Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-26
ST. VINCENT'S DAY.
1t Was Appropriately Celebrated in
Chicago.

Drated IN all Catholc cnurcnes last
Sunday. Special services were held
at st. yincent's Church, corner of
Webster avenue and Osgood street.
The Rev. Father McDermott, c. NJ,
of st. Vincent's College. Cape
Girardeau, preached an eloquent SER
mon, taking as a theme for his dis
course the virtue of self-denial.
The reverend father said the subject
was selected because the virtue of self
denial was prominent in the life and
actions of st. Vincent, and served as
motive for every act in his life. The
sermon was introduced by the presen-
tation of vision, picturing the be-
ginning of the celebration in heaven,
| the songs of triumph by the angels,
archangcls, and all the heavenly choir
in honor of ST. Vincent. They leaped
from heaven to purgatory, and passing
on from purgatory to the EARTH where
they were taken up by the church
militant, and thus the entire church
the church militant, the church tri-
umphant, and the church suffering
was pictured as joining in unison in
celebrating the praises of st. Vincent.
In this connection he said <"We have
assembled here to-day to do honor to
one of heavens best and noblest
princes. We are here to offer our
tribute Of love and respect to q truly
great man, to hero, to saint. We
are here in response to the voice Of
heaven and with desire to initiate
the acts of heaven, for the music that
floats DER the earth to-day is but the
cadence of a grand song, chanted in
heavens land of music. Yesterday
morning there arose from affairs almost
countless the incense of homage, of
veneration, and of praise in honor of
saint glorifed by God in heaven, rev
erenced by the faithful on earth, and
respected by the bitterest enemies of
the Christian religion. There is music
for us to-day in the name of st. Vim
cent; music like sweetest balm for
bruised hearts; that brings Joy to sor-
rowing souls and beauties humanity.
The song OF yesterday still goes on.
The rejoicing is not yet at an end and
to-day we sing the song of heaven. At
early dawn yesterday there arose in
heaven music soft and sinuous, insin-
uating coils and recoils of glorious
sound that leaped from strings of gold
and cleaved their way on arrowy pin
ions through heavens grand vaults.
| Up and down the aisles of heaven
foated the song, intensifying the
beauty, magnifying the splendor and
refining the harmony of this abode of
the God of music.
"Over and across the boundaries of
heaven sped this song, down to purga-
tory, and on across to he earth, and
to-day it is taken up by millions of
beings on Gods creation. Go where
you will to-day, and you will hear the
name of st. Vincent. Amid these
splendid demonstrations, what can we
do in our poverty? Nothing, indeed
adequate to the occasion, but our
hearts are true, our faith is strong, and
we can nope to win smile of appro-
baton from st. Vincent, although his
name means so much that when / APP
proach the subject | must bow in con-
fusion at my inability to give it the
proper treatment. St Vincent is a
subject suited even for the non-C atho-
lie pulpit His ideas were so broad,
his charity so comprehensive, that even
infdelity itself must give to him its
tribute of admiration. His life is a
beautiful garden, filled with choicest
fragrance. Entering this garden, we
are filed with wonder and admiration.
We are at liberty to move around and
pluck and carry away the choicest and
fairest flower; but everything is so
beautiful, so enhancing, that we know
not what selection to make. We stand
spellbound at the gorgeous scene be-
fore us. However, we will venture to-
day to stoop and pluck one little
flower. We will examine it carefully
and inhale thesweet perfume it throws
around us. The flower we have Sc
lected is lowly, hidden, and too often
despised. 1t il not pleasing at first,
for it is surrounded by thorns, but it is
rich rare, lovely flower, the seed
of which comes from heaven above"
With this introduction the speaker
entered into an exhaustive treatment
of self-denial, and taking the text, IF
any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, for a groundwork for
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