| OCR Text |
Show j ' Qurd) , TL, : I universal )l April Violets. The blue -wild violets in the grass, They smile tr at me as I pass; The tender hue of April skies, They mind me of my babv's eyes, My bonny little Jaupbing'lass Amid the violets in the grass! ! The bonniest babe was ever born! . Her tresses like the tasseled corn. Her mouth the sweetest half-blown irose, Her laugh the merriest breeze that blows! Her eyes, what could their blue surpass? sur-pass? Not ev'n the violets in the grass. Ah, me! how plain I see her stand. Her feet sunk in them, and her hand . Eager to pluck them all for me, Her face a-glow with baby glee, Her fingers hidden in the mass Of blue wild violets in the grass! Again I see her, laid at rest. The violets nestling In her breast. The waxen fingers, w hite and cold, Etill clasp them in their patient hold, But know not now, alas, alas! The touch of violets from the grass! Soft cradled on a sunny slope j Watched by twin angels, Faith and I Hope, 1 My pretty baby sleeping lies; i And as it were her own sweet eyes i Pmile up to greet me as I pass j The blue wild violets in the grass, j Katherine Festetls. 1 The Sacred Heart League. The general .Intention of the Sacred i Heart league for the month of May is I . very appropriate one love for the j Blessed Mother of Christ. Devotion to I the Blessed Virgin is very dear to the s hearts of all leae-iif members, who I know that they can do no greater ! honor to the Sacred Heart than by lov- I lng the Mother whose place in heaven. I Is very near to the great white throne. J , As He loved and honored His own I Mother, so we, her children here on I earth, must pay to her, especially in J the month of May, the homage of rev- erent hearts and deep affection. All who can do so should attend Mass j daily during this month and never fail I in the daily recitation of the rosary. Thus by your example you will help to spread this love for the Blessed Virgin, Vir-gin, which is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Catholic Columbian, The Easter Duty. In the performance of our full duty as Catholics it is not enough that we keep only the commandments of God, our Father. That is not the entire obligation; there still remains something some-thing else, which is the observance of the precepts of the church, our mother. These, are the laws instituted by God's representatives for our spiritual and eternal welfare. To them we owe com-j com-j plete obedience, for God has said, "If he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican." pub-lican." The laws in question are six in number num-ber and are called precepts of the church. They are binding on all the faithful. By the fourth of these we are ! commanded to receive the -Blessed Eu- 1 charist at least once a year, and the 1 time fixed for it is Easter or-there- j abouts. Hence it has come to be com- I monly designated as the Easter duty, f Two things, therefore, naturally I suggest themselves here to all of us. The first, what is the reason of the i injunction, and the second, within what time must the duty be performed? Every Catholic has learned the answer to each in childhood, but perhaps thu Imany cares of life have made them dim." It may not be amiss, therefore, , to repeat them. We are commanded I to communicate by the church at this time because it was during this time, I namely, on Maundy Thursday, that I the Holy Eucharist was instituted, as I mark of our Savior's love for man- I kind: in memory of His death, and our I redemption. Then as to the time fixed for the per- f formance of the -duty. In this country j it begins with the first Sunday of Lent and extends to Trinity Sunday. During this period every Catholic of proper age is bound to receive Holy Communion under the pain of mortal in. No one is exempted. Sickness even that precludes ' the getting to f-hurch will not suffice as an excuse. The obligation still remains and the pastor-of the church should be notified that he mav bring Communion to those so incapacitated. This is the whole doctrine, and those who desire to con-I con-I tinue living active members of the I church must comply with iL Iln the Footsteps of Father Damien. The heroic work of the French priests of the Missions Etrangeres among the lepers of Japan is described in a little pamphlet printed in Tokio, and entitled, "A Visit to the Boternba Leper Asy- lum." The institution is situated in a beautiful country some thirty leagues from Tokio. Here, in a group of buildings build-ings of very rude construction, Beventy-five Beventy-five unfortunates find shelter. They are provided with such occupations as their i condition admits, and even the blind are employed in making straw sandals. Those in less advanced stages of the disease act as nurses to the more helpless, help-less, so that all the" attendance on the !ick is supplied from within. It seems Ftrange to talk of amusements in such a place, yet the lepers enter into them as heartily as though they were free from their terrible affliction. Not only nrp chess and similar games played with interest, but lotteries are organized, organ-ized, and even theatricals arranged and acted by the patients. The church 1 is the center of the little settlement. J and few of its inmates fail to become Christians. The most efficacious form J of treatment is found to consist in in- ! jections of Chaulmoogra oil, which I gives great relief, checking the prog- 1 ress and alleviating the symptoms of I the disease, if it does not cure it per- 1 manently. Some of the remedies are I verv costly, and the expense of pro- I curing them is one of the grounds on which the administration appeals for charity. All this organization depends nn the self-immolation of the director-priest, director-priest, and three have followed in the I rot steps of Father Damien Father Testevuide, whose death occurred in IS92; Father Vigroux. invalided later, nrid'the present director. Father Ber-lrand, Ber-lrand, xvho has filled the post for nine years. He is. in addition to his other i ocations, the head infirmarian, and when leprosy reaches its last and most dreadful stage, "when one of these wrecks of humanity has become un-npproach un-npproach i hv everyone," he reserves for him,' -. 'ole care of attendance on him. " i-if'i the animating spirit of all the v, rk. and performs his tasks with p. coir"e and gaiety which in- ! spires the -nme feelings in others. There are said to be about 50,000 lepers In Japan. IN" HEMORIAM. I - . Eer Father Morrin. I Hall of San Juan Commandery, j Knights of St. John, Durango, Colo., . April 18, 1903: I At this regular meeting of the com- f mandery the following resolutions were adopted : , I 'With a keen sense of -personal loss I i h, commandery has learned of the . , a.th of the Rev. William Morrin pas- 1 tor of St. Francis de Sals church, of Denver, Oio., at St. Joseph's hospital, Denver, on the night of April 16, 1903.. He was well known to every member of this commandery, having been the pastor of Saint Columbia church of Durango. Du-rango. Colo., from July 1, .1894, to Jan. 15, 189S, and each one of us had for him the greatest love and reverence. His kindly heart went out in sympathy sympa-thy and charity for all, and he commanded, com-manded, as well as deserved, the respect re-spect and admiration of ail, irrespective of creed or nationality, while a citizen of Durango. His sweet, courteous, gentle manner attracted all who enjoyed the pleasure of meeting him, while in the matters of principle, right and Justice he stood firm and unyielding. He was a zealous and holy priest of God. He was a model of modesty and humility. hu-mility. His death at the early age of 56 years is a loss to religion, the state, and to Christians of every denomination, and we confidently believe that he has won an eternal crown. Father Morrin was a true priest of the Holy Roman Catholic church, and died for one of his flock, as his last illness resulted -from getting up on a cold night while sick in bed, in order to give the last rites of the church to a dying man. The call being urgent, he ran all the way to the house, and the exposure developed pneumonia in both lungs at once,, which could not be cured even by Dr. P. V, Carlin, his lifelong friend. We tender to his father at Waterloo," N. T., the birthplace of the departed, and to his sister. Miss K. A. Morrin, who resided with Father Morrin at Durango, and to all his afflicted relatives rela-tives our sincere sympathy and condolence. condo-lence. We weep with the congregation congrega-tion of St. Francis de Sales of Denver. We request that our present pastor. the Kev. jonn uuney, cause a copy or these resolutions to be transcribed upon the parish records, and to read the same to the congregation at the Requiem High Mass on the morning of April 21, 1903; that a copy be forwarded for-warded to his relatives and to the Rt. Rev. Bishop Batz; and that a copy be sent to the Durango newspapers, the Denver Catholic and the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Catholic for publication. RICHARD M' CLOUD, P. C. SHANNON, FRANK ROPER, Committee on Resolutions. P. F. CUMMINS, President. Catholic Influence in Prison Heform. Mrs. Florence Garrettson Spooner, an Episcopalian, known and loved many years in Massachusetts for. her personal service among the inmates of penal institutions, in-stitutions, contributes to the columns of the Republic of Boston, -what Catholics Cath-olics must regard as a striking plea from a significant source. "I believe," writes Mrs. Garrettson, "the reform work in our public institutions institu-tions could be made substantially more effective if some measure could be devised de-vised by which the Roman CathoTTS clergy would have a larger and more pervasive influence in the lives of prisoners pris-oners of their own faith. It has impressed im-pressed on my mind the marvelous reform re-form that priests carry to their patients afflicted with sin . . (misfortune), and there should be provision made whereby their religious instruction might lead to some practical result. How is this possible with officers stationed everywhere every-where and clergy conspicuously absent?" ab-sent?" The Catholic Sick Room. In a series of interesting articles by the Rev. J. F. Splain, S. J., published in The Cross of Halifax, X. S., the writer says of newly-born infants: If a child at its birth seems to be already al-ready in danger of death, send -without delay for a priest. In the meantime, mean-time, be on the watch, and if yon think it actually dying, take some water, cold noun, a.uu, nunc puunng a iew spoonsful on its head, say the words: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, Fa-ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This is sufficient, but it is more correct cor-rect to pour the water in the shape of a cross three times, at the words Father, Fa-ther, Son, Holy Ghost. As this is a very important matter, every Catholic, especially every Catholic Catho-lic woman, ought to learn from some qualified persons how to do it properly. In cases of miscarriage, even in the early stages of conception, baptism ought to be conferred by the nurse, if neither a priest nor a Catholic doctor is at hand. When it is doubtful whether wheth-er the subject is alive or not, make a reservation in your own mind to the effect that you have no intention of I baptizing anything but a living human j being. Here we make a serious protest against delaying baptism, no matter how healthy the child may be. Some people think nothing of putting it off for a week or a fortnight. It ought not to be put off a single day. Babies are flimsy things, and the first care of a mother or father should be to secure for it eternal life in heaven. If the godparents god-parents live at a distance, or cannot come at once, never mind get a proxy. A Disregarded Sin. Is there. any other sin so often committed, com-mitted, and so seldom acknowledged even in the confession, as envy? Does the average penitent, when examining his conscience, spend any adequate time in unveiling his heart and dispassionately dispas-sionately rendering an account of the manner in which h has been affected, is habitually affected, hv thf the success or the superiority of others? oth-ers? Does he recognize the fact that the feeling, of uneasiness, mortification and discontent which the good fortune or the increasing reputation of a neighbor neigh-bor has occasioned him, and the accompany accom-pany desire, or it may be effort, to discomfit dis-comfit and mortify the neighbor in question, constitute not only a sin but one of the deadly sins, and the basest as well as the most unprofitable of all the seven? From the Ave Maria. Hints tao Bridegrooms. Every bride is deluged with advice about how to enter the church, how to stand and kneel, and what to wear, but nobody ever thinks of offering a -word of helpful counsel to the bridegroom, who is left to flounder through the ceremony cer-emony as best he may. This Is not only cruel, it is unjust, for, while a girl begins to prepare for marriage in the cradle, it always takes a man by surprise. It is like death. He knows it is on the cards, but he cherishes an unformed hope that he may escape the universal doom. Nothing short of inspiration can devise de-vise a remedy for stage fright or getting get-ting a man gracefully throueh n ma nage ceremony, but there are a few simple rules that may be a help in time of trouble to the prospective bridegroom. Don't have a frozen grin on your face that looks as if it might melt and run down on your collar. Xeither sport a stern, Xapoleonic air as if you were determined to see the thing through or ale. A happy medium of chastened serenity se-renity and joy is always best. Try to throw some enthusiasm into your responses. Most men make them ., in a tone of voice that indicates their belief that they are signing their own death warrant. Don't become excited. Keep your eyes in front of you. Look neither, to the right nor the left; otherwise you are as liable to marry the bridesmaid or the best man as not. Engage a detective for best man, so that he will be able to locate the wedding wed-ding ring after you have gone through your pockets six times in a vain effort to find it. Tell him beforehand just where it will be, and with this clue he may be able to work up the case in time to save you from disgrace. Finally, let your sufferings teach you to live, a better life. Catholic Columbian. Colum-bian. Correct and Incorrect. It is the correct thing To stand while being incensed at solemn sol-emn high mass. To remember that the vestibule of the church is not a reception room for the interchange of friendly greetings and current gossip. To remember that for each day of the week there is a special devotion: Sunday The Holy Trinity. Monday The Souls in Purgatory. Tuesday The Guardian Angels. Wednesday St. Joseph. Thursday The Blessed Sacrament. Friday The Sacred Heart and the Passion. Saturday The Blessed Virgin. For ladies occupying end seats to move up when others enter the pew. For gentlemen occupying - the end seats to move up or rise and let ladies pass in before them. It is not the correct thing To march un the aisle to a front Dew I if one enters the church after mass has begun, especially during the sermon. For men and boys to loiter around the church entrance staring at passersby. To leave the church as if exhausted and glad to get out. To be late for mass. To stalk hurriedly and noisily up the aisle. To ignore the holy-water font at the entrance. To give a little bobbing courtesy instead in-stead of the proper genuflection before entering the pew. For persons occupying end seats to force others holding seats in the same pey to climb over them. To make a rush for the doors before the priest has even descended the altar al-tar to begin the concluding prayers. Leo. What Prince of Peace! Keeper of Peter's Key! Age and eternal youth are met in thee. Serene and strong, above the world's renown, Fleet days pursue thee only with a crown ! No parley hast thou with unmanly fears; Truth's ways are thine; and though along, the years False kings and kingdoms rise and reign and fall. Great Prince of Peace, thou wilt surmount sur-mount them all! Teresa Beatrice O'Hare, Farewell to Father Delahunty. Last Wednesday evening, at the Grand Opera house, a farewell mu-sicale mu-sicale was given in honor of the Rev. Father Delahunty, who has been here for the past sixteen years and is going to Rawlins. The following programme was rendered: ren-dered: Mrs. D. F. Morris sang "I'll be Busy All Next Week," Dr. F. S. Davis sang "Leonore," accompanied on the piano by Mr. O. P. Thayer; Mr. H. L. Woodruff, clarinet solo, "Angels' Serenade," Sere-nade," accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Chapin; Mrs. D. D. Waters, presentation pres-entation of purse to Father Delahunty; response by Father Delahunty. . The music and singing delighted all present, and each performer was the recipient of well .merited applause. The reply of Father Delahunty to Mrs. Waters presentation address was touching in its earnestness. Like the man, so are his words kind and appreciative appre-ciative and in keeping with the teachings teach-ings of the Great Master. The members of his church and business busi-ness men and citizens generally were represented. Their presence was commendable com-mendable evidence of the high esteem in which the Reverend Father is held by this entire community. The pleasures pleas-ures of the evening closed with the ladies la-dies serving an elegant lunch. At parting part-ing there came the warm grasp of true friendship and the wish expressed as the reflection of each heart, "God bless our Father." Rock Springs Miner. BELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. . Monsignor Sales Soto, bishop of Hua-raz, Hua-raz, died recently. He was one of the most distinguished of the Peruvian clergy. Miss Dorothy Smart, youngest daughter daugh-ter of Colonel Charles Smart. U. S. A., surgeon general in the Philippine islands, is-lands, was received recently as a novice nov-ice into the Convent of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood. Miss Smart's retirement from the world was a great surprise to society. Her devotion devo-tion has always been marked, but her beauty and accomplishments made her a leader of the younger army and navy set in Washington. $ . St. Edward's college at Austin, Tex., one of the leading educational institutions insti-tutions of the south, was destroyed by fire on Holy Thursday. The magnificent four-story building, which crowned a gentle eminence three miles south of i Austin, is now a mass of ruins. The chapel, with its sacred vessels and costly vestments, is almost a total loss. Gone up into smoke is a library of 3,000 volumes that represented years of labor and accumulation on the part of the college authorities. Valued at about $10,000, it is a total loss, not a book being saved. Father Illig, one of the professors, had a private library valued at $2,500, which was also completely destroyed. The total loss is not less than $170,000, with only $33,000 insurance. insur-ance. St. Edward's college was founded early in the '70s and was the property of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, whose parent house is at the University of Notre Dame, Ind. It will be rebuilt at once. Every evening for 262 years the bells of the mission of San Miguel, in Santa Fe, N. M., have pealed forth the an-gelus. an-gelus. The mission of San Miguel, established es-tablished by the Spanish Jesuits in 1640, is the oldest church in the United States. It was built of sun-dried hricks, or adobe, and has stood the test of time for nearly three centuries in the second oldest city of the United States. But old as it is, San Miguel is. young beside other buildings near it. Only a stone's throw away is what is said to be the oldest house in the new world, built in 1583, and a Spanish castle built in 15S1, 321 years ago. The house Is still used and it was in a room of the castle that General Lew Wallace wrote "Ben Hur." He was then in command of Fort Mercy. The castle that witnessed wit-nessed the rule of the Spanish con-quistadores con-quistadores is still habitable. Very Rev. Joseph Wissel, the widely known Redemptorist missionary, recently re-cently celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. The services took place at St. Peter's church, Philadelphia, and were attended attend-ed by Archbishop Ryan, Bishop Pren-dergast Pren-dergast and representative prieVs of the Redemptorist order from Maryland, Mary-land, New York and Pennsylvania. Father Wissel, whos'i missionary labors la-bors are known from one end of the land to the other, was born in Bavaria, seventy-three years ago. He was educated edu-cated in this country by the Jesuits and was ordained in the Redemptorist order in 1853 by the late Bishop Neumann. Neu-mann. His first sacerdotal duties were performed at St. Mary's church, Annapolis, An-napolis, Md., as assistant , priest, ' The parish had just been established.' and last Wednesday Father Wissel had the honor of attending the fiftieth anni versary of the laying of the corner stone of that church, in which he first preached the word of God. The Catholic. Missionary union has gathered. in six years for the work of the missions in the more necessitous parts of the country $47,041.24. Says the Indian Sentinel: "A generous gener-ous Catholic lady has taken upon herself her-self the entire support of one of our large schools, St. Xavier's, Crow agency, Montana, which means an annual an-nual outlay on her part of $5,400. How eloquently acts of this kind speak of true faith and holiness! There are many other, wealthy Catholics who could, if they only would,' assume the support of some particular school, and in this way the general burden would be greatly lightened, while they would have the satisfaction of watching from year to year the ever-increasing results re-sults springing from their splendid charity." -' 'if Eliza Boyle O'Reilly, the second daughter of the late John Boyle O'Reilly, will publish a book of poems this coming fall. -4 William Kennedy, a non-Catholic, who died not long since in' Troy, N. Y., left St. Mary's church $5,000; Society of St. Joseph, for Infarjt Home, $5,000; St. Vincent's orphan asylum, $2,500; Troy Catholic male orphan asylum, $2,500; Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, $2,000: St. Patrick's church, for parochial school, $2,000. -- More than 2,000 German Catholics from all over . Brooklyn participated Sunday night in jubilee exercises in honor of Pope Leo. held under the auspices of the German Catholic State Federation, in the parish hall of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity. Addresses Ad-dresses were made by Rev. Peter Dauffenbach, Vicar General McNam-ara, McNam-ara, Mgr. P. F. O'Hare and Rev. Francis Fran-cis O. Siegelach. "Very High Church." "The Rev. Paul James Francis." a clergyman of the Episcopal church, who describes himself as "minister general of the Order of the Atonement," Atone-ment," and has a small monastery on a mountain near Garrison. N. Y., is to be hauled before Rt. Rev. Leighton Coleman, bishop of Delaware, to whose diocese he belongs, to answer the charge of conducting a propaganda designed de-signed to lead Episcopalians to acknowledge ac-knowledge the supremacy of the pope of Rome. AN ODD VIEW. For some time the Episcopal church has been startled by a publication called The Lamp, which argued vehemently vehem-ently for the calling of a general council coun-cil of the Catholic churches, in which the Episcopal church should have part, and the outcome of which should be the submission ' of the latter body to Rome. High churchmen, or ritualists, as they are called, found that the course of this "monk" was hurting their cause by arousing prejudice against their movement, move-ment, which, they say, is diametrically opposed to the express designs of "Father "Fa-ther Francis," and they have asked Bishop Coleman, himself a high churchman, church-man, to bring ... the priest to trial for subverting the doctrines of the Episcopal Episco-pal church. This "Father Francis," as he prefers to be known, is a Rev. Mr. Watson, who was formerly in charge of a church at Kingston, N. Y. From there he went to Omaha to have charge of an associate mission in which a number num-ber of young clergymen were engaged under the direction of the bishop. BECOMES A MONK. He gave up that work because of disagreements with Rev. Irving Peake Johnson, also a high churchman, and chief worker in the mission, who accused ac-cused Mr. Watson of upsetting the work by too ardent admiration of the Catholic church. v Mr. Watson then applied for admission admis-sion to the Order: of the Holy Cross, a long established monastic community, in which Rev! Jl O. S. Huntington is prominent. He did not tarry long in their monastery at Westminster, Md., but set out to found an idea of his own. He took monastic vows and .established .estab-lished a small monastery near Garrison, Garri-son, with a convent near by under his sister as mother superior, and he remained re-mained technically a clergyman of the diocese of Delaware, to which he attached at-tached himself, after he left the west. A similar movement, under the title of the Order of Corporate Reunion, was started in England about twenty years ago and came to speedy grief at 'the hands of the high churchmen. Catholic Citizen. . All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God Sir Thomas Browne. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. Tillottson. ' $ Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. Colton. God pardons like the mother that kisses the offense into everlasting for-getfulness. the soul wherein is written, "I love thee." - Every man deems that he has precisely pre-cisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so simply because they are the very ones he most needs. Mrs. L. M. Childs. ' - Do not be astonished to find yourself overwhelmed with- evil inclinations. God permits them in order to make you humble. St. Francis de Sales. ?; Each man, each woman in the world, in his or her own place and way, must live with a purpose to be of use, bearing bear-ing sympathy and hope and help to those who are about them. Good men make good institutions; good institutions do not make tfotid men. They who lose character lose the power, not merely to govern themselves, but to be rightly governed. Bishop 1 Spalding. 'lne constant aspiration of the neart should be after God, to know more of his love, to be more fully conformed to his image; and through the assistance assist-ance of his grace, to live from day to day more entirely consecrated to his service. Though you have several saints as advocates, be particularly devout to St. Joseph. He is very powerful with God. St. Teresa. weighty utterance; that he referred to it for the purpose "of commendation rather than of criticism, . and also to bring it before the minds of any who had not carefully read it, and to develop de-velop a little more fully some of the main arguments. While not altogether agreeing with the cardinal in his condemnation of the public school system, which he thinks on the whole wields a moral influence in-fluence on the character of the children, Dr. Gladden said: "Still the cardinal is right in saying that" the education which lacks the religious element is defective. Every child ought to receive re-ceive a religious education; something very essential to character and citizenship citizen-ship is wanting if that is omitted. We must recognize, clearly, the seriousness of this defect in our public education, and the fatal consequences conse-quences which are sure to spring from it, and gird ourselves as we have never dreamed of doing to meet this lack through the greater efficiency of our churches and our Sunday schools. "Wise and faithful words, too, this eminent "religious leader speaks concerning con-cerning the serious danger threatening us, from the violation of the purity of the ballot. In certain sections of our country, in certain of our cities, unless common report is greatly at fault, it is practically impossible for the will of the people to find expression. Such conditions condi-tions lead inevitably to revolution. If we are to have free government, every symptom of crime against the ballot must be stamped out like the smallpox. "Cardinal Gibbons argues that the only radical remedy for the social evils he has pointed out, and thus the only sure foundation for society, is found in religion. "Religion," he says, "is the foundation of all morals; it is the cornerstone cor-nerstone of all civilization. If the social edifice rests not on this eternal eter-nal and immutable foundation it will soon crumble to pieces. "The only safeguard for Individual character, the only bulwark for public morality, this great teacher finds in the religious life, and most eloquently he commends it to the young men whom he addresses. I "May I commend to all. young men these earnest words. They are worthy of your most serious consideration. No man of you who wishes to win a success suc-cess that is real, to be a true and genu- I ine man, to fulfill his calling as a citi- j zen can afford to neglect religion, or to make it a subordinate interest in his life." Catholic Columbian. |
