The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-03-28
HAIL FULL OF GRACE.

On last Wednesday there occurred in every part
of the world in every city and town and rural dis
trict, an extraordinary and wonderful celebration
extraordinary and wonderful because of its uni
versality-of which the secular press knew nothing
and therefort said nothing.
1t is the greatest annual demonstration of which
there is any record, concentrating an interviews
which took place two thousand years ago in a
dreamy little village and in land hoary with age
and bristling with most interesting points of his
tory which dissolves into an almost unknown past.
Now. what is most wonderful about this celebra-
ton is that six hundred years ago Voice came
from Rome that every year and for all time the
memory of this event, which took place two thou
sand years ago. should be perpetuated. And what
is still more wonderful the command of this Voice
has been respected and obeyed by all nations and
all peoples America was not then discovered. but
as soon as the Spaniard began to make settlements
in Mexico. South and Central America, and parts
Of what Is now the United States he at once be-
gan to build temples in which he could fttingly
comply with the conditions laid down by the voice
from Rome.
Then when hundreds of years after the coming
Of the Spanard the Cet began to settle in this
country, singulary enough, he too, began to build
temples in which he and his family would observe
the orders sent out by the Voice from Rome Now.
what was and is this extraordinary event which the
Voice from Rome ordered to be concentrated for
all time and by all nations. Strangely enough
man named Luke canonized by the Church as
Saint records this extraordinary event Here Is
what read in the first chapter of marvellous
GOSDel written bv this Saint
and in the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was
sent forth from God into city of Galilee called
Nazareth,
TO a virgin espoused to man whose name was
Joseph, of the house of David and the name of the
virgin was Mary.
And the Angel being come in, said to her:
Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Blessed
art thou among women.
And when she had heard, she was troubled at
his saying, and thought with herself what manner
Of salutation this should be-
And the Angel said to her: Fear not Mary;
for thou hast found grace with God:
Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and
shalt bring forth Son; and thou shalt call his
name Jesus
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son
of the Most High and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of David his father: and he shall
reign in the house of Jacob forever,
And of his kingdom there shall be no end
And Mary said to the Angel: How shall thia
be done, because ! know not man!
And the Angel answering, said to her: The
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee; and the power of
the Most High shall overshadow thee And there
fore also the Holy which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God"
Now, on last Wednesday morning. from ever,
altar of the Christian Church throughout the
world, there went up to God from priest and PEG
pie, from all the races of the earth. paeon of
praise and Thanksgiving for what God had done for
the human race when by the Incarnation. he united
our human nature to the divine and completed ere.
alton. Now, notice this: Mary being full of
grace there room for sin of any kind to af-
feet her pure soul and stainless flesh. She could
not it is true, have been exempted from the mo-