The San Francisco call., 1897-01-18
CELEBRATION OF A
CA THOLIC FEAST 7
A Day of Special Devo-
tion in st, Ignatius
Church.
Sermon by the Archbishop and
Installation of Sodality
Officers.
Rev. Joseph Gleason Pronounces an
Interesting Homily in st.
Francis Church.

The feast of the Holy Name was
solemnly commemorated yesterday in St.
Ignatius Church. A solemn high mass
was celebrated by the Rev. Edward Allen,
! S. J., who was assisted by fathers of the
! Society of Jesus. Riga's sublime mass
was sung in its entirety by the male choir,
the solos being taken by DR.. ]. ]. Morri-
sey, Mr.. Rowan, L. Berger and G. Wood.
His Grace Archbishop Riordan de-
livered an eloquent sermon on the feast
and the gospel of the day.
In the handsome chapel of the Gentle
mems Sodality an interesting ceremony
took place. The chapel had been beauti-
fully frescoed and Illuminated with many
new electric lamps, and when mass was
celebrated at 1880 A. NJ. by Father Fried
man, S. j., the sanctuary presented brill
liant spectacle. The GeIebrant was as
sisted by the Rev. Joseph Hickey, S. j.,
! spiritual director OF the sodaliuy, and
Father Friedman preached to the mem
bers.
After the first gospel the following
named officers were invested with the
ribbon and medal OF the order of their re-
spective offices:
James R. Kelly, prefect; John E. Fitz-
! patrick first assistant prefect; Thomas r.
! Carew, second assistant project; Frank j.
! Burke, secretary; John ]. Barrett, assistant
/ secretary; James H. Dignan, treasurer; w. w.
Dunney, P. Fitzsimmons, John D. Campbell,
Stears, Thomas Elston, Charles Weld, Henry
| Regan, Charles E. McAuliffe, william Han
! cock, Richard O'Driscoll, James Keogh, John
! Fahy, mem bers of the council.
John Colson, guardian of probationers; John
| O'Gara, assistant guardian; John E. Pope, roll
! prefect; P Morrlssey, ]. ]. Powers George
! Springer, William Hannon, assistant roll pre-
! fects; John S. Wilbank, Librarian; John Char
! land, William Hicks, P. Dillon, J. T. Dwyer,
assistant librarians; Laurence Walsh, chief
marshal; Richard Purcell, Martin Carrick,
jeremiah Looney, assistant marshals; Maurice
! i. Pope, yestry project; Louis Springer, John
Mccarthy, R. N. Nicholson, assistant projects;
ard bearers; Charles L. Elmer, organist;
+ Thomas NJ. McCurdy, Thomas Witt, J. Law
liss, Thomas Panozini, Albert McCarty, Vim
| cent KingWen, DR.. ]. j. Gallagher Thomas
| O'Brien, J. F. Gallagher, H. Hingsbergin, s.
Cunningham. William J. o. Brien. choir.
Rev. Joseph Gleason preached before
large congregation at ST. Francis Church
last evening on the gospel of the day, the
second Sunday after Epiphany, ST. John
ii, Iii. He said that this gospel has been
! interpreted the most widely perhaps of
all gospels of the hturgical year. 1t tells
of the marriage feast at Canaan.
Al the marriage of Canaan the Savior
| and his apostles were invited; but it was
| a wedding among poor people, and evil
| IDENTIFY the groom acted hastily in inviting
too many guests, for the wine ran out.
! Here the Blessed Virgin showed her ten
| derness; she went to her divine son and
said: "The wine is running out.' She
appealed to him in the most human way
! possible, not that she sought him to per-
| form a miracle, but that he would find
some tactful way out of the difficulty.
Then in the little towns about Nazareth
| T.. Il
as the son of the carpenter, of Mary. But
he was unknown in his divine character.
! St Luke says that from the time Jesus
returned from the Temple to Nazareth he
lived with his mother and was subject to
| her. When she told him at this marriage
that that the wine was running out, he
said to her: Woman, what is that to
me and to thee; my time has not vet
come" This expression has been quoted
in the face of the Christian world that
| here Christ insulted his mother-the
grossest Interpretation possible. For i'm
mediately after he asked for jars of water
and turned them into wine. The. words
cannot have the meaning of insult to his
mother. What then meant these words?
He could explain to her that his time
for performing miracles had not yet ar
rived at that exact minute. The express
sion, What is it to me and to thee2" is
Hlndoo; it was understood by those who
heard the Savior use it. but they saw in it
/ no insult.
The Savior's parallels were illustrations
of his moral doctrines, taken from the
daily life of the people of his days The
! Hindooism cannot be translated correctly
into our language, and the literal transla-
ton is harsher in our ears than its real
meaning The expression Is not an insult,
because this orientalism was used in every
day life with courtesy. As to the word
woman" in the Hebrew language it is
the highest term of respect that can be
paid female, even more than tmother."
Jesus never called the Blessed Virgin
mother" but woman" One of the
most scholarly of Protestant commenta-
tors of the Scriptures gives the free trans
lation of Christ's words as: Mother,
leave that to me; my time has not yet
come."