The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-12-23
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: THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
MIDNIGHT MASS DEC. 81.
Solemn Homage to Our Lord Jesus
Christ, Our Redeemer.

Solemn Homage to Our Lord Jesus
Christ, Our Redeemer.
In order to sanctify the night of Dec
81, 1900, the international committee
for the Solemn Homage asked the
Holy Father to grant permission for
the celebration of Midnight Mass in all
the Churches of the World, and for the
faithful the privilege of receiving Holy
Communion at that time The Holy
Father not only graciously acceded to
the request, but in order that the faith
full might at the beginning of the Holy
Year greet the Author of time, he ex-
tended the concession so that the Mid
night Mass may be said on the 31st of
December, 1S99 as we'll as on Dec. 81,
1900. During this Mass the Blessed Sa-
crament may be solemnly exposed,
with the prudent permission of the Or
binary, and the faithful may receive
Holy Communion. This is the most
extraordinary permission of the whole
reign of Leo XIII, and it shows how
intently his wishes are fixed on the
celebration of the Holy Year as well as
on the International Homage to the
Redeemer of mankind.
\ UNIVERSAL DECREE.
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/, Ut is most becoming that we who are
about to celebrate the commencement
of the Holy Year, happily proclaimed
by our Holy Father, Leo XIII, should
in the depth of night, rise to greet
the Author of time, and, PROSTATE be-
fore His Affairs, to offer the most ac-
ceptable Victim, who is the Immaculate
Lamb, assisting at the Sacred Banquet,
so that at this most opoprtune time we
may find the assistance of His grace
and mercy: for our salvation is nearer.
Behold now is the acceptable time; be-
hold now is the day of salvation. And
if the Kingdom of Heaven, which is
the Church on earth, is likened to the
ten virgins going forth in the night to
meet the Bridegroom, each one of us
may, on the occasion of this solemn
festivfty, consider more attentively
these Sacred Words: Trim your lamps;
for behold the Bridegroom cometh, go
ye forth to meet him.
Since, moreover, at midnight of the
last day of December of the coming
year, the present century will come to
an end, and a new one begin, it is very
appropriate that thanks be given to
God by some pious and solemn cere-
mony for the benefits received during
the course of the present century, and
owing to the urgent necessities of the
times, that greater favors be implored
in order to begin auspiciously the new
era.
Therefore, in order that the an
year, 1900, may begin happi-
ly through the supplication of the as
sfstance OF God and His Only Begotten
Son, our Redeemer, and that it may
end, after a, prosperous course, by ush-
ering in a still more happy century. as
it is right for us to expect: Our Most
Holy Father, Leo Kill graciously con-
cedes that, with the prudent consent of
the Ordinary of every place, at mid
night on the 31st day of December,
both of the closing and of the coming
year, in all Churches and Chapels where |
The Most Blessed Sacrament is right |
July kept, the same Most August Sa-
,rament may be exposed to alteration:
and permission is given to read or to |
sing at the same hour "Coram Sanstis-
7imo,' one Mass of the Feast of the
Circumcision of Our Lord and the Oc- !
ave of the Nativity; and permission
S given, by special favor, to the faith- |
'uF to receive Holy Communion either |
Turing the Mass or after it; all neces-
'ary conditions TO be observed.
All things to the contrary, notwith-
'tanding. 18th day of November, 1899. /