The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-10-18

He to them, Teach all nations;
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever have commanded you"
He thus empowered them to spread
abroad. explain and preserve His
holy doctrine; He empowered them
to enveigh against vice and encour-
age virtue; to trace out for every
one his individual duties; He en-
powered them to offer to all instruc-
ton, counsel and hope, to encourage
the good, exhort the weak, to con-
vert the sinner. In a word He EN-.
powered them to proclaim His doc
trine and apply it everywhere one
and the same; to defend His rights
on earth against every enemy; and
to draw souls from death and He'll.
Such is the Catholic priest, the
preacher Of Gods word, the dispenser
of Gods mysteries, the teacher Of
Gods people. And God says Of His
priest: rs =
"You are the salt of the earth"
Those words our Divine Savior ad.
dresses to His Apostles and their
successors in the priesthood. As 1t
is the duty of salt to purify and pre-.
serve and make palatable the meats
we eat; so should 1t be the duty of
the priest to preserve and make palat.
able to human souls the Divine Word
of God. The salt that has lost it's
SAVIOR becomes a useless thing, SO in
like manner the priest who has lost
his fervor, or the young Levite who
has never acquired fervor will do
but little in preserving and advanc.
ing the Kingdom of God upon earth.
"You are the light of the world"
Yes, my young friends, the priests
who are in the world today, and you
who are to be the priests Of the NOR.
row, must be as burning torches,
leading on to eternal life the souls
intrusted to your care. You should
preach Christ and Christ crucifled,
and If you wander away from that
subject, and instead of preaching
Christ, you preach yourself, then do
you become like unto the light placed
under the bushel, you neither are
a light to yourself nor to the people,
to whom you are supposed to be light
OF the world after your ordination.
"A city seated on mountain can
not be hid" A city on the mountain
top can be seen from afar. The
priest is likened to such a city. The
world sees him and watches him and
judges. to great extent, the Church.
by him. If he shows to the world
that he is wording, filed with the
fads and fancies of the world, and
but flimsy representative of his Lord
and Master. the world itself will
despise him. his friends will shun
him, and God may pity him but will
condemn him, as an unprofltable WHO
tried to serve two masters.
My dear young Levites, on this,
the anniversary Of the dedication 81
this beautiful chapel wherein 7 YOU 81
have spent SO many hours: Of sdevo.
ton, where you have so often knelt
in veneration' to our sweet Mother
Mary, the Patroness Of holy love,
where you have adored our Blessed
Lord In the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass and in the loneliness OF the
sanctuary, let me ask you to be
faithful Alumni of THIS grand Sem.
mary Of st. Paul. If you wish to be
such in your priestly lives, I'would
ask you to pray much, to read your
Office reverently. to say your Mass
with devotion, to be kind to the
people, and when you preach, preach
not yourself. but preach Christ and
Christ crucified and risen from the
dead. 's' '5.