The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-12-13

e what 10 HlCdHI ny Tic WoTuS
"Heaven and earth shall pass away
but My word never" which our Lord
said? 8. Why is it that the Holy
Ghost is not as Familiarity talked about
as the Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity? Why do we not pray to the
Holy Ghost as much? 4. What cousin
is considered within the fourth degree
of kindred? S. What is meant by
1--WE are made to the image and like
ness of God"? Does it mean our soul,
or does it mean the image of God
when He lived on earth? 6. How
can a person judge whether they full
fill the fifth commandment of the
Church? z. When our Lord said to
ST. John, when he was hanging on
the cross, "Son, behold thy mother,
what did he mean? Was not St. John
a nephew of the Blessed Virgin? 8.
Where can a person get good book
on the church's attitude towards So
ciaIism? 9. Did our Lord ever refer
to a place like Purgatory while he
was on earth? How do we know that
such a place exists? 10. Is there any
passage in the gospel which shows
that our Lord approved of monastic
and religious lives? If so, where may
! find them?
/. Have you ever read copy of
the Menace? If you have, then there
is no need to ask if the Church ap-
proves of it. The Church cannot ap-
prove of any vile sheet that lives by
preying on the ignorance and preju-
dice of people in order to arouse their
bigotry against her doctrines and
practices. Papers like the Menace
feed on scandal and live by slandering
the Church, her priesthood, her sister
hoods, her institutions of all kinds,
and the faithful who accept her guild
ance in spiritual matters. If it were
within the power of the Catholic
Church to stop the publication of the
Menace it would do so, not for her
own sake only, but for the sake of the
poor dupes who accept it's ISLANDERS as
gospel truth. The vile character of
the Menace has been called to the
attention of the postal authorities at
Washington on more than one occa-
sion but they profess to be unable to
prevent it's passage through the mails.
AS long as they consider that it has
a legal right to the privileges given
to decent newspapers, nothing can be
done to prevent the diffusion of it's
filth. 2. The quotation as given in
the Bible reads, Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my word shall
not pass away" This does not mean
that heaven, the home of God and of
the Saints, shall pass away or cease
to exist 1t refers to what is ordi-
narily called the heavens, that is the
armament and the celestial bodies
which will be destroyed at the end
of the world, whereas the word of God
shall last forever 8. Is it true that
the Holy Ghost is not so often in
voked by the faithful as the Father
and the Son? In the mind of the
Church He occupies an equal position
with the other Persons of the Blessed
Trinity, and all her prayers are Of
fered up in His name as well as in
the name of the Father and of the
Son.. Even among the faithful the
Holy Ghost is more frequently in
voked than you perhaps realize. Every
time we make the Sign of the Cross
we call upon the Holy Ghost together
with the Father and the Son. Many
people have a special devotion to the
Holy Ghost and there are Congrega-
lions in the Church that bear His
name. Since He is God there is no
reason why we should not pray to
Him and invoke His aid. We are
taught to do so, and if we fail in
this regard it is our own fault. In
deed, the distinctive work of the Holy
Ghost in the economy of salvation is
to sanctify the souls of the faithful,
the souls redeemed by the blood of
the Goldman. We can attain to this
sanctification only through the agency
of this Holy Spirit and those who
would make the most of their spiritual
opportunities frequently invoke His
mercy. 4. Third cousins are related
within the fourth degree of kindred
5. "The image and likeness of God"
in its spiritual nature. 1t is from this
spirituality that the soul draws it's
distinctive characteristics. God is a
spiritual being without body and
when He created man He endowed
the soul with a nature like unto His
own. 6. The Fifth Commandment of
the Church obliges us to contribute to
the maintenance of our pastors and to
do our share in supporting the Church
and the works of religion. Each one
is expected to contribute according
to his means and each ones con-
science is the final judge in the mat
ter. If you understand all that is i'm
piled in this obligation and then give
what your conscience tells you you
can afford, you have no reason TO be
worried about the matter. z. BY
these words our Lord consigned his
blessed Mother to the care of st. John
the Evangelist This was the means
taken by the Saviour to provide for
the future welfare of his mother. He
entrusted her to st. John as to one
who would be to her son. Many
amplify these words of our Lord by
maintaining that St. John represented
all Christians and that, therefore,
when he was given to the Blessed
Mother as her son, we we're all made
her children. s. For the relations
hofuoou fho Church ond C0oioIiCD,