The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-02
brning Star and Catholic Messenger.
(From the New York Irish American.)
THE POPES TIARA,
S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
MOTHER MAGNIFICENT LECTURE by FATHER
BURKE. fi, sa4.
On Thursday evening, 10th of May, the Very
ey T. n Burke, 0. p. delivered q lecture in
e Academy of Music, in this city, in aid OF
be funds now being raised for the Pope ov the
Catholic Union" of New York. The lecture
as given under the immediate auspices OF
be members of the Union, to whom, as well
to the Rev. lecturer, the attendance must
nmense building being filled BY a brilliant,
pd most respectable and enthusiastic a"oi-
At 8 O'Clock, Archbishop McCloskey, accom-
hnied by the Very Rev. DR.. STAIRS, Y. g.. and
bout one hundred of the clergy of New York,
hd were received by the crowded house with
eafening applause; which was again renew
when the Very Rev. Father Burke, in bis
amincan habit, came for ard When se1, the
living respectfully saluted the Archbishop,
avanced to the front of the stage, and spoke
follows:
May it please your Grace: Ladies and Cen
emen-The subject on which propose TO ad-
ress you is: "Tbe Pope's Tiara, or Triple
brown it's Past, its Present and its Future"
Ne read of q celebrated orator of Greece, that
be grandest effort he ever made was in .
peech which he pronounced upon q crown. I
ish had, tonight, the genius or the elo-
uence of Demosthenes; for my theme, my
Eown, is as far beyond the glory of tho crown
Il which he spoke, as my thoughts and my
loquence are inferior to his.
Amongst the promises and prophetic words
bat we read in Scripture concerning our Divine
and We read sSai that It wfs pro
hat He should rule the nations; that He
hould wear g crown; and that His name was
D be called 1.-THE Prince of Peace" He came;
I'll - ~ hat
Him, and He transmitted His headship and
lis office in the Holy Church to be visibly ex-
Fcised and to be embodied before the eyes of
ben in the Pope of Rome. And. therefore,
ed upon His Vicar, He gave him that his
rows should wear q crown.. Therefore it il
hat, from the first day Of. the Church's his
Dry, her ruler, her Pope, her bead, rises before
s, sceptred man amongst men, and crowned
18th glorious crown. Therefore it is that,
ncircling his honored brows, for ages, tho
Eorld has beheld the triple crown, or tiara-of
Ehich I am to speak to you this evening.
wears for his crown q single circlet of gold.
Ornament it you will, there 10 but one cir
fle that would represent the meeting and the
the temporal interests and authority Of the
State. Upon the Pope's brows, however, rests
IA triple crown, called the tiara. 1t is made up
these is symbolical OF the universal episcopate
|of the Pope of Rome-that is to say, of his
headship Of all the faithful in the Church for
g there shall! be but one fold and one shep..
these circles that crowns the papal brows rep
resents the supremacy of jurisdiction, by
which the Pope governs not only all the faith
full in the world at large-feeding them as
holds the supremacy of Jurisdiction and of
power over the anointed ministers and the
episcopacy itself, in the Church Of God. The
third and last circle of this crown represents
IL he femnOral iDfneDca ha fou,p MI
which the Pope has exercised and enjoyed for
more than o thousand years in this world.
Behold then, what this tiara means. Upon
fnose great iesanat DAYS when ne all the catho
its highest, by its best and noblest, by its most
Intellectual Representatives in Rome, the Holy
Father was seen enthrened, surrounded by
cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops. bishops, the
priesthood, and the faithful. There he sat
upon his high, and ancient, and time-honored
throne; and upon his head did he wear this
triple crown, symbolizing his triple power.
Now, my friends, in the Church of God every
thing is organized everything arranged and
disposed in wonderful harmony which ex-
presses the mind and the wisdom of God
himself And, therefore, it is, that in every
detail of the Catholic liturgy and worship, we
find the very highest, and the very hottest gifts
symbolized and signified to the man of faith.
What do those three circles of the Pope's tiara
,nat God has set upon his Church. Secondly,
they signify the power and Jurisdiction that
God has conferred upon His Church. And
thirdly, they signify all these benefits of a
human kind, which the Church has conferred
upon tn world, and upon society.
The hrst circlet of this tiara represents the
unity of the Church. For, it tells the faithful,
that although they may be diffused all the
world over, although they may lie counted by
hundreds of millions, although they may he
found in every cline, and speaking every Ian
-guage, although they may be broken up into
various forms of government, thinking in
varied forms of thought, having varied and
dividing interests in every walk of life yet
the moment that it is u question of religion !;
the moment it is q question of mans highest
relation-that to God the moment that it is q
question of mans everlasting interest and of
the things that shall never perish but abide
with him for eternity-that moment, out of all
these varied elements, out of these multiplied
millions out ofthesedifferent a atoms rises one
thought, one act of obedience, one aspiration of
prayer, one uplifting of the whole man, body
and soul, in the unity of worship, which distin-
guishes the Catholic Church, the spouse of
Christ. This was the firstmark that Christ the
Son of God, set upon the brows of His Church.
He set upon her the glorious seal of unity in
doctrine that all men, throughout the world,
who belonged to her, were to be as one indivdu-
al man in the one soul, and the one beliefof their
divine faith. He set upon her brows the unity
of charity-thaJ all men were to be one, in one
heart and in one bond, which was to bind all