The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-11

the whole, that just those nations and
countries which have lost their faith in
the divinity of Christ have given up
devotion to His Mother, and that
those, on the other hand, who had
been foremost in her honor, have re-
tanned their orthodoxy. Contrast, for
instance, the Calvinists with the
Greeks, or France with the North of
Germany, or the Protestant and Cath
Ollie communions in Ireland" ('Dif-
ficulties of Anglicans," (vol. ii, p. 92).
All prayer to the Blessed Mother is
virtually and ultimately prayer to
God Love of her, by it's very nature,
carries us to the love OF God, whose
masterpiece she is. Strangers at
times have entered our churches and
been scandalized at what they deemed
an excessive manifestation of devotion
on the part of our people, who were
praying devoutly before some statue
of the Blessed Virgin. They forget,
however, that on the altar is Jesus
Christ really present, and that during
Mass in the early morning those same
devout souls have knelt in alteration
to Him alone. Catholics ever make
an infinite difference between their
love for the Son and for the Mother
realizing perfectly that all her graces
and privileges are from Him. If some
words or expressions of our devotional
writings seem to contradict this, let
the objector remember that it is I'M
reasonable to insist that devotional
tract be couched in the accuracy OF
dogma. Love never expresses itself in
the exact language of a mathematical
formula.
eff our bodies turn to dust and we
are destined to rise again, does not
this mean that we shall be created
! again?"
Creation signifies that thing is
made out of nothing, that is out of
no pre-existing material. Hence God
alone can create. But it is not crea-
ton to cause us to rise again with the
same bodies that we had during life
in this world. The soul has lived on,
and the particles of which our bodies
were composed are still surviving
though changed into the dust of the
earth. Divine power can collect them
and set them together again. But that
divine act is not re-creating them, but
restoring them Still it takes Divine
omnipotence to do both-create and
resurrect
What is the impeachment that exists
between sponsors in baptism?
Whenever anyone is baptized, a
spiritual relationship arises between
certain persons Baptism is a new
birth and so begets relationship SINH
lar to those that are begotten at our
natural birth. Just as nature forbids
closely related persons to marry, so
the Church forbids those who are in
a spiritual way closely related, to
marry, This forbidding to marry is
what we mean by the impeachment
coming from baptism The god-par.
ent can not marry, apart from the
Church's permission, either the god.
child or it's parent. However, the god.
parents may marry each other
Why can not mother baptize her
child in danger of death?
The baptism given by mother to
her child is always good and succeeds
in plotting out original sin and max
ioo +hn iyfo oh of Go1 ~
Church wishes, however, that the
honor of giving the child a second
birth as happens in baptism, should
go to some one other than the per
son who gave the first birth. More
over, thus is secured another persons
interest in the child's Christian bring
ing up if death should take away the
mother When child is in danger
of dying without baptism, and no one
else is about to administer the Sacra
ment of Re-birth, the mother is a
perfect liberty to baptize her ow1
infant.
Z (1) Did Christ preach the DOCTRINE
of Original Sin and Of Infant Baptism
!. (2) If Christ fulfilled all things per
l fectly under the New Law, why wa
> He not baptized in infancy? (3) VIVA
is the meaning of the words, Aleph
: Beth, Gimel, etc, found in the Psalms
% There is no mention of Origina
; Sin in the Gospels, but that does no
:. imply that Christ did not preach thi
8 doctrine. The only explicit referenc
: to the doctrine of Original Sin give
/ in the New Testament is found in 81
2 PauPs Epistle to the Romans (V-12)
where he says: "As by one man si
I entered into this world, and by ST
Q death; and so death passed upon a
9 men in whom all have sinned." Othe
texts from the Bible may be cited i
8 confirmation of this teaching. Chris
9 preached the doctrine of Infant Bal
:. tism, when He said: amen, amen,
say to thee, unless a man be Dor
o again of water and the HOLY Ghost h