The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-28
ST. sTErsEvs Rsmls CAT .oMc CHURCH..

The Sucramcnt of tho blessed Euchnrist-Scr-
mon by Rev. Dr.. EycGiynn. 3uG
The ceremonies 1t st. Stephens Catholic church
yesterday were more than ordinarily impressive.
Tho devotion Of what is called The 'ory hoursn
begun At this church, so everything was done to
make the services as imposing az possible. At the
close OF tho high mass O procession was formed,
when the blessed sacrament was borne through the
church by the pastor, under q magnificent dais,
which was carried by eight gentlemen belonging to
the Sunday school. The liLany OF the saints was
then chanted. Owing to these services and tho
extreme length Of tho sermon, which lasted an hour
and twenty minutes, the congregation did not leave
the church until two O'Clock 49, that very small
portion OF It whe did not make 1t q point to steal
away before the procession ceremonies were begun.
The sermon was delivered by the Rev. DR.. McGlynn.
He took for his text the Gospel according to st.
John, W. 40-5s:"Your fathers did eat mamma in the
wilderness and are dead. T.is Ia the bread which
cometh down from heaven, that man may eat
thereof and not die.n That portion OF the Gospel
Was the WORDS Of tie Lord uttered when He i s
tuted the blessed sacrament IL mad been ioretold
by the royal prophet David - the prophecy
Christ. 1.-THE Lord hath sworn, and WIN not re-
these words Seod an order
different from that which the Jews possessed. with
which they were the most lanarElle order OF
SPOKEN Of also In the prophecy OF Machias. The Al
mighty. by the new Order required no longer
bloody Offering. but clean oblation; not one that
could be offered In bur special favored part Of the
earth and by the children OF -
FAVORED FAMILY
or race but by countless children or every cline,
from the remotest East to the rem0tcst West. This
new. unsiooay: clean otatlon was the sacrifice
and which was described in the sixth chapter OF the
Gospel according to St. John. Jesus Christ first per-
few flslcs and the vulgar crowd had crossed the
lake to see Hun perform new one. He had como
bodies with the perishable food Of earth. the mi
racles lie had already performed were but the
MERE ACCIDENTS
the mere incidents OF His career. He had come to
do more serious work than these. He had come
to build IN the spiritual edice OF the souls to give
men spiritual food, uron which their souls could
grow in strength and obtain an immortal life; TO
draw the love OF men from the perisnabe things OF
70 e "ye 81 neaa gs eaerm Inc v
out that their forefathers had been fed by God with
mamma when they were in The wilderness; but when
they were told that that mamma had not had the
power to their foreiathers from either material
or spiritual death they rejected His words ana
mesh 70 eat?h Even nowadays, as then,
the scolfers were not TO be found only
e the % o el were 10 be
many men seeking after the goods OF this world the
satisfaction Of the yanitles that It gives sco1ed aud
that
SOME or THE INFORMAL DISCIPLES cUARRELLED
with the Saviour when lie told them that they
should eat OF His flesh and drink of His blood to OBJ
tam life everlastlngs There were those among
them, the Gospel told us, who, when he announced,
sHe that eats Me shall also live by nie,p fell back
and walked no more with him. Our Saviour
would not, could not take bacK what
He had SAID. He had pledged His word. The
Eternal Father had sw ern yet the evangelist tells
that having sworn lie would also keep his word It
would seem, then, chat IN making the promise He
had, God had but too many reasons to believe that
He would be, as 1t were, tempted not to fulfil His
PROMISE He promised q great blessing by which
to conquer the human heart, BY excuses or Divine
love to gain their love. IL was Wen for the apostles
that they did believe when He announced The
mystery OF the blessed sacrament to them. for had
they not He might have raised up even from the
stones by the wayslde
BETTER AND MORE WORTHY FOLLOWERS
to spread His doctrines over the world When Peter
In their name cried cut, "LOrd, to whom shall we
go? Thou hast the words OF eternal life,n lie re-
sp0nded for all OF us who believe in Him. Was 1t
possible that We after lapse Of eighteen centuries
with clouds OF martyred ancestors lowering about
us as Witnesses OF the truth OF the Great Sacrilce
wolld at this late day, hesitate to choose between
The reverend speaker then. at very great
length, went on to show how those
the body and blood Of Jesus Christ.
under the form and appearance OF bread and wine.
God, he said, did not desire us to deny our own
senses. The body and blood Of Christ which we
rartook OF IN the communion, was not only under
the form and appearance Of bread and wine, but 1t
tasted like bread and wine It was under this form
and appearance the Lord lid himself in order that
we should understand that he was really the bread
VI life, which he gave MS for our souls sustenance.