The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-17
CORPUS CHRISTI FEAST.
Solemn Services in Catholic
Churches Comm emorate
the Day..
HONOR TO THE SACRAMENT.
The Devotion of Forty Hours Opens
at the Cath edral-A Paulist
Sermon.

The feast of Corpus Christi, which oc-
Cured on last Thursday, was celebrated in
all the Catholic churches OF this City yes
terday with solemn services and cere-
monials peculiar to the day. Without ex-
ception the churches were attended by
unusually large congregations both at the
morning masses and evening vespers.
AS on the occasion of this festival-one
of the greatest on the Catholic calendar
the church pays homage to the blessed
sacrament, appropriate devotions were
held. The affairs were all beautifully
adorned with flowers and brilliantly
illuminated, and music of particularly
ornate character, full of joyful strains, was
| selected for the masses.
| In the forenoon at 1920 O'Clock and II
o'clock, in st. Mary's, st. Francis and the
| Sacred Heart churches, solemn high mass
was celebrated. The choirs were aug
mented and rendered rich selections
from the masses of the great composers.
| Before mass was over the blessed sacra-
ment was placed in the ostensorium and
exposed for the alteration of the congrega-
| ton in each place of worship.
| Immediately after mass procession of
| the sacrament took place from the altar
around the aisles. In nearly every in
stance there were many little girls in white
dresses and wells and acolytes in surplice
and soutane. At some churches details of
boys from the League of the Cross Cadets
] took part in the proceedings. The sacra-
ment was carried through the churches by
officiating priests while worshipers knelt
| in devotion.
At St. Mary's Cathedral the forty
hours devotion began at the solemn morn
ing mass. The large interior was crowded,
| and most impressive services, including a
procession, were held.
| AS is customary at the Sacred Heart
| Church the festival was observed with
great fervor and ceremonies that were
quite imposing. Rev. Father Flood cele-
brated the solemn mass, and Father White
preached on the blessed sacrament. The
procession was composed of children
dressed in white. altar boys and League of
! the Cross Cadets, following the priests,
who walked under a canopy around the
church.
At the Paulist Church, st. Mary's on
| California street, the ''five-minute SER
mon" was condensed discourse on the
feast. The text was taken from the gospel
of the day: GA certain man prepared a
great supper and invited many guests"
Father Wyman said in part:
The parable which our blessed Lord makes
use OF in to-day's gospel. dear brethren, brings
| out in q striking manner the contrast between
| his goodness to US and the lack of its due ap-
probation on our part. We cannot know real
or true love by words or promises. 1t is of such
| a nature that it must manifest itself in words
and deeds. Our divine Lord proved his love
for US by his deeds. And besides the many
| gifts and blessings which he has bestowed on
US he has prepared sgreat supper" to which
we are all invited, as proof and memorial of
the love which he bears US. And in the prepar-
alton of this great supper he has expended all
! the riches OF his infinite wisdom and power.
HE there grants US SO much, says ST. Angus
/ tine, chat though he is all-powerful, he cam
not give us anything more; though he is in