The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-16
n rning Star and Catholic Messenger
NV ORLE4Ns, SUNDAY, APRIL 49, 1911.

n ,rning Star and Catholic MessengeI
NV ORLEANS. sGsDxY APRIL 10. ls7l.
April.
The Liturgy of the Church is silent this
wear regarding all the Saints between the
"a and the 18th Of April, in order that the
hearts Of the faithful may be wholly a6-
.orhed in the grief, and then in the glad
ness of the Sacred and the Immaculate
Hearts of the Son and Mother. The only
noticeable Saint whose Feast is thus trans
ferred, is St. Leo the Great, Q!th.) April
ends we'll with glorious Virgin, 80 rich IN
natural and supernatural gifts. some oi
our readers may recollect the extraoruI,
.ry devotion manifested towards st. cam
Archbishop, DR.. Dixon, the first OF the
successors of His Eminence Cardinal ul-
len in the Primatial chair of Armagh,
1t is we'll for those who fast, ana Ior
Lent, the life of st. Francis of Paula, (2d:)
His whole life was q more severe Lent,
wear after, Sunday and Monday, week at
for week, all the year round, than our
most rigid Ash Wednesday or Good FRIDAY Gay
and to make sure of heaven, but we take
different way. Well, let us beware OF
making the difference too marked, OF mis- .
taking cowardice for discretion. 'St.
Francis prescribed to his followers (the
Minims) a fourth vow, to observe per-
petual Lent, and always to abstain, not
only from flesh, but also from all white
meats or food made of milk, such as cheese,
butter, ETC., also from eggs, all OF when
tention in observing and enjoying this per-
petual abstinence was to repair In some
sort the abuses of Lent among Christians.
He always lamented to see that holy fast
90 much relaxed, by the mitigations which
the Church has been obliged to tolerate In
condescension to tie lukewarmness of the
generality of her Children" I hope that,
beside the "lukewarmEess," the altered
constitution of man, perhaps altered CHI
mates, and certainly altered social circum-
stance, the harder work, the harder strug-
gle of modern life, have something to dc
with the change. But, though we may not
feel vocation to become Minims, let us be
true Christians. "What shame to be dell
. thornsm That is a saying of st. Bernard
but there is one uttered by St. Francis o
Paula most worthy Of remembrance. II
convince an obstinate impugner OF the mol;
Institute God had inspired him to found
the same God inspired the Saint to TAX
some burning Goals, which he held long /
his hands without receiving any hurt an
then he said: GAN creatures obey thos
who serve God with perfect heart" :Ihel
\ are few passages in the lives OF the sam
! more Impressive than that which relates
the last illness of Louis ri, OF France, an
his desperate clinging to life, and how En-
peror and Pope used their authority wit
St. Francis of Paula, the former unsucces
fully and the latter successfully, to mai
the Saint travel all the way from Caiabr
to the kings court at TOuvs, and final
how. if he did not restore the poor king,
health, he made him content and fit to 81
The life of St. Laserian april IL
which barely fills half page in Alban Blu
ler.shas been told more fully and accurat
" then ever before in the clever and Y
ried pages Of the Carlow College Magasi
A series Of papers, concluded in the Jan
ary4 number, discusses every paf ;ESI
ofgafse1t tradition, evidently inspired
filial piety towards the Patron of Leig
in-that sunited See" which furnished
last of DR.. Doyle's famous initials, -.
L." .I.o
memorated St. Galdin Archbishop of Mil
in whose life there is nothing so notew
thy as the ending of it. On the last day
his life, though too weak to say Mass,
mounted the pulpit at the Gospel
preached with great vlgor long =
pathetic sermon but, towards the end
fell into a swoon, and before the end
Mass, expired in the pulpit, on the 1Stl
April, ll76. A distinguished FIe
speaking of the joys of Heaven, pat
and bent forward and after few min
the people saw that he was dead. A
py death was that, too, OF Father Ci'
de la ClorlVlere, dying sweetiy ouiins
thanksgiving at the altar-rails. HI
though sudden: for we do not pray in
LitaSy to be delivered from q su
death, bat from a sudden and unpro'
death. Take US, o Lord, in Thy own
time but from an unprovided deaf
Lord, deliver us.-Sacred Heart.
There are in the United Kingdom t
Ave Roman Catholic peers and forty
Roman Catholic baronets. or the
one is a duke-Norfolk; one mar
Butte, who Joined the Church OF no
L. anrls and n cOun