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Show j j EASTER. , i ,f,-,,ivi the rath lic World, New York ; "'ity.) j out. l P.ells of Kaster: ! out and lot your mirth. I y.'.ur clad'"? hiino, your chant sub- ; lit)!''. ' Ij. hiuhi'I throughout tho earth'. I !m3 to tlio clouds of Heaven! ' I mnt: out. and Fhout to the hills! j tlio Kifon Lord, by all adored, ' - ! world with the music thrill?: i I f 'vour dorp, majoptic voice. j ,. . t ymir peel make the temple reel I ' ,j tlio heart of the world rejoice. ; ; ,i i'orlli your deepest o pan-tones, j ' V"ii" poldon thunders roll! 5 j ;;!: ). hftiu niiiR the Conquering King, j .! the ffunhurpt of the soul! I .,, 1I1011, O vcet soprano. I ' 1 .1 forth your soul like a dove I i, ! f tioml'liiiK wiiifrs of soup, till it j ' id,. KMon pates of Love! c , c hij;h. sing loud, till the silver j ' .-lolid ; ; ivs up the strain with might. j .; '!;. choirs above in the Land of ? " 1...VC i !i the choirs below unite! j j, . ,i i . o purest preachers, ! , i;ii s on the -altar hiRh. f 1..; your tongues of flame proclaim ; Hin Name, I !,..s- glories fill the sky! j .. ! y..ur fragrance fine to Heaven as- . nd f' ; mi. use of Him who rent J 1 ,,. i . :ois of the tomb, and rose on the I ylooni I ' . the sun in the liiinament! 5 i 1: n .Mil. O Bells of Kaster! I ::..;. swing in the belfry tall, I ! :o every heart' your joy impart, i iiiiiig love unto hut and hall! f i. your merry din expel all sin ( v-d'thc llesurroction tell. I ( 1 soils that lay like lifeless clay ! the tomb and the gloom of hell! i JULIAN K. JOHNSTONE. I CHURCH CALENDAR. j Till-: G1CNEKAL INTENTION ; 1;. . oinmended bv His Holiness. Pius X. CHRISTIAN PATIENCE. ': S. Kafter St. lieorge. E. 1. Cor. ' " v. 7-S: G. Si. Mark xvi. 1-7. 46..00 ( :'ur missions. ) 1. :. M. St. Fidolis of Sigmaringen. T siij for societies, works, j .... T. St. Mark. Evangelist. 146.665 for conversions. l': W. Our Lady of Good Counsel. J j.".:;.i;?.S for sinners. i ::. Th. St. Turibius. !7,PS1 for the ' intemperate. V.. St. Paul of the Cross. 130,191 f for spiritual favors. I S. St. Peter. 94.210 for temporal j favors. j si". S. Low Sunday. St. Catherine of Sienna. E. I. i . PASSION OR HOLY WEEK. N ' ' The week 'in which the Church coin- ' ni' iiiorates Christ's passion and death i is variously spoken of by the ancient I writers as. the Great Week. Holy Week, j th- Week of the Holy Passion, the i Penal Week; the Week of Forgiveness. I Many and varied are the sentiments f that move th;' Church during the year, j Now she is engaged in supplicating I ;.)d's mercy, now in singing His praises.', again she discovers to Him her necessities. But in Holy Week she can only bewail the sorrows and death jj of her spouse. Her ceremonies are s devoid of pomp, her altars divested of 5 ornaments. : The ceremonies of this season are I p-.-euliar. distinct and significant, differ- ! . t from those of other festivals, sym-' J bolizing forth for us the sorrows of the I church and the sufferings of our Re- ill " IlllT. j The Tenebrae. j This is the name given to the matins ;ii d lauds which are usually sung 011 tV sftornoon or evening of Wednes- I .;-. Thursday and Friday in Holy , I . . k. At the beginning of the office I j : : - -1 1 lighted candles are placed on a. I ti iangular candelabrum, and at the I I ' -rid of each psalm one is put out. until j :ily a single candle is left lighted at ute top of the triangle. During the : 1 ging of the Benedictus the candles a the high altar are extinguished, j while at the antiphon after the Bene-! i ti. ;us the single candle left alight is ! i iden at the Epistle corner of the altr. to be brought out again at the ei.,i of the office. This extinction rig-1. rig-1. !. tho growing darkness of the time v. ! . , Christ the Light of the world, w.-is taken. Holy Thursday. j f ok this day one Mass only can be I .d in th same church, and that Mass ! h e, lobrated in white vestments, be- .oiM- i!ie institution of the Eucharist is i j iy'uily commemorated, but at the I s.-ir'M- lime there are certain signs of j ti,e mourning proper to Holy Week. I '!'.: l.oiis. which ring at the Gloria, do j sound again till tho Gloria in the I M.iss of Holy Saturday, and the Church I ! 'un.s. 10 her ancient use of summon- i ihe faithful or arousing their at- '" ' tiop by a wooden clapper. Nor is 1 Mi- embrace of peace given. The cele- I !:;-. i 'onot -rates an additional Host, I ' i !i is placed in a rhalice and borne I , '' p-oeessi,,ii after the Mass to a place J . ' :-e..,red for it. In ancient times this I t ; " ' sion occurred daily, for there .' . o tabernacle over the altar for j : M-rvir.tr tho particles w hich remained ! ' : afte;- the communion of the faiih- if iho seventh' century the holy 5 ' . ro-i!ierly -onso-rated at any time, i ! e been-blessed by the Bishop in the I ,.f this day. Twelve priests and ie;,, 011s assist as witnesses of the I ny. The Bishop and priests i Mi ih'-ee times upon the oil of the I iiim ons and the - chrism, mean- j - y ibis action that the power of the j : Spirit is about to descend on the 1 " : aii'l aftor the consecration is com-, j they salute the oils with the I :-. "Hail, holy oil; hail, holy I Good Friday. i -this day the church oommemo- - !he Passion of Christ so that it I most sad and solemn of all the 5 - in holy week. The officiating j .'v apnear in black vestments, and I -11 ate themselves before the altar, I : ii still remains stripped. Nor are i aiolles lighted. After a short I . j.-e, ihe altar is covered with white j 'Mis. and passages of the Old Testa- I ' 'f-M followed by the history of tho ; --sion from St. John, are read. Next a ' e church prays solemnly for all eon- I ions of men, for all the members of I " ' hierarchy, for the prosperity of ' nistian people, for catechumens, he- 1 ; ;ies. Jews and pagans, s Wo shall have now to speak of the : ov-t striking and singular feature in 'tie (jood Friday ritual. The Latin ! n di contents herself with abstain-I iey from the celebration of mass. 011 ' : i Friday, the day on which Christ as offered as a bleeding victim for in- sins. This mass of the persanctified "ii Good Friday is mentioned by Pope 'nnoceni I in his letter to Decentius. 'J'he blessed sacrament ks borne in pro- "ssion from the chapel where it was placed the day before, while the choir Ping the hymn "Vevilla Regis." The priost places the host on the altar, the andles of which are now lighted. Thj blessed sacrament . is elevated and odered while the wooden clapper is 1 sounded; it is divided into three .parts, one of which i.s put into a chalice containing con-taining wine and water. Finally the priest receives the portions of the host hich remain on the paten, and thui ' " takes the wine with. the third portion of the hast. According to a Roihuh Ordo written about the year S00 "and quoted by Thomassin, the ceremony ended with the silent communion of the faithful; but the present discipline of the church forbids communion to be Riven on Good Friday except in .the" j casc of sickness. Western Watchman.' Hymn to the Virgin. "Ave Maria!" Maiden Mild! Listen to a maiden's ;rajer: " ' ' Thou canst hear though from the wild, 1 hou canst savevamid despair. Though banisird, outcast, and reviled: re-viled: Immaculate Conception .1 ., .l Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer,'- Mother, hear a suppliant child! ' " "Ave Maria!' "Ave Maria!" undefibd! The flinty couch we now must share Shall seem with down of eider piled, If thy protection hover thorp. '-The '-The murky cavern's heavv air Shall breath of balm "if thou hast smiled! Then - maiden hear a maiden's prayer, Mother list a suppliant child! "Ave Maria!" "Ave Maria!" Stainless styled! Foul lemons of the earth and air.. From this their wonted haunt exiled, Shall lloe before thy presence fair We bow us Jo our lot of care. Beneath thy guidance reconciled! Hear for a maid a maiden's prayer; And for a father hear a child! "Ave Maria !" Sil Walter Scott. THE CALVARY OF MARY.' In order to ft el pity, to be able," to coiivsole oj-hers, it is necessary to have suffered; and in order to be capable of understanding the measure of human suffering, one must have tasted -it in many forms one must have drained the bitter cu;i of sorrow to the dregs. Above all other creatures, the Blessed Virgin drained that cup to bitterness. Predestined to the most high fo be-como be-como the consoler of the afflicted, it had also been ordained that, from the moment of the birth of our Lord in the stable of Bethlehem to his last breath upon the cross, she should share in his every sorrow and disappointment and humiliation: should follow him to Calvary, should stand beside him there, suffering, dying: participating in his every anguish, his every pain. She was destined to be the queen of saints; but she was to attain that height of glory only after by her own sorrows, and her share in those of mankind, merited the title of queen of martyrs. As the rose attains its perfect beauty in the midst of thorns, so the Mother of Christ, born without sin, was advanced ad-vanced to the highest perfection through tribulation. And as the thorns which surround the quen of flowers become sharper and more bristling with age, so did the thorns of suffering penetrate pen-etrate more deeply the virginal heart of the mother, whose whole life, from the infancy of her divine son, was but a sorrowful preparation for the Calvary which was also to be her own. . From bodily pain we believe her to. have been exempted, but there is no; comparison between the suffering of the body and that of the soul. It was the contemplation of this truth that caused Arnauld de Chartres to declare-that declare-that at the moment when the lamb of God was offered on the cross, there w:ere in reality , two altars, two sacrifices sacri-fices the one of the body of Jesus, the other of the soul of Mary. While. Jesus immolated his. flesh and blood by death. Mary immolated her heart and, soul through grief and compassion. The j martyrs suffered by sacrificing their own livevS. but Mary suffered infinitely-more infinitely-more in sacrificing; that of her son, I which was far dearer to her than her I own. , Not only did she suffer in her .soul all that Jesus endured -in his body, but the sight of his torments was far more t;rrible to her than if they had been inflicted upon herself. The. blows, the spittle, the taunts, the jeers, the thorns, the nails, the cross every torment j which Jesus suffered was repeatfd in Mary's heart, penetrating to the depths i of her immaculate soul, the dazzling purity of its whiteness reddened to crimson by the bloody- torrents of Calvary. Cal-vary. And yet do we hear of a single complaint, com-plaint, a single remonstrance, as having hav-ing fallen from her lips? As she stood there at the foot of" the cross, through the dreadful three hours' agony, the earthquake, the thunder and lightning, the darkened skies, with the sight of his quivering flesh, torn and bleeding, before hter eyes," the ' sound of his labored la-bored breathing in' her cars, she uttered lio complaint, no " 'protestation. She could not reach him to wipe the beads of anguish from that pallid brow; she could not strengthen him with the clasp of his hands in her own. No: His palms were each pierced through and through by a -single nail to the arms of the cross. She could not kiss his sacred feet; for they were fastened one above the other with a still more cruel nail to the rugged beam. She could only wait and .pray until the end: and she neither wept aloud nor uttered a single cry of sorrow.,, Oh, what a lesson of -dignity, of sublime suffering, of patience, of resignation, resig-nation, of silent supplication! She did not fly to the cross: shall we fly it. for whom it means redemption and salvation! salva-tion! Happy the Christian who, far from wishing to shut' out the bitter sight of the crucifixion, turning toward tho sorrowful mother, places himself by her side, eager to share in the Calvary of Mary! Ave Maria. SUCH FOOLISH THINGS. By Teresa B. O'Hare. They were such simple things; A breath of slander from an envious tongue. And then proud-hearted . silence . through the years. And wakeful nights, and dull gray, piteous daj And eyes unseeing through the mists cf tears. . ' They were t.w-h trilling things; And yet they made a youthful heart grow old, And robbed a poet's soul of treasures ra re And never came again "the old glad days For love had gone, and doubt war" lingering there. They were such foolish things; And yet oh. God. the million lonely hearts! - - - The pain of youth, the plain of ripened years The blighted lives, the lonely, lonely, roads The frost and snow and rain of-lonely tears! HOW OFTEN? Because our Holy Mother the Church bids her children receive Holy Communion Com-munion once a year under pain of being be-ing considered rebellious children of her Catholic household, are we to think that she does not wish us to approach frequently the banquet of the Lord? Indeed that is not so. What phe. commands com-mands us is, to receive "at least" once a year: and this about the Easter season. sea-son. She is like an earthly parent w ho might require his children to visit him "at least" once a year if they would prove themselves" to be his obedient and mindful sons and daughters, but who w ould gladly welcome them lmich more frequently if they came out of their , own loving heart's desire. The Blessed Eucharist is too great a gift to us for any soul to grasn its magnificence artd its wonders fully. Gradually its divine charm grows upon us; gradually the Church unfolds to us its infinite capacity to rejoice and comfort com-fort and help us. Mass and Holy Communion Com-munion have been from the very first the privileges of the faithful ever since the Catholic church was formed; but at one time, in very early ages, people could carry the Bles-sed Eucharist to their homes and keep it there. Now. while convents and churches have the privilege of this constant Presence of our Encharistic King, the ordinary faithful have the practice of "visiting" the churches, and day after day are found kneeling before the tabernacle, conversing with our hidden Lord. So. too, with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the devotion of the forty hours. nocturnal adoration societies, and the like, these great blessings flow-to flow-to lis from a longer and longer experience., experi-ence., as the centuries roll by, of what Jesus really is- to us in His sacrament of love. Take tho forty hours' devotion, for example. What a privilege it is for us! What a vivid example it gives of the Church's power to charm us by the very beauty of Holiness itself! Even a Protestant, Prot-estant, entering our churches in those fingularly silent hours, would be touched to the quick, not by the lights, the flowers, the loveliness only, but by that strange, sweetest stillness, those kneeling quiet throngs of worshipers, that Presence lifted high over all. yet absolutely pervading all, the God of our hearts in His white sacrament! And we we know that then he says to us "Come!" that it is all a type of His constant yearning desire for us and for our love that, not once a year only, J and not because' he commands us, on pain of sin. but often and because we love Him, He wishes us. Ho begs us to feed at His table; and answer by our love to His. If one really wants to know what "frequent communion" is "how often" let him pimply ask himself him-self "how often" he is satisfied to meet his dearest Friend, and then remember remem-ber that there is a Friend dearer than all others. Who once laid down His very life for us, and now; waits to see "how often" we care to come to Him. Sacred Heart Review. AT EASTERTIDE. (By Charles Hanson Towne in Catholic World.) O Thou, who hast arisen now, with bloom and blade and leaf. Thou who hast conquered Sin itself, shattered the gates of Grief, Show me the way this Easter day to scourge mine unbelief! Thou who hast risen, calm and glad, from Death's tumultuous night. Thou who hast triumphed over pain and made us see the light. Let me this morn, unbruised. untorn, rise sinless, Lord, and white! Give me the faith of little flowers that rise amid the Spring, Breathing the. larger life and hope, si- 1 lent unquestioning; Unloose my bars that toward Thy stars my heart, Lord, may take wing! Thou w ho hast made the road to Death a way to peace and life. The midnight an illumined joy with stars and beauty rife. Take thou my hand; I understand 110 more of fear and strife! The Golden Legend. This is indeed the blessed Mary's land! Virgin and Mother of our dear Redeemer; Re-deemer; All hearts are touched and softened at her name; Alike the bandit, with the bloody hand, The priest, the prince, the scholar, and the peasant. The man of deeds, the visionary dreamer, ' " ' Pay homage to her as one ever present! pre-sent! - And even as children, who have much offended A - too-indulgent father, . in great shame, Penitent. . and yet not darin-g unattended unat-tended 1 To' go into his presence, at the gate Speak with their sister, and confiding wait, Till she goes in before and intercedes; So men. repenting of their evil deeds, And yet not venturing rashly to draw' near With their requests an angry Father's ear. Offer to her' their prayers and -their confession. And if our faith. had given us nothing more - '. .. Than this example of all womanhood. So mild, so merciful, so strong, so good. So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, pure. This we're enough " to prove jt higher and truer Than all the creeds the world had known before. Ijn-jfellow'. THE WILLING VICTIM. "My Father, if this cup oannoUpass away except I drink it. thv will be done." St. Matthew, xxvi, 42. Slowly the solemn hours of Lent have passed away, and we find ourselves once more with our dear Lord at the beginning of His Passion. With Him once again we shall journey to Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, .where we shall see Him delivered deliv-ered by a traitor's hand to the fury of His enemies; we shall see Him in that upper room, ever thoughtful of us, lov-ingly'prepare lov-ingly'prepare for us that most' precious logacy..His Body and Bloqd;tq be. ever w ith us, the 'com fort of our hearts', '.our "flower of tlx. field.'' our '"lily among thorns." w hn is all. fair, in whom is not a spot our Jesus, our' love. We 'sh;()l witness His' agony an. the garden, bearing bear-ing the weight of our sins alone.'. We shall follow Ttiin before Pilate", and f?ee Him condemned to shameful-death Onus, On-us, and finally shall tread with' Him the blood-stained way of the cross, and with Him ascend "the green hill without with-out the city wall." and there mingling-our mingling-our tears with those of His Blessed Mother our mother now. His lant dying dy-ing gift to us we shall see him nailed to the accursed tree, and listen to His last ry of agony, as His loving heart breaks beneath the crushing burden of 1 our sins, and redemption's work is I done. Heaven's gafes are unlocked and we may enter in. ' Jt is through no fault of His that. He suffers thus. No; it is for love of us that he pays the price of sin. What wonder that He stands in dark Geth-semani. Geth-semani. and sees the sins of tho whole world our sins, the sins of our fathers, of our posterity, sweep down upon Him like a groat avalanche the very face of God Himself obscured by the bl ick-ncs ick-ncs of that awful cloud of guilt lie shrinks back, for the moment appalled, and cries out from the depths '- his tortured soul, "My Father, let this cup pass awa,y from me:" but only for a moment, and then, filled with divine compassion for poor lost humanity. Ho adds, "Thy will be done." thus setting us the example of complete submission to the will of God. What is before us ere-another Lenten Lent-en season rolls around we know not. and well for us that it is so. Who among us, were it in his power, would dare stretch forth his hand and draw-aside draw-aside the curtain with which God in His infinite wisdom and mercy has hidden hid-den the future from our gaze. Woe to him who seeks to know what the next year, the next month, or eVe'n the next day has in store for him, until God in His own good time raises the veil. No: rather let us leurn from our divine Master's Mas-ter's example, and bitter though our eup shall be. accept and drink it to the very dregs in loving submission to His holy will. . It may be that poverty, sickness, death, the loss of all we hold most dear, will be our lot; then let ua pray as did our suffering Jesus: "My Father., if. it be Thy will, Jet this, cup pass from me; but Thy will be done." And as we go with our Savior dur- ing the coming week over the rough road of His Passion, let us seek to realize as never before the greatness of His sufferings, the extent of His sacrifice. sacri-fice. . Let us feel that a lifetime of torture tor-ture suffered by us cannot equal one instant of His agony, and though we may not endure His sufferings in. His love and mercy he does not require this of us we may follow His blessed example and blend our wills with that of His Father, and that too with cheerful cheer-ful countenances and happy hearts, remembering re-membering that though the way be hard on earth, there is an eternity of rest beyond an eternity spent with Him. "Thy will be done" Christ's own prayer, wrung from his breaking heart. It was taught to us in childhood; is said by us throughout our lives. "Oh! j let us learn during this Holy Week to say it, to feel it, to live it w ith our whole hearts.. Let it be the closest tie that binds us to our God The Catholic Catho-lic Tribune. j A Hymn. At morn, at noon, at twlight dim, Maria, thou hast heard my hymn; In joy and woe, in good and ill. Mother of God, be with me still. When the hours flew brightly by. And not a cloud obscured the sky. My soul, lest it should truant be. Thy grace did guide to thine and thee. Now, when storms of fate o'ercast Darkly my present and my past. Let my future radiant shine With sweet hopes of thee and thine. Edgar Allen Poe. A SALUTARY INFLUENCE. "I have perhaps more than most men had more opportunities of noting the effect of the Catholic newspaper on the life around us especially in country places. In many cases men have told me that the Catholic paper kept their faith alive, and that their children have remained Catholics Cath-olics mainly through the influence which these papers worked on' their lives. Away from the vivid Catholic life of an American city with none of those intellectual or social incentives which mak,e the practice of religion easy in gieat centres of civilization these men and their families were dependent de-pendent on the weekly paper for the vitalization of their faith. It made the atmosphere of the home, and very often the same paper made the atmosphere atmos-phere of many homes. "My six boys," a man whom I -met in Minnesota in September said to me, are all Catholics: they have married Catholics; and living as we did on a distant farm, far from a. church we were kept faithful by the Catholic paper each of my boys get, from me each Christmas a paid-up subscription , to a Catholic paper. My subscription 1 to the old Freeman paid me better 1 than anything else, into which I" put my money." , "It is impossible to realize the in- 1 fluence of the Catholic press on faith and morals unless you get away from j the cities. There sermons, lectures, ( books, libraries are available; organ- , izations of all sorts abound; but im- agine the remote village, the far-off 1 farm house, the long winter evenings ' which may be spent in reading per- haps but in reading which has no re- 1 lation to those essential truths and rules of conduct which make the glory ' and the grandeur of the faith. J The priest everywhere finds his , path made easier" by the press. He' does not have to cultivate reverence; it i exists already where a Catholic paper is taken. The paper furnishes food ' for thought, for conversation. It is a history of the past, a record of the present and an insiduous permeative -is a better word power which makes day by day for the growth of honest, : fearless well formed Christian man- '' hood." Maurice Francis Eagan. " ' ( RELIGIQUS INTELLIGENSE. An authentic Madonna of the great fifteenth century ' Venetian painter ' Giovanin Bellini, painted on wood has ' just been discovered in the house of a family at Trieste, in Austria. Another English family is destined to unite itself with the Catholic church, j A few weeks ago there was baptized at 1st. Mary's. Cadogan square, London, by Father Vaughan. the infant daughter , of Lord and Lady Bagot. Lord Bagot belongs to a well known Protestant family, but he married Miss Lillian May of Maryland, U. S.. a Catholic. The dispensation to permit the marriage mar-riage was granted on the usual condition, condi-tion, that the children of the union should be brought up in the Catholic faith, and the baptism of the infant in St. Mary's. church 'paw- the first fulfillment fulfill-ment of the condition. . ' A foreign exchange says that great preparations are being made, in Fulda, Germany, for the celebration of the eleven hundred and fiftieth jubilee of St. Boniface, the apostle of .that empire. em-pire. It will be a notable, as well as international, in-ternational, ecclesiastical event. The hierarchy of Germany and Austria will take part in it. The archbishop of Westminster, the Nuncios at Munich and Vienna generals of religious orders, and the Catholic nobles of north and south Germany will also participate in it. ,The jubilee festivities will open on the 4th of June with solemn pontifical pon-tifical mass to be celebrated by Cardinal Cardi-nal Kopp of Breslau. It will be attended attend-ed by solemn processions to the tomb of St. Boniface, public meetings, banquets, ban-quets, pontifical masses, sermons, etc. It is reported that Pope Pius X has prepared a pamphlet which w'ill be published pub-lished by the Vatican press. It records the acts of his iontificate and an-1 an-1 nounoes contemplated reforms, especi- ally regarding the clergy and the ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical fees, which have diminished. |