The San Francisco call., 1899-04-10
Received Communion
in a Body.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES
GENTLEMEN's soDALITY at ST.
IGNATIUS.
Father MacCorry Says Mass on Ioard
the Iowa-Farher Wyman's Ser
mon on the "Resurrec-
ton"

st. Joseph's Church, corner of Tenth
and Howard streets, was crowded at the
s o'clock mass yesterday, it being the
date for the annual receiving of holy
communion by the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians The members of the we'll
known organization met in their head
quarters at 120 Ninth street at Ills a. M,
and, led by their officers, nearly 400
marched to the church and occupied seats
in the body of the edifce Father Crow
ley of the Youths Directory said mass
and administered communion to the So
ciety. He also delivered a short address
complimenting the men on their splendid
organization, and appealed TO them TO
continue their good work. Music appro-
pirate to the occasion was rendered by
the st. JoSephS choir.
Seven hundred members of the Gentle
mems Sodality attended the 7:30 mass at
St. Ignatius Cathedral and fulfilled their
Paschal duties. The members We're at
tired in their regalia. Father Hickey, di-
rector of the sodaIity, was celebrant. I'm
mediately after mass the men marched
to their headquarters and concluded the
ceremonies by reciting the Tedeum.
At st. Mary's Cathedral the boys and
girls of the cathedral parish received
their first communion. Vicar General the
Very Rev. ]. J. Prendergast celebrated
mass. AS the children entered the sa-
cred editice the organist played Mozart s
Gloria" After they had sung a hymn
Father Prendergast said mass, accompan-
led by the organ. AT the conclusion of
the service Father Prendergast instruct
ed the young ones. At II o'clock mass
and mass was sung by Father Dempsey.
In the afternoon the children assembled
in the cathedral, enrolled in the scapular
and given further instruction by Father
J. B. Hanigan.
At the special invitation of Chaplain
Brown of the. battleship Iowa, Father
MacCorry, c. S. p, celebrated mass on
ship board yesterday morning. The serv-
ices We're impressive and We're attended
by nearly the entire crew. The eloquent
young priest delivered a short but effec-
tive discourse during the services.
Father Wyman delivered brilliant SER
mon on The Power of the Resurrection"
at st. Mary's. In part he said:
There is no doctrine preached by the
Apostles that excited greater opposition
among their hearers than the doctrine of
the Resurrection. The Pharisees opposed
it because of their hatred of Christ and
their unwillingnesS to believe that one
whom they had put to death as male
sleep The Sadducees. rejected it as an
impossibility. AS Holy Scripture says,
they believed neither in Resurrection nor
spirit nor angel.
when also ST Paul preached the doc
trine at Athens, some of the Greeks
mocked; others said, We will hear you
again about this matter. There We're
Tossing Christians on this great point,
which had to be cleared up by st. Paul.
Perhaps no fact indicates more clearly
the almost universal disbelief in this doc
trine among the civilized Romans than
that cremation was common method or
disposing of the dead.
'"The Christian doctrine of the Resur-
rection is essential to the belief in man S
Immortality, because man IS composite
being, having both soul and body: Ihe
union of the soul and body In man is SUD
in a perfect state his body after death
must be united to his SOUL.