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Ceremonies Attended the Cele.
bration of Young Priests
Masses.
Young Levites Oficiate at Sa-
cred Heart and st.
Paul's.
Eloquent Preacher From East
Delivers Splendid
Discourse.
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Sacred Heart church was filled to
overflowing last Sunday by friends,
relatives and members of the con-
gregation, who assembled to attend
the celebration of the first mass of
Rev. Father John NJ. Abell. The
ceremonies began at 10 O'Clock. At
the same hour and while the cere-
monies were in progress a similar
event was being conducted in the
East End, st. Paul's church, where
the Rev. Father Joseph McAleer was
celebrating his first mass. These
two young priests with the Rev.
Father Jacob Rahm, of Stithton,
were ordained by the Right Rev.
Bishop Chartrand at st. Meimrad's s
Abbey, in Indiana, last Saturday.
The services at Sacred Heart
church were very elaborate. The
affairs were tastefully decorated and
brilliantly illuminated; the sane
tuary was filled with clergy from the
other parishes and from other do
ceses. Promptly at 10 o'clock the
procession entered the church from
the school house. A cross-bearer
led the way. Behind him came fifty
or more little girls in white gowns
and wells. Next came the altar boys
and the clergy. Bringing up the
rear were the young priest, Father
Abell, and his assistant priest,
Father e. M. Bachman. The mass
began at once. The Rev. DR.. James
Coyle, of Taunton, Mass, was dea-
con; Rev. ], ]. Abel, of st. John,
uncle of the celebrant, subdeaeon;
Rev. Father Jacob Rahm, master of
ceremonies. The choir under the
direction of Miss McDermott rem
dered appropriate music. The mass
of course was solemn high.
At the gospel the Rev. DR.. James
Coyle preached. In part his sermon
was as follows:
Perhaps the text most suited for
an occasion of this kind will be this
from Holy David: He filled them
with bread from heaven; He opened
the rock and the waters flowed;
rivers ran down the dry land Sweet
as the fragment of an angels song
are these sublime words from the
chastened lips of the prophet. 1t is
the language of thanksgiving and of
prophecy. The prodigies of the des-
ert, the tolls of the Saviour, the sol
emnity of today are here pointed and
beautiful beyond the loftiest concep-
ton. He filled them, says the royal
mourner, with bread from heaven.
Who has accomplished this marvel?
Whose word, whose prayer, whose
over has converted the home of
A N fpNfnnf NJ nf
p Nnty for a starving world7 That of
M,ses in the desert, of Christ in the
cdnacle and of the priest at the altar.
The sands of the desert saw the
TYPE. the cenacle and the altar the
reality.
IA touch of Aaron's rod and the
froRning ledge gives birth to a cool
ing lspring. A few words from the
lips Sof the priest and the tired heart
receives a flood OF grace that glad
| dens \the hosts of heaven. Life
Ahere- below is a pilgrimage, a place
of battle, q weary march through a
waste of sin, under the guidance of
a more than Moses, Christ's repre-
sentative, a priest. Worldly wis
dom may scott at his prerogatives
and sneer at him, but the true
priest bears all, smiles at II all, since
his sole aim is Gods glory and
mans salvation. This is the shield
that blunts the shafts aimed by hui
man malice. This is the vantage
ground whence he. proclaims, 4 am
here because of Gods mandate: Go
teach all nations" He speaks, and
infinite wisdom becomes a little
child, and twelve fishermen from
the shores o( Lake Galilee, armed
with this ord alone, go forth and
copQpeT the world. The wisdom OF
philosophers, the eloquence OF or
ators, the force of armies, the
strength OF nations are powerless to
cope with twelve unlettered fisher
men. Strike them on the face,
buffet them, calumniate, cruelty
them, their actions are yet heard and
viii ring adown the ages, ever win
ming a glorious harvest.
"You are here, brethren. for the
first mass OF young and new toiler.
new warrior in the ranks OF the
/crucified. He has come like the
Master from the sweet abode OF SEM
mary life. He will go into the fray,
not with the valor of an ordinary
young priest. but with the priest
hood of almost century behind
him."
Father Coyle came from Taunton,
Mass, a distance OF LOO miles, to
preach at the first mass OF the
nephew OF his friend and classmate,
Father j. ]. Abell. Young Father
Abel went to stithton ON Thursday
to assist at the first mass OF his
laoamafo Vafhar Jaooh Rahm