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Show SOLEMN RITES AND ELOQUENT DISCOURSE The Investiture of Archbishop Olennon With Sacred Pallium Instructive Sermon by Archbishop Ireland Slgnificasce of Emblem Spiritual Demands De-mands Of Twentieth Century. To the Catholics of St. Louis and tlip host of visitors from all sections of the country, including many priests and prelates of the Church. Sunday, the 14th f May, will be an over-memorable occa- , aion. The conferring of the Sacred Pallium upon tb . ; Most Reverend. John J. Glennon. as Archbishop of St. Louis, was attended with all the wealth of ceremonial and religious pageantry with which the Catholic Church so impressively graces such solemn sol-emn occasions. ' Cardinal Gibbons presided at the ceremonies and' formally placed upon the Archbishop's shoulders shoul-ders the sacred insignia of his exalted office. : - The sermon, preached by Archbishop lrelatid, was a most scholarly, eloquent and instructive discourse. dis-course. Archbishop Ireland spoke in part as tol- .' .' lows : And he (Eliseus) took up the nmutle of Elia-, that fell from him. and the sons of the prophets said: "The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus." The symbolism visible in the Palestinian scene of long ago reappears in the ceremonial of this morniiiii- Thrvii if vm Elias. otistin'T his mantle- upon Eliseus. shedding upon hini rays of his own 1 glory and authority; now it is the Pontiff of Romp investing with his mantle the Bishop of St. Louis, communicating thereby a part of the supreme pastoral pas-toral office of which he himself is primarily the custodian and the dispenser. The Bishop of Rome is the Bishop of Bishops; he feeds the whole flock not the lambs only, but the sheep also. He confirms even his own brethren, his fellow-apostles, appointed with him by the Holy Ghost to rule the Church of God. The accepted image of this supreme magisterium in the pallium, or mantle, floating on solemn occasion from the shoulders of the Pontiff. The pallium is his by innate right, as is the authority which the pallium .! betokens. A Bishop-Metropolitan, or 'Archbishop, takes precedence over other Bishops in his Province and , exercises within limitations authority over them and over their dioceses. This does not happen from any divine right inherent in the episcopate. By divine right the episcopate is equal in all Btsh- , ' ops. save only the episcopate of Peter, which is the .center of untiy for the whole church and the headship of universal government. What special privileges or rights appertain to the office of a Metropolitan are appointments of the sovereign shepherd, concessions from the fullness of his own authority voluntarily made by him for the better administration, as understood by him. of the general gen-eral interests of the church. The pallium, borne from the hands of the sovereign shepherd to the shoulders of the Bishop-Metropolitan, figures those concessions. It is an adumbration of Rome's own pallium an adumbration of Rome's own power and mission; without it the prelate of St. Lou id is the Bishop: with it he is the Archbishop. Before the pallium was taken from the hands of the Pontiff of Rome it had reposed beneath the dome of the Basilica of Peter upon the tombs of SS. Peter and Paul. The pallium, is a grant of authority au-thority a grant from the Pontiff of Rome. But whence the right of the Pontiff of Rome to make the grant ? The tombs from which he lifts tho ! pallium are his argument. The tombs are those of Peter and of Paul; they ; speak forth the authority which was in Peter and ' ,, in Paul the authority of Christ, the incarnate God; they speak forth the apostolate of Christ to the nations, which in Rome, and in Rome alone, survives unto this day in unbroken succession; they speak forth the supreme guidance over the whole ' I flock, given by Christ to Peter, whose seat of power j when he passed from earth was the City of Rome, j whose successor in office and authority is the : ' I Bishop of Rome. The original grant was from Christ to Peter; f today it is from the successor of Peter to the Bishop of St. Louis. And here another question: To what purpose the grant, whether that of 2.000 , years ago or that of the present day ? The pallium : of itself gives reply. This the story of the blending t of the threads in its texture. Pure-white lambs were blessed in the Basilica and on the natal day ,. of the Virgin Agnes; taken afterwards into the ; care of the holy nuns, they were in due time shorn oi their wool: and from the wool the pallium was i woven. Simple, if you will, the symbolism; but. ' deep and beauteous the meaning. "Feed my lflnibs, ; feed my sheep" this, the purpose for which power is given in the kingdom of Christ that those re- . ceiving it guard the flock of Christ, guard in ; purest unselfishness, unspotted in themselves by evil, bent upon holding the flock equally unspotted. The giving of the pallium is of ancient date in s the history of the Church. Antiquity mingles with sacred symbolism to lend solemnity to the cere- : ; , I monial witnessed this morning in St. Louis'. So ' ! far back as the sixth century Pope Pelagius sent ; t the pallium to the Archbishop of Aries in Gaul, , ' ' l "that constituted as Vicar of our See, and in lieu of ourselves, you may hold the place of the Firt j Priest in those parts of Gaul." Gregory the Great i j granted the pallium to Syagrius of Autun, in Gaul. j to John, Bishop of Corinth, in Greece, to the Bish- . . ! op of Laureancus in Pannonia; he. too. invested f with the pallium St. Augustine of Canterbury in ! England. Over the very cradle of the Anglo-Saxon , Church hung the glory of the pallium, and with the pallium the glory of union with Feter and his , I successors.- These the worels sent with the pal- lium by Gregory to Augustine: "And in regard that the new church of the English is. through the j i goodness of the Lord and your labors, brought to j - " - (Continued on Paje 2.) ' j " ' - " ! t SOLEMN RITES AND ELOQUENT DISCOURSE Continued from Page 1. the grace of God, w e grant you. the use of the pallium, so that you ordain in several places twelve bishops 1 who shall be subject to your jurisdiction, so that the Bishop of London shall for the future be consecrated by his own synod, and receive the honors of the pallium from the holy and apostolic apos-tolic See, which I now serve. We give you no authority over the Bishops of Gaul; but all the Bishops of Britain we commit to your charge." Surely the fountain-head of the dual jurisdiction jurisdic-tion in the Church of Augustine was none other than thfe Pontiff of Rome. Under Saxon rule every successor of Augistine. despite distance and hardship hard-ship of travel, either sent to Rome for the pallium, or went thither to receive it. Among those going to Rome were Odo. Dunstan and Elphege. When the Norman seized the scepter of England there was no change in the Church of England. From the days of William to those of Mary seven and thirty Archbishops Arch-bishops of Canterbury, successors of St. Augustine, received the pallium of Rome in token of their union with and of their submission to the Pontiff of Rome. The great Saint Anselm walked with bare feet to meet the Legate Walter, Wal-ter, bringing to him the. pallium. Un-shodden, Un-shodden, too, Thomas a Becket went forth, to salute the bearer of his palliumso pal-liumso well did scholars and saints understand the meaning of the consecrated conse-crated wool; so deeply did they feel in their souls that Peter spoke through the pallium and that Christ spoke through Peter. Cranmer himself placed upon his shoulders in Westminister the pallium received from Rome and swore "to be faithful and obedient" to the Bishop of Rome a perjurer, it Is true, In his heart, but unable as yet to break away from the traditions of ages, and unwilling as yet .to defy the olden faith of the people of England. Again Cardinal Pole wore the pallium: he, the faithful servant of Rome; but Pole dying, dy-ing, dark days came to England and the pallium no longer shed its effulgence efful-gence over English-speaking peoples the people of martyred Ireland excepted except-ed until . it lirted Us symbolic glory lover Carroll In Baltimore and over Wiseman in Westminister. The pallium is the banner of the spiritual empire of Rome. As it enters the Cathedral of St. Louis. Catholics hall it in the fullness of .your faith. Rome rises before you In- its storied majesty, in its sky-born authority. Rome, thou art the .Eternal. City. Eternal thy pagan poets and Ifeeers fondly believed thee to be; Ihefr dream3 were not in vain, though vain' were the shadowy forms whiqh beguiled them Into such dreams. In their Rome they had seen the embodiment of highest high-est human might, of highest human grandeur. Should not therlr Rome, they believed, mock time and the ravages rav-ages of time? But nothing that is human hu-man lasts, and of olden Rome naught now remains save shattered columns and tenantless sepulchers. And yet not vain were the dreams that it was indestructible. in-destructible. Another, a greater Rome was to arise on Tiber's banks a Rome of which the Rome of pagan bards and seers was the precursor and prophet the Rome of Peter.- "Thou are Peter," It had been said in Galilee, "and on this rock I will build my-Church and the gates of hell wil not prevail against it." One day this Peter walked along the Appian Way into the Rome of the Caesars. He brought with him the new Rome, the Church built upon himself by the eternal Christ, endowed by its founder with its founder's eternity. The Rome of the Caesars passed away; the Rome of Petr remains, Nineteen centuries went' by-centurles of revolutions nd ehanges, centuries of kingdom? and empires now towering n strength and power to the very skies, now utrewing tha earth with their ruins and tblr dusts, of men and institutions coming today and going at the dawn of the morrow' each of those centuries heralding her-alding Its birth-morn with the message, "Behold, I make all things new" but, meanwhile, Rome stood, the Rome of Peter, challenging the very gates of hell; victorious ever, immortal ever. The indestructibility of Rome: We bow in awe before it. It reveals the divinity to which alone indestructibility indestructi-bility may be ascribed the divinity which spoke in Galilee to Peter, which in fulfillment of solemn promise was with the empire, built upon Peter, which with it will be "until the consummation con-summation of the world." "Thy mission, Rome, is to sway with imperial rule the peoples of earth." Such the bidding of the Mantuan poet; such, too, the meaning of the commission commis-sion of the Galilean Christ to Peter. Material arms, the sword and the mace Virgil would have put into thy hands. Only the arms of truth, justice and holiness does Christ allow; -none other are worthy of thy God, worthy of the spiritual empire whichIs thine by his appointment. Through truth. Justice and holiness thou dost sway the .nations. .na-tions. Great and wondrous Is the sway of Rome. Great and wondrous It was yesterday: great and woudrous it is today. to-day. Catholic, it is. this empire of Rome; it embraces all nations.. The mightiest of human empires are limited: a sea, a river, a mountain range bid them go no further. The sons and subjects of Rome are everywhere; every-where; across every ocean, through every continent, upon every island the standard of Rome is uplifted-; beneath it souls quiver in love and devotion to Rome, separate otherwise, but united as if all were one being, when Rome edicts the law. Deep-reaching and penetrating it as the spirit of the Almighty, Al-mighty, this empire of Rome. It is not outward obedience, not bodily submission submis-sion that Rome obtains, it Is the yielding yield-ing up of mind and heart. Rome tells what the faith is that was taught by Christ; its subjects believe. It proclaims pro-claims the law of righteousness; its subjects obey in word, in act,' in thought. Rome speaks, the voice of Christ is heard.. Purely spiritual, purely pure-ly moral is the might of the empire of Rome. Rome is the great moral power in the world, having authority solely in the name of truth and righteousness. AH that conquerors and lawgivers count upon is absent .from Rome; naught is there but weakness and helplessness: help-lessness: yet its speech reaches to the end of the earth, honored everywhere and revered as it wings itself on its I way, illumining the intellect, cheering the soul, strengthening the heart, elevating ele-vating the whole man to more blissful regions, making earth know that truth and righteousness are mightier than stoutest navies and most valiant armies. arm-ies. What is there then in Rome that its empire be so mighty? Peter is there Christ is there. Never in the story of Christendom was there such need as there is today of the mightiness of the moral power of the pontiff of Rome. This Is an age of revolutions and of upheavals in re ligion and in every form of thought, in civil society and in every form of public pub-lic polity and public order. Men and nations are departing from old moorings, moor-ings, venturing upon new seas, driven from billow to billow by uncertain winds, no guiding star o'erhead. no haven visible beyond the maddening waters. The need supreme is a voice, proven and authorized to ring out clear and sonorous above the roar of storm and wave and proclaim where safety lies, whither the ship must turn its prow. The voice the herald of salvation salva-tion is the voice of Peter, who. as the pontiff of Rome, speaks in defense of religion-and of- revelation; who, as ho proclaims the law of social justice and social rights; who, .as he guards the family hearthstone, shields the weak, warns the oppressor, and by building up a moral conscience, fits men separately sep-arately and collectively to live human lives on earth and aspire to the better life of the skies hereafter? The moral power of the pontiff of Rome is an unspeakable blessing to all mankind. Peoples are recognizing the fact, and the more the seas around them rage, the more readily will they turn toward the rock to which Christ made promise prom-ise of immortality. Thy mission, Rome, is to sway with the imperial rule the rule of truth and righteousness the nations of the earth. I-will name the pontiffs of today, Leo and Pius. The sun of Leo's day is but setting: the skies are still illumined illum-ined with the brilliancy of its rays, thp earth is still fragrant of the sweetness of its light. Leo's task was to startle an indifferent and forgetful world into a consciousness of the power of Rome. His grandeur of personality fitted him for the task. Eyes were at once riveted upon him; ears were at once alert to his words. He rose into highest altitudes accessible to human genius, and with him rose into sublime mountain tops the spiritual . power of Rome. All saw and heard, and all wondered. The humblest wage-earner and the most potent prince, the scientist and the philosopher, all felt that Leo knew them and understood them, and all bowed before the majesty of his thought and word. The Vatican shone with new and brightest effulgence; the moral power of Rome was as supreme as ever in the most glorious epoch of its story. When Leo died thcAvorld was silent in Its grief and in its reverence. rever-ence. His task was done, the world was conscious of the greatness and the power of Rome. And now another sun sheds splendor upon the horizon Pius is the master, the teacher. Other is the mission of Pius; it is the complement of that of Leo. Pius is the reformer, the strength-ener strength-ener of the inner life of the church. The highways of the world were opened to her' by Leo; her spirit must be verified, her arms of power burnished, bur-nished, that she may reach triumphantly triumph-antly over those highways in conquest of souls. It is not that Leo did not do the work of Pius; it is not that Pius will not do the work of Leo; but Leo was eminent In one form of work, as Pius is eminent in another. The work of Leo and the work of Pius together are destined by Providence to show-forth show-forth with especial effect in these modern mod-ern times the fullness of the divine life of the church, the fullness of the grandeur gran-deur and the power of Rome both men of the hour. Pontiffs of, their age. both destined, each in his manner, by Providence, Provi-dence, to rule the Church and feed the flock in these modern times both born to shed luster upon the throne of Peter and prove that today, as in the long past, Rome obeys its commission and reigns. itome, we nan tnee, .we reverence thee, we proffer thee most loyal obedience. obedi-ence. Pius, thou art. teacher and. shepherd. shep-herd. This our faith the words of Jerome Je-rome on this solemn day, as thy pallium pal-lium receives our .salute: "Following no chief but Christy we are joined in communion with your holiness; that Is, with the chair of Peter..' Upon that rock we know that the Church is built." His grace then reviewed the work accomplished in the paFt by the prelates of St. Louis in behalf of the church, according ac-cording that diocese a position of preeminence pre-eminence in the history of the Church in America. He then continued as follows: fol-lows: If ever there was a time for slumber and quiet It is not today. Never was greater opportunity given; never was challenge to valor more clear and more impelling, V Catholic Church.- Church of America I pray heaven for thee. I pray first that grace divine be given, without which efforts of men are vain. Unless the Lord be the watcher and the worker, work-er, in vain they spend themselves who watch" and toil. .. I pray for a holy, a learned, an earnest earn-est clergy. The clergy, bishops aaid j priesjs are the leaders, the guld.es of the arpay. They form and drill the soldiery; they inspire and direct movements: move-ments: they hold In their hands victory or defeat. They must be holy, such as to draw down upon themselves light and blessing from above; such as to teach by example while teaching by word. Pius X urgently demands holiness holi-ness in the clergy as the fruit a-.d the chief condition of their ministry. Th-y should be learned such as to commen-i the respect and the Attention of unbelievers un-believers as wen as of believers, such as to be abre to defend tho faith in these troubled times, and meet successfully success-fully the problems confronting them. ! Never before was learning so needed in the clergy as in our times. Courses of i study formerly adequate in the preparation prep-aration of the Ievites of the sanctuary are today totally insufficient. The methods of warfare are new; so must be the armor of the combatants. I am not sure that we are duly awakened to this most important fact. I view with some alarm the paucity of numbers in the theological halls of our university, and the seercjng reluc- tance of seminaries to lengthen the period of study as prescribed by our Plenary Council. The clergy should be earnest, wholly in their work, putting into it all the energies of mind and of heart, bent on conquering at all costs. Routine In method, tardiness in movement, move-ment, relaxation on the field of combat, com-bat, inevitably insure defeat. This is true along all lines of activity; it is especially es-pecially true in the ministry of souls, which encounters most dreadful opposition oppo-sition in the passions of men, in the indifference to the supernatural and the predominance of matter prevalent in the conditions of modern soeletv. I pray for greatness in the clergy. Let the rank and file border, if you will, upon the ordinary: but here and there the extraordinary must be seen, to draw upon the Church the eyes of the multitude, to serve as an ideal to the many and by personal magnetism hold up the many even to a becoming common level. This is true in the world of literature, in the world of law-making, in the world of arms; it Is no less true in the world of religion. A peril of the clergy is respactable mediocrity If this respectable rnedi-, ocrity become the prevalent type. The Church of America in the nineteenth century had its great men; . will she have her great men in the twentieth? The advancing throng of youth must give answer. I pray for an exemplary laity. Brethren of the laity, without you bishops and priests are titled commanders com-manders without an army. Hence the first duty of bishops and priests is to form you in the combat; and your first duty, when religion is at stake, is to gather around them, equal them In ardor even bid them by your skill and courage to move beyond their chosen outposts. When the layman believes that his w-ork Is done In the salvation of his own soul the Church halts and recedes. We need today an active and militant laity. We need a laity thoroughly thor-oughly instructed in the faith, able and j ready to defend it: we need a generous-hearted generous-hearted laity, eager to give to religion the service of their purses, and yet more, the service of their personal labors la-bors in works of piety and of charity: and we need a noble laity, irreproachable irreproach-able in maner of life, towering above others in honor and honesty, in all the virtues of th efamily circle and of the broad field of citizenship, so that when the question is put, where are the fruits of the Catholic faith? the Church may proudly answer, ;see my sons and daughters. In the battles of faith in the twentieth twen-tieth century, what will thy part be. Church of St. Louis? Speak in presence pres-ence of the pallium of Rome, which speaks to thee and summons thee to speak. Remember thy past: be satis-fled satis-fled Avith no ordinary, role: hegnony was thine; it must bo thine in the future. fu-ture. , Archbishop Glennon. as I love the Church of America. I love the ChurcTi of St Louiss vl? wish her to do her full part in the battles of the future; hence my joy in seeing thepa'Huni of, Rome descending upon yoiip shoulders.- It befits you. As years go by. may it befit you more and more! 1 You are rich in talent; you are rich in good will and energy; you are fashioned to conquer; j and youth Is yours. Youth burns with J the fire of enthusiasm, so important in him who is caled to do great things; it allows far-reaching vision and wide and thoughtful planning. I envy you your youth on the threshold of the . twentieth century, when such wond- -rou opportunities are unfolded, when the trumpet blast summons to such ' portentous battles. Forward to your God-given work. Clergy and laity . trHst you, and pledge to you unreserV- -ed and unwavering loyalty. ForwarjJ. in the might of your soul, in the might " of divine grace. Great things must you do for St. Louis and for America. You will huild a cathedral for St. Louis. . Already your hand is in the work. Yes, build it. The honor of St. Louis de- -mands a cathedral; the complement of J the crown of its many other religious glories., It demands a cathedral worthy of Its own past and of Its future towering high to the skies, as towers the historic eminence of St. Louis; rich and rare In its beauty and sanctuary and aisle, as is rich and rare the faith, the piety of the Church of St. Louis. Builjl your cathedral. Take up ' the memories of the old cathedral the Cathedral of Rosati and of Kenrlck; the cathedral of the pioneer Catholics of St. Louis, perfuming with them the I new cathedral. Build your cathedral, i but remember that when your career I Is over the cathedral must draw its highest and sweetest honor from this, that it is a monument to the glorious deeds done by you in the spiritual work of your episcopate deeds done for God and for souls, for Church and for country. |