Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-11
PAYS ANNUAL VISIT
CARDINAL GIBBONS NEW YEAR
BLESSING AT ST. PATRICK'S.
Large Congregation Attends the Serv-
ices Yesterday-Cardinal Compli-
ments the Church.

Cardinal Gibbons paid his annual visit to
ST. Patrick's Church yesterday. Solemn
high mass was celebrated at IL o'clock in
the morning, when an immense audience
was present, and those who passed into
the rectory after the service to shake hands
with the distinguished visitor numbered
about Loo The cardinal extended the
blessing of the new year to the congrega-
ton after the mass. The sermon was
preached by DR.. Stafford. the pastor Of the
church.
The celebrant OF the mass was Rev
O'Connell. rector of the Catholic Univer-
sity; the deacon, Rev. Stickney. and the
subdeacon, Father Jessups of the Holt Col
lege. The deacons of honor to fhe
cardinal were Rev. Jerome Daugherty
president of Georgetown College and Rev
James Burns president of Holy Cross Col
lese Rev. Thomas Michigan of st. Pat
ricks was assistant priest to the cardinal
Few George Dougherty secretary to MGR
y Connell. and Mr. William ShreVe were
flrst and second masters of ceremonies re-
spectively. The censor-bearer was Oscar
darkness. At the elevation of the mass
there were eighteen torch-bearers and six
censor-bearers. The alter was beautifully
decorated with poinsetta and innumerable
electric lights.
Prof. Gumprecht's second mass Was sung
by the choir, which was assisted by yam or
chestra of twenty-six pieces under the di-
| SOlDiStS
Mrs Annie Grant-Fugitt, soprano; Miss
Mary Grant, contralto: Mr.. Charles Good
child, basso. and Mr.. Melville Hensey.
tenor.
Gibbons congratulated the people of ST
Patricks Church on having made the larr-
EST contribution TO the Catholic University
IN THIS city or any church In the country
even including the Cathedral in RaItJmora
The sum was 81 800 collection was
taken up in all the Catholic churches on the
same day, the first Sunday In December.
DR.. Stafford's Discourse.
In his sermon DR.. Stafford said In part:
In all the vast universe OF God nothing
stands alone. Solitude is the law OF mona.
Above and below. on the right and on the
left, things great and things smaII-every-
thing is constituted in a multiplicity Of re-
lationships: relations of the part to tina
whole. and the whole to the part relation
Of each part to all the parts, and of all the
parts to each part. Day speaketh unto
day. night cryeth unto night. abyss calleth
unto abyss. star shineth into star world
Into world. Nothing Is solitary-nothing
alone. The whole universe Is a complexity
or relationship. known only to the Infinite
Wisdom that called all things into being,
and who yet holds all in the hollow OF his
hand.
AS 1t is with the material world so IL is
with the rational Man does not live alone
He has relations with his fellow-man, with
society, with the state with the past, with
the future. The nation does not live alone,
but Is one of a family with relations and
duties toward all others. And beyond all
Is the infinite God. who. though infinite vet
is not solitary. but finds in the divine
trinity divine society and divine COM
munion.
Everything then everything-high and
low, great and small. the infinite and the
finite. God and man. the atom and the
world-exists In a great multiplicity OF re-
lationships.
THE Catholic Church. the greatest thing
existing here below. is no exception TO. the
rule, but Is subject to It. and SO great and
SO manifold are the relationships which sine
sustains that We know not where to turn
what to consider. She has relations with
the past and relations with the future. size
has relations to philosophy and science and
morality and social life and history and
literature. She has relations to society and
to the individual. to the King and to the
beggar, to the government and to this citi-
zens and when at first we regard her We
know not where to turn or what to con-
slider, so complex, varied vast, and
SO important appears her life and action
throughout history"
Guests at Luncheon.
The cardinal and number Of guests were
entertained at luncheon by Dr. Stafford.
Among those present were the Austrian
minister, Mr.. Hengelmuller; Senator
Kearns, ex-senator Carter. Surgeon Gen.
O'Reilly. Capt. Potts, U. 8. A; Judge
O'Connel, solicitor of the treasury; Mgr.
O'Connell. Mgr. Marchete, Rev. Jerome
Daugherty, S. J.: Rev. James Burns. Rev.
C. NJ. Bart Rev. J. d. Mari Rev. Father
Stickney, Rev. George Dougherty. Col. G. c.
Reid. Col. A. A. Wilson, Mr.. Scott C. Bone
of The Washington Post DIR. Franklin
Howe of The Washington Evening Star.
Mr.. Seckendorff of The Washington Times
Mr.. Jules Boeufve, the Vicomte de Cham
brun, Mr.. James F. Shea. president of Car
roll Institute: Mr. E. j. Hannah, Mr.. Will
liam Schwing and Mr.. James D. Mankin
The pope has written to NJ. Martins
d'Antas. the Portuguese ambassador and
the dean Of q Il. nccradiiad