The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-30
FeaSt-Life of tho Church.

Our holy church keeps perpetual Feast.
Every day that comes and goes is sacred
day to her,-for each day bears written on
it's brow sanity names or holy mystery.
Her every day, like her every child, is
christened:. Her passxgs from day to day
is walk amid the saints and an ever
changing yet ever changeless worship of
her God. Beautiful lie her feast-life. Her
priests, Office In hand, are found at every
sunrise and every sunset, keeping feast for
her and her people. They fill the twilight
with Compliue-hymn and hail the dawn
light with matin- chant; and from morn
ing's rosy flush to Even's shadows they
weave halo of prayer for the brow of
every hour that goes up to God. Thus
does the Churcl, sanctify each day and ere
deem the. time" Her every day is a beau
tiful Memory,--a gracious history,-a holy
commemoration.
We Catholics should strive. to live the
feast-life of our Holy Church. Our day 8
should be more those days,-they should be
soul festivals.
Shall it be interesting to our readers and
worth our while if, every week we give q
briefepitome Of the supernatural and an
worldly days of our holy church We shall
try the task trusting that it will not be
frui lees: 20 -a- r.. .rn
To-day-June's thirtieth day, we COM
memorate the glorious Apos.olate Of st.
Paul. Down near Damascus Gods grace
met and conquered him, and he sprang
from the ranks Of Christ's prosecutors into
the fore front Of his Apostles. Jerusalem,
Antioch, Cypfas, Athens, Rome heard his
voice preach "Christ and Him Cruciaed."
The Christian world 10 never weary of
reading his grand epistles. But, sad to
say, Christian quotes his words against
Christian and his very words are used to
break asunder that charity which DE SO
beautifully calls "the bond of Peace.g
His last Epistle he wrote in hia owl
martyr blood, in the sear 6s-af Rome
july 1st-Octave Of st. John the BAPTIST
IT'S fitting that the name of the herald
of Christ should be heralded in the King
dom of the Saviour. A star, he lit the
shadows of the Old law passing away,-and
sank back in the light of the rising Sun of
the New. Before Christ's Calvary was
I0dCuOu anu tuo NTcuO was
written he died a martyr death,-bu the
light of his life shines across an Octave
every Christian year.
July 2d-Visitation Of the Blessed Virgin
Mary.
Her steps to the Mountain home of Eli
zabeth are eternalized in the Church. The
visit of the Queen to the vassal,-th meet
ing of the Mother of the unborn King with
the mother of the unborn herald,-the
grand act Of Faith of Elizabeth in the
Christ through the Christ's Mother,-the
sancti6cation of John the Baptist,-and
the glorious Magnifcat of Mary-these are
the supernatural CONSIDERATIONS of this day.
These make it feast worthy of everlasting
memory sweet to keep and leaving bless
ings when it passes
July 3d-St, Paul LIST, Pope and Comics:
Sor.
He lived in wild times, 757. His brother,
Stephen I'd had been pope before him.
Didier, the King of the-Lombards, fitting
predecessor of Victor Emmanuel, prosecuted
him :-whilst Constantine Compronymus,
the Bismarck of those days ragged against
him. He served his God and church ten
years,-and left to the world few letters
and the memory of holy life.
July 4th--St. Treneus-B Bishop and Martyr.
A child of Greece he knelt at the feet of