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Show i I Chunk Universal : Church Calendar. i Sun'lay. Xov. L'O St. Scturninus. Ajomlav. Xov. 130 St. Andrew. Tnevlay. Pec 1 Bl. Edward Campion. AVhiesliiy, 1'oc. 2 St. Uibiana, V. M. Thnrs-lay. Doc. :'. St. Francis Xavier, C. Fri.hiy. Dec. 4 St. Barbara, V. il. Saturday, Dec. St. Sabas, Al. I i Hymn of Our Lady at Matins. j , Quern terra, pontus, Fidera. j ', Crral'T of earth and sea and air. : Confessed and worshiped everywhere; I : Thou. Sovereign lxrd of death and doom, I ' A Ha be art borne in Mary's womb: ' On Thee attendant, nwn and Fun Shall minister while af;r-s run; And yet, O God: a Child at rest j Thuu nestlesi in a Maiden's breast. ! i O hapny Mother, Maid Divine ! Never on earth was gift lik thine: ' ! The God thsetf and all things made j I "Within thy stainless bosom laid. O blest the Ansel's wings of love! ; And blest the shadowing Power above! j And blest the Maid with virgin birth Gave Christ the Savior unto earth! ' ( S Glory to Jesns. Mary's Child. I x Son of the Maiden undefilfd! The Father, too. and Holy Ghost I I ; Be praised by all .the heavenly host! j j . Ave Maria. i I Should Women Wear Hats in Church? ! J Kov. Stephen Walsh, of the- Academy of Our ; I Lady of Mercy. Pitt-dnirp;. interviewed in the Pitts-j Pitts-j I bur? Smnl;;y Post on tlic old question ns to wlietli-I wlietli-I I c? a woman may wiih propriety attend a religious. sorvoc with her head uncovered, voices the attitude atti-tude of the Catholic church on the matter in this 1 wise: "In considering the command of St. Paul that women should noi proem thi niMdves in church viih uncovered lipids throe tilings should be re-; re-; Jiicinhore.i: First, the cu-toni of the people; sec- f.ud. wlicro he uttered the command; and, third, J the reason whv ho uttered it. In ihe East, in the days of St. Paid, every resectable woman wore a covering over her head, ospcciall" tb.e betrothed j maidens in ihe presence of their future husbands. The covering, from which arose our present bridal I veal, was an indication of subjection and modesty. Mid was in contrast to the immoral woman, who went with her head bare and hair cut short, to , manifest that she was the slave of all and subject 1 :. no lawful bu-band. The place where St. Paul unced this command wa- well suited for such regulation. It was in Corinth, which was not only t celebrated for its wealth, but also for the vice and pvcfligaey of its inhabitants the city where in his . .oii;l.(KMi women were devoted to immorality . ;,: ib" shrine of Aphrodite on the Acrocorianthus. ' It U evident then why St. Paul should utter this c..;!:!ii:i;)d. be'-au-e, returning to Corinth after n:. nit lis of absence, he feared that his people might 1 b: tainted with the lawlessness and immorality of C'l-inth. Therefore, the command for women to w;;r covering as a sign of subjection and to pro- loot her from being considered or adjudged a pub- ! lie sinner, wboe obligation in tbosc .lays would be uudonroing ihe canonical )enance instead of Avor- 5 hhio. ' i "Will ihe ,hur.-h ever change the ordinance? 1 l A-siirendly not. First, because the Church today, i . rs in the days of St. Paul. labors for the elevation i woman by pleading with her against tinreason- :;ble siieriority and protecting lier from dogreda- lion, and couscipienlly advises her to wear this sign of ol"dicnce and tike her position as (iod has or-: or-: darned: and Si. Paul here proclaims that she is'fo i be the hcipmalo anl respeetful subject of man, as v : i: i- the subject ;ml e-v rkor of Christ. Sec-I Sec-I lidiy. becauso the bared head has had. as we have an ignoble origin, and ihe Church would pre-I pre-I 1 u, h:vr woman remember ihe command of St. i I': r.l. who labored for hr dignity rather than per-I per-I i. b'T to po with uncovered head that would re- v "tnd her of her shame and depreciation at the i-!.!'!!:e Aphrodite."' Offerings for Masses. ' question is frequently asked by non-Cat h- j I o ;. ;ck .(.nictiines by Calholios: Why arc we I "e.'igcl j,, jnake an offering for masses? Since so m:'iiy ii iieCal Iiolics insist that we hay to "pay'' I toj- 'lin. woubl it not be better not to have any M"i!o..- in coiinectioti with ihem? I i I'e h-eir::ria, stipends, for masses, are not the i :::v!i;!.,e price of the holy sacrifice, but offerings or f i. it- made by ihe people, in a spirit of love i "-r i!.- ('liu'-ch. to provide for the support of the ' : 'he -uslom of making such donsil ions is I .,,!..., ,v ;, liimself. as is dearly shown in ' M ;)! New Te.-tamenis. Even non-Catholics, 1 ''' 'ho -asi n of a marriage or a baptism, give a s ''' to their ministers. Do they consider this !'""::' '. Why, in all fairness, is it right for the i:: iiMor i,, iiccet his marriage fee, and yet wrong a prioi to receive a stipend for a mass? The j pniM-ipIe involved is identical in both cases. I W e ;uv not obligel to luivc the masses said, nor I priest obliged 1o say them for our intention. I 1 ' priest is obliged in give the people the oppor- I t : ,;!v o attending mass on Sundays and holy days I ' ".lis:-aiion. lie fe(ds it 1o b( his" duty also to " !'-ass every day. in so far as may be possible, i ' 1 11 '" say mass at an hour convenient for some j j '" "i 'to attemi. Put there is nothing to bind him i "" "; -aying of that mass for this or that articu- j J '' i" i-soii. So, some one asks him to "say a mass ! ' ' ' irew foj- my intention."' and offers him not ' f ! - oeoHiiso no pay. can be given for spiritual -j 1 or benefits but what the Church calls an i -'Oi:-. If be accepts this, then he is obliged to of- a in;i. for The person who makes theoffering. ; i i : !i- jiriiK-iple established in the Holy Scrip- I that ihe laborer is worthy of liis hire, the 1 v.ho works for the people nnist look to the peo- I !' t-.r his suoMrt. Xor can the priest well look ! I '-' "'lie re. 'They who serve the altar partake wiih j :' . Mar." (I Cor. ix. lo.) vor would it be to the j f :' : ii'aare of ihe people that the priest should find :' ! 1 n.yny l0 ,ovfitc to his own livelihood the time i ) '-nergy which should be given to the people for j j' l:r welfare, temporal and spiritual. j j The Home of the Popes. f Ihe palace of the Vatican at Home is a fit ) liitK-f. ,,f residence for ihe head of the Catholic j I 'aireh. It covers a sjiace of 1.20O feet in length 'id l.ooo fed in breadth, and is the largest pal-' j p- in t c world. It is on the right bank of the I b'ver Tiber, and on the Vatican hill, from which ; t oerives its name. It is said to have been founded P"po Symmachus. who erected a small house on Mte about "00 A. D. On this site, too, a build- j '-'2 was inhabited by Charlemango in 800. Several limes it has fallen into decay and been ,Mr'rr"d. Pojie Eugenius rebuilt it on a magnifi- '-ale in HCO. In K0r, Clement V removed " j ; f y" .I'l'al See from Rome to Avignon and the j i'liean was in a neglected and obscure state for I j many years ! ' ! (f ''.lnliis V in 14.")0 commenced the great work S J l :ilRk,n? it Ihe noble palace that it now is. After f ' caiiie'111 f 1,10 Pontifical court to Home it be- a'not'1' ! ." H,'1ua residence of the Pope. One after - ner a long- liuo 0f popes have added splendid buildings to it. and at present the lowest estimate gives th number of rooms at 4.4 2 J. (Jradually it has been enriched with great paintings, paint-ings, slatues, books, curios, medals, gems, frescoes and antiquities of every description until it is now ihe world's richest depository. The museum of statuary is about a mile in length ami contains more than TO.OoO statues that have been exhumed from the ruined temples and palaces of Home. The Vatican contains the Sistine chapel, built by Sixtus IV in 147- and adorned bv the wonderful won-derful genius of Michael Angelo; the Pauline chapel, built by Paul III in 1540; the Loggia and Stranze of Raphael, and the Court of the Belvedere. Belve-dere. The library of the Vatican is truly a great one. It is exceedingly rich in mauuscrips, containing as many as 40.000. some of which arc by Pliny. St. ! Thomas and St. Charles P.orromeo, and many Ile- brew. Arabian, Syrian and Armenian Bibles. It has almost ."0.000 valuable rinled volumes, and several, sev-eral, rich museums of ancient and modern articles of virtu. Chicago Chronicle. i RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ! The Abenaki Indians at Pierreville. - Quebac, are all Calholics. Their pastor, Rev. Joseph de Conzaguc, is a full-blooded aborigine. A slop-daughter of John Iorley, the eminent author of ihe just issued biography of (iladstonc, i-. a Sister of Charity in ihe High Park convent, Druincondra, Dublin, which Mr. Morley visited the I Mher day to take part in the celebration of the ju-,'iilec ju-,'iilec of the institution. It is not generally known that the final series f frescoes painted by Sargent for the upper corridor corri-dor of the Boston Public Library will have for its theme the life of the Blessed Virgin. Catholics will await its appearance with interest. The Byzantine By-zantine treatment of the second series was somewhat some-what disappointing, and it is hoped that the projected pro-jected 'one will make amends. Ave JIaria. - Mrs. Xapier Miles, wife of Colonel Xapier .Miles. C. B., who commanded the regiments of British Household Cavalry in the South African war, has been received into the Church. Amongst the resolutions adopted by the Irish hierarchy assembled recently at Maynooth was the following: "Where there are public novenas for the feast of St. Patrick, such novenas shall in future be socially offered for the spread of temperance in Ireland. . A church curiosity is to be seen in the city of Heidelberg, Germany, where there is a building called the Church, of the Holy Ghost, which is unique in its way. being the only church in the world in which the Protestant and Catholic services are held at the same time, a partition Avail through the center separating the two congregations. Here are a few of the figures which extorted from the undemonstrating political economist the foregoing declaration. In missionary countries there are about 1.1.300 Catholic priests. 4.500 Catholic Cath-olic Brothers and 42,000 Catholic Sisters, exclusive ex-clusive of about 10,000 native Sisters. According 1o L'Abbe Louvct. two-thirds of the priests are French, and to France belong four-fifths of the Brothers and Sisters. These figures refer to a period -prior to the dispersion and laicization of the congregations in the home land, and are accordingly ac-cordingly below the mark at present. Ave Maria. Writing! of the "feverish endeavor of French statesmen to expel religion from France," Mr. Arnold Ar-nold White says: "Some time ago I was visiting the hospital at Caen, in Normandy, where there was a man being tended by a Sister of Mercy. She was praying quietly by the bedside, and rose with tears in her eyes. I asked her later on why she tfept,' and she said lhat the dying man had asked that a . crucifix mierht be placed on the Avail opposite his bed. Under French laAV this is now illegal. Words would fail to describe the .simple woe of the Sister, Sis-ter, who lamented the action of a powerful goA--crnment in carrying iheir political warfare catii to the beside of the dying' Press cablegrams report that on Saturday last Pope Pius rccciAed in private audience Father .Boniface Krug, formerly of St. Vincent's Arch-Abbey. Arch-Abbey. Beatty, Pa., and uoav abbot of the famous Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, Province of Casorta, Italy, he being the first American to hold that position. His Holiness is taking great interest inter-est in the Arork of repairing the abbey, Avhich is being carried on at the great Benedictine stronghold strong-hold under the direction of Father Krug. The Pontiff desired to know all about the visit of Emperor William to Monte Cassino last May.' exclaiming: "Uoav I -wish 1 could also go there!'' adding that it had always been one of his keenest desires to visit the abbey, but lhat for scA'eral reasons rea-sons he had never been able to accomplish the journey. jour-ney. His Holiness concluded: "Pray that I may soon be in such a position as to be able to realize that desire." . Pope Pius evidently Avishcd to repeat 1 bis phrase, which he had made use of on a previous occasion, Avhen it Avas generally misinterpreted, explaining ex-plaining that he meant he Avould like to go to Monte Cassino if the Church returned to the condition con-dition it enjoyed before the fall of the temporal ;ower. ''No one is ignorant of the temptations and dangers that beset the young in the streets of a big city after lamplight," saA's the Monitor. "There is no more fruitful source of youthful demoralization demoraliza-tion than this practice., to which too many parents of respectable character seem strangely indifferent. Citv streets after night have been accurately described de-scribed .as a nursery of youthful vice. No child is CAor improved in morals or manners by attending this school." The aviso man will not Avait for his sin to find him out. Rather he will find out his sin, bring il to Ihe Redeemer for pardon, and thus find release re-lease from its guilt and power. - One of the chief joys in life is to know men bv Avhom you can swear, to knoAV a man here and there over the Avorld of whom you can say, "Wherever "Wher-ever he is tonight, there he is helpful, truthful, sincere, Avise. intelligent an educated gentleman; educated in every faetulty of his being, in those things Avhich go to make the body a thing of deli de-li ght and beauty; educated in conscience, so that cAen as the eye seeks the light his conscience seeks the right; educated fully and completely." Bishop Spalding. |