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Show Cburcft iltilersal CHURCH CALENDAR. -A M. Sl- Coiumba. J, 127.701 for the ' r'T. c;. Patrick 1.020,302 for reli-'?i'S reli-'?i'S V. '-iabncl. 753.C27 for semi- ! !lOVK-oe. V "Tli. !-"t .Joscr-ii. -38.413 for vo- ..,. "''I'" y. The Holy Shroud. St. Cuth-' Cuth-' , " r,j for parishes. c Benedict. -f.$3,133 for c, llOl"1'" .... s. Ttiird in Lent. St. Catherine. ,-K. Ephe?. v, 1-9: G. Luke, xt, 14-29. I't'Ci'y 'fci' superiors. THE GENERAL INTENTION. jyconimcnriod by His Holiness, Pius X. TARISH MISSION'S. TiK-re is no need to tell the members rf League of the Sacred Heart, That a parish mission is. They know j. from their own experience. We fhai! u'P'- ourselves then to more earnest earn-est prayer this month, by dwelling rather upon the need and advantages j hc-se lioiy exercises. rt,e spiritual renewals are epochs of vfiehty moment to the faithful of ev-jryronfiivpatioii. ev-jryronfiivpatioii. For no matter how carefully suid diligently the flock may l,c tended and looked after, there will m-avs lw some sheen who. for one j.-ason or another, wander far afield b5d out from the true fold, at least in Tactile- At the time of a mission Our ptcspd Lord not unfrequently brings ,;'fS hack rejoicing and there is no ji-jlf joy at their return. Hen. too, there ever will be Prodi-f-lf anxious to return to the horns of jivi: father. They have strayed far f:i?.y and have found a famine in the j,,nd when they had hoped for plenty, fhese are eager to return. But they jsrk courage to face old acquaintances, hey nd strength to break with the1 part and with old habits. They yearn tn say. "I will arise and go to my father." fa-ther." This courage, this strength will often b" given them during the blessed cays of the mission. We must also ever bear in mind that the devil is cunning and labors untiringly. untir-ingly. He never sleeps or rests. Temptations, Temp-tations, too, are many and daily. Human Hu-man nature ever gravitates to what is apreeable to inclination, and sinful. sin-ful. In the wear and tear of life, and in its hourly rush and struggle, our liipher and lasting interests suffer. The dust of the world blinds us, the desire fur pleasure strengthens within us, the greei for gold enslaves, ambition distorts dis-torts ur vision, and little by little we luwer "iir standard, shift our principles, princi-ples, ;nd become like a ship drifting away from her moorings out to sea, without ruddor. The mission comes villi its special lights and helps, the cm falls from our eyes, -our will strengthens and our faith and practice revive. Again we lift aloft our standard stan-dard and bear it bravely on. French Hospitals Want Their Sisters Sis-ters to Return. h the excitement of the general up-Y'&va! up-Y'&va! caused by the crisis in France, ririi f the significance of the extent of Hie revolutionary measures going into operation have escaped the notice of th-' people. It has been found that the dissociation of the parish priest from the communal life lias created r-rtain lacunas which are hard to fill; the expulsion of historic teaching or-C'-rs lias had the effect of forcing parents par-ents to send their sons and daughters abroad. The most important void re-fultins re-fultins from the law.n the life of the French people, is now forcing its attention at-tention upon the authorities. It is found that the hospital and infirmary in-firmary regime fails to work as of old, Hie simple cause being that no sys-; sys-; m can be found to adequately re- jiaee that in which the nuns played ;iie nursing role. According to La Croix (Paris), the :i:y of Alneon. for example, is entire-y entire-y without proper nursing arrangements arrange-ments for the hospitals and infirmaries. Cecently the prefect of the department depart-ment in which Alencon is situated, 'rote to a local physician. Dr. Bau-J"Uin. Bau-J"Uin. pointing out the serious posi-ion posi-ion in which the city was placed from 'i- point of hygienic consideration, i 'id sugpesting that the doctor should ke such steps as would lead to the '"nniaioii of a municipal nursing :orps of -.omen. Xo-r. the prefect of a department resnuiiiis in the matter of official ;"s"ioH and consequence, to something 'f fa:re parsonage as the governor n:o of otir American states. He JUot. therefore, have been very J-?rJ to receive from the physician Al'T.enn a Mter in which the real mt of the lamentable Ftate of af-'jrs af-'jrs v.oip tate-rorieally enunciated. j Jr. Bitudouin had the courage of his evictions and did not mince mat-'s- He pointed out that the gov-nr.er.tal gov-nr.er.tal authorities of France had ' ;r;'t 'teniatically to expel a large rSV ' nurst's whose experience was r'r-'t .K,- v.hose devotion in their rK be-of.cenee was unexcelled. Ke r'rl !-.e rrild. to the hospital sis-:s. sis-:s. whoso -jiiain duty was that of -rpm-r th.. ?jck jn tilcr homer. lh" municipality (as. indeed, the i.r,lp government had done) had "lyeri to act upon the principle of 'Hc'r from under their "'t,:r"!t knowing what reserves "' I;:)'! to dj-aw upon fn order to re-e re-e ti-p (.XT)0e,3 sisters, they had 'fi th,. rnnvent of the Infant. .Teena :- dutjf.c; , -h05je members consisted p re:;ovinc poor women in their days ; wnfin, nr.t. With them went the -.unities of La Providence, mostly o.eh-sf.,j i-f-Hgious infirmarians. a. '!,an;v v' "nejer, asks M. Boudouin, "t'l .t!' ,-,0S'Pitas and infirmaries are i.at.-u in numbers and see voca-i'is'.o voca-i'is'.o ''' tnoir institutes dwindling the- physician: "Your adminis-,n adminis-,n is now apparently becoming h -oi!, at its own work. In Indo- at Toulouse, at Toulon and at - oourg;. panic-stricken at the cpi--i' sf ir.prosy, plague and small-ije.oro small-ije.oro which the official 'nurses' m 'f-K.oi iousjy stampeded, you find ''Ul.'i0rities- compelled to ap'peal to Hg.ous whom they had expelled -irUi'n ar(5 carr' on the work of s -or th.. stricken. In our neigh-V'oitt1' neigh-V'oitt1' u!ierf- -banks to God. there . lr'Prosy nor ))lague, this nd-r.vl-rat,lon has none the less had to . i.nxiety the gap left behind Ut.jlVft;,-'xrIIe'1 an3 proscribed oom-l1,.,vr"' oom-l1,.,vr"' ' you now come forward p ar'J as': fer means cf filling up -t . tp' A vrry simple expedient Is ;l I(o not widen the pap. but n'tirai'" ,1-'5n l'!"iectition: place no -I f.. ,'."".s the way of those who ,. J"" 10 sn-e God by caring for o-' v i, "'1, lhe Mrn!. and then the r. !; l themgelves. . . . The ;.!rr'' .,'r, '"vo to d--tb; the evil ;'- tviy VY:;";'-,;'J- r.nd yet vou invite ; p ou to build up anew. This a wdeavor to d0 wlttout aid from you, and apart from the admis-, admis-, istration. Alike from the Christian . standpoint, from tha of genuine liber-. liber-. ly, r.nd from that of economics, we nave every reason to distrust you, and to k,ep ourselves free from an undertaking under-taking which, under the cloak of sci-. sci-. ence and philanthropy, ill conceals the weapons of the secularizer and the persecutor. I must personallv decline to take any part whatsoever in the work you are projecting." I T!,e physician points out that in Al-jencon Al-jencon the Society of the Red Cros has I voluntarily undertaken the schooling of those who wish to learn the art of nursing, and that, consequently, the good will of the authorities would appear ap-pear to have come needlessly upon the scene, or to be at least already, In a measure, forestalled by those very people whom they are covertly persecuting. perse-cuting. In any case, he says, the attempt at-tempt was made several years ago to organize an institute of lay nursing but it failed, "and for the very simple reason that such institutions can only be conducted properly and prosper well if the spirit of devotion is at the root of its principles. Anti-clerical foundations founda-tions cannot build up a lay philanthropy philanthro-py which shall equal that devotion to mankind which is born of the impulse to serve God. New World. Assisting at Low Mass. According to the rubrics of the missal, mis-sal, all assisting at Low Mass should kneel during the whole service, except at the Gospel. Custom, however, has modified the law as follows: 3. When the celebrant enters the sanctuary all should rise. They remain re-main standing until the priest descends from the altar to begin Mass, when all should kneeel. 2. They remain kneeling until the Gospel. As the altar boy ascends to place the missal on the left side of the altar, all should rise and remain standing stand-ing during Gospel (and during the Credo, should it be said) until the celebrant cel-ebrant says "Dominus voblscumfl" 3. While the priest is making the announcements an-nouncements or preaching, the people should be seated. If the Gospel is read to the congregation, they should stand. 4. Should the Credo be said, the congregation con-gregation genuflects with the priest in the "et incarnatus est" at' the words, "et homo factus est." 5. After "Dominus vobiscum" all sit down and continue so till the Sanctus, when they should reverently kneel. Thus they should remain . during the priest's communion and also during the be any to receive. 6. When the priest receives the first absolution all may sit down. 7. They kneel again, however, as soon as he goes to the book. 8. After the blessing all rise and stand during the last Gospel, genuflecting genuflect-ing at "Verbum caro factum est." 9. When the priest descends from the altar they kneel and recite with him the prayers after Mass. 10. Xot until the priest has retired from the sanctuary should any person leave the church or his place therein. Cardinal Merry del Val. on behalf of the Holy Father, has addressed to the French priest. Father Lemius, a letter expressing cordial approval of a Catechism Cate-chism which he has arranged for the purpose of popularizing the Encyclical on Modernism. . The character of the Pontifical document and the errors it condemns may, it is pointed out, make it difficult to understand readily all the details of the important Encyclical. The cause of the evils exposed does not at once become evident to the minds of the less cultivated classes who do not take heed of doctrinal movements, good or bad. Nor is it quickly appreciated by those who are prompt to accept errors, er-rors, especially when they are presented slow to perceive the danger thus incurred. in-curred. The author of the catechism has done a useful work in simplifying the teaching of the Encyclical by casting cast-ing it into the form of a catechism and bringing it to the level of the humblest intelligence. The Holy Father is confident con-fident that the labors of Father Lem-ium Lem-ium will prove fruitful all the more so because whilst clearly explaining the i purport of the Pontiff's arguments he keeps closely to the letter of his statements. state-ments. It is the Holy Father's wish that the Catholic masse? should become be-come familiar with the nature of the measures he has taken to safeguard the Faith. Sentence Sermons. Character begins in the cradle. Where love is we forget labor. You can not keep the joy you will not share. The bonds of a good home are forged j in heaven. Tour sympathies determine the breadth of your life. The wise know enough to sacrifice a good deal of wit. The heart frozen with selfishness is sure to be fruitless. Faith in God may be manifested by good feeling for men. Many a church is praying for a shower that needs only a thaw. Halving another's sorrow is a sure way of doubling your own joy. The best cure for the blues is to try to be a blessing to some one. If you can not find the divine everywhere ev-erywhere you will find it nowhere. No man ever reaped any more happiness hap-piness than he was willing to sow. The hand does not reach very far nor very helpfully without the heart. Often it is the pull on our heart-string heart-string that gives us our biggest lift. The best way to lead any one to heaven is to help him to a good home here. The tear of pity is a good thing, but it doesn't go far in a thirstr world. T.ie angels' song can always be heard when love leads you into the ways of the lowly. Inviting men to your firelight may do them as much gocd as inviting them to your faith. The Church In Denmark. Attention t& t he progress of the church in Denmark is especially attracted at-tracted now that Dr. Maurice Francis Egan represents the United States at ! Copenhagen. During the past few i years there has been a steady advance and the Catholic population is now estimated at about 8,000. The church enj'fys the greatest liberty lib-erty and freedom, and the Catholic schools are generously helped by the state. The king's brother, Prince Wal-demar, Wal-demar, is married to a Catholic French princess of the House of Orleans. The United States legation nd joins their rftsidenee, and Minister Egan and his family on Christmas eve attended midnight mid-night mass there in the private chapel of Princess Waldemar. At the recent opening cf the University of Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. Dr. Egan was present, wearing the academic hood of his alma mater, Georgetown university. In Copenhagen St. Ansgar's pro-cathedral, in the Bredsade, Uie main i thoroughfare of the city, is a fine Renaissance Re-naissance edifice. The Jesuits in 1S03 built a beautiful Gothic church dedi cated to the Sacred Heart. They also have an excellent college at Chalotten-lund. Chalotten-lund. The Redemptorists, Marists, Lazarists, Premonstratensians, the Nursing Order of St. Camillus, and the Christian Brothers also have foundations. foun-dations. The Sisters of St. Joseph, the Franciscans, the Daughters of Wisdom, the Sisters of St. Hedwig are at work throughout the kingdom chiefly teaching the parish schools. These congregations have 40 houses with nearly 400 religions attendi-ig them. Three are altogether S4 stations sta-tions with churches and 60 priests. In the crypt of the old .cathedral at Odense, the chief town of the island of Funen, which is now used by the Lutherans, are a portion of the rehos of the English St. Alban. The Redemptorists Re-demptorists are building a new ;-huich here in his honor. The average number num-ber of converts a year is now about 200. Last year they included one of the generals in the army. Mexico Gave Us the First Bishop. Who was the first bishop in America? Amer-ica? Naturally, most people living in this country will think of Archbishop Arch-bishop Carroll. French-Canadians will remember the great prelates of their! own country, and Cubans probably j would look to the ancient see of Havana. Ha-vana. It appears, nevertheless, that Mexico, which gave the New World its first printed book, also produced the first American bishop. Last week in an aauress delivered onthe feast day of the archbishop of Puebla, Moiique Gomez Haro gave a brief history of the diocese, which is one of the o ost notable in Mexico. Three bishops, he said, were responsible for the foundation founda-tion of this very noble and loyal City of Angels the most illustrious Bishop of Julian Garces, first bishop of America, Amer-ica, the Most Illustrious Bishop Zu-marraga Zu-marraga and the Most Illustrious San to Domingo. To Bishop Garces. he asserted, as-serted, mostly belongs the title, also, of Savior of the indigenous race in Mexica, implanting among them Senor Ramon Ibarra Gonzalez, Enritrue Christian civilization, and causing them to erect churches to the living God ! on sites where Aztec kings were wont to sacrifice human victims in their holy wars, Enrique Haro is one of Mexico's distinguished lawyers and naturally is careful of his statements. What do we in North America know of Bishop Garces? Robert E. Lee's Mother Buried Alive. (From the Philadelphia Press.) This, the 101st anniversay of the birth of General Robert E. Lee, recalls the little known fact that he was born more than a year after his mother had been buried, furnishing to the world one of the most astonishing cases of revlvisccnce on record. General Lee's mother was by no means an entirely healthy woman, and the physician at Stratford, Va., the home of Henry Lee (Light Horse Harry), Har-ry), was kept in almost constant attendance. at-tendance. Mrs. Lee suffered from catalepsy, cata-lepsy, and during a prolonged trance she was pronounced dead. The body was prepared for interment, and the morning cf the third day after her supposed sup-posed death the remains were laid to rest in the family vault in the graveyard grave-yard of that pretty little Virginia village. vil-lage. While the sexton was cleaning up and arranging some fresh flowers to be placed on the casket he heard a faint voice as though of some one calling call-ing for assistance. Of course, the old man was somewhat some-what alarmed, but as he had seen many 5-ears of service in the "city of the dead," he did not leave the vault. He listened closely and the voice was distinctly heard again. Becoming satisfied that the voice came from within the casket he at once set to work and opened it, discovering dis-covering that Mrs. Lee was alive. He then summoned assistance and within a short time she was safe in bod at her own home. Mrs. Lee's recovery was slow, but she did regain good health and a little more than a year after she was buried alive her youngest son, Robert E., was born, and thus came into the world one of the bravest men and greatest generals. But there have been a number of cases of reviviscence, and General Lee was not the only celebrity who was actually born after the burial of his own mother. Sir Richard Edgecombe's mother, after af-ter a brief illness, was believed to have expired, and she. too, was laid away in the family vault. About a week after af-ter her supposed death, the sexton, from motives sufficiently obvious, and entirely too often exercised, entered the vault and tried to take a valuable ring from Lady Edgecumbe's- finger. During the sexton's efforts to secure the ring' by pressing and squeezing the finger, the body moved almost to one side. This sudden awakening of the dead caused the sexton to flee in terror, ter-ror, leaving his lantern in the vault. Lady Edgecumbe succeeded in extricating extri-cating herself from the casket, and .taking the lantern which the frightened fright-ened soxton had left in his flight, she pilked to her home. Under careful treatment she regained her health, and five years after this Sir Richard was orn. Henry F. Hupers. at one time a large planter and cattle owner of Beaumont, Tex., was born after the supposed death of his mother. Mrs. Hupers, like Mrs. Lee, suffered from catalepsy, catalep-sy, and while in a long trance her physician phy-sician pronounced her dead. She was placed in a coffin, but just before the funeral service she opened her eyes and asked in a faint voice for a drink of water. The grief-stricken family and sorrowing friends were greatly alarmed and frightened over this sudden sud-den coming to life, but the water was pressed to her lips and in a few moments mo-ments she had returned to entire consciousness, con-sciousness, and after a short illness regained re-gained her health. Her son Harry was born six months after this. Still another case nearer at home is that of John Adams of Del Rico, East Tennessee. Adams is a mining engineer, engi-neer, .and one morning he was found in bed apparently dead. A physician said .it was a case of heart failure. The remains were made ready for interment in-terment and relatives and friends in Philadelphia were notified. A check was received from Philadelphia in payment pay-ment of the undertaker's bill, but the undertaker declined to accept anything save the hard cash. This caused a further delay, and while waiting the coming of the money by express, the eyes of the "corpse," which lay on the cooling board, opened as from a refreshing re-freshing sleep, and there was a yawn-, and there was likewise a sudden disappearance dis-appearance of the undertaker and others oth-ers from the room. Mr. Adams recovered recov-ered and is still alive. Many other cases could be cited, and so frequent are premature burials becoming be-coming that It is now a serious question ques-tion as to what measures can be taken to guard against this terrible fate. Physicians and undertakers are agreed that there are but few infallible infalli-ble signs of death, and. possibly, none absolutely true save that of decompo- sition. However, it is positively and absolutely certain that no person will ever be buried alive i fthe embalmer does his work well, for if the corpse is not already dead it will be after the embalming fluid is used. There is little lit-tle consolation to know that the embalmer em-balmer is sure and certain death. It is not a difficult matter to tell the difference between a dead person and one seized with a catalepsy. There is a tremendous difference to the rigidity. rig-idity. The temperature will also show you, and you will be able to feel that the pulse is beating. Should these tests fail,' open a small blood vessel and you will know whether a person is living or dead. The greatest danger of premature burials lies "in countries where there are extremes in temperature tempera-ture and interment should not be made from four to six days, by which time decomposition w ill have set ift if death is really there. Worth $3 admission to hear Thclma and George Cronin of Ogden sing "Stingy," while George will tell you "I don't like your family." FATHER VAUGHAN Realistically Describes Horrors of the English Sweatshops. Father Bernard Vaughan. S. J.. the famous Tnglish preacher and mission-i mission-i ary. expressed himself very strongly j to a recent interviewer on the sweat shop evil as it exists in England. "Sweating is more easily understood than defined. A parliamentary com- iiiiLLff uesciioes mc system as: rust, unduly low rates of wages: second, excessive ex-cessive hours of work: third, unsanitary unsan-itary condition of the work places. Believe Be-lieve me. when I tell you that the vast majority of the community have no idea at all of the sweating practices that obtain in their midst. "The sweating question has not been exaggerated, because the iniquitous thing cannot be exaggerated. Let me illustrate what 1 moan by giving you a singleVinstanc: a typical one. I take it from Biimingham. which proudly holds up its head to the eni-pirc eni-pirc is the ideal of everything municf-pay. municf-pay. Few persons realize that in the metropolis of the Midlands there are only fifty button factories, and. if I mistake not, twelve other factories for hook 5 and eyes. These buttons and hooka and eyes, when made, are usually usu-ally mounted on cards, ready for the inspection of shop keepers' customers. Little do the purchasers imagine that -vonie 10.000 of the poorest of our poor brothers and sisters are engaged the livelong day in hovels called homes, sewing, among other things, these hooks and eyes upon show cards: still less do they realize that 288 hooks and 2SS eyes have to be linked together and stitched to a card for the magnificent remuneration of four farthings one penny! "Let me emphasize the case in hand a little more. In a squalid court I found a woman, with her four children, sitting on the floor of a fireless room working in silence. The ages of the children ranged from eight down to two and a half years old. All the little brood God bless tiiem! wore linking the hooks and eyes, with which the floor was littered, preparing them for mother's carding needle. 'From 6 a. m. to 10 p. m., or it may be to midnight, mid-night, with necessary interruptions only, the family sat working, including includ-ing even the husband, who was out of employment. What, you ask me. were the earnings of this industrious family? Five shillings ($1.25) a week! Out of this sum half had to go to the rack-renter: rack-renter: so that fir fire and light, for food and for clothes there remained ,the other half. "Oh. God! that rent should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap! "Multiply the single example I have given from Birmingham by some hundreds hun-dreds of thousands, and then you will begin to appreciate the meaning of that text of Scripture. 'Blessed is the man who understandeth concerning the needy and the poor.' Our dear and blessed Savior lived and moved in their midst. "To understand, to reverence, and to love the poor, you must go. like Him. into their midst not to patronize, patron-ize, but to sympathize and to help them. "If a nation's efficiency depends upon the efficiency of its industries, let me remind you that the efficiency of its industries depends no less upon the efficiency of its industrial workers. To defraud the laborer of a sustenance wage, to my thinking, is a crime of national suicide. It is a crime against the country, it is a crime against the majesty of God Himself, who by charging charg-ing man with a mission and deputing him to a work In this workaday world proclaims it to be the sacred duty of the state to secure for its industrial citizens such a wage that upon it they may be able to live human lives, fulfilling ful-filling their three-fold mission to home, to country, and to God their Father Almighty. If the wage-earning citizen has duties, he has rights no less the first among them being the right in a Christian state to live a human and Christian existence." |