lowly souln With those who long for good As prisoners pine for food, Or kneel in dreams where living water rolU. , Beneath those gates loo low for human hu-man pride-' The blessed come and go, Each bearing seed to sow. In God's great garden, .:- Ii:s meadow mead-ow 3 wide. With Gentle Mercy. Peace anc Purity. Thev find their glad employ Sowing the seel of Joy, j Nor know its name, or what the fruit j shall be. t Sometimes the memory of a long-past da:'. i When they had suffered shame 1 And death for Christ's dear naine. . j Sweeps o'er them like a cloud ' above ; their, wy j But on golden morn there falls a j Voice: "Come. O ye Rlepse?; come! It is the harvest-home, , j And all the fields are white with Joy, 1 Rejoice:' j Mary A. Lathbury. |