The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10
M,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, MARCH TO- 1872.

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NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. MARCH 10. 1917.
Sunday Of tho Rose. r.. q.
We have termed this, the fourth Sunday
of Lent, the Sunday of the Rose, because
on this day a Golden Rose is blessed by
the Pope with great solemnity at Rome.
The day is more joyful than the other
Sundays in Lent; the deacon aud sub
affairs are adorned with flowers, images and
relics, the organ is permitted to play; the
Rose is filed with musk and baIsam, and
the Cardinals who assist at its benediction
are attired in rose colored vestmeuts. The
Pope carries this Rose in his hand, as an
emblem Of joy, on going to, and returning
lemme. The Rose exceeds all other flowers
in it's color, smell and savor, and aptiy re-
presents the exnltation of the Church, re-
joicing on this day on having accomplished
the half Of her penitential course, and rest
ing, as it were, to recruit her strength 1or
the performance Of the remainder, accord
ing to the advice of the poet: lnterpone
tuis interdum gaudia curtis" The custom
of presenting the Golden Rose to sover-
eigns and mobiles is very ancient, but the
first account we have of it's being blessed
occurs in the life of Pope Innocent w.,
who gave Blessed Rose to the Canons of
st. Justus at Lyons, whose hospitality he
then enjoyed.
Fulk, Count of Apjou, relates how be
received the Rose from Pope Urban H.,
and decreed that it should be- carried in the
solemn procession of the Osanna palm
Sunday ty himself and his successors.
phonsus, King of Spain, with q letter,
(Epist. lxxii.) in which he thus writes:
GAS proof of our good will and favor to-
wards your Majesty, we have taken care to
send you by our venerable brother, the
Bishop of Segovia, the Golden Rose, which,
as an emblem of the Passion and Resurrec-
tion of Christ our Lord, the Roman PontiR
is accustomed to carry every year on the
Sunday when LGtare Jerusalem is sung, in
order that, being Influenced by the memory
of this Rose, you may strive with the Lords
assistance to fill up in your body those
Christ, and that thus through His compass
|sionate clemency you may deserve to attain
Ito the grory of His Resurrection"
We have similar accounts of the manner
in which the Golden Rose was given by
Pope Alexander III. to Louis VII. of
the Doge of Venice by Innocent Nv. to
Raymond, Count of Provence; by Urban
V. to Waldemar, King of Denmark, who
was at Rome in 1864 by the same Pope
Ito Joan, Queen of Sicily; by Sixtus Nv. to
Ernest, the Elector of Germany, etc.
We copy the following brief account of
the ceremony from the Able GeTamb's
Journey to Rome, page 1855:
the chprs the o o1a Sunday 1@a1s
the Pope, dressed in his pontifcal habits,
blessed Golden Rose adorned with pre-
|cious stones, pronoancing over it those
beautiful and touching words: go God,
whose power has made all things, and
whose power governs and sustains all o
a nd y<~e 81,
faithful, vouchsafe to bless and sanctify
this brilliant and oderiferous Rose. Thy
people, delivered from the slavery of Baby
Jon by the grace of Thy Word, who, by
taking flesh, became the glory and joy of
Israel, the King of the heavenly JerIsa-
carry this Rose as sign of Happiness and
Joy, as the symbol of that mystic Root of
D esse, of that Flower of the Field, of that
Lily of the Valleys, which Thy prophets
ANNOUNCED and sung, and under the image
of which they predicted and typi6ed the
Saviour. He is that eternal Rose, engen-
dered in Thy bosom, who has gladdened
and embalmed the world After tbs the
Pope annoits it with balm, sprinkles it with
some musk powder and holy water, in
censes it, and deposits it on the altar,
where it remains exposed during the holy |
sacrifice. Formerly the Project of Rome |
received this Rose, in return for the hon.
at present the Pope sends it to some Chris
tan king or queen. unless some monarch
or other distinguished parsonage should be
at Rome on this day, to whom it would be
thought suitable to present it.. What
touching recollections are recalled by this
Rose! how many pious allegories does it
suggest! Thus, my dear Charles, religion
ennobles every thing: there is nothing in
nature which does not lead us to the Crea-
tor"
On the Wednesday after the Dominica
Lstare, the solemn scruteny of those cate
chumens who were to be baptized at Easter,
was formerly held in the Church. The
Four Gospels were read for them, and the |
Lords Prayer and the Greed were delivered |
to them. Muratori has published this an
cient rite, with all the accompanying |
prayers and the portions of the Gospels
which were read. The admonitions deliv-
Erred on the occasion show the profound re-
Spec of the Church for the Word of God,
end her anxiety that the Faithful should
mediate upon it. This ancient
rite was long preserved, and is probably
kept up to the present day, in the church
|of Vienne in Dauphiny.