The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-01-16
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RituaIiSm
its Remarkable Growth IN Eeglan,

Its Remarkable GrOWtn III EeSlanu'
Ii is very remarkable to see how
carefully aud earnestly the Rllualistie
party in the English Church arc
building up system OF their own IN
side OF the National establishment.
they have Their oratories and their
homes for slsterho DDS III most large
towns; YOU meet their priests IN mo-
nastic dress, and their nuns, ON the
street; and the Consessional is now
as regular an Insulation in eome OF
their churches as in those OF the
Catholics, they are paying the utmost
attention to their schools, AMI there
has lately been prepared very com
pete instruction for the education Of
children, which is worthy of notice as
symptom OF the religious condition
OF this country. The first step is Tor
the priest who las charge OF a school
TO draw up a course OF instruction,
embracing dogma, morals, and wor-
ship. For the younger pupils, this
includes explanations OF the Greed,
the Ten Commandments, and the
Lords Prayer. For more advanced
scholars a general definition IS pro
posed like the following: Faith Is
4 supernatural. and theological virtue.
which is infused into man; which
makes him cleave firmly to all that
God has revealed, and 10 all that the
undivided Catholic Church has hand
ed down 20 us for our belief, both
because God, who is Truth itself
cannot believe us, and because the
Universal Church cannot wholly, ard
With ore accord, fall INTO essential
and important error.
In the school the boys are placed on
one aide aud the girls on the other.
The priest announces the subject tor
questions aud answers-'an article
81 faith. commandment ot God or
the Church, or whatove il may be. y
Turning first to the boys, he asks
them to suggest soma question on
the subjee, which he my PIT to the
girls, receives reply, and conveys it
TO the girls. receives reply, and
conveys it to the boys, asking il they
are satisfied with the answer. lfthe
BOYS demand proof of the reply, or
illustration, the question goes back
and forth, until considerable emula
ton is excited, and the matter runs
it's full length. Then the girls are
allowed to put return question.
The 'Instruc,ion' (which appears
in the Church Times), deals with the
subject OF ch,ldren's retreats, and
priests are recommended 10 arrange
such il possible, en- The principles laid
Town in a work entitled, "Re,ralte
Preparaoire a la Premiere Commun
son, par N EAbbet Mullois, Paris
Leon Fountaine, Editeur.' Child
ren's masses are earnestly recon-
mended. On such occasions the
children should be made to feel that
he service IS all their own. For
this purpose they should be grouped
as close as possible to the alter and
priest u ey only should be consider
ed, and, as far as possible, The service
should be accompanied by a running
OF their hymns 1t is
also recommended that the Stations
IT the Cross should be adapted TO |
services, as a substitute for
he ordinary catechising. The hymn
book in use is the Children at Cal
'ary. Nc mission, it is added, need
De without pictures OF the Sta
ions, the set OF which can be sccrr-
d ct rs low sum as two gnincas.
%, il is cYide II the Rltualism looks
0 great career, probably not with.
ut reason Others, also, see that
iis country is being divided into
so-camps Rltualism and Rational. ,
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