Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-02

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| Sermon.
Sunday at about $50 an immense
crowd gathered in the new Cathedral
to witness the imposing ceremonies of
conservation. About this time the
procession of clergy entered, headed
by Arch bishop Alemany, of San
Francisco, followed by Bishops Amat
and Mora, Arch Deacon Father III. z.
Gallagher, of San Francisco, Father
Buchard, S. j., of San Francisco;
Father Lentz, o. p, of San Francisco, a
Dominican monk, with white wooden
habit; Father Romo, o. S. F., ofSanta
Barbara, of the Franciscans, common
ly known as bare-footed monks, in
gray habit; Father Hudson of Gilroy;
Father Mahoney of Watsonville;
Father Adam of Santa Cruz; Father
Rousselle of San Luis Obispo; Father
John Comauplat of San Buena Ventu-
ra; Father Verdageur, Father Durand,
Father Pratt and Father Cells of Los
| Angeles; Father O'Brien and Father
Richardson of st. Vincent's College;
Father Stockman of San Bernardno;
Father Bot Of San Gabriel; Father
| Nut of San Juan Capistrano; Father
Feuran of Anaheim, Father Pujol of
Santa Barbara; Father Abach of San
| Diego.
In consecrating q Catholic Church
or Cathedral to divine worship it is
necessary to have the building free
| from debt, or the ceremony is merely
| a blessing. The consecration is not
merely formal matter, not merely
| the outward expression of the form of
| the Catholic church, but every part of
| the ceremony has spiritual signifi-
cance, which we have not time here
to explain. 1t is the soul or spirit of
the ceremony that interests the Cath
| Ollie and not the outward form. The
essence of the ceremony consists of
| prayers, unctions or amounting with
holy oil, and sprinkling with holy
water; professions around the church
exterior as well as interior: twice from
right to left and once from left to
right, outside and inside; the Gregori-
an chant by the priests being the only
are blessed and sprinkled in and
dIOuuQ tilt CnuTCu anu tue uOOIS dIt
marked with holy water.
The seven penitential psalms were
chanted without litany, after which
the procession, headed by Sub Deacon
Father Mahony, bearing the cross,
acolytes carrying lighted candles,
priests in surplice, Archbishop Ale
many, attended by Arch Deacon Faith.
er Gallagher, Bishops Amat and Mora
and Master of Ceremonies Father M.
Durand, left the church and took posi-
ton outside of the doors, where pray
ers were said and the procession trav-
ersed the exterior of the church, from
right to left twice and from left to
right once, at the end of each circuit
the Archbishop striking the door with
the end of his pastoral staff
three times and singing in Latin,
Cliff up your heads, o ye gates; and
be ye lifted up, we everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in."
Deacon Hudson, within, asking in
Latin, "Who is this King of glory ?"
The consecrating Arch Bishop re-
spending 1.-THE Lord, strong and
mighty, the Lord mighty in battle"
In traversing the church the Arch
| bishop spl inkled it with holy water
and after the third trip around the
church the procession re-entered the
inte rior.
The church was sprinkled with
ashes in two lines, twenty-three piles
to each line, in the shape of st. An
drew's Cross. The procession then
cross from left to right the Archbishop
with his staff marking a character of
the Greek alphabet on each pile of
ashes on one limb of the cross and
travelling from right to left marking
on the other limb of the cross Latin
letter on each pile of ashes.
CONSIDERATION OF THE ALTAR.
The altar was consecrated with
prayers, unctions with holy oil, and
sprinkled with holy water. The Arch
bishop made with holy water a cross
at each corner and one in the centre,
then traversed the altar seven times,
sprinkling it and chanting psalms.
The procession then passed around the
church three times, sprinkling the
walls, which was followed by pro-
cession of relics around the outside.
THE PoNTIFICAL MASS.
At 1:30 P. NJ, Pontifical mass was
celebrated; Bishop Mora, celebrant,
Father Gallagher, assistant priest,
Father Romo, deacon of the mass,
Father Cells, sub-deacon, Fathers Du-
rand and Adam, masters of ceremO.
MES. The choir rendered Mozarts
18th mass in fine style.
THE SERMON.
Father Buchard, of San Francisco,
was orator of the day, and delivered
an impressive sermon of forty min
utes. He dwelled impressively on
Solomon's Temple and remarked its
material splendor. He contrasted it
with the church of to-day and i'm
pressed his hearers with its smallness
compared with the spiritual splendors
of the humblest Catholic church of to-
day. How much the churches of to-
day are superior In spiritual grandeur
to the earthly granduer of Solomon's
temple! How they are calculated to
inspire devotional feelings. The bells
even awake the holest feelings. The
baptismal font at the entrance stirs
us to our inmost depths. The con-
fessional, where sins are cleansed and
where we are made new men, is In our
view as we enter the church. The al
tar in which is the consecrated bread
of life, the eucharistic sacriilce which
nourishes us to life everlasting faces
us. How holy ought we to live as our
bodies are temples of the Holy Ghost,
sanctified by Christ.
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