The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-16
GREAT THRONG AT
 THE SOLEMN MASS
St. PauI'S Church was Filled to
 Its Capacity
VERY BRILLIANT MUSIC
Mozart's Twelfth Mass Was Rendered With Orchestra Accompaniment Rev. Father Duffy Breaches
 on the Resurrection.

Rev. Father Duffy Breaches
 on the Resurrection.
 The Easter services at St. Pauls church were attended by large congregations. The spacious edliice was well filled at the 6:3o 0 clock mass and again at the f.30 mass there were few empty seats. sev- eral hundred children were present at the Sunday school mass at 9:sO and solemn high mass, the most elaborate service of the day. attracted an immense throng.
 Hundreds of people, including a good proportion of non-Catholics. gathered in front Of the church as early at 10 o'clock for the purpose of being fin time to get seats for the high mass They had to wait ten or fifteen minutes until the Sunday school congregation had vacated the church. By half-past ten all the sit tngs were occupied Chairs were placed in the aisles and in the spaces near the sanctuary rall and not chair was Va cant. The ushers were kept busy but they performed their duties well and seat ed the immense crowd with little or no confusion.
 Brilliant Altar.
 The magnificent marble altar was pro- fusely garnshed with flowers and was brilliant with many burning candles. The priests taking part in the services were the Rev. Father Kitrick as celehrant the Rev. Father Duffy as deacon. and the Jsa Tp Joseph Tqmerlin, formerly master aeo- lyte. but now St Bernard collegian, act ed as master of ceremonies.
 First came solemn asperges, the eele- brant, accompanied by his ministers and the master of ceremonies, moving through the middle aisle and sprinkling the con gregation with holy water. The choir sang instead of the asperges music the Wide Aquam" in Gregorian chant.
 Following this ancient ceremony solemn mass was sung. The choir accompanied by an orchestra was in fine form. It was under the baton of Philip Memoli, with Mrs Colgan at the organ.
 The following numbers of Mozarts s Twelfth mass were rendered: kyrie Eleison, Gloria In EXcelsis, Sanctus and Agnus Del The Credo was from Gounod s st. Cecilia and for the offertory the choir sang Lambillote's joyous Easter anthem.
 After the mass solemn benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was bestowed upon the knelling worshippers. During this impressive ceremony the choir sang 70, Salutaris" and 'rantum Ergo to old hymn tunes familiar to Protestants as well as Catholics And after the benedic- ton the choir sang in English the con gregation joining the Te Deum-to an other old hymn tune, The music, taker altogether. was said by lovers. of the divine art, to have been exceptionally we'll rendered.
 l'he Preacher.
 The Rev. Father Duffy occupied the pulpit. After reading the pastors notice for the week and a circular letter from the Right Rev E. P. Allen appealing to the faithful for contributions to the eccesi- astical students fund he gave the Eng fish translation of the epistle and gos- pei for Easter. His sermon then follow ed The text was, You seek Jesus of NdIdIHln " DO NdS Li uNtlihAp Ai1 10 i'PS'ii He is not here" St. Mark xvi 6.
 By way of introduction Father Duffy recounted briefly the scene on Calvary which had filled the hearts of Christians with anguish. The priest then spoke as follows:
 Glad Eeaster Morn.
 But the hour of the power of darkness | Al. rerta. aaaf has come with sunshine flooding all thl earth, telling of glory. of victory, ot triumph; and we behold our RedeemeI rising from the tomb. a victor-king trl- umphant over death and hell. Standing on that stone, rolled back from Ills toml by His angelic messenger He could cast at death this triumphant defiance: "Ol death, l will be thy death O. hell, l will be thy destruction" Hosea xii 1f.
 The robe of scorn has become the man. tie of immortality the reed of contempt is changed into the palm branch of vic tory the cross of suffering Is now the glory of the resurrection. and the darl, portal of death and the silence of the grave are but the opening to everlasting honor and to the unceasing chant of God $ praises in His celectial courts.
 In thruth, so accustomed have we be- come to the thought of Jesus risen from the dead, so certain are we that the nighl of pain and sorrow shall be followed by morrow of joy and gladness, that 1t is difficult for us to fully enter into the bereavement of the apostles who lied h panic from that scene of woe. But think 1t may help us to more just es' innate of their grief and disappointment if we follow the two apostles, by whom the fact of the resurrection was as yet not perfectly realized, on their way te Emmaus. But q week previously and how high were their hopes how unbounded their expectations: We hoped that il was He who should have redeemed Is- rael." The same unbounded hope was yet more forcibly expressed by the sons of zebedee, who, looking only to things of earth, had but few days before the Masters death made the foolish request Master, grant to us that we may sit one on thy right hand, and the other or thy left hand, in thy glory" How ut terly have all their hopes been shattered and what a rude and rough awakenina have they met, Jesus of Nazareth wht was a prophet, mighty in word and work