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Show KtStl - "This is ; I wtich over- Universal s" CHUHC HCALENDAB. June 2ft St. Tetor and St Paul. Julv 1 St. Theobald, C. July : Visitation of the B. Mary. Julv 3-St. eo II. P. C. July 4-SC Bertha July 5 St. Peter of Luxemburg, B. C. COMMON THINGS. Give me. dear Lord, thy magic common i Avhifh'an can see, which all may share, Sunlight and dewdrops, grass and stars Nothing" ur.ioue, or new, and nothing : rare. Just aisieF, knap-weed,' wind among the thorns: ... ,. Some clouds to cross the deep old sK Rb i 11 a winter fires, a useful hand, a heart, ' The common glory o a woman's love. ; Then when my feet no longer tread old (KeV-p1 'them from fouling sweet things Write "one old" epitaph in grace-lit words : Suoh things look fairer that he sojourned so-journed here." - - Keckless and Senseless Marriages. One of the notable features at the union meeting of the national conference confer-ence of charities which was in session in Detroit last week, and was the address ad-dress of Rt. Uev. John Laneasteh Spalding, Bishop of . Peoria, Ills., at the Light Guard fvmory. He spoke, hofoie an immense- audience. His sentiments sen-timents were loudly and - intelligently p.pplauded and he received many congratulations con-gratulations after tTTe meeting for his strong temperate and eminently time-lv time-lv utterance. The fountain of social good or evil, of 4te or crime, or of honor of virtue, it; In the home, and the wife and the niothw can make or unmake the liome." "We have already learned that a ' man's chief value does not lie in his ability to conquer with sword and shell Bnd we Are coming to -understand that it lies jut as little in his ability to manipulate machinery or to get money." mon-ey." - The a1ove sentences contain the gist of the bishop's remarks, and are the principal ideas which those who heard him carried home with them. Referring to improvement and ac-tirtaly ac-tirtaly criminal marriages, the speaker paid: "Reckless and senseless marriages are an inexhaustible source of evil. Jlanv of our people enter into wedlock us thoughtlessly as they take a stroll or fall asleep, and. the result is quarrels, contentions, . divorces, and children reared in an atmosphere which blights tender lives. Hence crime among the .oung is increasing far more rapidly lhan the population grows. So long as Ihis poison fountain remains open, so , long will vice and pauperism continue ' to breed degradation and wretchedness. Homes which are hells thwart the wisest efforts to reform abuse. They I and undermine the social fabric. "Our chaotic and lax marriage laws encourage and facilitate imprudent marriages, but the origin of the evil ; i lies deeper. Institutions, it has been fald. are in the control of men; public "opinion in that of women. Women deride de-ride how we shall build and furnish our houses, what we shall eat and wear, what we shall find beautiful and entertaining, where we shall live, what we shall read, whom we shall consider friend or foe. what beliefs or prejudices preju-dices we shall hold, what religion we hall have. From them we learn our mother tongue, from them our notions o right and wrong, of propriety and justice. If they were more large-mind-ed, more intelligent, more unselfish, more serious, more loving, three-fourths three-fourths of the depravity and sin, which matos life a mrse would disannear. The fountain head of social good or evil, of vice and crime or of honor and virtue is in the home, and the wife and ; the mother make or unmake the home. "Whatever view we may take as to whether man or woman was the most tuilty primal offender; women bears the greater responsibility for the wrongs and miseries which afflict and oppress the modern world, since the forre of public opinion, which is in her : keeping, is mightier than Riches and armies and laws. More than any age tince the beginning of time we have given opportunity to woman, have plaed'her in the seat of influence and pofwr, and shall she prove . false, or frail, or ungrateful, traitorous to the vast confidence which all that is no-blest no-blest and most chivalrous jn man has ' led him to repose In her? ' Doubtless her increasing dominion has helped to arouse in our public life greater sympathy and. tenderness, a more complete, revulsion from cruelty, whether to man or beast. But more than -plt" we need justice, which is the. first and greatest charity." The Union and Times wonders what can be done for Catholic boys and young men to lift them up, morally, mentally and socially, to a higher plane. Our contemporary sees cause for alarm in the obvious superiority of Catholic girls and young women. "That more of our girls are highjy educated than of our boys," says Father Cronin, "is patent from the fact that we have 700 academies for the former to 100 colleges for the latter, and that the proportion is even worse than seven to one, for every year in the graduating classes there are three young women for every one young man. "That the young women are more ; devout is proved by the membership of the sodalities and the large number num-ber of monthly communicants." j ' No solution of the difficulty is sug- ; gested. It remains a question for j theorists and practical men of the j world. Is the church to be satisfied with the educated and unambitious men? Faith, vs. Dignity. The death of Mr. Sol Smith Russell J reminds us of a pretty story he was J fond of telling. One day, while he was i nearing home after a long walk with 1 a little relative of his, he imprudently told the little cfcild there would be sweets at home to refresh her on her f arrival. She at once began to impor tune the tired actor to run home a course which dignity and weariness forbade. At length the child dropped on her knees and, with hands joined and eyes raised to heaven, prayed?.. "O j God, make; Uncle Sol run home!" In telling the story, - Mr. Russell used to j say: "I saw- it was a case of my losing my dignity or that child's losing her faith in God; so I took her hand and together we ran home as fast as we could." Mr. Russell's character was altogether in harmony with this kindly, timple action. Ave Maria. Tb,e Sacred Heart. I Every drop of the precious blood of the Sacred Heart was shed for each individual in-dividual child of Adam. What riches do we not lose for want of not know- ing how to use them! Jesus Christ ; himself promised that all who asked i favors through his heart should re ceive them abundantly. O Jesus, thy sacred tide was pierced only to open ' r us an entrance into thy heart, and j thy heart itself was opened only that we might dwell there in liberty and peace. Let us draw near to the heart of Jeus, that loving fountain of which I he gives us gratuitously, the. saving 1 waters, inviting us thereto himself. "Let him who thirsts come to me." Who is more worthy than thou, O Mary, to speak for us to the heart of Jesus Christ? Thou wilt speak to him, O Sovereign, Sov-ereign, because all that thou askest of him thou will obtain, for is he not thy sonx Holy Cross Fathers in Oregon. Within a week Notre Dame will open Columbia university at Portland, Ore. The new president is the Rev. . M. J. Quinlan, who noy holds .the .chair of English in Notre Dame. Archbishpo Christie of Portland offered the Columbia Colum-bia buildings to Notre Dame, but local authorities "Would give no. definite answer an-swer until they were sure of purchasing purchas-ing an eighty-arie tract of .land along the Willamette river. When this purchase pur-chase was made the university Avas formally for-mally accepted. The eighty acres purchased pur-chased WiTI be used for athletic fields and sites for numerous new buildings. . It is the intention of Father Zahm,T provincial of the order of Holy Cross in America, and pf.-, the newly- elected president, to make" Columbia university the greatest seat of Catholic learning in the far west. President Quinlan was graduated at Notre Dame in the classical course in 1893. He spent four years at the Catholic Cath-olic university ' in Washington doing special work in history, English and economics. ' . . - Pilgrimage to St. Anthony's Shrine. Extensive preparations are made at Butler, N. J., by the Franciscan Fathers to celebrate the feast of St. Anthony in a solemn way. Ever since the erection of the shrine the number of pilgrims that arrive at Butler on Saturdays and j Sundays has been, on the increase, so that the authorities of the Franciscan j order have decided to- appoint special pilgrim days and to conduct extraordinary extraordi-nary services for them. The first of those pilgrim days were on the 10th of June, on which day the feast of St. Anthony as patron saint of the church and shrine in that place was celebrated. cele-brated. Solemn high mass will be held at 10:40 a. m. The Rev. Father Benedict, Bene-dict, a well known missionary priest of the Franciscan order, will preach the sermon in English. In the afternoon the sermon will be in German. There will be a procession to Grace valley, to the seven chapels, devotions before the shrine of St. Anthony and reception of ne wmembers in St. Anthony's union, whose membership now- numbers about 10,000. One peculiar fast about the devotions de-votions at Butler is the great interest Protestants take in them; one-third of the members of the parish are converts of the different Protestant denomina tions. Every afternoon and evening special instructions are given to new converts. Other pilgrim days this -year will be July 4, Aug. 3, Aug. 15, Sept. 3 and Oct. 5. SACRED HEART DEVOTIONS. The Sacred Heart Review, discoursing discours-ing on devotion to the Sacred Heart of our Lord, says: A special cause of hopefulness as to the speedy coming of great spiritual graces among us furnished, this present month, by the fervent celebration celebra-tion of the feast of the Sacred Heart, which coincided with the first Friday in June. Even the secular press mentioned men-tioned the preparatory novenas in various churches, the many worshippers, worship-pers, the beautiful decorations and the sacred ceremonies on the feast itself. Our blessed Lord attached certain definite defi-nite promises to the observance of mis uevuuuu, as incite iui eiuiieiu, fervor for tepid souls, great perfection for those 'already perfect, peace in families, special power for priests to soften hardened hearts and the crowning crown-ing of their labors with marvellous success; also, that "all Christians shall find in this divine Heart a secure refuge during life, and especially at the hour of death." We may surely look for the fulfillment of these promeses, if we are sincerely trying to honor our Lord's Heart; but we must always al-ways remember that the best honor, we can give it is to imitate its virtues, its -peace.- humility, eal, patience, pa-tience, purity, its holy and . ardent' love for God" and 'man. The remembrance remem-brance of these promises calms us as i we think of the many devout men and women who were engulfed in the late volcanic fires. It is not. after all, so terrible a thing to go home to the Heart of Jesus in a chariot of fire! But we must learn the, lesson conveyed by this event, namely, to Jive "always in readiness readi-ness for the Master's call: and to this important end the Sacred Heart de-, votion is- an immense help. What we need is to become daily more and more familiar with it, finding out what the devotion actually means; for it is something some-thing far deeper than badges or pictures pic-tures or ceremonies, though it includes all these holy things. It means the real forming in the individual soul, by Gods aiding grace, of the likeness of Jesus Christ, which is the answer to the prayer, "Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine": and it means the real absorption of self in God's glory, giving all to him, and winning all .souls to Him, as implied in the ejaculatory petition: pet-ition: "Ma the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere!" THE SACKED HEART. (P.v Annie L. Fall. Behold the Heart! Which hath so loved And longed for the hearts of men. O Jesus, 'tis Thy voice that calls At morn, at noon, at enentiUe; It follows us where'er we go And far above the din and strife, The tumult of our daily toil, We. hear Thes pleading soft and low; Behold this Heart this Heart of Mine Which loveth still, and longeth after man. Behold this Heart! j Alas, dear Lord,, how often we Refuse to hear Thy gracious call; I But turn away, and in the world's unrest Seek vainly for the somfort and the peace Our better nature ever .craves; i Only to find that all Is vanity, And earth's reward for service spent The dust and ashes of a broken life. Then we remember, and look back. And in our utter loneliness ' Recall Thy words. 8hy tenderness. Come unto Me. ye that are so distressed. Bring all your weariness, your want and pain: Lay all your burdens at My feet,-And feet,-And be ye comforted! O Jesus, through our tears wo look Upon Thy radiant form and face. And to that Sacred Heart of Thine. Which hath so loved and longed-after us, We' yield -our hearts, our lives forever-more |
