Evening star., 1895-09-14
Gathering of the Priests Eucharistic
League at Catholic University.
PAPERS OF INTEREST PREPARED
A Noted AssembIage Of the Dig
nitaries of the Church.
THE FULL. PROGRAM

| the gathering Will be of first Importance to
| the priests and prelates of the church, its
| ultimate influence upon communicates will
be far-reaching and powerful The con-
| gress will be opened with pontifical high
mass to be celebrated in st. Patrick S
| Church In this city by Mgr. Satolli. Bishop
| Keane will preach the sermon. In the
afternoon of the same day. October 2, the
| first session of the congress will be con-
vened at the Catholic University by Car
dinal Gibbons. who will preside over its
deliberations. There will be two sessions
| October 3, one beginning at 9:30 in the
| morning and the other at $50 in the after
noon The first days proceedings will be
followed by the benediction of the Blessed
| Sacrament, while the second day will close
| with an hours alteration of the sacrament
| in the University Chapel, a procession
about the grounds and benedichon. TIE
| papers to be read before the congress nave
| been prepared by their authors with de-
Hberate care and after long and devoted
| study and consideration Of the subjects
| to which they refer. Their effect will not
| disappear, either, with the adjournment of
| the congress.
The Papers and Committees.
After it is read each paper will be re-
| ferred to a committee composed of church.
| men selected with a view to their fitness
| for reaching a practical conclusion upon
| the IDEAS set forth in it, and each commit
| tee will continue the work upon the lines
| they may decide upon laying down. The
| papers to be read during the congress and
| the committees to whom they will be re-
| ferred are as follows:
First paper-"The Place of the Holy Eu-
charist in the Divine Plan of Salvation"
Rev q: r. Dyer, D. D., S. S., of St.
| Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.
| The committee to which this paper will
| be referred and which. will also consider
the seventh paper-"How the Real Pres
ence Makes Converts" by Rev. Walter
York, will be composed of Rev. DIR. Dyer,
S. s., Baltimore, Nd. chairman; Rev. w.
Elliott, c. S. p. New York; Rev DR.. Sele,
| Cincinnati Ohio; Rev. Joseph Rainer, Mil
Leicester, Md. Rev. Aloysius Sabetti S. j.,
| Woodstock, Md: Rev. ]. T. Flanagan, Dav-
enport. Iowa; Rev. VIM. Murphy, Troy,
| N. Y.
| the Personal Life of the Priest" by Rev.
| d. Mcmahon, DID, of st. Thomas Church,
New York city. The committee on this
ess ay win be Rev. D. Mcmahon, New York.
University, New York; Rev. Aug. Schultz,
| Overbrook. Pa; Very Rev DR.. Allen, Mt.
| st. Mary's. Emmitsburg, Nd: Rev. C. B.
| Rex, st. Charles College, Maryland; rev.
| sofa.
Third and fourth papers ''The Holy Eu-
charist and the Ministry of the Priest" by
Rev. D. F. Feehan of st. Bernard's Church.
| Fitchhurg, Mass; How to Promote Devo-
ton to the Blessed Sacrament Among the
People," by Rev. J. F. Foley of st. kevins'
Church, st. Louis. Mo. Both papers will
he considered by committee consisting Of
Rev. Father Feehan, Fitchburg, Mass,
chairman; Rev. J. F. Foley, st. Louis, Mo-.
Rev. ]. Nickel, Highland, ILL.,; Rev. NJ. F.
Foley, Jacksonville, Fla Rev. VIM Harty.
New Britain. Conn; Rev M. Taylor New
York; Rev. Koudelka, Cleveland. Ohio.
Fifth paper The, Manner of Preparing
(a) Children and (b) Adults for Their First
in an Abiding Devotion to the Blessed
Sacrament" by Rev. II. J. Heuser, D. D.,
editor of the American Ecclesiastical Re
view. The committee to which this will be
D., Philadelphia, Pa, chairman; Rev. John
Connolly, st. Louis. Mo-; Rev. Meissner.
Peru, Ind; Rev. C. H. McKenna. New
York; Rev. D. O'Hearne, Milwaukee, Wis;
Rev. Mulheron, Auburn, N. Y; Rev. VIM.
Kress, Bowling Green, Ohio; Rev. Hogarty,
Louisville, Ky.
Sixth paper, 1.-THE Priests Eucharistic
League" by Rev H. Brnkmeyer, presi-
dent of ST. Gregery's Seminary, Cincinnati,
Ohio. The committee on this paper will
be Rev Brinkmeyer, Cincinnati, Ohio,
chairman; Rev. Audran Jeffersonviile,
Ind. Very Rev. Bush, Pittsburg. Pa. Rev.
Ce estelli, ST. Paul, Mimi; Rev Biermann,
Chicago, ILL.,: Rev. Mgr Griffin, Worces
ter, Mass; Very Rev. Drees, c. p. p. s.,
Carthagena, Ohio: Rev. Thomas O'Brien,
495 Classon avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Important to the Laity.
The first and the fifth papers will be Of
especial Importance to the laity. The COM
mittee having the first paper in charge is
expected to prepare resolutions tending to
make clear the meaning of the eucharist
and to explain to non-Cathoics its dogma
an influence. The fifth paper will consider
ways and means for the furtherance of de-
votion and the preparation of grown people
for the sacraments of confession, COM
munion, confirmation and matrimony. The
other papers will be of deep interest to the
priesthood, and naturally will be awaited
with much expectancy by the members of
the body throughout the country.
The eighth paper will be read by Rev.
Joseph Yazbeek, the noted Armenian mis-
Sicnary, upon THE Holy Eucharist in the
Eastern Church"
The other committees are those on the
press, of which Rev. p. Doyle, s. P, of
New York, is chairman; finance, Very Rev.
w. Cluse, V. G., of Germantown, Ill, chair
man; on resolutions, which will be COM
posed of the chairmen of the various other
committees, presided over by Archbishop
Corrigan of New York, and on reception,
which will be comprised of Rev. Fa.hsr
Mackn of. st. Paufs Church, this city,
chairman, and Fathers Haineke of Phila-
delrhia Gibbons of Buffalo, McElroy of
Derby, Conn; Van Antwerp of Detroit and
Corey of Covington.
Directions to the Delegates.
A circular letter has been issued by Rt>
Rev. Bishop Macs, the permanent presi-
dent of eucharist congresses, in which
he states that the Hotel Arno on 10th
and 1 streets, has been selected as the
headquarters of the delegates during the
congress. He has notified the reception
committee to be at the hotel at pm.
Tuesday, October l, to enroll the names
of the reverend gentlemen attending the
congress. These are urgently requested to
call at the Arno for Inscription on that
Tuesday evening, thus avoiding delays dur
ing the two very busy days of the congress.
The diocesan directors of the Priests
| Eucharistic League will meet, under the
craftsmanship of General Director Rev.
Father Bede, o. S. B., at Hotel Arno at
pm. They will select the secretary and
assistants for the congress.
preIates of the Catholic Church IL this
country will be in attendance upon the
COZ gress.
A Strong Organizn ton.
The Priests Eucharistic League under
whose auspices the congress is to be held,
| is an old organization in Europe, where it
numbers many thousand members. It's OBJ
ject is to promote devotion to the holy
eucharist and e:1eh member obligates him