The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-17

Sanctuary wherein is set the altar
and on the altar the tabernacle.
Blessed Mary and Joseph in their
chapels right and left of the entrance
welcome you and lead you up to Jesus
in the Sanctuary beneath the dome.
TO the right and left of Him, like
sentinels of their Lord and King, stand
in their chapels Saint Peter and Saint
Paul, the one with the Cross. the
other with the Sword. Back of
Him and around Him, in the circling
chapels of the apse, is noble guard
of the missionary saints, whose spirit
ual children are the strength of this
land. But He, Christ, ON the main
altar is the central figure, He is the
reason and last word of all, the life
and the beauty and the glory of the
building. 1t is His house, He is the
host, they are His guests. The very
atmosphere quivers with the pulsa-
tons of His presence, the light from
the windows is tremulous of it, the
lofty walls and the fretted ceiling and
the vast dome speak of His presence.
A feeling of awe and of love seiZes
us as we tread the tesselated pave
ment and learn from the twinkling
Sanctuary lamp that He is here. This
you believe, and this is why you have
done this thing, why you have built
this Cathedral, because you believe it
is the house of God. Surely the faith
that moves the mountains may we'll
turn the stones and metals of earth
into monumental homage to the AL
mighty and behold this building is
the homage.
Know you not that you are the
temple of God and that the spirit of
God dwelleth in YOU" In these words
st. Paul indicates lesson to be
learned from the material temple. St.
Peter expresses the same idea, BE
you also as living stones built up, a
spiritual house, The material build
ing is symbolic of the spiritual. The
spiritual building is the Church, the
assembly of all the faithful. In the ma
terial there dwells divine Presence,
our Lord Himself, which gives the
building all it's meaning, all its sacred.
ness, all it's qualities. Likewise in the
spiritual building, the Church of
Christ, there is a divine Presence
which makes the Church what is is,
gives it life, sanctity, beauty and
strength. Christ indeed built the
Church, the cornerstone Peter, the
foundation the Apostles, the living
walls all the faithful; He cemented
and purified His Church in His most
Precious Blood. But it was not, If /
may say so, dedicated, it was not
its work, to be an energy in the world,
until the Holy Ghost had come down
from heaven and taken possession of
it on the day of Pentecost. "Stay you,
said the Lord to the Apostles, in the
city until you be endued with power
from on High" l believe in the Holy
Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church.
ton, there is necessary and logical
connection between those two articles
of the Greed, the one is cause of the
other. Let this truth take hold of
your minds, and the Church will stand
before you divine creation filled,
permeated and quickened by the spir-
it of God, sustained not by the efforts
of man but by the power of God,
guided not by human counsels but by
the wisdom of the divine dWeller
knowing no lapse of time, no flux OF
change, but eternal like it's indweller
and like Him Interchangeable; in a word
the temple of God, from whose dome
shines the light of truth on world of
darkness, on whose entablature is
written the duty and the right to
teach, at whose portals stand the com
missioned heralds who cry aloud to
the generations as they pass that
within are to be found truth, grace
and salvation. Christ dwells in no
other material temple than the Catho.
lie, the Holy Ghost dwells in no other
spiritual temple than the Church of
the Apostles.
Why, outside the Catholic Church
the divine element has been eliminat-
ed, the Holy Ghost has been ostracised
and silenced. Christ had promised TO
His Apostles-not, to each and every
individual believer but to the Apostles
as collegiate body-a Paraclete, the
Third Person of the Blessed Trinity,
to abide with them forever, to bring
to their minds all things He had
taught them; He commanded them to
teach all nations and assured them
that He should be forever with them
through the abiding Paraclete. Look
at the group sculptured over the por-
tai Of this Cathedral The twelve
only were the receivers of this prom.
Use as of the command to teach. They
are the foundation, we are the living
stones of the walls built upon them,
and therefore sharers in the qualities
with which they have been endowed,
not independently of them, but
through them. Listen to St. Paul ex-
posing this doctrine in the Epistle to
the Ephesians: Now, therefore you
are no more strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the
Saints and the domestics of God;
built upon the foundation of the Apos-
ties, Jesus Christ Himself being the
chief cornerstone, in whom all the
building being framed together grow
eth up into holy temple in the Lord.
in whom you also are built together
into an habitation of God in. the