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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-15

months and closes his work here very
much to the regret of all its active
members. He will remain for some
time to close up his business affairs.
and to look after the interests of the
church.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-15

In the Chief of the Fire Depart
ment's report we find the salaries of
the firemen amounted to $6,269.69.
This added to the above total gives
$49,592.O4. But from this should be
deducted credits amounting to S2,-
166.45, making the net expenses $47.-
425.59.
That the trustees hope expenses will
be less next year is shown by the es-
Inmates of expenses. Below is gwen
the estimates for 1915 and 1916 that
tho reader may see here i is hoped
ex,,Crses will be less.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-15

Happy and contented is the man that
has his bins filled with our all-good
coal. The wind can blow and the snow
fly. but he is always able to keep his
house warm. That's because our coal
is clean, burns freely and gives the
maximum amount of heat from the min
imum used.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-15
Museum Holiday.

Museum Holiday.
The Museum will be closed as usual
for the Christmas holidays from Dec
IS to Jan. 8.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
A SINCERE CONFESSION.

Our confession is sincere, when we
tell our sins honestly and truthfully,
neither eXaggerating or excusing them.
Christ gave judicial authority over
the sins of men to the Apostles and
their successors. The confessional
was thereby intended to be a tribunal,
at which the pcpitent acts as accused
and accuser, and the priest as judge;
no lawyer is needed on either side
The priest, by Write of his commits
sion, must either forgive or retain,
as the cause submitted to him may
require; he must, therefore, hear the
case such as it is. A correlative duty,
imposed on the penitent by the same
divine authority, is to submit
to the priest his case eX-
actIy as it is, that he may know
whether he is tosforgiye or to retain.
The penitent must tell his sins honest
ly and truthfuly. AS the priest
would be guilty of a sacrilege if he
were to pass on a case in a manner
different from what his commission
demands; so also is the penitent
guilty of sacrilege if he wilfully
proposes his case other than it is; it
would be lie; and an intrinsic evil,
like lie, cannot surely be the means
whereby to obtain Gods pardon.
There must be no eXaggeration and no
excuses. Ansexcuse Willanot. alter the
act as committed. There may be
causes taking away or mitigating es-
sentially or entirely the guilt of the
action, but in that case it would be
unnecessary to confess the act. If
we are prevented by sickness from
hearing Mass, the obligation ceases
as matter of course, and then no sin
is committed. We must represent our
selves to the priest such as we are;
false excuses tend only to make MS
more guilty in the sight Of God. Elk
aggeration is also misrepresentation,
and equally deprives our confession
of yeracity. 1t is frequently mis-
take of pious souls to represent them
selves as worse than they actually
are; they are afraid that they will not
make their sins bad enough; and thus,
through fear of one mistake, they fall
into another. BY doing so, however,
they mislead the confeSsor and make
it impossible for him to judge them
rightly. We must confess our Sins
as we know or sincerely believe our
selves guilty before God; and ever re-
member that the priest is but the
representative of Him from Whom
nothing can be- hidden. Our .confes-
sion made in this manners and with
this purpose of setting forth to the
priest our sins exactly as we know
them or believe them to be, will bear
the mark Of sincerity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
ST. JOSEPH AND THE DYING.

Father Faber tells in his book "All
for Jesus" of Visitation nun, a very
holy woman, who, as she was watching
before the Blessed Sacrament during
the night of Holy Thursday, 1914,
had vision of Our Lord in His agony,
and with this vision there was given
her light and an efIicacious grace to
pray for the intentions Of persons in
their agony. From the moment she
received this admirable grace, she
often seemed to hear the signs Of dying
persons; and the effect this had upon
her was so great that ever afterward
she said, night and morning, the
prayers of the Church, for. those in
their agony. OF this same Religious
we are told that when the Bishop Of
Geneva came to conseerate the church
of the order at Annecy, and the Superb.
or wished one Of the six chapels to
be dedicated to st. Joseph, this good
Sister begged her to let it be dedi-
Gated to st. Joseph dying in the arms
of Jesus and Mary. "Ah! my good
Mother!" she cried, God has made
known to me that by. this devotion
to st. Joseph dying, His goodness
Wills to give many graces to persons
in their agony, and that, as st. Joseph
did not go to heaven at once, Jesus
not having yet opened it, but that he
descended to the limbus of the fathers,
it is a most efTicacious devotion for
the agonizing, and for the souls in
purgatory to offer to God the resigna-
ton of the great st. Joseph in dying
and leaving Jesus and Mary, and to
honor the holy patience OF his tranquil
expectation, till the dawn Of Easter,
when the risen Jesus set him free"
This combination of devotion to st.
Joseph with prayers for souls in their
agony appeals strongly to. us at this
particular time, when terrible war
is being waged among Christians, re-
sulting in an appalling destruction of
human lives. Charity and pity urge
us to remember the dying in our
prayers. let us recommend souls in
their agony to st. Joseph dying in the
arms of Jesus and Mary. Some day
we, too, must pass through deaths
portal. If we are charitable with our
prayers for others, we shall not be
without powerful friends in that dread
moment. Is it not edifying to recall
that almost the last prayer or word
uttered by the late Father Robert
Hugh Benson before he closed his
eyes on this earth was the simple in.
vocation, so familiar to Catholics
Young and old, Jesus, Mary and
Joseph, 7 give YOU my heart and my
SOUL" with it's accompanying prayers,
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in
my last agony" Jesus, Mary and
Joseph, may / die in peace in your
| blessed company"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03

Do thou, therefore, also initiate the
| King of kings, thy Lord God, rising
from death; that for the rest thou
mayest walk in newness of a better
llife, trampling on vices, forgetting the
evils that are past; not returning to
thy wonted triflng, but raising myself
with greater fervor to celestial de-
sires. For Christ, having vanquished
death, returned not to hell; but, hay
! ing visited His intimate friends on
the earth, assembled joyfully to heaven,
| liberating and eXalting the form of a
servant above the angelic powers;
teaching us to ascend, by the steps of
humility and the service of a due sub
lection, to the glory of eternal happi-
ness.
If thou desire, therefore, to receive
heavenly comfort, and to rejoice for
ever with the angelic spirits, flee care
and pleasure, which is the parent of
death. Seek the spiritual rejection of
the soul, which Christ has prepared
for all who approach the table of His
precious Body; more sweet than all
corporal banquets. For, unless the old
man with his deeds be wholly put up,
celestial sweetness can not enter.
And unless the flesh be subject to the
Spirit, and all earthly care be post
poned, the promised Paraclete will not
come, nor shalt thou be inwardly re-
freshed by the eating of the Paschal
| Lamb
That our interior, therefore, may be
full of spiritual joy, all malice and
wickedness ought to be removed from
| the heart; that, like newborn babes,
we may walk in neWness of life,
washed with tears, and clad in white
robes. Let our behavior accordingly
be humble and matured; our eyes
stable, and our affections pure; our
voices ready; our ears intent upon
the divine words; and all our senses
we'll fenced on every side. For the
holy angels are present, the ministers
of the Lord, considering the actions
Of each one of us,-who rises most
actively, who prays most qevoutly.
who sings most alacritly, and who
seeks Jesus most feVently.
Now more abundant grace is to be
sought, and sincerer purity to be OBJ
served. Now, in the zeal of a new
conversation, the mind is to be trans
ported to heavenly desire. For the
Lord hath made this day to us with
good reason most solemn and most
holy, that so we may rejoice in it
1I oil aIa Of
--ADe Maria.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03

the most diverse places, passing over
the spaces which separate them with
rapidity swifter than thought. He
is at one time in Jerusalem, at another
time in Galilee, then on the road to
Emmaus, then on the Lake of Cen
esareth. He makes Himself manifest
Everywhere; He is apparently a phan
tom. His divine body is imponder
able. 1t moves with the rapidity OF
thought, and weighs no more upon the
waters which sustain it than the mists
that wander over their surfaces.
Thus, too, with the body of man
risen to glory in the end of all things
The glorified body will shine during
perpetual eternities; being agile, it will
follow the Lamb whithersoever He
goeth; being subtle, no door will close
to him in the mansions Of the Father;
being incorruptible and freed from
the vile laws OF nature, he is deliy-
cred from the infirmities of the flesh
he will issue to death q challenge
which death will not be able to take
up.
We shall again live in our flesh
We shall find ourselves again the
same, except for our imperfections and
infirmities. We shall meet again in
our bodies. We shall know each other
again in eternity. For that it suffices
to be, while in this world, just and
good and perfect, as God desires us
to be. Not a hair of our head shall
perish without the will of God, Who
from the beginning, having destined
man for the final resurrection, and
prepared him during the length OF
ages, will not be taken unawares when
the last hour strikes.
Let the Jews say: "Our bones are
dried, our hope is lost, and we are
cut off from the number of the living.
But the Holy Scripture tells us:
therefore, behold | will open your
graves, and will bring you out of your
sepulchres Does not the wisdom OF
God play through the elements OF
creation? Is it more difficult to raise
from the dead beings whose matter
exists than to create them when moth
| ing Of them exists? JAS lsaias says;
1.-THE dead shall live,s the slain shall
rise again. Awake, and give praise
to God, We that dwell in the dust
for a dew of light has fallen upon
you
The sower, neither weeps nor com
plains when he sees the grain which
he has thrown in the ground decom
pose and dissolve. No more should
we grieve when we see the body We
have laid III the tomb fall q prey tC
corruption. The seed confided to the
tomb is much more noble than the
seed scattered upon the ground. The
one only returns to life to claim fresf
cares, to cause new labor, to die
again; the other, once risen from the
dead, returns no more to a life o.
misery, but enters into that life where
God shall wipe away all tears, anC
death shall be no more, nor mourning
nor weeping, nor sorrow shall be any
more, for all these things shall have
passed away.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
IA SAINT FOR The WEEK.
ST. JOHN cLIMAcUs.

John made, while still young, such
progress in learning that he was
called the Scholastic. At the age OF
sixteen he turned from the brilliant
future which lay before him, and re-
tired to Mt. Sinai, where he put him
self under the direction of holy
monk, Never was novice more fer
vent, more unrelaxing in his efforts
for self-mastery. After four years he
took the VOWS, and an aged abbot
foretold that he would some day be
one of the greatest lights of the
Church. Nineteen years later, on the
death of his director, he withdrew
into a deeper solitude, where he stu
died the lives and writings of the
Saints, and was raised to an unusual
height of contemplation. The fame
of his Holiness and practical wisdom
drew crowds around him for advice
and consolation. For his greater
profit he visited the solitudes of
Egypt. At the age of seventy-five he
was chosen abbot of Mt. Sinai, and
there Tie dwelt in the mount of God,
and drew from the rich treasure of
his heart priceless riches Of doctrine,
which he poured forth with wOndrous
abundance and benediction." He was
induced by a brother abbot to write
the rules by which he had guided his
life; and this book, called the Climax,
or Ladder of Perfection, has been
prized in all ages for it's wisdom, it's
clearness, and it's JUNCTION. At the
end of four years he would no longer
endure the honours and distractions
of his Office, and retired to his soil
tude, where he died, A. d. sos.
Amongst these men, st. John
writes of the solitaries of the desert,
II saw many whose heads were white
with age, whose faces were as those
of angels, who by their fervour of
spirit and converse with God had at
tanned a simplicity of wisdom and a
perfect innocence which had nothing
in common with the decay of reason
and the second childishness we often
see in old men of the world. Out
wardly they were marked by an ex-
ceedfng gentleness,. a cordial and
seemly gaiety of heart; nothing stu.
died, nothing put on; inwardly their
whole soul was turned towards God
as simple and innocent children turn
to a loving father"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03

dying. He has never lacked a place
in the Christian heart. The thought
lis impossible, says the Rev. Il. r..
Sutcliffe, S. J., writing in the Homi-
letic Monthly on the growth of de-
.votion to the great st. Joseph. Pope
Plus TX once wrote: "The Church
has always most highly honored and
praised the most blessed Joseph,
next to his spouse, the Virgin Mother
of God, and has besought his inter
cession in times of trouble"
History tells Of chapel cohsecrat-
ed to st. Joseph in the Basilica that
ST. Helena erected at Bethlehem.
Father Sutton says:
1T is. assorted that prior to this
time his feast was celebrated by the
.Coptie church. There is no evidence
of public devotion earlier than the
fourth century even in the East. In
the West it made it's appearance later,
introduced, according to tradition, by
the jealous monks Of Carmel, whose
order in later days has been so con.
spicuous in its homage to the saint"
In the twelfth century there was a
church dedicated to the saint. Later,
the preaching of Franciscans and Do
minicans spread the devotion widely.
Commenting on the great outburst of
public devotion to ST. Joseph in the
nineteenth century, Father Sutton
notes its deep, spiritual significance:
"An age which saw the sanctity of
family life imperilled turned for sue
cor to the guardian of the Divine
Family on earth. An Industrial age
doomed to spend its days in toll
found its model in the workingman
Of Nazareth. An age in which vast
wealth emphasized the poverty of the
poor found encouragement in the
poverty of Joseph. An age which saw
the vast majority of its people con-
demned to quiet lives of obscurity
fsingled out for its exemplar the saint
Eof the Hidden Life"
st. Joseph spent his days in work
--laboring with his hands to support
Jesus and Mary. In the sweat of his
brow he earned bread for those he
loved. What an example for the
workmen of today! Humbly, gladly,
ESt Joseph worked, teaching the les.
son of the nobility of labor: "His am
bition was to spend his life in devo-
ton to duty, in the care of the Fam
lily entrusted to him, and by SO doing
to serve his Cod Such was holy 10
Isenh. What wonder that altars and
lchurches bear his name, that prayers
and hymns have been written in his
honor! =.
AS Pharaoh said to the Egyptians
| in their distress: Go to Joseph so
may we confidently address ourselves
Ito the meditation of the later and
greater Joseph, writes an apostolic
preacher and teacher, che to whom
God, made man, was subject and
obedient on earth, is now glorifled in
Heaven
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
ST. JOSEPH.
Patron of the Home and of the
Workshop.

Il chose the glorious St. Joseph for
my patron, and l commend myself in
all things singularIy to his interces-
sion" st. Teresa wrote in .her. story
of her life. Her confidence in her
patron is expressed in these words:
Il do not remember ever to have
asked of God anything by him which
/ did not obtain. | never knew any
one, who, by invoking him, did not
advance exceedingly in virtue; for lie
assists in wonderful manner all who
address themselves to him.
st. Francis de Sales recommends
devotion to st. Joseph, and praises
his constancy. courage and humility.
lie is the patron OF the home and the
workshop, the friend Of the worker
and the tender guardian saint Of the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
cHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND
OURS.

Beneath the stone of their sepul-
chres the dead are asleep. The
human chrysalis awaits its hour.
the a1-consummating triumph, the
absolute victory over death, the finish
ing of the work of Jesus Christ, in
which the better part of the material
world, freed and radiant, will draw
near to it's Redeemer, says the Able
Bolo -
The twinkling Of an eye will be suf-
ficient time for this immense revolu-
ton. Over all graves newly made,
over all, old ruined necropolises, over
the ruins of Memphis, of Babylon and
of Tyre, over the ancient mausoleums
of Greece and Rome, over the i'm
mensity of the seas whose depth has
not restored the victims swallowed
up, over unknown ravines and uneX-
plored precipices, over the nameless
and underlined dust Of the deserts and
the incommensurable, invisible, float
ing ocean of air, over the bodies even
of animals and of plants which have
eaten the Inundated remains of the
marking, a blast will pass, terrible
and vibrating, like the sound of a
divine trumpet; a supernatural meteor
| impelled by the archangels, will over
throw the universal world, carrying
away all things awakened in a mighty
! whirlwind. 1t will pass over all souls,
and each one will retain in it's flight
that which was the substance of the
Ibody.
We shall not seek to prove the res
direction of the body, but, believing
it upon the word of revelation, we
shall here endeavor to picture the
state of the risen body in the light of
the body of Christ, risen on Easter
Sunday.
We have seen, we have heard and
we have touched through the apostles
the risen Christ. He, our flesh, our
head, had died like one of us veri-
table death; He had been placed in
a sepulchre like all the dead; He had
been wept for because He was no
more" The holy women had mourned
Him in anticipation of the miseries of
corruption. They came to His tomb
bearing spices to retard the ignoble
work of death. The stone of the sepul.
chre had been sealed. They had be-
walled that Life so merciful and SO
beautiful, cruelty cut off. Notwith-
standing the formal promises, the ca
tegorical and precise prophecies con.
corning His resurrection, His best
friends, having seen Him dead, no
longer believed in the triumph He
had foretold. To them it was a wild
hope. He was dead; all was indeed
finished.
But He arose from the dead and ap.
peared to His disciples, and thus st.
Paul could say: IF Christ is risen
from the dead, how do some among
you say that there is no resurrection
from the dead?"
The resurrection of our Lord is the
first cause and commencement OF
ours. 1t is also its type and model
The Incarnate Word came forth from
the tomb as from the womb of His
mother. The stone was intact, He
had not to roll it back; He passed
through it as a ray of light passes
through clear crystal st. Matthew
expressly narrates that the angel
trolled back the stone. At that mo-
Ement Jesus was no longer in the tomb
HDuring the forty days that followed
HE entered and went out mysteriously
'the doors being closed" without re.
Equir6ng any door to be opened.
| AS soon as risen, Jesus appears IN
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
RA1BoNI.

The sun was just risen that Easter
morning, long ago, when Mary Mag
dalen journey to the .sepulchre, yet
to her the earth was flooded with
darkness, rather than with light. The
gloom was reflected from her own
soul, where God seemed far away. In
all the agony of spiritual and human
desolation she sought the rock-hewn
tomb, and, in her. sorrow, was forgetful
alike of the Divine promise of the
Resurrection on the third day and Of
the obstacle that had been placed at
1.-THE entrance to the sepulchre. 1t is
only as she nears the holy place that
she asks the question: who shall
roll us back the stone?"
The empty tomb but deepened the
shadows instead of kindling faith, and
the words of the Angel brought little
comfort to her sorrowing heart. With
the message for Peter and the dis
ciples ringing in her ears, she encoun-
| tiers one whom she takes to be the
gardener, who, touched by her grief,
asks: why weepest thou? Whom
seekest thou?" That the Master
"goeth before" into Galilee has made
but little impression upon her mind,
filled as it is with sense of loss and
longing, and eagerly she tells her sor-
row and asks where her Lord has been
laid. The question is not answered,
but instead she hears her own name,
MARY"
Deep down in her soul there is the
echo and re-echo of that voice heard
on another occasion: MANY sins are
much. Mary lifts her head, and, be.
hold, the clouds are rolled away even
as the stone from the tomb, for before
her stands Jesus, radiant with beauty,
yet still revealing the love of His
Sacred Heart for her, and claiming
from her the love divine and human
] that she, none other, can give. There
is only one word to express the rap.
ture of her soul and the love of her
Iheart-"R abboni' in that word is
the complete surrender of herself to
lGod
In this meeting of our Blessed Lord
with Mary Magdalen an all-important
fact of the Incarnation is pictured be-
fore us. In ages gone by Almighty
God had received from creatures
whom He Himself made free, adora-
ton, confidence, obedience, yea, even
sacrifice, but it is the Goldman who
reveals and wins personal love, the
love of His Heart for each one of lis,
the love that is due from each one
of us, individually, to Him.
Until He came and translated Di-
vine love into human symbols, and
Expressed Divine love in human Ian.
guage, and Divine service in human
sacrifice. what did man know of Love
of God?''
We too, are called by name. We
4 too, are loved with a love that is all
our own, and each can say, HE asks
of me love, which only my heart can
give, and which. if I refuse Him, He
Twill never have.
Have we not heard the Divine voice
again and again, in joy sometimes, in
sorrow often, at prayer, from the tab.
lernaele, in the intimacy of Com.
Emunion? Happy for us If we have re
Esponded to our name as Mary did
land knee1ing at the feet of the Risen
Lord, have given Him the love of our
heart and the submission of our will
lin Mary's answering prayer, "Rabhoni
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