The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-05-01
A Sad Story.


ne Following story NO..
80: key. eDan William D H H. pS
ton, Ohio: . OlUrch' at Day
mere was something unusra,,-.
about the first death that ooo,,~~ay SAY
year in our parish. The ar ~ tlll.
s sr1ne OF every Catholic vbe,, doa.,,
pIodches Is to receive tba las+ eo,.o
a-'- liIs' Even when a member 6;o,, ca a
da.+G from home. half the bitterness ca 81
l,iS fa. Ie,tes away from the hearts ~
y ,, -elIIily when they learn that he bed
he 80 before the end came and that
nov oSeii prepared for his last iour-
Sp-ee+o,. -. uedlh no consolation is
tho "a. 'llol Inc privilege of bringing
oouH reVerently to church +l,a,o e
nave the requiem chanted o,-e,, IL =, 80 ~
aIcer wards of placing it in consac, g.,
SoiI' Ihere to await the summons of H.
angels trumpet Vi Oile
NOW, this particular dealt, x-a, la,1
ms IN Doth these consoling elements.
ny last SdcramentS We're not admins
.eIeu; the remains were not brought to
ne cHufch; no requiem was SING oyar.
mem and they were not inferred i'm
hailoNed ground. w have no desire ia
wound unnecessarily, and we mention
1hls case only because it carries with If
d warning to some of our young people.
Ldrly last year a young man and lady
called upon one of the priests of this
church and handed in their names to
oe called out. In the course of CONVEX
Salloh with the young man the priest
found him poorly instructed in his re-
lGion, possibly through no fault OF his
~,i4 l.;
proper instructions at such time as he
would find it convenient to come The
very next day they sent word to the
priest that he need not call them out,
went to Protestant minister of this
city and were married. Needless to add
that the young man came for no in
structions
Marrying in this way, both parties
incurred the sentence of excommunica-
ton from the Church. from which no
priest in the diocese could absolve them
save the Archbishop. SurelE a wretched
way to begin married life, to cut ones
self off from the Church just when re-
ceiving her holy sacrament. and to enter
LIES most serious responsibility I'M
aided by Gods saving grace. EXcom-
nunicated they were by their own
choice, communicated they remained
by their own free viii, and eXcommuni-
Gated she died by the judgment of God.
not even the approach of the most
trying and critical period of woman's
existence reused her to a sense of the
danger of her soul. nor stirred within
her desire TO seek absolution from this
tread punishment A child was born.
Soon the mother sank In her death
agony some one sent messenger. who
came breathlessly to the priests resi-
dence. Hurriedly he started forth, anX-
ious to lift the accommodation, for
with the approach of death even this
extraordinary faculty is vested in him
by the Church. Ere he reached the
house she was removed from his juris-
dition. Death had reached her before
the priest. She had died in a state of
communication: there was to be no
Christian burial for her For the first
time in the career of the present pastor
he was obliged TO deny to the bereaved
family the right of bringing her body
TO the church Of interTing ii in Cal
vary's sacred ground. 1t was painful
duty. His sympathies We're with the
bereaved family. and are yet. but there
was no alternative. She had chosen her