The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-09
PREACHED ON
POWER OF
ROSARY
Men Hear Strong Sermon
at Dominican Mission
To Close Tomorrow.

avenue and South Ninth street, will
close at the 1870 O'Clock services tomor-
row night, when the blessing of Pope
Plus x. will be given to all the men
who made the mission. that is. those
who went to confession, received COM
munion, heard mass every morning
and were at the service each night.
There will not be any services to-
night, but expressions will be heard
from 7:30 on by the Dominican monks,
the Rev. J. D. Wildenberg, o. r. and
the Rev. j. M. Stanton, o. p, who gave
the mission, and priests of the parish.
These men will receive at
the early masses Sunday morning, and
at the II o'clock mass a general mis-
sion sermon will be preached by OF
the mission priests.
The church was crowded by the men
last night. Father Wildenberg gave In
structions on the rosary of the Blessed
Virgin, telling of his personal expert
ence in the mission field, of the in1u-
ence the prayers of the rosary had
upon the many men and women and
their homes. He said hat when the
rosary of the Five Joyful Mysteries
were said in a home the heart and
mind of the fathers and mothers would
be influenced by meditation of the mys-
teries, and the children would likewise
be benefited.
Father Wildenberg said the heart
must be of marble or steel thai would
not be touched by pity and love. as the
rosary was said for the Five Sorrowfui
Mysteries, for as the prayers for each
mystery was said men and women
would contemplate the agony of Christ
in the garden of Gethsemane, the
scourging at the pillar, the GROWING
with thorns, Jesus carrying the Cross
and the Crucifixion, When Christ vas
nailed to the Cross of Calvary in rep
aration for the sins of men and for the
salvation of mems souls.
Il know by personal experience as
a missionary that the saying of the
rosary and contemplation of the joyful
and the sorrowful mysteries" said
Father Wildenberg, has brought peace
and happiness into thousands of homes
in which duarrels and drunkenness
and neglect of God. Fathers a mad
the homes wretched places to the T
wife and mother and the children"
Father W~ilderberg related cases
where homes had been reformed by
the saying of the rosary every night
by the father, with mother and the
children kneeling near him while he
read the prayers n they answered
them. One father not only neglected
religion, but ignored God n prayer.
One night he came home and found his
wife and daughter saying the rosary.
He angrily asked how they dared say
such nonsense in his house. The daugh-
ter threw her arms around him
said, Father, dear, we are praying for
you because we love you, and we nave
said the rosary every night while you
were out, praying God to preserve you
from DANGER He was silent, went to
bed, did not speak for several days,
on Saturday night came home, and
to the surprise and joy or wife and
daughter knelt and led in the rosary.
He had gone to confession, and the
next morning he received communion,
the first time in many years.
''That man is now a good Christian,
a fervent Catholic" said Father Will
denberg, "a model husband and father,
a respectable neighbor, a temperate
man and an honored citizen, loyal to his
and to his country, the type of
men our beloved Republic needs to
it not only the greatest nation of
freemen in the world, but also the
most moral, the most v~irtuous, the
most truly religious and liberal"
you men who say the rosary In
your homes continue it, and you who
have not lone begin it now so as to
make the good work of this mission
permanent. Wear a scapular and
carry beads with you. so that if you
meet with a serious accident by those
religious articles 1t will be known you
are a Catholic and will want a priest
to prepare you for death. Have cruel
fixes. statues and religious pictures in
your homes, with religious books also
to read so that when "a non-Catholic
friend asks you to explain your re-
ligion. to describe the mass to him you
can do it intelligently. And these re-
ligious emblems will impress the minds
of your young children with love OF
Christ and His Virgin Mother, and
when h become men and women
they will bless and respect you
Father Stanton preached the rmo
He traced the history of the Roman
Catholic Church back to Christ and
His apostles. He said hat when Christ
founded His church on earth He
selected Peter His successor, head of
His church on earth, when He said
that Peter was a rock, and upon that
rock He built His Church, against
which all the powers of hell shall not
prevail" and He gave to Peter all the
power His Father Had given to Him
when He said:
'I give to thee the keys of the king
oom of heaven. Feed my lambs, feed
my sheep. Whose sins you hall loose
on earth shall be loosed in heaven, and
whose sins thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven"
Father Stanton said that In those words
Christ gave to Peter the W OF forgiv-
Ing sins. and this power was aso given to
the postles and their successors, h present
of the Roman Catholic church, the church
of Christ, for 1t was the only Christian
religion that could trace lis history back
through a line of popes from the present
Pope Plus x. to st. Peter, the first pope
and vicar Of Christ on earth. All other
socalled Christian churches were founded
by men, and because they were the crea-
lions of only men they were divided in
doctrine and form of worship of God. and
the ministers differed in their views OF
Chrlst's teachings. and instead Of preach
irg only the word of God many devoted
their sermons to n discussion OF the issues
and fads OF the present.
The Roman Catholic church was the best
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