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Show ' f : I f 'n Church i jj I I ' whichever- j; Universal V I I . "' ' M 1 J CHURCH CALENDAR. 1 Sunday, Oct. 19. Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Peter of Alcantara. Monday, Oct. 20. St. John Cantius. Tuesday, Oct. 21 St. Ursula and Co:np.. V. M. Wednesday, Oct. 22. St. Philip, B. M. St. Hilarion, Ab. Thursday. Oct. 23. St. Severin, Abp., i C. St. Theodoret, M. Friday, Oct. 24. St. Raphael, Archangel. Arch-angel. St. Magloire, B. Saturday, Oct. 25. St. Crispin and Crtspinian, MM. FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE MASS A Convert's Graphic and Beautiful j Description o the Holy Sacrifice. When I recall my first impressions of the mass if in my bewilderment I can be said to have received any impression im-pression whatever I assure myself that the majority of Protestants and unbelievers, who look coldly or curiously curi-ously upon the altar, are as little mindful of the sacred significance of the Sacrifice and as unworthy spectators specta-tors as I was. Oh, the loss of these! Do we not see in the gravity of the celebrant as he bears the chalice of the altar, our Lord entering the Garden of Gethsemane? It is the first scene in the mystical drama and every breath Js hushed. The divine one is burdened bur-dened with a fore knowledge of his ! doom. He kneels in the garden. We , kneel with him, and are to follow him, etep by step, to the very end. At the Confiteor he has fallen upon his face, bathed in the sweat of blood; he is betrayed with a kiss, led away ( captive, grievously smitten and de- ; nied. The celebrant turns to us at the Dominus vobiscum, and in his glance - ( we see the conversion of Peter. Our . , Lord is led before Pontius Pilate, brought to Herod, scornfully sent back again to Pilate. He is spoiled of his garments at the unveiling of the chalice chal-ice scourged and crowned with thorns. Pilate washes his hands of the crime. . and at the moment the celebrant moistens moist-ens his fingers. "Behold the man!" : cries Pilate; and the voice from the al- f ' '. tar pleads. Orate fratres. i At the Freface we hear the warning bell. The awful progress of the tragedy trag-edy is watched in breathless silence; only from the organ loft comes the wail of the singers. The bell rings; he is condemned to death, and made to bear his cross, while his brow is wiped with the handkerchief of Veronica, Ver-onica, and the effigy of that sorrowful sorrow-ful face is retained forever. He is nailed to the cross, and at the Elevation Eleva-tion of the Host, while the chiming h.'.s mark every posture of the celebrant cele-brant at the altar; while the torch bf avers gather about, the smoking censers are swung aloft, the flowers are scattered upon the air, and, if 4t .' ; be a military mass, the whole body silently presents arms; while the devout de-vout kneelers bow their heads and beat their breasts in contrition, lo! the cross is raised on high. A moment latr-r the elevated chalice seems to crttr-h the water and the blood that jrush from the riven heart of him who died for us. Jn the Memento, which follows, he is praying for the world; he is merciful merci-ful to the penitent thief; he thirsts ; mid he Utters the Seven Words upon the Cross. (Here the Pater Noster is loudly chanted.) He dies. He descends de-scends into hell; and at the Agnus Dei, while the bells chime again, there ia the conversion of many at the cross. In holy communion we commemorate ) his burial, and his anointing in the last ablution of the celebrant. His resurrection follows, and he appears to his disciples at the Dominus vobiscum. The last collect is a memory mem-ory of his forty days with the disciples: dis-ciples: the last Dominus vobiscum, of his glorious ascension; and with the benediction descends the Holy Ghost! O marvelous Sacrament! mysterious, j majestical! O never failing source of joy! what a privation is theirs, who having once known thee, are parted from thee! How do they survive who j trust not in thee, and who seek thee , and know thee not? Charles Warren i Stoddard. ' i Cardinal Vaugrhan on Whitechapel District. "Then you are hopeful for the future of the Whitechapel district?" "Certainly I am," replied his eminence. emi-nence. "When I remember what it was forty years ago, why should I not be hopeful?" The cardinal's optimism is contagious. No one can talk with him and not share his confidence in the outcome of the work that is now being done in te .slums of London. "We must not expect ex-pect miracles," he continued. "We must simply labor on each day, content with the slightest improvement. More and more we hope to get the working people out of the slums. It is almost impossible to help them as long as ten or twelve people sleep, cook and eat in two small rooms. Often they are , only cellars, where men, women and chiidren are forced tp sleep in one bed! The air is foul, they have little food and In winter, when the fogs settle down over London, they are cold and ' miserable. They must go to the public house for comfort; that Is always warm and bright, and for two or three cents, they can buy enough drink to make them forget their miseries. Would we be any better, my child, had we : been forced to live in such surround- ! ines!" And the divine charity of Christ illumined the beautiful face of ! the cardinal. "Even in the slums we must not think that all are bad. In spite of their awful poverty the Cath-' Cath-' ..lies have kept their faith, and among ' them we often find very noble men and women. In the worst parts of London there is always much to mak us have hope for the future." Donahoe's. The Irreverent Rush. Tainfully irritating at times is the conduct of some Catholics in the dis-; dis-; charge of their religious duties. Nor is it a matter of surprise that pastors . feel' called ujvn to sco'd concerning them. The wonder is that they man-, man-, age to contain themselves so admirably under the circumstances. For Jn many cases these individuals show less re-s-pect in the house of God than do visiting vis-iting non-Catholics. As an example of the class to which ! we refer might be cited those wfio " fcweep past the holy water font with- I out deigning even to notice it. The I one-legged prayer crowd in the rear f who cling around the confessional I boxes during Mass, but are rarely ever I een there at any other time through- I out the year. The stiff-knee and weak- I back class who never genuflect and I ' never, kneel erect. The Felf-opinion- I ated people, who. when seated, assume Positions between a stage pose and a I barroom lounge. Presumably they j know the mass by heart, U r rosary or 1 prayer book is never seeti in their 1 hands. It would not do,' however, to I question them. I : ' ' I Such persnB. it is hoped, are never 1 taken as devotional type of the real Catholic. To say the lea I of them in charity they are a slrai ge set. But.", bad as' they are. they an, better than j those v;i constitute the irreverent : 1 i- ' -. r- rush. These are the people, who in approaching the rail to receive holy communion, n.ake one imagine they are pursued by fire. . With swinging arms, they push and crowd and shuffle shuf-fle until the whole aisle is in commotion. commo-tion. There is nothing about them to indicate devotion or reverence. Their action is that- of ' persons in public gatherings seeking advantage of In-, gress or exit. -Church Progress. Unique Feature of a New Convent. A roof garden for the benefit of the nuns of the Order of the Holy Ghost isone of the features of their new convent, con-vent, which was recently dedicated in Dubuque. The retreat is located in a unique spot, removed from the gaze of those of the world. Every day- the Sisters, Sis-ters, whose lives are devoted to higher education, repair thither to practice their devotion and to view a magnificent magnifi-cent stretch of country, with the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river in the foreground. On the four sides of the garden climbing flowers from a perfect screen and southern plains beautify the corners. cor-ners. The Sisters spend much time in study there. The Sisters of the Holy Ghost are progressive. The idea of having a roof garden for the exercise and recreation of the members is original with them, and since its advantages have become known, convents in St. Paul and other places have ordered their architects to include the innovation in their plans. Another feature of the convent is the provision made for sick members. The infirmary is located near the convent chapel and whenever one of the nuns is sick her bed is pushed forth into a unique little porch and there above the celebrant she may assist at the mass. Not Guilty of Superstition. If we pray before some object or go to a certain place because we feel that our prayers will be more effectual there than elsewhere, we certainly are not guilty of superstition, for we attribute th special efficacy of our petitions to the appointment of God. Among our separated brethren the same Idea is practiced. It is not common for per-, sons to think that they can pray with more devotion in a certain part of the house or in one meeting house rather than in another? And yet who says j that such a one is superstitious? He goes there because he feels that in that place he prays better, and consequently his prayers are better heard, and not because the walls of the building will bring down a blessing on his prayers. Surely this is not superstition. In the same manner, some people go to hear one preacher rather than another, though in reality he is not more eloquent, elo-quent, but because they feel that his words will go more to their hearts and that they will receive more consolation. Would any one say that this was attributing at-tributing some individual virtue to a man? It loses the character of superstition super-stition when we remember that it pleases God to make that person an instrument of his work. Rev. John F. Mullany, LL. D., in October Donahoe's. May Be a Created Saint. An ecclesiastical court met at New-Orleans New-Orleans to take evidence relative to the beatification of Father Solon, the New Orleans priest and Redemptorist monk, who sacrificed his life in the great yellow yel-low fever epidemjcof 1885. - The court heard evidence as to "Father Solon's title to beatification, which will be forwarded for-warded to Rome for final decision. If the decision is in favor of the beatification. beatifi-cation. Father Solon will be one of the first JVerican saints. Catholic Register. Regis-ter. Pope Pleased With America. Rome, Oct. 10. On learning of the approaching arrival here of Archbishop Chapelle, the apostolic delegate to Cuba and Porto Rico, the pope asked for a full report on religious affairs in Cuba, which he carefully examined. On reading the agreements arrived at with General Wood, as military governor gov-ernor of Cuba, the pontiff exclaimed: "Washington is the most . loyal and generous government the church ever had to do with." Heroism of a French Priest. While some workmen were sinking a well near Poitiers, France, the other day, one of them was overcome by gaseous fumes and became insensible. No one dared to venture down; but the village cure, arriving on the scene, had himself lowered to the insensible workman, work-man, whom he succeeded in bringing to the surface, too late, unluckily, to save his life. Colored Women Take the Black Veil. Eleven young women have received the black veil in the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family at New Orleans, Or-leans, one of the two Catholic convents in the United States open to negro young women. Of the novices six were negroes from Cuba, who have come to the United States to work among their race here. The convent, which was established in 1S47, was a small affair having only twelve nuns until after the civil war. It has now over 200 sisters working in Louisiana and thirteen mission, houses under the control of the mother house in New Orleans, and has complete charge of two negro asylums in that city, one for old people and the other for orphans. Archbishop Guida to Hasten, It. Rome, Oct. 9. Archbishop Guidi, apostolic delegate in the Philippines, on his own responsibility has instructed Rev. Santiago Paya, provincial of the order of Dominicans in the Philippine islands, who is at present In Spain, and who intends to shortly proceed from, there to Manilt. to meet him on his arrival at Manila, even if he has to leave without seeing Archbishop Chap-pelle, Chap-pelle, the apostolic delegate to Cuba and Porto Rico. ,hct, in a recent communication, begged Father Paya I to await his approaching arrival in j Rome, as he wished to confer with him. Archbishop Guidi is anxious to confer con-fer with the provincials of all orders so as to hasten the solution of the questions concerning the friars in the Philippines as much as possible. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. : Domestic and , Foreign - Brief s From "Church Progress.". DOMESTIC. The sixth synod of the Syracuse diocese was held in the cathedral Thursday, under the presidency of Bishop Ludden.. Rev. S. Bauer. T. D.. pastor 'of St. Joseph's Jo-seph's church, Tremont. : O.,' enjoys the distinction of having been in charge of that parish for the past. forty years. The nisrht school in connection with Holy Trinity church, Washington. D. C, and conducted by Rev. Brother Whalen, is progressing most satisfactorily. The attendance is constantly increasing. The few Catholics at Childress, Tex. are quite zealous and ambitious, and hope either to build or buy a church there in the near future. v.. $; Three - new altars wf re lately erected in St. Aloysius church Washington, .D. C, adding wonderfully to its exquisite grace. and beauty. ',': Lazarlst Fathers af Emmitsburg, Md., have just celebrated the fiftiethVanniver- . , .J jX sary of their settlement In that place. The occasion was marked by the presence pres-ence of distinguished members of the hierarchy and a large number of visiting clergy. By the will of the tate Joseph Lamb of Rosbury, Mass., two bequests of $1.5u0 are made to the Little Sisters of the Poor and the trustees of the Carmelite convent con-vent of that place. On Tuesday Rt. Rev. Bishop Maes presided pre-sided at a reception of twenty-two ladies ' into the Franciscan Sisterhood at St. , Clara's convent, Hartwell, O. . By his will. Dr. James C. Burch of Baltimore Bal-timore leaves $200 to Cardinal Gibbons in trust for the Sacred Heart church, in St. Mary's county, Maryland, and $2U0 to the Young Catholics' Friend society for the Corpus Christ! branch of the organization. organiza-tion. A contract has been let for enlarging the cathedral at Sioux City, Ja. The sum to be expended is $12,:!0t. Work on the exterior ex-terior must be finished by Dec. 15. Another An-other contract will cover the work on the interior. Mr. Richard Campbell, late business manager of the New Century of Washington. Wash-ington. D. C, It ft an the Thomas for Manila. Mr. Campbell received a special commission from President Roosevelt to visit the islands on government business. A movement is on foot in New York City to do away with the music and fireworks fire-works display attending the religious celebrations of the Italians in that place. The Sisters in charge of Immaculate Conception parish school, at Canton, O., have added a business college course to the curriculum of the institution. The will of the late Rev. Thomas Scully of Cambridge, Mass.; substantially gives his whole estate to ' charities. To St. i Mary's parochial school, Cambridge, are bequeathed his library, pictures and portraits por-traits and paintings; to the St. Vincent de Paul society connected with St. Mary's parish is given $oOt); to the Annunciation Guild connected with St. Mary's parish $500 is left. -S- A new monthly Catholic journal, entitled en-titled Men and Women, has been started in Cincinnati, O. It is finely illustrated and very interesting and instructive. - The first number contains articles from many well known writers, and altogether Men and Women seems to have a promising future. " Plans are now being prepared for a new Benedictine college to be erected at Shawnee. O. T. Mr. Michael J. Uaffney, past state president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Hi-bernians of Maryland, was presented the other day with a beautiful flagon, loving cud and salver of silver by a number ci members of the order. At a special meeting of the members of Branch 36. C. M. B. A., of Syracuse, N. Y.. it was decided to build a home in which to establish permanent headquarters headquar-ters and a club for the use of members of the branch. The opening up "ofcoal territory in Indiana In-diana county. Pa., is adding greatly to the prosperity of that section. New towns are springing up in many directions and it is expected in the near future that several new parishes will be established. The contest over the will of Cecilia Tullv of Boston ended last Thursday, when counsel for the contestants waived an appeal to the supreme court. About $62,000 will now be divided among Catholic Institutions made beneficiaries by the will. Among the gifts are $30,000 to Woodstock Wood-stock college, Woodstock, Mr.; $5,000 to the Apostolic College Munprel, Limerick, Ireland, and $10,000 to St. John's seminary, Brighton, Mass. The millionaire contractor, J. D. Crim-mins. Crim-mins. has donated $2,000 to the Hibernian home in the citv of New York, which is now being erected by the eighty-five divisions di-visions of that citv. It will be the finest Catholic society building in the United States. The Miners' union of Butte, Mont., most of the members of which are Catholics, Cath-olics, last week sent the striking anthracite anthra-cite miners of Pennsylvania the sum of $4,000 t.o help them in their struggle against the operators. 4r- The administration buildng( of the Catholic Protetorv at Westchester, N. Y., recently destroyed by fire, la to be rebuilt. re-built. Plans have been filed with the Bronx Building bureau. The new building build-ing will have a tower like the old one, and will cost $15,000. St. Agnes' German Catholic school in St. Paul. Minn., erected at a cost of $20,000, has been dedicated. It is in charge of the Sister of Nostre Dame, and will accommodate 1.500 children. S- The life-size bust of the late Rev. Thomas J. Barry, first rector of the Church of the Visitation. Philadelphia, which is to occupy a place in the vestibule vesti-bule of that church, will be unveiled on Thursday morning, Oct. 16, with appropriate ap-propriate ceremonies. . j- Fifty-eight new names were added last week to the local division of the Akron (O.) A. O. H. 3 The library of Sts. Peter and Paul church. Detroit. contains over 3,000 volumes of the best Catholic authors. During the past three months several large contributions have been made toward to-ward the proposed new chapel at Mt. St. Mary's seminary, Md. Over $43,000 is now on hand. It is honed that ground will be broken next spring. -$- The Polish residents of Dayton, O., are organizing a society with the hope . of eventually building a church. There are more than 100 Polish families in the city, among whom are many unable to converse con-verse in any language but their native tongue, and as a church and parochial school would be a great spiritual as well as temporal benefit to them, it is hoped their desire will soon be realized. At Spokane. Wash., substantial aid in the construction of the new Roman Catholic Cath-olic church has been given by Charles Sweeny. Mr. Sweeny offers to give $5,000 I In cash and make a loan of an additional $5,000 on condition that the members of the church raise an equal amount. A recent dispatch from Syracuse, N. Y., announced that the Rt. Rev. Joseph J. Blennon, bishop of Kansas City. Mo., has been appointed national chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The widow of Senator Francis Kernan died last week in Utica, N. Y., aged 2 years. She had been in failing health for some time. Mrs. Kernan was born in this city Sept. 30, 1S20. She married Senator Kernan in 1S43. They had ten children, of whom six survive. One of the children is Hon. John D. Kernan of New York. The sale is reported of the John Clark estate, in Elmsworth borough, Pa., for $40,000. The property is said to have been bought by a Catholic Sisterhood (Polish) which already occupies a frame building and conducts a school on one corner of the tract. The plot includes ten acres. The Sisters will, it is said, build a large school on the ground, St. Elizabeth's Home for Colored Children Chil-dren has purchased from Judrre Henry Stockbridge the properties 313 and 315 St. Paul street, Baltimore, for $9,oo0 in fee. The purpose of the purchase is to enlarge the orphanage. On Sunday last St. Mary's church, Memphis, celebrated the fiftieth anniverr sary of its founding. $ The Catholic Knishts of Ohio gained 000 new members last year. FOREIGN. Signor Zanardelli announces that on the reassembling of the Italian chambers he will re-introduec his divorce bill. At Placenza City. Italy, in presence of the mayor and ecclesiastical authorities, was inaugurated the exposition of sacred art. Bishop Scalabrini delivered an address. ad-dress. The third pilgrimage of Spanish Catholics Cath-olics to Rome will start from Barcelona on the 12th of this month. Maestro Mustafa has retired from the direction of the papal choir in the Sistine chapel. His successor is the Abbato Pe-rosi. Pe-rosi. : His Holiness has given to the' city' of Rome $10,000 to be distributed among the poor. Monsignor Coslantini, Patriarch of Patrasses; has been charged with the "distribution. "dis-tribution. , It is now stated that -the .niece of the late Cardinal Ledochowski is devoting herself to the work of evangelizing the natives of Africa. The Holy Father takes a deep interest in the Society of St. Peter Claver, of which the cardinal s niece, is superior general, and which has its headquarters at Via Giov. Lanza, 123, Rome. . $ At Bryn Mawr, Wales, Mgr. Croke-Roblnson, Croke-Roblnson, the great Catholic logician, lately has been preaching to thousands of attentive listeners. The Holv Father the other day received Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier in private audience, which 'lasted half an hour. Later the Canadian premier started for Venice. Lourdes, the town of miracles, sometimes some-times has a population of 60.0'JO to 70.000 persons, yet finds need of only four policemen. po-licemen. Senor De Costa, a distinguished diplomat, diplo-mat, has been appointed first secretary at the Spanish embassy to the Pope to supply sup-ply the vacancy caused by the appointment appoint-ment of Senor Multedo as ambassador in Belgium. . Father Romulux, one of the Capuchin Fathers in charge nf the mission works at Mussooree. in the archdiocese of Agra. Asia, is in Europe, in quest of aid for a church edifice, with a spire to peer up to the eternal snowsofthe Himalayas. The fiscal authorities recently seized the Count de Castellane's carriages as payment fo taxes which he had refused to pay as a protest aaginst the government's govern-ment's expulsion of the nuns from Catholic Cath-olic schools. The Catholics of Beaconsfield, South Africa, gave Mgr. Gaughran, bishop of KImberly, a great reception on the occasion oc-casion of his recent arrival. The Boxer insurrection seems to be on the wane in the province of Szechwan. The Chinese officials are putting the leaders to death by dozens, and the missionaries mis-sionaries with their native converts have little to fear from the fanatics for awhile yet $-- At Sts. Anslem and Cecilia's, once the embassy chapel of the House of Savoy, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, diocese of Westminster, West-minster, there has been revived the ancient an-cient custom of offering up the holy Mass on the occasion of the opening' ot the term of court, judges, lawyers and court attaches in their robes, attending as of. old. to invoke guidance of the Holy Spirit in their pursuit of justice. |