The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-26
SOLEMN OCCASION
FIRST CELEBRATION OF MASS BY FATHER COSTELLO.
Assisted By Several Priests the Young Priest OMeiated at Solemn High Mass-Sermon of Father Mc-
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by Father Costello. The church was eIaborateIy decorated for the occasion. while the choir rendered special musi- cal selections. Father Costello was assisted hy Father Savage, assistant priest, Father Eaton. deacon, Father Sebastian o. s. B., sub-deacon, ani Father Edgar. o. S. B., master of cere- monies. Father Butsch. and Dr. Mo- Sweeny were in the sanctuary.
 pr. McSweeny delivered an interest ing and eloquent. sermon appropos Of Father Costello's alma mater and. it's associations, exhorting the young priest to follow the pattern that was shown him %on the mount--Mr. St. Mary's, Maryland. After, paying a graceful tribute to the culture and refinement of the South. Dr. McSwoeny said in part after taking his text as follows:
 Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord!-He will teach us His ways and we shall walk in His paths" Isaiah, il. 15.
 : T have lifted up my eyes to the mountains from whence help shall come to me"
 See thou make all things according to the pattern shown thee on the mount. viii, 5.
 God gave His law on the top of Sinai. He established His chosen people in A mountainous country. The mountains raise enc up in spirit as well as in body. The enlarged prospect over land and sea and of the heavens exhilarates the mountaineer, the purer air make the blood course more rapidly through the veins, his thoughts expand and his heart is lifted to higher affections The mountain Is the refuge. the scholar who SC eks peace for his thinking. the noun tain Is tho haven of the freeman who would preserve his liberty. The old est and most typical republics of the world are on the tops of the Alps. of the .Appennines and tho Pyrennees. Andora. San Marine. Switzerland. The people of the last named suffer from peculiar complaint called heinuwch when long absent from their !ovsd mountains. 'fe.-.,
 The Incarnation took place In the highlands Of Nazareth. and the young Mother of God went immediately into the mountains of Judea" to visit her cousin Elizabeth and he a messenger of sanctificatton to the unborn fore- runner of her Divine Son..
 Nine months later She vent with hsr sacred burden under the care of Joseph and climbing again the heights of Sion hem stands and this on the blessed day 1905 years ago she brought to light her and our blessed Saviour.
 Our Lord lived in retirement on the Galilean hills for thirty years. and all through his ministry the hills and mountains ever and again reeur. Ho went up into the mountain to pray: he delivered his longest and most compre- hensive sermon on the Mount. he car ried his cross up the heights of Calvary and 1t was from a mountain top that he ascended into Heaven.
 So are mountains associated with the career of our Great High Priest, Jesus Christ. who compared His holy church to city upon the hill. that cannot be. hid. The, may have been thoughts like. these that. caused the founder of Mount Saint Mary's Semi nary and College. Maryland to choose that lofty site for his new founda- ti6n. He remembered too that tho Vicar of Christ lived on. and taught from the Vatican. Mount, and fc thought how beautiful it would be. the light gleaming like a star from the tower of the mountain church of a Christmas morning, calling the people from an immense circle of Maryland and Pannsylvania ito see this which had come to nass." and to adore the newly born Son of God.
 And the spot Is susRestive of Maya reth. and 1t Is delightful of a winters morning when the snow lies on, the ground and "the stars shine bright" to be awakened by the strains of music wren te sen one ns aSI MSo played loHS aiH the Adentes Fidele Y for forty Christmas morninSsi continues as he has done for Quarter of q century. to break the all the moun+aineers to Bethlehem.
 As Jesus nassed his youth in the simplicity and poverty of Nazareth pre- parink for 'the, ministry. so many an inheritor of his sacred priestSood de- veloped his holy vocation at Mount Saint Mary's. One of those. child of years with lis, was last Friday. bv an elder brother. Bishop Allen. himself a child of the Mountain, ordained priest. You will indulge us mountain eers. Father Eaton. Father Costello and myself. if we recall the memories of some of the great sons of our Alma Mater. and may 1t be as agreeable to Rev. Dr Savage and to you, as I trust it is profitable to us all.
 Father John Dubois, priest of Paris, came in 17gt with letters from Lafay cite to James Monroe, to the Lees, the Beverleys." the Randolphs and other Virginia families, and so won the re- spect and esteem of the cavaliers that the Old Dominion which has never
 
 him to say Mass In the Capitol at Rich mond itself and Patrick Henry gave him lessons in English He afterwards took charge of the territory of Virginia and western Maryland, and was in fact the only priest except Father Badin fin K Kentucky, until yon reached St. Louis on the further bank of the Mississippi.
 Father Dubois was, like many other great men. like Napoleon himself. small in stature. but very large of heart and of invincible courage, so much resembling the great Corsican that his clerical friends called him also the Little Corporal. He suffered much and did great things in the course of his missionary career Beginning his by great exertions during sixteen years in erecting a fina stone edifiee, and saw 1t destroyed by fire just as the touches were being put to the roof.
 But though reused at midnight and in his sixtleth year. to witness the ruin of what he thought hls life Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed he the name of the Lord! There were some defect in that building which we will correct In the next" And he began at once and soon 1t with better one.
 This great missionary was noted for his regularity. never disappointing his flock. though many an obstacle was met with in travelling the forest, cross ing the rivers and ploughiug through the muddy tracks used as roads In those early days. He came once of afternoon twenty-five miles In the saddle, and sat down to hear con fessions at his home church when there came a distant sick call. The. priest at nnce rose ordered eErrvthinP to ,Je