The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-14
CATHOLIC news
The Rosary Society the
Strongest Organization
in the Church.
POPE LEo's LATEST ENoYCLlCAL.
Mission To Be Held At st. Mary's
st. Michael's
Parish News.

One of the strongest organizations In
the Catholic Church is the Rosary So
clety. Connected with every church In
every case 1t has the largest membership
OF any society In the parish. 1t is q re-
ligious society. its communion and meet
| ing day being on the FIRST Sunday of every
month.
Pope Leo XIII, under date Of Septem-
Der s last. issued an eucycical on the
Rosary. the extracts Of which printed
below will be read with interest by all
Rosary members. and in fact. by all
Catholics. He first alludes to his happily
attained episcopal jubilee, aud takes oc :
casion to again say that he recognizes the
special protection of the Blessed Virgin.
and the progress of the devotion to the
Holy Rosary. Continuing, the ency-
clical reads:-
''There is none who does not know
how. in fulflmeut OF the duty Of our
Supreme Apostolate, we have slriveu, az
OF God, to labor for the happiness aud
prosperity of society. Often we have
warned those who have the power not to
make laws or apply them except
In tho sense of the Divine thought.
We { have exhorted those whose
genius. merits. nobility of blood pr
fortune have raised them above their fell
low citizens to bring their united intelli-
gence aud power TO bear in lRboring more
efficaciously to strengthen and defend
the common interests; but in civil soci~
ETY.. such as we see it constituted today,
there are numerous and multiplied
cause which weaken the bonds OF public
order and turn people aside from the way
OF honesty and good morals.
"These causes seem to us to be chiefly
the three following, namely, aversion to
an humble n labortous life, horror of
all that causes suffering. and forgetfui-
ness of future happiness, the object of
our hope.
AVERSION TO AN HUMBLE LIFE.
I'VE see with sorrow-and even those
who only judge everything by the light
OF human reason and according TO utilit-
arian principles recognize and deplore it
along with us-that a deep wound has
stricken the social body, since we see
neglected, and as it were disdalned, the
duties and virtues which sdorn the sins
pie, common life. Hence. In effsct. at
the domestic hearth. that obstinate re-
sistance of children to the obedience
which nature itself imposes on them,
and thar iulpatience in bearing every
yoke other han that of softness and
voluptuousness.
Hence in man. condemned to toll.
that seeking to withdraw and tiy from all
painful LABOR, that profound discontent>
edness with this LOT. that aiming at a
higher RANK. those thonghtless aspira-
lions after IN equal partition In prop
erty. q other ambitions OF the same
kind. which cause people to desert the
country TO plunge into the tumult aud
pleasures of large cities. Hence that
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different classes of society, that universal
disquietude, those hatreds and poignant
jealousies. those fragrant variations of
right-tu dne. those unceasing efforts of
all the deluded to disturb the public
peace by seditions and uprisings. and at,
tack those very people whose mission is
to protect them.
DESIRE TO sHIRK PAIN.
"A second extremely lRmentable evil,
and which we can never sufficiently den
piore, because it continually increases
from day TO day, to the great detriment
Of souls. is the deliberate desire to shfrk
pain and employ every means to avoid
suffering and repel adversely.
For the great majority OF men the
reward Of virtue, fidelity and duty, of
labor endured and obstacles surmounted.
is nc longer. as it should be. la peace aud
liberty of soul; what they pursue. rs the
height Of felicity, Is a chimerfcal copdt-
ton OF society in which there shall be
nothing TO be endured, and in which one
shall at the same time enjoy every earthly
pleasure. Now 1t Is impossible that souls
should not be sullied by this unbridled
desire of pleasure; II they DO not become
its complete victims 1t always pro iuces
such an ~enervation that when the ills OF
life make themselves felt they shame
fully bend beneath them. and end by
miserabiy succumbing to them,
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The third kind OF evils to which 1t Is
necessary to apply a remedy is specially
characteristic OF men of our time. Those
of former ages, even though they some
times loved more ~passionateiy tue things
of earth, did not, however, absolutely dis.
dain heavenly things, thus to the pagan
sages themselves this life seemed like a
guest house and a temporary abode
rather than a fixed aud lasting dwelling.
Men of our days, on the contrary, al
though nurtured in Christianity, pursue
the perishAble goods of the present life in
SUCH a way that they would like not only
to forget, but, through an excess of
abasement, even effacs the memory of u
better land in eternal happiness, as IL St.
Paul had warned US In vain that We had
not here a lasting dwelling place, bat
that we seek one to come-non hatemus
hicmanentem civitatem sed futuram in
quirimus (Hebrews. xiii. 14).
1T We examine into the cRuses OF this
alteration. the first which presents it,
self is the persuasion Of a great number
that the pre-occupa,lon of future things
extinguishes the love of the earthly
fatherlapd and Is detrimental to the pros
perity of the State.
LAS u matter of fact. the goods we
hope for are not of a nature to absorb
mems Thoughts to the extent of diver ting
them from the care OF present. thugs.
Jesus Christ Himself. in recommending
us to seek first the Kingdom of tod. has
thereby minated that it should not
make us neglect the ress. Iu fact
the use OF present thugs and
the honest enjoyment they afford
when virtue finds a stimulus
or a reward therein, as also the bdorn-
ment and embellishments of the terrest.
ria city. when we see therein an image
of the splepdor and nagHiicence of the
heavenly CITY, presents nothing contrary
to human Reason or the Divine ~counsels;
for God is the author at once Of nature
and of grace and has not Wiiied that one
should injura the other nor should be
mutually antagonistic. but that, united
by a fr%aternat alliance. they should both
lead us easily to that Immortal beati-
tude for which we mortal men have
come into this world. However, the
voluptuous aud self lovers, those whose
thoughts wander to lower and perish able
things to snch u degree chat 1t becomes
impossible for hem to rise higher, those
who. rather than feel awakened in them,
by the enjoyment OF visible creatures,
the desire OF invisible ana eternal things,
completely lose sight OF eterntty Itself
aud fall even TO the lowest degree OF the
deepest debasement.
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