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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
| METHODIST TRIBUTE
BISHOP BERRY EXTOLS THE
WORK OF CATHOLIC cHARITA-
BILE INSTITUTIONS.

Bishop Berry, presiding over the
Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference on March 18th, declared that
the Methodists would have to take a
leaf from the books of the Catholics,
if they hoped to grow and become a
world power. He said the Catholics
could teach the members of other
denominations great deal through
their charitable work. He said:
Il do not say that the Roman Cath
Ollie Church with presentations and
plans uses it's great charitable institu-
tons as a method for propaganda for
evangelism, but l do know that the
Catholic orphanages and hospitals and
all it's great institutions have become
a tremendous force all over the world.
81 do not say of Professionals, who
go to Catholic institutions and hospi-
tails, that there is any attempt to pro-
selyte them, because l do not know
but these patients cannot help but be
impressed by the spirit of benevolence
displayed there.
"The Methodists are too busy with
revivals to do much. We began toe
late.'
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THE EASTER FESTIVAL

The name Easter is Anglo-Saxon,
and is probably derived from the old
German of ostarun, now ostern, be-
ing the name of a festival celebrated
among the pagan Teutons in honor
of the goddess of light. This feast
was celebrated in spring, and as the
Christian feast commemorative of
the resurrection of the Lord falls in
this season, the name of Ostern-or,
Anglo-Saxon, Easter-was transfer
red to this feast. In the language of
the Church, however, the feast is
called Pascha-derived from the Heb
rev Passach, meaning the Passover.
On this day the Hebrews celebrate
the commemoration of the miracul-
Gus passage of the people of Israel
through the Red Sea into the prom
Used land, and their liberation from
the slavery of Pharaoh; and then also
commemorate the passage Of the an
gel of the Lord who slew the first
born of the Egyptians, whilst he pass
ed over the houses of the Israelites,
whose door-posts were sprinkled
with the blood of the paschal lamb.
Now, for us, too, passover has
taken place, of which that of the an
cient law was but figure. Christ,
our Lord and Saviour by the she'd
ding of His precious blood, has re-
deemed us from our sins, and, as it
were, led us forth through His blood
from the captivity and slavery of
Satan And if, during the paschal
time, we have sanctified ourselves by
the grace of the holy sacraments, and
have become reconciled with God,
then our souls have been in a spir-
itual manner sprinkled with the blood
of the Divine Lamb, so that the prince
of darkness has no more power over
US.
The festival of Easter is regulated
by the course of the moon. Easter
day is always the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens on or
next after the 21st of March, or the
vernal equinox. If the full moon hap
pens on a Sunday, Easter day is the
Sunday after. By this arrangement
Easter may come as early as the I'D
of March or as late as the 25th of
April. 1t is always celebrated on Sun
day, because on this day of the week
the Saviour actually arose from the
dead. As God completed His work on
creation on the sixth day with the
creation of man, so he likewise COM
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
THE DATE OF EASTER
BETWEEN JEWISH
AND CHRISTIAN PASCH AC-
COUNTS FOR ITS MOVABLE
CHARACTER.

Easter is the principal feast of the
ecclesiastical year. Leo l calls it the
greatest feast and says that Christmas
is celebrated only in preparation for
Easter 1t is the centre of the greater
part of the ecclesiastical year 1t is
the oldest feast of the Christian
Church, as old as Christianity, the
connecting link between the Old and
New Testaments.
The connection between the Jew
ish Passover and the Christian feast
of Easter is real and ideal; real since
Christ died on the first Jewish Easter
Day, ideal like the relation between
type and reality because Christ's
death and Resurrection had its figures
and types in the Old Law, particular
ly in the Paschal Lamb which was
eaten towards evening of the 14th of
Nisan In fact the Jewish feast was
taken over into the Christian Easter
celebration; the liturgy sings of the
passing of Israel through the Red Sea,
the paschal lamb, the column of fire,
etc.
Apart however from the Jewish
feast the Christians would have cele-
brated the anniversary of the death
and the Resurrection of Christ. But
for such a feast it was necessary to
know the exact calendar date of
Christ's death. To know this day
was very simple for the Jews; it was
the day after the 14th of the first
month, the 18th of Nissan of their
calendar But in other countries of
the vast Roman empire there were
other systems of chronology. The
Romans from As B. c. had used the
reformed Julian calendar; there were
also the Egyptian and the Syro-Mace-
DOMAIN calendars. The foundation of
the Jewish calendar was the lunar
year of 354 days, whilst the other
system depended on the solar year. In
consequence the first days of the Jew
ish months and years did not coincide
with any fixed days Of the Roman
solar year.
The connection between the Jewish
anu IAC SI1A cISOA CA 1d1uo SAIC
movable character of the feast. Easter
has no fixed date, like Christmas, be-
cause the 18th of Nissan of the Semi
tic calendar was shifting from date
to date on the Julian calendar. Since
Christ, the true Paschal Lamb, had
been slain on the very days when the
Jews, in celebration of their Passover,
inundated the figurative lamb, the
Jewish Christians in the Orient fol,
lowed the Jewish method and com.
memorated the death of Christ on the
18th of Nissan and His Resurrection on
the 18th of Nissan no matter on what
day of the week they fell. For this
observance they claimed the authori-
| ty of St. John and ST. Philip.
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THE STAFF OF ST. PATRICK
SAYS THE SAINTS
CROZlER BELONGED TO. OUR
LoRD-WAS TAKEN FROM ROME
WHEN PATRICK WAS SENT TO
EVANGELIZE IRELAND BY POPE
cELEsTINE-USED IT IN BAN
ISHING THE sERPENTS.

Every one has heard that the
Apostle of Ireland banished the SER
penis from that country with the
sacred BACILLUS Jesus, or Staff of
Jesus, as the Saints crozier is called
in the ancient annals. There are
several pious legends in connection
with the famous staff, which tradition
tells us was carried by Our Divine
Lord Himself
According to some authorities it
was brought by st. Patrick from Rome
when he was appointed by Pope Celes-
tine to evangelize Ireland. Other ac-
counts maintain that the staff was
given to the Saint by hermit from
the East, who built his cell on an
island in the Tourenian Sea. There
he was visited by St. Patrick. The
hermit had been prepared for the
great Apostles visit by an angel, and
it was in obedience to the inspiration
of the angel that he gave the staff to
his illustrious guest
But, though traditions differ as to
the precise manner in which the
sacred staff came into the hands of
st. Patrick, all authorities are agreed
as to it's actual existence. 1t termin-
ated in an iron spike which it was the
Saints custom to strike into the
ground and upon which he supported
himself while preaching in the open
air.
And it is said that when st. Patrick
baptized Aengus, King of Munster, he
accidentally pierced through the
kings sandal-covered foot with the
spike. Aengus never even WINGED.
Nor was it till the ceremony was over
that st. Patrick, seeing the ground
covered with blood, realized what he
had done Upon being asked why he
had not cried out, the King answered
that he thought the piercing of his
foot by the Saints staff was part of
the ceremony and intended to repre-
sent, though family, the wounds Our
Lord had received for mans redemp-
ton.
st. Patrick's staff was long pre-
served amongst the insignia Of the
See of Armagh, and its possession was
popularity believed to give the holder
the right to Primary. In 1180 it was
removed to Christ Church, Dublin,
where it remained for nearly four
hundred years.
For over a thousand years the Irish
guarded the staff of st. Patrick as one
of their most treasured relics. But in
the reign of Henry VIII it was sacri-
legiously destroyed, being burned pub
licly in Dublin by Bishop Brown, the
first Protestant archbishop of the city,
His lordship wrote to his royal mas
ter boasting of the deed. The annals
Of the time make mention of many
precious relics then destroyed and al
lude particularly to the sacred staff.
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be known in religion: Misses Esther
Shields, Morris, Mimi, Sister Mary
Lois; Laura Brady, Montreal, Can,
Sister Mary loretta; Magdalen Vie
land, Empire City, Mimi, Sister Mary
Elsa; Gertrude McRory, Charlotte
town, P. E. l., Can, Sister Mary St.
Claire; Catherine McCarrick, ST. Paul,
Mimi, Sister Teresa Louise; Rose
Spence, LIE Sueur, Mimi, Sister Mary
Anselma; Sarah Spence, LIE Sueur,
Mimi, Sister Mary st. Alban; Josephine
Raymond, Quebec, Can, Sister Mary
Emerita; Josephine McAvinn, Kelly's
Cross, P. E. l., Can, Sister Mary
Aniceta; Louise Krumholz, Paramount,
Mimi, Sister Mary Roswitha; Wini-
fred Eisenmenger, Sherburn, Mimi,
Sister Mary Victor; Alice Croken, Kin
kora, P. E. l., Can, Sister Mary Linus;
Ida Desilets, Quebec, Can, Sister
Agnes Blanche; Catherine Burns, New
port, Mimi, Sister Mary Clarita;
Marie Juba, Little Falls, Mimi, Sister
Mary Bennett; Irene Platter, Norwood,
Mimi, Sister Mary Georgina; Agnes
Platter, Norwood, Mimi, Sister Mary
Adalia; Teresa Brennick, Iona, P. E.
l., Can, Sister Mary Cassia; Alice
Finn, Mortified, Mimi, Sister Mary
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Evangeline; Helen Kuhn, Watertown,
S. D., Sister Mary Audry; Magdalen
Hentges, st. Paul, Mimi, Sister Mary
Celina;' Ella Campbell, Cape Traverse,
P. E. l., Can, Sister James Marie;
Elizabeth Cannon, Minneapolis, Mimi,
Sister Mary Myra; Mary McGregor,
St. Paul, Mimi, Sister Mary Alphonse;
Esther McGregor, st. Paul, Mimi, Sis
ter Mary Honor; Anna Carroll, st.
Paul, Mimi, Sister Mary Flavia; Mar
garet O'Brien, st. Paul, Mimi, Sister
Mary Colma; Catherine O'Brien, ST..
Paul, Mimi, Sister Mary Mella; Helen
Macaulay, Morell, P. E. l., Can, Sister
Mary Robert; Eva De Lage, Mime
apolis, Mimi, Sister Marie Celeste;
Arabella Roy, Minneapolis, Mimi, Sis
ter Ste. Marie; Florida Peloquin,
Hugo, Mimi, Sister Mary Remi; Mary
Gleeson, Cherry Valley, P. E. l., Can,
Sister Mary Gerald; Mary Greer, Kill
kenny, Mimi, Sister Mary Elena;
Irene Minogue, Minneapolis, Mimi,
Sister Mary Aloysia; Frances Ma
honey, Minneapolis, Mimi, Sister
Agnes Catherine; Anna Coriek, Min
neapolis, Mimi, Sister Mary Novella;
Catherine Normile, Willmar, Mimi,
Sister Anna Margaret.
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In the rest of the Empire another
consideration predominated. Every
Sunday of the year was commemo-
ration of the Resurrection of Christ
which had occurred on Sunday. Be-.
cause the Sunday after ii Nisan was
the historical day of the Resurrection,
at Rome this Sunday became the
Christian feast of Easter. Easter was
celebrated at Rome and Alexandria
on the first Sunday after the first full
moon after the spring equinox and
the Church claimed for this observ-
ance the authority of SITS. Peter and
Paul. The spring equinox in Rome
fell on March 25th; in Alexandria on
March 21st.
At Antioch Easter was kept on the
Sunday after the Jewish Passover In
Gaul number of Bishops, wishing to
escape the difficulties of the paschal
computation, seem to have assigned
Easter to a fixed date of the Remain
calendar, celebrating the death of
Christ on March 25th, His Resurrec-
ton on March 9th, since already in
the third century March 25th was
considered the day of the crucifxion
This practice was of short duration
Many calendars in the Middle Ages
contain these same dates for purely
historical, not liturgical reasons. The
Montanists in Asia Minor kept Easter
on the Sunday after April 9Th The
First Council of Nicea (325), how
ever, decreed that the Roman practice
should be observed throughout the
Church
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
THE SOCIALIST TRINITY

Cardinal Manning has maintained
that to speak of Christian or Catholic
Socialism is a proof of vagueness of
thought or at least of expression, for
Socialism is not only opposed to
Christianity, but as a materialistic
theory skaters all religious belief.
Numberless as are the excerpts
which can be quoted from their clas-
sizes to prove this statement, there
still remain Socialist writer's unwilling
to yield this point, declaring, with
Victor L. Berger and Winfield R. Gay
lord, that Socialism advances purely
economic questions. Let us draw our
own conclusions from the following
citations:
In the New Yorker Volkszeitung,
the organ of Socialism in New York,
we find, under date of October, 1901,
the following:
Socialism and belief in God, as it
is taught by Christianity and it's
adherents, are incompatible. Socialism
has no meaning unless it is atheistic,
unless it declares that we do not need
so-called Divine help, because we are
able to help ourselves. Only the man
who ceases to believe begins to feel
that he can act"
Denying the existence of God,
Robert Blatchford, enc of the great
opponents of Socialism, terms the
heavenly Father the God of the Chris
tian religion, a myth and baseless
shadow. In his God and My Neigh
Dor" he writes:
THE biblical God was tickle, jealous,
dishonorable, immoral, vindictive, bar
barous, cruel; he was tribal God,
an idol made by man, and, as the idol
of savage and ignorant tribe, was
himself a savage and ignorant
monster"
Maintaining that God did not create
man, but man God, Socialists natur-
ally deny the Incarnation and Redemp-
ton. The New Yorker Volkszeitung
blasphemes in the following manner:
1--WE do not believe in the Saviour
of the Christians; our Saviour will
come in the shape of the world-re-
deeming principle of Socialism" And
Blatchford: Man had never sinned
against God. In fact, the whole of
this old Christian doctrine is mass
of error. There was no creation.
There was no fall. There was no
atonement There was no Adam and
no Eve, and no Eden, and no devil,
and no hell" And in the words of
Dietzgen: work is the name of the
new Redeemer"
Having denied the existence of God
and the need of Redeemer, we find
the Vorwarts ridiculing the biblical
story of Pentecost in this manner:
According to the Christian myth,
the Holy Ghost came down on the
first Pentecost. Socialism is
also new doctrine, and proclaims the
joyful gospel of redemption, but not of
redemption through Messiah. May
the disciples today and tomorrow pour
out the spirit of Socialism upon
thousands of uIlbelievers."
Thus the Holy Trinity is destroyed,
and what is substituted in its place?
The answer comes from the lips of
Robert Blatchford: Rightly or
wrongly, am for earth, not
heaven; for the hottest trinity of all
the trinity of man, woman and child"
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pleted the second creation-the re-
demption of manly his death on
the sixth day of the week, or Friday;
and as God, after the creation, rested
upon the seventh day, so also the
Saviour, after completing the work of
the redemption, rested upon the Sab
bath in the tomb. But on Sunday, the
first day of the week, after having
rested in the grave from Friday even
ing till the morning of the third day,
He went forth from the same with
new glory and splendor. Other feasts
of the year, which are called movable
feasts," are regulated according to
Easter, so that, for instance, the Feast
of the Ascension is always the for
tieth, and Pentecost the fiftieth day
after Easter.
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LA SALETTE SUPERIOR
GENERAL DEAD
VERY REVEREND JOSEPH PERRIN
PASSES AWAY AT THE MOTHER.
HOUSE oFTHE ORDER IN ITALY
SUPERIOR GENERAL SINCE
1897.

The Very Reverend Joseph Perrin,
Superior General of the Missionaries
of La Salette, died at the Mother
house of the Order, Susa, Italy, on
March 16, in the seventy-seventh year
of his age. He was born at Grenoble,
France, and was ordained to the
priesthood in 1861 Three years later
he entered the Congregation of La
Salette which was founded a few
years after the Apparition of Our Lady
at La Salette in 1916.
He spent thirty-seven years on the
Mountain of La Salette as the
guardian of the Shrine of Our Lady.
He held many Offices in the Com
munity prior to his election as SUI,
perior General in 1897.
He visited North America twice and
during his administration, the Order
developed greatly in the United States
and Canada.
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The tradition of the Punishment of
serpents from Ireland admits of a
fgurative as we'll as a literal inter-
probation. Ancient annals frequently
speak of the Druids as "serpents. -
Indeed, they were accustomed to al
Jude to themselves as being wise as
serpents." And it was these human
serpents who were the masters of Ire
land at the time of st. Patrick's ar
rival. By him-the Saint who leaned
upon the staff of Jesus-was their
power forever broken in Ireland.
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Continued from page ~

st. Paul, Mimi; Sister Oswina Biren,
Avoca, Mimi; Sister Beata Calvin,
Grants Pass, Ore; Sister Corona
Christensen, Beardsley, Mimi; Sister
Anselm Mclaughlin, ST. Paul, Mimi;
Sister Rose Aurelia Berkner, Litch-
field, Mimi; Sister Maureen Foran, In
dianapolis, Ind; Sister Norbertine Far
rell, Avoca, Mimi; Sister Leonissa
Sauser, Lakeville, Mimi; Sister Lid
wilma Sauser, Lakeville, Mimi; Sister
St. Thomas Lindberg, Minneapolis,
Mimi; Sister Assisium Lindberg, Min
neapolis, Mimi; Sister Lidiana Carr,
Chicago, ILL.,; Sister Clarice Quinn,
Wahpeton, N. D.; Sister Francis de
Sales Burns, st. Paul, Mimi; Sister
Laurine Loney, st. Paul, Mimi; Sister
Scholastica Duboe, st. Paul, Mimi. !;
Sister Viva Foley, st. Paul, Mimi; Sis
ter Marciana Lanigan, Rexton, N. B..
Can; Sister Georgiana Ford, Merrill,
Wis,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29

The General Sessions will be Devoted
to Foreign Missions, Home Missions,
immigration Problems, and the SoIu-
tions for Our Missionary Difficulties
-Mass-Meetings to be Addressed by
Distinguished PreIates and Laymen
A Large Attendance Expected.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-29
SECOND CATHOLIC
MISSIONARY CONGRESS

THE SECOND AMERICAN cATHo-
Lie MISSIONARY CONGRESS
WILL BE HELD IN BOSTON, oc-
ToBER 10TH TO 22ND, UNDER
THE AUSPICES OF THE CATH
oLIc CHURCH EXTENSION So
GETTY.
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Our lightest hopes are often de-
stroyed to prepare us for better things.
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PostuIants Received.

The following are the names of the
young women who received the habit
of the Sisters of ST. Joseph and the
names by which they will henceforth
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-02-19
He Handled ,Em .

Did you ever hear the story about the
Irishman, Pat, by name, who applied at
the wharf for work as stevedore? Well, il
you have you won't need to read this one.
He was, l should say, only four and a
half feet in height, and when he applied
for a job the boss was dubious.
'We're loading 3,000-pound anvils into
that steamer" said he, ''and little runt
like yourself couldn't handle 'em."
''Try me-" said Pat. And the boss put
him to work.
Pat hustled the anvils aboard all right
The cargo was nearly all slowed In the
hold, when the boss heard splash. He
ran to the rail and, looking over, saw Pat
struggling in the water.
"Throw me a rope!" he yelled, as he
went under. He came up, called for
rope, and went under again. Again he
rose to the surface.
SIT you don't throw me a rope" he
sputtered, angrily, "Tm going 20 drop
this anyIp
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-02-19
Embellishments
NOT A TWINGE of
RHEUMATISM
SINCE TAKING
RHEUMA.

81 suffered from Rheumatism for six
years; tried different doctors, with no re-
lief. saw your advertisement and de-
cided to try RHEUMA. l have taken
three bottles and am entirely free from the
disease. was so bad could not sleep
nights; now sleep well, and my kidneys
work perfectly."-P. w. Miller, Catawissa,
Pa.
"For Ia months was so badly afflicted
with Rheumatism that much of the time
was Obliged to use cane. / used one
bottle of RHEUMA and THE CANE IS
In THE CORNER NOW. No one
could be happier to be rid of the pain,
SWOLLEN knees and badly swollen ankles.
certainly believe there is no remedy for
the disease like RHEUMA." Mrs. Daniel
S. Knox, Severance, N Y, Aug. s, 1912.
G. A. Parcher guarantees RHEUMA to
cure Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, scia-
tica, Arthritis, Chronic, Neuralgia and
Kidney disease or money back - and only
so cents bottle.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-02-19

Thomas Adolphus Bamber Brown Au-
gustus Richardson Gascoyne Goodlatte, Of
Passaic, is believed by his friends to have q
longer name than any other man in New
Jersey.
In a police court at Lincoln, Neb., q
Greek was asked by the magistrate il he
understood the meaning of an oath. This
is the impressive way in which he defined
1t: s'Talka to God--Talka to Heaven
Talka straight-no lish business at all.
Talka jes' right"
A North Carolina negro was brought out
on the gallows to be hung for murder.
ssHenry," said the sheriff, shave you any
thing to say?' "Yas, sah," said the con-
demned man, "I'se got few words to say
I merely wishes to state dat dis suttinly is
goin' to be lesson to me-"
.Children," said the teacher. while in
structing the class, in composition, "you
should not attemp any flights OF fancy,
but simply be yourselves, and write what is
in you. Do not initiate any other per-
sons writings or draw inspiration from
outside sources" As a result Of this
advice, Johnny Wise turned in the follow
ing composition: 1--WE should not
attempt any fites of fancy, but rite what
is in us, In me there is my stummick,
lungs, heart, liver, two apples, one piece
of pie, one stick lemon candy and my din
nero
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KITrERy TO CARIBOU.

Robert ]. Reilly, the well-known roof
ing contractor, of Bangor, died Saturday,
aged fifty-nine years.
The Central garage at Lewiston was
burned Sunday, with score of automo-
biles. Loss, s54 900.
Fred w. Kelley, aged twenty-eight
years, an employee Of the Central Maine
Power Co., was instantly killed at Wins
low last Wednesday, by coming in con-
tact with live wire.
The body OF Fred e. Williams, of VIM
throp, missing for two weeks, was found
Saturday in a shed at East Winthrop. 1t
is supposed Williams went in the shed to
sleep, and was frozen to death.
The seventh annual farmers week at
Orono will be held March to s, inclusive.
Reduced rates have been secured over all
railroads, and every effort is being made
to make this course the most successful
and valuable OF any previously offered.
The program is full of special features.
William P. Hubbard, of Bangor, died
Feb. IL, aged eighty-one years. He had
been chairman of the board of assessors
for nearly quarter of a century; also
president of the All Souls church corpora
ton, treasurer of the Maine Charita Bile
association, and up to two years ago treas
urer Of the Maine missionary society.
Because he lost ten cents which his
mother had given him to make purchase
at nearby grocery store and was afraid
to return home and confess what he had
done, Clarence, the twelve-year old son oil
George P. Cady, of Portland, cut rope
from his sled and hung himself from the
piazza of his home. Twice within a few
days the boy had lost small sums of money
which his mother had given him, and she
reprimanded him severely for it..