The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-05

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We know the dear, venerable face so well, tina
we linger within its presence, and feel that tn.
road before us has been made smoother by hi!
unfailing charity and zeal.
And this calm, shrouded form is that of St
fCamillus, founder of the order Of Serrants o.
the Sick, established in Rome, in 1884. Afflicted
with an iticurable disease himself, he meditated
upon the sufferings of those who, sick in hos
pitfalls, were left to the care of hired nurses
and devoted himself to these poor being s with
SO much affection, piety and diligence that it
was plain to all that he saw Christ Himself ly-
ing sick or wounded in His members.
But as We pass along our way, we pause to
bow the head before st. Bonaventura so re-
nowned for wisdom, learning ara sanctity,
| and to whose zeal and fervent love of God, we
owe the evening salutation to the Blessed
Virgin Mary in honor of the Incarnation. This
was in the year 1866 and yet we hear the
same sublime words resounding at set of sun
these warm July evenings, as were offered up
at Assisium six hundred years ago!
And SO We journey through the shining July
days, bright with holiest names and beautiful
with most heroic deeds, until we reach the last
grand figure on onr road. Grandee of Spain,
knight of every gallant deed, it is with thrill
of reverential love we write the name of st.
Ignatius of Loyo ola At first, SO full of worldly
vanity, it is recorded that having q pro-
trudiug bone just beneath his knee, he b ad it
sawed off merely that his boot and stocking
might fit handsomely; and afterwards so
humble and mortified, so unambitious of
earthly glory, that he gave his rich robes to a
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Mon tserat, and with one foot bare and the
other wrapped in cloth, started forth on that
wonderful road of sanctity which makes his
memory power upon earth. Saying to him
self: {" 1t is not enough that serve the Lord,
all hearts ought to love him, and all tongues
ought to praise him." he gave himself to the
service of souls, and served under the stand
ard of Christ with a more fiery zeal than nm
der that of the Emperor Charles v. But the
influence of his holier victories is felt througha
out the ages and no form of error has ever
triumphed against that Company of jesus
which rallied first around his name
And now having reached this point of the
Church's garden, look back along the
shining path and compare our poor, puny self
love with the grand proportions of the Saints,
and surely the thought of the brave, patient
souls who passed along the very road we walk,
must animate us in our pilgrimage here below.
They bore the same assaults, met with the
same difficulties, encountered the same trials
as we have done; but their perfection, accord.
ing to the teachings of the Church, consisted
in doing every action-evep the most trivial
in the most perfect manner. Let us rouse
to act like them, to bear, forbear, to
toll and suffer, to love and pray like them,
with our faces ever turned towards the fields
Of light that lie beyond our view, and then
like them, we shall reach the promised goal
aud win the glorious crown. And so we leave
July, with its pagan name and its Christian
to enter somewhat later upon an
other garden-path, with it's beautiful statues
Of virgins, queens, warriors and kings, all
clothed with the radiant robes of holiness, and
all pointing to the same bright fields of Joy
beyond.