Evening journal., 1910-11-28
MISSION BEGINS
AT The CATHEDRAL
The Rev. Francis Mccarthy
Opens Week of Special
Services
SERMONS EVERY NIGHT
DUNING THE WEEK

For the benefit OF both Catholics
and non-CathOlics, a mission was
opened in the Cathedral yesterday to
continue every morning mad evening
during the week. The Rev. Francis
Mccarthy, S. j., lifelong friend of
the Rev. John Lyons, vicar-general of
the diocese, and pastor OF the Cathed-
raj, is the missionery. Father Nc
Carthy has ofiiciated here before.
Bishop Monaghan was on the
throne when Father Mccarthy opened
the mission. Father Mccarthy chose
as his subject the gospel Of the day,
the First Sunday of Advent (St. Luke
XXI, 25-33). He showed that the
general judgment at which all ma
tions of the earth shall be gathered
together is set for the vindication OF
Jesus Christ, whom they now in great
part blaspheme and deny.
THE SOUL" he said, leaves the
prison-house of the body aud at once
finds itself before the judgment seat
of Christ. This is the particular
judgment. There is another. What
Is it? 1t is the general judgment. We
shall live again, and whether that life
is to be a happy one or one unspeak-
ably wretched depends upon the
judgment. But why should 1t be
public? You cannot take up our daily
or weekly press without seeing that
nothing is too sacred to escape the
censuIe and criticism of journalist
or critic. Again the awful bias
phemies uttered against God; these
we may never know, for God does not
strike down the blasphemer at once.
God is patient because everlasting
He does not in His divinity hurl
ihunderbolts from heaven upon the
blasphemer. He awaits the day
when He shall come in the clouds in
great power and majesty, when He
shall be seated upon the judgment
seat to judge the living and the
dead.
"By what shall man be judged? BY
the law. What law? The political
code? The commercial code? How
shall we know that law? Does it re-
quire work? Must We spend years of
study upon it? No. 1t consists of ten
short sentences, It is the decalogue,
the Ten Commandments. Small, but
how comprehensive, how all-em-
bracing it is. We shall not be asked
what books we have read in the differ
society we have moved. No, but have
We kept the law. There our rela-
tions with God and with our fellow
men are clearly defined.
Who is to pass sentence? Who is
this one Judge of the living and the
dead? Remember It is a babe, born
In poverty In stable, of a mother
rich only in the love of her Son. See
His smiling, winsome faces He is the
Judge. They shall see the Son OF
Man coming in a cloud with great
power and majesty, with pomp, pow
er, majesty, the company of the just,
with His banner, the Cross OF Christ,
going on before. How wonderfully
beautiful, yet how unspeakably terri
bic. He is man like us, and yet a
God who knows all things: He is a
son OF Adam and Eve, and yet He
comes as the Judge OF the living and
the dead.
You and ! must appear before
tnat Judgment seat The graves must
give up their dead
Quid sum miser tune dicturus
Quem patronum rogaturus
Cum vix justus sit securus?
What shall / say? Shall it be
Ergo erraimusT Shall it be with us
as with Caiaphas, Pontius Pilot, ,Herod,
ergo erraimus, We have erred?
My brethren, If you have any mis-
givings as to how you will stand on
that last day, get to work. Bring
your conduct into harmony with the
law OF the church, with the law of
God. Make your preparation and
may the judge who meets you be the
God of mercy"
Father Mccarthy will give a brief
instruction every morning at 5
O'Clock and each evening at 7.3O
o'clock, a short sermon, followed hy
benediction OF the holy sacrament.