Show 1 1St St. St Marys Mary's Church Notes Comments Gone U is June the month In la which was held the consecration of or the family and homo home to the sacred heart of at Je Jesus us J Comes July when le Is sugg suggested sted family unity through a family Interest Helping children to become Interested In home affairs I la is a sure ure way to preserve the unity of the home Itself The aim should be to discover Interests which parents and children may share One such uch In Interest interest In- In terest Is pictures A whole family faintly may milT educate Itself In III art and learn tho the stories of the Old and New Testament through the simple and fascinating fa way of ot pictures ures For us Catholics to study the Dible Bible deeply Is fa most moat Important ItI It I will strengthen our faith a great deal besides to know It well will give gle thelie the He lie to those who Ignorantly continue to assert l that we are not allowed to read It lt The truth Is la that the Bible owes ow In great part Its very today todar to the exl tance of the Catholic Church In early centuries following the apostolic apostollO age Itself I I I I I Next Saturday July 4 01 Is le dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima in whose honor evening devotions will be held In St. St Marys Mary's Church Park City at 7 Parishioners should hould make It a point to join In large numbers In this practice of devotion to Mary Our Mother for tor five first Saturdays It consists In receiving Holy Communion on th these days day and reciting re reciting reciting re- re citing the Rosary dally daily This was waa specifically requested by her Its It's the story tory of Fatima a village some sixty miles north of Lisbon capital city of Portugal In 1917 the Blessed Virgin appeared six times to three little children minding their flock of sheep Heaven seems to have a for shepherds Our Lord himself would use their language In confirming St. St Peter as shepherd othis of ot his church when three times tunes he would I bid him Peed Feed my lambs feed reed my sheep Our favored shepherds were I Jacinta age 7 Francis Francl age 9 and Lucy I age 10 She told the children that God wished to establish throughout the world devotion to her Immaculate heart that men must stop atop offending her divine I son already too offended attended and that they should pray the Rosary to end the war then raging and to I assure peace for the world The Blessed Mother uttered a solemn warning that If It her requests went unheeded unheeded unheeded un un- un- un heeded another and more terrible war would begin precisely In the next pontificate pontificate pon pon- of Pope Plus XI that different differ ditter- ent ont nations would be destroyed famine and persecution would rage many would be martyred and the Holy Father would suffer sutter much On the other hand If It the faithful heeded her warnings amended i their lives and were faithful to their consecration to her Immaculate heart I Russia Hussla would be converted and there would be peace In October 1917 1017 in the presence of or people Go God 1 worked In honor of at ofIlia Ills Ilia blessed mother the stupendous awe- awe Inspiring miracle of the sun That great Heavenly body changed In color from gold to a silver sliver hue emitted In every direction long rays of multicolored multi col ored light and three times for four minutes each time revolved on Its axis like a wheel of fire Then to the conn consternation consternation con con- of at the assembled multitude It began careening down towards the earth coming so close that the people thought the end of ot the world was at hand The children saw in the sky a Heavenly tableau in which Our Lady appeared appeared first with St. St Joseph and the divine Infant then with her divine son eon who blessed the assembled crowd The Blessed Virgin appeared finally in the garb of ot Our Lady of Mount Carmel It was at this time that our Blessed Mother kept the promise made to Lucy on the occasion of ot the apparition to tell the I children who she ahe was She announced I am the Lady of the Rosary In 1868 1858 to In Lourdes Our Lady In her last lat apparition had declared I am Our Lady of 01 the Immaculate Conception a Heavenly confirmation of ot the doctrine declared official article of ot faith by the Catholic Church in 1854 Just four years previously But it ha had always been believed by the faithful down through all the centuries cent of ot the church which Is la not ol oj yesterday As Assaid Assaid Assaid said St. St Paul and the poet might a add d dof of the Catholic Church Time writes no wrinkles on her ancient brow Having visited Lourdes In former years and having seen Its wonders I have not the slightest doubt of the sent Heavenly-sent apparitions to Our Lady to Lourdes 1858 of ot for that matter to Fatima Portugal In 1917 1017 Since God can do all things we believe be be- lieve In hr that scriptures say the holy spirit breathes where he will Then It ItIs ItIs itis Is only natural and ana logical that we accept accept It all miracles Included as the ways of ot God bo so strange to those of little or no faith One miraculous ous cure at Lourdes in earlier years rears was that of ot Jack Trainor living in Liverpool Liverpool Liv Liv- England where I was stationed In ln 1033 1933 I knew him bun personally he lie had peen been Jeen wounded In World War I seventeen wounds Including part of ot his leg bone shot hot away and Impossible to replace by natural knitting or growth of limb left him such a cripple over years That a pilgrimage party to Lourdes refused to accept him on the train at Liverpool but faith all for Jack had himself elf lying as he was on a stretcher slipped aboard unknown to the official priest In charge of ot the pilgrims being brought to Lourdes From there Jack Trainor returned healthy completely cleared of all his Ills war wounds wound erect on ht hu hI feet and no longer bound In pain to the stretcher on which he had lain helpless for tor many moons He lie sold lold coal in bags bag and I 1 otters often saw him after atter his return from Lourdes Lourde hoist with ease sacks that would weary any ordinary man to even raise from the ground Jack la Ie now DOW dead but In gratitude to Our Lady Lad he be returned every summer ummer to Lourdes Lourden to help carry the sick stretched out on carrier carriers as 8 he once had been His Has home his hi children were named alter after Lourdes and Its It's associates associate He Ue could talk of nothing but Its It's t wonders wonder and sad yet with such uch a saving caving grace irace and swe await t ness fleas that listener listeners never bored of or hi his hll conversation Hi JIll His story splendidly auth 4 has dew already been told In to a booklet published some IOme year years ago by bT tithe the Catholic Truth So Society lety In England When I visited Oakland California in last Ian a t May I found people very anxious to bear hear hi his hi story which It 11 i is I. to be hoped I Continued Continue on Page PalO Three nu I St. St Marys Mary's Cht Church Notes Comments Continued from Page rage One may prove pro of Interest to parishioners here Following the Communion of Saints spoken of In the previous pre Issue of it i i. Record comes cornea The Forgiveness of Sins ems According to the teaching of the church all nil en are sinners by nature The father lather of the human race sinned by disobeying the command of God and eating of the forbidden fruit His sin has ll passed on to all of his posterity The Tho sin of Adam which we Inherit is called Original Sin because It derives from Adam our origin Adam was created created created creat creat- ed by God In a a. state of grace but by his disobedience he lost both for himself and nd for tor his descendants the grace and friendship of God so that we are conceived conceived con con- and born into Inc the world without grace and are by nature children of wrath C. C F F. F Eph lS l.S. Original sin Is blotted out of our souls by the sacrament sacrament sacrament sacra sacra- ment of baptism but Its It's doleful effects remain rooted In our nature We are prone to commit many personal sins and for these too we stand In need of ot the forgiveness of God The teaches us that In spite of the fact that man disobeyed God and thereby forfeited forfeited forfeited for for- his grace and friendship God in his mercy has Instituted means by which man may have his sins forgiven and be reconciled to God In the Old Testament God commanded men to offer oHer sacrifices and prayers to him especially sin offerings which took away sin but over and above sacrifice and prayer God always demanded that man should be sorry for his sins detest them heartily and turn to him with faith and love lo before they would be forgiven in the law which God gave to the Israelites through Moses he demanded over and andover andover andover over again that the people repent and offer the sin offerings commanded Inthe In Inthe the law E. E O. O Lev c. c 5 One day In the year was set aside on which the Israelites Israelites Israel Israel- ites would confess their sins and do dof f 1 penance for them On this Day of ot Atonement the priest high-priest sprinkled d the ark In the holy of holies with the blood of the sacrifice and transferred the the- sins of the people to the Scapegoat Scapegoat Scapegoat goat which was then driven out into o the wilderness to perish All this was In fir symbol and represented the taking away of the sins of the people at various times In their history the chosen people forsook forsook for for- sook soak God and fell away Into idolatry but each time God sent a prophet who denounced their sins and laid down the conditions which God had se set for their forgiveness and reconciliation The last s prophet to t appear In Israel was John the Baptist who by preaching and the baptism of penance prepared the chosen people for the coming of the promised Finally In the fullness of time God sent his only begotten son our Lord Jesus Christ who Is the lamb of God that away the sins of the world In the words of St. St John the Evangelist He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for those of the whole world I John 22 To ai all al those who believed In him repented re repented repented re- re their sins and were baptized Into his body The church he granted the remission of sins and the power to become be become become be- be come by grace the adopted sons of God In the history of mankind sin has ever been forgiven through faith In Christ and In his redeeming mission Under the old law It was forgiven In view of the coming of Christ under the new law sin Is forgiven because the son of God did come In the flesh granting forgiveness to those who believe In him and obey him Now may be asked who can forgive sins It Is through his only begotten eon son Jesus Christ that God forgIves forgives forgives for- for gives sin sin through that Christ who forI for- for j I gave the sins of those who came to him with sorrow In their heart even while while his scoffers stood by saying within themselves Who upon earth can forgive sins except God only Luke Having won salvation for all men on the cross Christ communicated the power i to t forgive sins to t his church which he heI i I had established to c continue his r redeemIng redeem redeem- deEm deEm- I Ing ling mission until the end of time There are those who are scandalized at the claim of the Catholic Church to forgive sin sceptics and scoffers like the Pharisees and scribes of old they I I stubbornly stick to t their own petty I Interpretations of the Bible rather than to give glory to the good God who has given such power to t men Let them search the sacred writings and they will readily see that God has hOB always dealt I with men through men through specially sped sped- I ally prepared and appointed men whom he called and commissioned to accomplish push his work among men The man Christ Jesus forgave the sins of ot men bythe by bythe bythe the power and authority of God Why should not God communicate that same power and authority to other men In his church Anyone who will read with open mind the twentieth chapter of the theO O Gospel pel of St. St John must admit that Our Lord did grant this power and auth auth- to his apostles on the evening after his resurrection God gave the power of ot forgiving sins to t the Catholic Church Christ could forgive since he wits was God In human flesh The priest can forgive sins because In the Sacrament of Holy Orders that same Christ has hu given him the power to do da so No priest bishop or pope can forgive sins In his own name Neither can a man baptize In his own name If It these things are tobe to tobe tobe be done They can be done only In the name and with the power and commission commission commis commis- sion slon of God lie He gives mortal man the power to procreate other human beings God gives gins mortal man medical knowledge know know- ledge and anti material remedies to cure the Ills of ot the body Surely Burlly then God canalo can aU alo alc give man maw the power to forgive sins sinsIn sinsIn sinsin in his name This power did give to the apostles and their successors when he commissioned them saying As the father has sent me ml I also send you whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them and whose sins you 1 0 shall retain they are retained John 2021 2091 Elsewhere Christ said to them Whatever you 1 0 bind on un earth shall sha be bound also In Heaven and antI whatever you loose on earth shall sha be looted loosed also in I I Heaven Matt 1818 The ultimate reason renson why God delegated delegated dele- dele I gated the power of forgiving sins to his ordained priests Is a matter wholly dependent dependent dependent de de- pendent upon the wisdom and wish of God But even we can see a I reason for forIt It It is the natural thing to do We may 1 give our power of signing checks to some other person We may empower a areal areal real estate dealer to dispose of our property prop prop- erty We may give power of attorney to t others in many things so that what I I they do for tor us will hold In any court of law and Justice Agents of a firm fre Ire j I sign contracts at the delegation j of ot their employer Ambassadors of a I nation affix their signatures to treaties I and thus as es mere delegates bind whole I nations to definite stipulations If It this i 1 principle of ot delegation holds in human affairs why should not God also have havethe havethe havethe the right and the power to t delegate others to do certain work for him under certain conditions If It God could not do this there would be no power and authority authority auth auth- on earth today to preach or baptize I In his name or to t continue the work of at Christ in any soul-saving soul way I Later on will be given How Are Sins Bins Forgiven in the Catholic Church ConI Concluding Con Con- eluding this article of tract entitled I Why for tor May published by the Benedictine Bene Dene- Fathers of Benet Bendt Lake Wis St St. Marys Mary's Church offers its it's best wl wishes hes to all Its It's parishioners for tor a happy Fourth Furth of ot July when special prayers for peace In our time will be beup offered up at mass moss on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock to which they are specially Invited to t come I The marriage of or Miss Sharyn Carter to Clyde Johnson was celebrated on Friday JorlI Fri Jorl I iday day last June 26 28 In St. St Marys Mary's at 7 I o'clock In the evening I The bride charmingly dressed was given away by her father lather Mr Albeit Albert i Carter who had returned for this happy occasion from Dalley Dailey City California I The bridegroom was attended by his hla brother Donald while Mrs Helen Han Han- sen am sen sister of the bride did honors as bridesmaid before a pretty large attendance attend attend- ance of relatives friends and guests vows were given and blessings bestowed on the couple for whom a party was later held hele |