The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-15
and statuary during this solemn time, in the

Was but the sun's re.i,,Hg glance
Shot on the he SEss5y w ST bPoaS
Q Beneath Fable pail of cloud.
Rise my soul. perennial Light;
Thou art NOT Sq 1snSst6, but S hid from sight
Thou wilt Thy TSs s,sps ct scsrow
To rice resplendent on the MORROW.
"a Our pictures draped, in mourning guise.
y Thy darkeD'd lustre 81 mbolizei
And ebviouB veils for once deny
Art fails to teach. and forms give place.
Away with aian and semblance now!
None can express Thys:lt but Thou:
Withdraw before the Crucifed;
Nor let Sbe bounds of sense control
The vision Of the ranging soul
O suffering saviouri fill my heat;
Sin was Thy Passions fercest smaIt;
Twas not the cruel Jevs but we
DUR ppids ride rs z sss Of e race this
Which stung Thy soul like Judas kiss
More, moro to Thee than scourge nail
" WaS that far ar, st n dsa'hful tale
And to the Day Of Doom to run.
Rose to Thy Minds affrighted Eye.
OF sins completed and forecast
Th hs I tss %sSea
The sins that fed Gnnaorra's fire,
The sims that that S ssea Thy sacred Blood
Nor least lowest in the line.
Thy sins, poor child of God, and mine.
Among other points of deep interest in the
devotional aspects of the Catholic Liturgy,
there is one connected with the Holy Sacra-
ment of the Altar, in which, with mingled
feelings of awe and love, Canon Oakeley most
reverentially treats of this solemnly and
eucharistic mystery of Life and Christian
Faith:
The Saving Victim, as in love He comes
At sacertotal bidding to renew.
In IA
Or mounts His saoramental Throne to shed
Calm benediction on adorins crowds:
The Worship OF the Lamb-a glimpse Of heav'n
And wave their golden thuribles and wake
Unearthly music from their myriad harps.
The learned author, noted in England for his
elegant scholarship as we'll as profound the.
ology, in his beautiful Lyra Liturgice fully
realizes and expresses the sublime idea of the
unbloody Sscrifce-the clean oblation-of the
Christian Altar, and, therefore, a correspond
ing conception of the dignity, the privileges,
the teaching authorities and the great respon
sibilties of the Priesthood of the Church, so
appropriately illustrated in the folio wing lines
on the
CHRISTIAN PRIESTHOOD.
Draw near J Q Christian Priests;
Whence date the elories Of your saintiy line:
When first the Incarnate God
Himself men bestow'd:
And laid on you to guard and give the Boon Divine.
And lifta with holy hands
The Victim pure, 40 loving ct SO dread
Odignty immense!
Ojoy surpassing sense:
He acts his savour's part, and offers in Bis stead.
His fellows at the Board
Have eaton, and adored;,+
Heirs of His charge rye. and Pertners of His gift
His privilege TO share.
And muse in silence on their high vocations drift.
What hallowing thoughts arise!
What gracious memories
Flow from that 1et and float around its source!
We're ,s saSsH S 81 grace.
course:
Thoughts Of that seivioe sweet,
OF those y. sSeS si as at the 5SS Saviour
Thoughts on the favor spent.
With unreserved intent,
tray'd.
Where graces most abound.
There sins are deepest found
The light which shines when used
The love which fires the Saint win steel the reprobate
From this hastily prepared sketch of Oak
eley's liturgical work, in itself literary gem
those of our readers not familiar with the
formularies of the Church Catholic, will b.
able to perceive the wisdom, the beauty, the
sacred nature of her divine offices, divided a.
Gnoy arc iulO uI5IoEyI Jug "SJ PEoyeEi praise
and last, because highest and sublines: of all
Sacrifice, which alone fnlflls the ancient pro
phecy of there being a sacrifice offered up {,
His Name, from the rising to the going dow
of the sun, in all ages aud among all nations
s.
Have eaton and adored."-Psatms xxi, 30
ion Maunday 1hursday one Mass only is said in eacl
church and the priests who do not celebrate recevt
the Communion in one kind at it.