The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-12
Rev. Father Duffy breaches at
St. PauIs Church
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION
This Devotion Begins at ST. PauI's
March 25-Pastor for st. Cath
erine's-Months Mind for
Dean Meurer.

o'clock masses. The Sunday school mass
at $50 was attended by several hundred
children
The Rev. Father Kitrick was the cele-
brant at high mass and the Rev. Father
Duffy occupied the pulpit At night the
sermon was preached by the Rev. Father
Bratton. The pastor. the Rev. Father
Coyle, preached last night at st. An
thony's church, Ensley.
Among the announcements yesterday
were these "A Months Mind" mass at
the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
Monday (today) at 3 o'clock for the late
Dean Meurer, and forty hours devotion
at st. Paufs beginning Sunday, March
%. The Months Mind" for Dean Meurer
will be solemn high mass.
The Rev. II. e. O'Grady has been ZAP
pointed pastor of st. GATHERINGS church,
Pratt City, vice the Rev. Father Galland,
transferred to the pastorate of the Church
Of Our Lady of Sorrows, Birmingham.
Father O'Grady belongs to this diocese
but recently he has been conducting mis-
sons for nom Cathollcs in other dioceses
His appointment by the Right Rev. Bishop
of Mobile to the Pratt City pastorate
will be welcome news to the Catholics
of the Birmingham district Father
oGrady is exceedingly popular personally
and ranks as an exceptionally fine preach
er. With this priest added to the al
ready strong list of able Catholic speakers
the Jefferson county clergy will become
notable throughout Alabama for pulpit
eloquence.
The Rev. Father Gregory, o. S. B., of
st. Bernard, said mass and preached al
ST. GATHERINGS yesterday. >
AT high mass at st. Paurs Father Duffy
preached on the gospel read in the mis-
sal-the narrative of the TRANSPORTATION
He said In part:
Father Duffy's Discourse.
! Today we get a glimpse of the heavenly
vision upon which the eyes of the apos-
ties were privileged to look In the glo-
rious scene of the TRANSPORTATION of the
Savior and hear read the heavenly words
which greeted their ears in the testimony
of the Eternal Father to the divinity OF
| His Son.
! Let us recall the circumstances. Om
blessed Savior was on his last journey
to Jerusalem. Never again would the
multitude hear with delight the heaven
ly doctrine which fell from His lips never
again would they follow Him with such
eager pleasure that they heed not length
| of way nor want of food. Never again
would the valleys of Judea be blest with
His presence or the hills of Judea echo
His words.
| Already he has told His apostles of the
| sufferings and death that await Him al
| the hands of His enemies, until the inn
petuous Peter, taking Him aside began
to rebuke Him, saying: Lord. far be II
from Thee; this shall not be unto Thee. y
The Chosen Three.
But now He turns aside for awhile and
| taking with Him Peter and James and
| John aseends Mount Tabor to pray. These
| three apostles seem to have been chosen
| TO witness some of the most striking
| Incidents of our Lords life. They alone
| witnessed the raising of the daughter OF
Jairus from the dead; they alone were
present at the agony of our Lord In
| the garden of Gethsemane. Our Lord
| chose Peter, whom he had already chosen
| the prince of the apostles, and the rock
| upon which lie WOulu Duliu Ills
| John, the virgin disciple whom he loved
and who reclined upon His bosom at
| the last supper and James, who was des-
| tined to be first who would seal with his
blood the truth of Chrst's teachings.
! GAS our Savior was wrapt In prayer
! the shape of His eountenance was al
| tered; and He was transfigured before
| them; and His face did shine as the sun
and His garments became shining and
exceeding white as snow. so as no fuller
upon earth can make white
! If we wish to understand this transhgu-
ration of our Lord, We have only to re-
| call the great truth of the incarnation
| God. having resolved to redeem fallen
man. and having moreover resolved ia
redeem him by sending his own Son, "borr
| of a woman; born under the law" form
| cd of the virginia. flesh and blood OF
| Mary. a body such as His Infinite wisdom
| could design and His almighty power
| could perfect. To that body He fitted a
| soul endowed with intellectual powers and
| faculties to carry out the purpose OF
| Gods infinite intelligence That mortal
body and that immortal soul constituted
| the human nature of Christ, and to that
| human nature the eternal word united
Himself, forming from the divine ahd
human natures but one divine person
Jesus Christ. true God and true man.
! The soul of Christ therefore from the
| moment of Incarnation enjoyed the beau
| t,ful vision of the Godhead. The perfect
| hiss which His soul thus possessed
| would naturally communicate itself Ia
| His body on account of their natural
denendence and cause His face to shine
| as the sun; and, as the sun illumines
the intervening clouds. so did the body OF
| christ communicate its brightness even
| 10 His garments. Our Savior might have
! anneared during all His mortal life as
! tbe evangelists here describe Him but
| This effect of the beatific vision was sus-
pended except on this OCCASION
Moses and Elias.
with Jesus in His glory appeared Moses
| and Elias, the one representing the old
law which Is now to give way 10 the
new. the other representative of the pro-
nhets TO show that He who was the OBJ
iect of their predictions. the Messiah for
whose coming they had so ardently sighed.
was already on earth. Christ Is then the
long expected deliyerer TO whom Moses
and Elias must give place. The sacrifices
Of the old dispensation have lost their
SAVIOR: the sacrifice of the new law Is
about to be offered.
Whilst yet He speaks the cloud of Gods
majesty envelopes them as canopy and
from its midst the Eternal Father bears
testimony to the divine mission OF His
son: This is my beloved Son. hear We
Him"
Is II surprising that the apostles should
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