The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-25
synopsis Of Father Damcn's sermon
Last sunday


synopsis Of Father Damcn'a sermon
last sunday
Last Sunday being Palm Sunday, the SER
vices In tho morning NJ tho Church OF tho
Sacred Heart were, ~ Is usual on such IN oe'
casIon, grand and impressive. The audience
of worhipperA filled tho church, caoh MON .
ber bearing in the hand sprays of evergreen
Three fathers conducted the service, the con-
grcgalloR participating, according TO tho
forms and ceremonies OF Catholic devotion,
All O'Clock Father Damon, tho yenora'
bio missionary whose prolonged lIIo In tho
ministry has enabled him To give spiritual IN
struollOn 10 tho children Of two, and 0y0n TO
some oftho third generation, appeared and
discoursed on that gront theme OF Religious
controversy, "Pmnfnbalnnl alton, or tho
Sacrament of the lioy Eucharist Ailor
reading tho 18th md 2SIh yoros Of
tho xvi chapter Of Matthew he
said ! viii prove from Iorty'lyo toxb
Of tho Bible tho doctrlOe Of the
Catholic church. will prove
that tho Catholic religion Is the Bible rellg-
ion, md that Protcstaptisn stands condemn
Cd by is own Bible, md moreover ! will
prove that we must believe In mysteries
that Is, In truth which wo do not understand,
The Pr0sbytorlAna deny TINT
the roal body and blood Of Jcsus IL partakcn
OF, but tho brcnd md wine are used 0s m
emblem Of hrst. The Methodltts md
Bapilsts and some others my that In com.
munion We take bread and wine, not M m
omblcm of Christ hut in memory Of Christ,
The Lutherans say II Ia hread aud wine, but
the BODY and blood Of Christ nj tho same
time. Tho High Church Epi,copalinn says
IL Is the body and blood of Christ and there
Is no wine at all but II ia not transubsInnti-
alton; IL 10 the teaching Of the Catholic
church, established by jesus Christ, M
have proved in n previous discourse, and !
defy any ono 10 rcfute H. do not
care who no 10, Beechor or my ono else. |
say then that tho Catholic church teaches that
by tho power of God and by tho words Of
Jesus Christ, spoken by tho priests IN the
mass, tho bread and vino ARE changed into
the body and blood of Jesus Christ, aud nro
truly and really received by the faithful In
holy communion. Vicwing the doctrine Of
and tho doctrine of cath0lcity,
lot us SEQ which Is in accordance with tho
Bible Tho speaker here quoted from
Tho vi chapter Of 81. John commencing
with tho 10Th verso of the chapter, and
urged every ono TO read from this chapter Mt
nome; thon resumed, "wlth regard 10 the
ruth of transubstantintion, namely, that the
bread and tho wine, by the power Of God, and
Dy tho word of Jesus Christ, spoken by the
priest in tho mass, are changed into
he body and blood of Jesus. Has God
mid that it Is! For if God has said it, man
q bound 10 believe It. Well then, lot us SEQ
f God has said IL. You want tho Bible?
Yes, father, we want the Bible. Very well
hem you shall have it. Sand Jesus said,
I'm the bread of lite, which came down from
Heaven, | am the living bread, which came
lown from Heaven, and the bread that will |
i've TO you is my flesh" Amen amen say
into YOU, unless you cat the flesh Of the Son |
# nan, and drink his blood, you shall not
lave life in you. "Ho that eateth my flesh
md drinketh my blood hath everlasting life,
md shall raise him up On the last day"
Thus from the plain obvious meaning of
Gods Holy Book, you have tho Catholic
doctrine. In order to derive the Protestant
doctrine, You must say just the contrary.
The greatest philosophers, tho most scien-
life men of tho ago, have acknowledged
Int the world is full of mysteries and that
almost everything 10 n mystery. As the
mind of God Is unlimited and without
pounds, il follows that in tho mind Of God
here are vast truths which the mind Of man
,annot fathom, and all these truths in the
mind OF God which the mind of man cannot
all these are mysteries to the
mind of man.
The speaker called attention TO the words
If the institution of the Last Supper,
accorded in st. Matthew, XVI chapter and
18th verse: "And whilst they we're Mt supper,
Iesus took bread in His blessed and venora-
,le hands, and he blessed and brake, and
rave to his disciples, and said, Take and eat;
his is my body"
This was tho night before he died on the
cross; the night when, Cor the last time, he
was to be with bis Apostles in the flesh.
Who shall attempt to say that Christ ever
spoke anything but the truth? Who shall
attempt to call in question tho truth of the
words of tho son of GodS If then Christ
spoke tho truth the Catholic doctrine is the
The true one.
If you say that it was not his body and
blood. then, my dear friends, you give the
lie to Jesus. And where is the man who has
The daring insolence and blasphemy to accuse
The son OF the living God of q lie? You cam
not believe in Jesus and the Bible and hold
on to your professionalism, and deny that
Christ spoke the truth when He said it was
His body and His blood.