The New York herald., 1878-11-18
passeth all understanding" and which the Gospel
proclaimed was the snrest token of salvation.
ST. PATRICK's CATHEDRAL.

PRAYERS FOR SOULS IN PURGATORY--SERMoN
Ry REV. FATHER FARLEY.
Solemn high mass was celebrated in st. Patrick s
Cathedral in Mott street. half past ten O'Clock by
Rev. Father Lynch. In addition to the regular quar-
tet choir. led by the organst Mr. John White, there
was volunteer choir OF upward of hundred voices,
who are practising for grand to be given in
aid of the Cathedral. Rev. Father Farley preached.
the subject being the duty of praying for souls in
purgatory. He called attention TO the fact that the
LIST of the month All Saints Day and the I'd All
Souls Day and then went to say that II pre-
cious duty TO beg God to hasten the joys of the de-
parted Of which they are in the end certain. but
which can only be attained after long suffering. The
Church. in her anxiety for the souls of those gone
from this life had form directed that that day
not only every offered up should be for the souls
OF the departed, but that private prayers should be
offered up Also We are too apt to forget friends
when they are dead. Our memory of them is ~ a
rule, too short lived. Even those for whom
willing to make every sacrifice and every selfdenial
while living, when the grave closes over them too
often memory of them is buried in the same tomb.
The Church knows this, and she knows also that
need to be reminded that the Saviour is still ready
and able to save from worse than death, He
when He brought to life again the daughter OF the
ruler mentioned In the gospel Of the day. There
other reasons tender than this invitation
of the Church. Are not bound to these souls
either by ties OF friendship of kindred of justice
OF charity? Many OF them have shared past joys
and our past sorrows-parents. perhaps. who wept
with US in our sorrows and rejoiccd with in
joys. And all that they ask for their toilings
and anxieties for is the sacrifice of few minutes
daily OF that life which they the instruments of
bringing us into. Perhaps when they earth
we did not love them as tenderly. rs dearly,
should have loved them and, in consequence have
been stricken with remorse. But remember that in
death we aid them more etfectuay than while in
life, for our prayers for their souls assist in
fastening them to that JOY which snrpasseth under
standing
BOUND JUSTICE CHARITY.
We are bound in justice to those souls in purg-
atory, because many of them may be suffering for
sins caused by evil example. There are
more lives affected by example, more good or evil
have any idea Of. 1t may be that some
soul is suffering the pains of purgatory
because OF some words OF ours thoughtcssly spoken
or some action carelessly performed. We are bound
in charity, for while we know of deaths of many
doubt of their salvation. yet know Of many whose
lives were not what they should have becn and whose
death came sudden that there not moment
left to sigh out for mercy. To these bound in
charity. Their suffcrngs may be long and their
agony intense. Why should We not listen to their
cry of Distress? II ship in distress is the
shore the question does not arise whether those
board are friends or foes. The lfeboats manned
and lives rsked to those in peril Shall we
then stand the shore of life and look out upon the
souls tossing on the of eternity and remain
not have 1t a dead faith must act upon 1t. 1t liz
the meaning of that article of the creed-the COM
munon OF saints. Father Farley quoted from several
OF the saints in proof of the existence or purgatory
and that the suerings of souls confined there could
be benefited by the prayers of those earth. He
also quoted from the words of the Council OF Trent
which held that not only the sacrifice of the mass
but prayers numerous deyotions, to many Of which
indulgences were attached, and even aims giving
were etiicacious. Think, he concluded, what a
sweet thought it is that the trfe OF aims which you
may give here to appease the hungry may purchase
for some soul in purgatory an admittance to the
celestial banquet OF God.