The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-20
SOLEMN SERVICES At
ST. AUGUSTIHE'S CHURCH
Mgr. FalCOniO, the P2paI Delegate, 4
Participant.

solemn high mass was celebrated by
the Rev Francis y Bfschof at II O'Clock
at St. Augustine 5 Church yesterday morn
rs Monsfgnor Diomede FaIconfo. Pa
pal Delegate to the United States. es-
corted by the Knights of St. Augustine.
assisted in the ceremony, with the Very
Rev. Edward X Fink. president of Con
zaEa College, and the Rev James F.
Mackin. as deacons of honor, and the
Very Rev. Jerome Daugherty. president
Of Georgetown University. as assistant
priest, the Rev Daniel DUFFY. deacon.
and the Rev. George A. Dougherty, mas
ter Of ceremonies. The Rev. Henry A.
Judge delivered the sermon.
A recital 10 exhibit the qualities o.
the new organ. recently installed. and
one of the largest in the city and pos
sessing Many new features net included
IN older ones. was held last night An
elaborate program was given by a num-
Der Of the most prominent organIsrs in
the city. Those contributing to the re-
cital were H. H. Freeman. Anton Kas-
par, John Porter Lawrence. and Miss
Mary NuilaIy, The church choir sang
two numbers.
The Rev. Dr.. D. J. stafford made an
eloquent address on Music and Cere-
monial," saving in part:
The Catholic Church consecrates
everything to God-music. poetry, archi-
lecture, painting. song. -eIoquence. light
these all belong TO God, not to the
( devil The world desecrates the gifts
of God, using them for unhoIv and sin
full purposes The church eIevates them.
and makes of them a tribute to the
Creator. There is no music Ike the
music Of the church. there is no art
like the art OF the church. no archItec-
ture like the architecture of the church.
no poetry ike lie poetry Of The church
and the pulpit has always been. and is
the throne a eloquence
There is no panorama so beautiful
as the cycle of feasts during the &c
clesiasticaI year. The most profound
sorrow and most intense joy-and be
tween them every shade and degree Of
joy and sorrow expressed, understood
and felt Now, to express sorrow so
profound. JOY so intense, and every de-
gree and shade therein between inter
yening every possible iustrumentaIity
is needed; hence the ceremonial Of the
church, with its marvellous richness. and
her music-from the Lamentation of
the Prophet 10 the joy Of the Easter
'AlIelulia.' Hence the art which adorns
her walls. and her stately cathedraIs.
which lift the soul to holy thoughts and
/ TO God
Thus does she act upon the soul
thus the soul acted upon must needs
/ find some more than ordinary means Of
/ expression; for when intensely moved
ordinary speech viii not suffice. Man
then leaps with joy. He SEXES The
marble and attacks II 10 carve out the
image of beauty which he sees in il. or
/ feels the yielding keys under his fingers.
or with the pressure Of his hands m0Ids
the forms of beauty which can never
perish.
ART is 10 other thing than the cx-
preston OF the intensest life OF the
soul; and the Catholic Church became
necessarily the mother Of art by the
} fact that she lifted the soul into d more
intense life than any other religion. Be
! responsive to her teaching and you can
not be ordinary Hearken 10 her In
spiration and you viii be heroic. For
in every age By this influence she has
/ been the mother OF saints and heroes
Among all the fnstrumeEtaIities the
church uses. music is one OF the most
potent The world has its music. the
thester has its music. men in every de-
partment OF life have attempted by this
yaaare To e~rrecs thar trorrbtu- hrT
there Is no music like the music OF the
church Religion being most sublime
1 has always had the most sublime ex-
/ pression-in poetry. art, architecture,
IeIoquence-m music"