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honor of the saints yet she teaches they are never
to be offered to them but to God alone, who has
crowned them
and glory that belong to the Son who is all-merci
full and invites all to to him" To offer sac
rifce both III the old and dispensation was and
is supreme worship The sacrifice of the mass Of
fered daily in Catholic altars and which perpetu-
ates in afttnbloodv manner the bloody sacrifice of
Calvary, is the highest possible sacrifice and only
to God alone could it be offered All other marks
of devotion, love, veneration, prayer and praise
offered God may be offered to angels, saints and
the living at least in kind People do it every day.
Every loyal citizen honors the president of the
United States every loving child honors his par
ents every devoted and faithful Catholic honors
his bishop appointed BY the Holy Ghost to rule and
direct the church When favors are needed VIC
pray (ask) to those who have the power to grant
We praise every good person. Love of parents
friends and country is infringement the love
due to and demanded by God The mistaken notion
of the objection to Catholic devotions arises from
the fact that other church. save the Greek
church, offers to God the highest and most supreme
honor and homage through the sacrifice of the
mass. They have no sacrifice, no altar, no priest,
or victim and their worship is simply what the
church sanctions in kind to the saints, and the
Blessed Virgin. How then allege, viewing the
question from the Catholic standpoint that the
saints. angels and Blessed Virgin receive the HON
age that belongs to God The church teaches that
they creatures made by God and redeemed by
his precious blood, and that because they perse-
vered good and faithful servants they were sane
titled by his grace, and glorified in heaven.
The quotation from ST. Liquors. work may be
correct but he was not infallible organ of the
church. There millions of other saints equal
| ly as pious, who would not use that extravagant
expression yet in the mind of st. Liquor that ex-
preston did not convey to him the meaning that it
conveys to our honest critics mind. If we could
only penetrate his mind and ascertain the key To
his meaning to his faith in the incarnation we
would learn that he used those strong expressions
because of Marys close and intimate relations with
the profound mystery of the incarnation which is
the source, origin and center of Christianity The
human flesh of the Son, through which he redeemed
the world and purchased salvation for ALL was
Mary's flesh This begets the closest and most in
innate relationship, and makes her, in a sense,
co-partner in the work of redemption. All graces
mercy and forgiveness, it is true, come from God
but is it not through his human nature, then
through his mothers, for he was the flesh of her
flesh and the bone of her bone. In honoring the
angels and saints, and the Blessed Virgin at the
head of ALL the church simply honors God in his
works and insetad lessening the supreme honor
and homage due to God, it rebounds to his greater
honor and glory. ID.