The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-31

harps in Tire midst of this Babylon, to the
sounds of gladness, let rs not forget "Mount
Sion" but turn our eyes and hearts to "the
New Jerusalem, our Mother, the City Of the
Saints, the Court of GoS!" 1t 10 for the
everlasting echoes of those vaults above
that We practice our A,leluias In this vale
of tears. Oh may our hearts and voices be
one day found worthy to associate with l.i the
honor, glory, benediction and power to our
! COO for ever and everw
o, happy souls, who have risen with
Christ, this Ia your day Of triumph. Faith
| full souls, "who have remained with Him
| the bitter "chalice VIII IN He drank" nor
the bloody baptism with which He was
baptized" this is your day of exultation
apd glory. Easter is, for you, the foretaste
of heaven! You have fas:ed, prayed, wept
and suffered with Jesus. You have listened
your cross, and followed Him" to Calvary.
With Him you have died to sin, and risen
| to q new life. Having "suffered with Him."
you may now hope to he " glorifed also
| with Him."
Oh rejoice you with Jesus, because you
have mourned with Him. Rejoice, because
"the winter is now past, the rains and
storms are gone, the vines in flower have
put forth their sweet smell, the voice of
the turtle-dove is heard in your land" and
jesus, the Spouse of Love, bas invited you
| from the hard +" ceilars of Libanus," which
He has :" broken BY His :" voice, to the
summit of Golgotlla, the Mount of Lovers,
| there to merit and receive an immortal
crown.
o, all you faithful lovers Of Jesus, rejoice
on this great Day of the glorifcation of
your Lord! Rejoice without fear, for in
His Resurrection every thing speaks Of
triumph to Him, and of consolation to you.
Rejoice exceedingly exult without mea-
| sure; indulgefn ali the purest transports
of holy joy, for this is the glorious, the
| august, the venerable Day, which the Lord
Himself has made. This is the Day whose
dazzling brightness shall be dimmed by no
! sunset the Day which "Abraham saw, and
he was glad;" the day for which the saints
of old sighed through the long vista OF
years; the Day on which /" the Only Begot-
ten Of the Father fully proved the divinity
of His origin; the Day on which that Eter-
nal Father can say to Him with confidence,
with Thee is Principality in the day OF
Thy might, in the brightness Of the Saints
Thou art Ny Son. This day have begot-
ten Thee"
This being the solemn time selected by
the Church for all the Faithful who have
arrived at the years Of discretion to ap.
proach the Holy Communion, millions OF
Catholics throughout the world, sit on this
Day at the Table of the Lord, and feast on
"the bread of Angela"
| AnO Win Wn8C OoVOClOn, gratitude, anu
love should not be received on this Day
the Adorable Body of Jesus that Body
which, for the ransom of our sins, was cx.
posed to so many indignities, and treated
with 30 much cruelty; that Body which
was basely sold, betrayed with kiss, de-
livered into the hands of sinners, buffeted,
spit upon, scourged, crowned with thorns,
nailed to the cross, pierced with lance,
and deposited in the tomb!
Doubtless all true lovers of our crucified
f King who have the happiness to be pre-
pared to receive Him in the Holy Eucharist
on this suspicious Day, will, in imitation
OF the devout women, and the faithful
, Magdaien, came early in the mourning, with
! their ointments to honor His Sacred Body.
And when they shall receive It-when
they themselves become the monument
in which the Body of Jesus is laid,
oh! with what heartfelt and ardent
} love will they not strive to embalm 1T
With what holy eagerness will they not
endeavor to make 1t every atonement in
their power for all 1t has endured in this
week from the hands of sinners; for the
many occasions, perhaps, in which it has
been outraged and irreverently treated by
themselvesf
And what ineffab!e peace will not Jesus,
in the Holy Eucharist, speak to the heart
on this Day, and say to it, as he did to His
Disciples, after His resurrection, Peace l
leave you. Ny peace give YOU"