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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
COMFORT OF THE MASS.

In too many congregations are
found certain individuals who rush
from the church as soon as the priest
descends the altar steps after the Low
Mass, to reeite the closing English
prayers, writes Father Will Whalen,
in The Providence. Visitor. Those
persons slight the orations, feeling
perhaps the Mass is over and these
prayers are simply so many trimmings
Usually those are the parishioners
who pray kneeling on one knee with
their backs hunched UP and their fist
under their ear. And yet what gems
these closing prayers are! 81.
When | was curate at York, Pa,
I buried an old soldier. He had died
in the almshouse, despite his generous
pension, and his eyes were hardly
closed till those who had forgotten
him when he needed attention flocked
down OIL his bank account like harpies.
His old military confreres who at
tended the Mass, sat throughout with
their hats on until / came to the Eng
fish prayers, which were the only
thing they understood, and then off
came helmets, and all to their knees.
One of the veterans said to me in the
cemetery: Son. hain't that prayer of
yours to the Blessed Virgin create"
| was sent to offer Mass in the lun-
the head physician, was quite hospi-
table. He confessed that he was the
son of a Scotch Presbyterian minis
ter, SO / volunteered the opinion it
might be difficult for the respected
doctor to swallow a Catholic Mass.
He laughingly promised, however, to
.gulp it down religiously.
There. were about 500 patients pres
emit, not all of them Catholics. The
piano was pulled away from the front
of the stage of their auditorium. /
laid short board over the footlights.
and put on my three cloths. The
height was just about right for an
altar, and | got through nicely. When
"A preached, lunatic stood up at the
rear of the hall, where the eye of the
doctors and nurses didn't reach, and
initiated my gesturesl He copied me
exactly, and while it was good OBJ
ject lesson, it was trifie embar-
RAISING. I,stuck my hands under my
chasuble, and then the patient, who
evidently thought more of my gesticu-
latiOn than | did of its reflection in
Him, shook his fist ait me. and showed
lispleasure that i didn't continue to
saw the air,
Il had brought with me assinger ITO
make things more attractive, and al
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17

the other ever mentioned the word
marriage or matrimony; evidently
they considered his union but an I'M
lawful cohabitation, the effect of
passing whim, the mere result of a
youthful escapade, and nothing more.
On reading these burning words
Henry went into paroXysm of rage,
and for the first time in his life
threw the letters from his parents into
the fire. "Blockheads!" he exclaimed.
'"They don't understand what they are
talking about. They want to pass a
calm and dispassionate Judgment ON
a matter that happened ten thousand
miles away! Do they think for mo-
ment that | am still child that must
cling to his mothers apron strings2
Am I not man, and free to give my
heart to whomsoever please? What
has religion to do with the whole af-
fair, anyway"
When the first frenzy had passed,
and reason began to reassert herself,
he reflected that after all his parents
had acted in good faith, for according
to their principles of belief they could
not really have done aught else than
speak in the manner in which they
did. He was now sorry for having
burned the letters. Still for all this,
he did not change his own opinion; on
the contrary, he even increased his
love and affection for o Fana, and re-
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the patients hearkened with attention
while she rendered Catholic hymns.
Then she sang as the finale the very
operate Ave Maria" from "Caval-
leria Rusticana," and a patient, mad
about 20 years, who had been noted
musician, took up the refrain with
her, and hummed Hhe air correctly.
After Mass was over, I asked DR..
Ortiz his opini pn of it. "A wonderful
thing" he said. And in future we
shall have Mass here as often as you
can come to us, at least once a month.
Well make everything pleasant for
you and convenient as we can. There
were patients in that crowd this
morning who had not been present
at Mass in years, and yet just as
soon as. YOU appeared with the vest
ments on, old chords seemed to wake
up in their memory, and they one and
all rose to their feet. They knelt at
the starting off Of your Mass, and
traced the sign of the cross. They
struck their breast and bowed their
heads. It's wonderful, that those poor
diseased and dead brains can remem-
Der the big things Of their religion.
Religion lis like music, that leaves it's
echo in the brain and heart after
tickle reason has winged away. The
Mass today has shown me that re-
ligion is deeper than reason"
| asked him what part made most
impression on him, and he said with
little ahem! why, he thought the
bit of English at the end, as the pray
ers had such beautiful words and senti-
ment.
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A STORY OF THE CROSS.

The Importance OF the Sign of the
Cross and OF making it Teyerently is
strikingly illustrated by the following
experience which d priest in England
was fond of relating. The lessons of
it would be lost on those to whom it
would be necessary to point them out;
however, let us recall that the Sign of
the Cross was made with such piety
and solemnity by the celebrated Faith
er de Ravignan at the beginning of
sermons at Notre Dame that his audi
ence never forgot it. "One has to pay
attention to preacher who is SO deep
~ impressed with the Importance of
his office" it used to be said.
A poor widow, an Irish Catholic,
having fallen i'll, was takeTf to hos
pital, where soon afterward she died.
Her only child, boy Of eight or nine
years, had in the meantime been Sc
cretly placed in a Protestant orphan
asylum. Fearing for the child's faith,
his pastor desired to withdraw him,
but on making his application discoy.
cred that the authorities bad already
removed the boy to d different asylum,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-17
AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD.

Between Chile and Argentine stands
the great mountain chain of the Andes,
and near their summit is placed one
Of the most remarkable monuments in
the world Mountain peaks, over
Whelming in their vastness and steril-
ity, rise twice ten thousand feet above
the pass by which the people of the
two countries cross the barrier that
separates them. At the top of the
pass, at Puenta de Inca, is an. heroic
figure of our Blessed Lord in bronze,
twenty.six feet in height, holding in
His left hand cross, His right raised
as If in earnest> appeal. On the base
of the massive granite. pedestal are
emblematic figures of the two states,
clasping hands.
It is a. symbol of the ending of a
dispute which at one time seriously
threatened war 1t was the thought
Of what Christ had done for both ma
tions that led them to settle the ques-
ton by arbitration. instead of arms;
the King of England being the arbi-
u dtOi. he SICCsI iAiouAlScSAiio WSiO NJ
longer to be a barrier guarded by a
line of fortresses, but a bond of union.
And SO the Christian people of the
two countries had, this statue cast
from old cannon, and placed it here at
|the summit of the pass in 1904, with
this Inscription, "He.sis our Peace, who
hath made both One;;9 and on another
side, Sooner shall these mountains
crumble into dust than Argentines
and Chileans break the peace to which
they have pledged themselves at the
feet of Christ the Redeemer.'
Though this is matter Of contem-
porary history, rather it seems like
an event in the Ages Of Faith. It is
hard to connect such national Chris
tian simplicity with our own times.
OF necessity it brings to mind the
GREAT World War, and the problem
llppernost in all minds now-its early
settlement by terms Of peace. No
king can be the arbitrator in this
crisis: the only possible mediator in
the long run is the Father Of Christen-
don't who is the visible representative
Iof the Christ 81 the Andes.
Are Maria
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"A SAINT FOR THE WEEK
VENERABLE cLEMENT-MARY
HoFBAuER.

"A veritable apostle, a true saint,
and pillar of the Church. Thus
spoke Plus VII of the Venerable
Clement-Mary. He was born in
Moravia, A. d. 1851, of poor parents,
and was apprenticed by them to a
baker; at the term of his engagement
he left the world, and lived as
hermit till the prosecuting laws of
Joseph II, Of Austria, drove him from
his cell A call to the priesthood led
him now to Vienna, but the. same.
tyrant closed all the Church's semi
naries, and Clement went to Rome
He there became Redemptorist, and
when ordained priest was sent to
found his institute at Warsaw After
twenty-five years of apostolic labors
he was expelled from Poland by the
civil power, and his companions dis
persed. Clement repaired to Vienna,
an vas appointed rector of the
Ursuline Church. In spite of the
iniquitous restrictions of the state,
which had robbed the Church of. it's
due ceremonial, Clement carried out
the functions in all their perfection,
and restored the beauty of the house
of God. BY this means, and by his
fervent preaching, he rekindled the
devotion of the people, reformed the
youth of the city, and converted nu-
merous heretics. He was for the fourth
time under orders to quit the country,
when he caught malignant fever,
and died March Is, 1920, before the
sentence of exile could be carried out.
His virtues were declared heroic by
Plus TX, on May IA, 1876.
When Hofbauer was studying at the
University of Vienna, he one day heard
q professor advance an opinion con-
trary to the teaching Of the Church
The servant Of God Indignantly rose
from his seat, and saying in a loud
voice, Sir, what you have just said is
not Catholic" Immediately left the
hall. Years afterwards an, aged priest
| came to him and asked him if he re-
| membered the incident; it was the
professor himself, who, though nettled
| by the frankness of the rebuke at the
time, had afterwards entered into
himself, and renouncing his error, led
an edifying life as a prebendary Of
the Cathedral.
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Of grandeur; but all this was like the
soul of its oWner--solitary beauty in
the midst Of vast wilderness; Diana
was the life of both. When in her
dainty kimono of many ,colored silk
she tripped lightly from room to room
or fitted through the garden, she seem
ed to Wendes one of those good fairies
with which his childish imagination
had often been RECALLED in the Father
self every day that in spite of Mayors
ominous prediction, he would ever
cherish this good fairy until death.
When her lord was away she busted
herself about the house, watching that
all went well, giving instructions to
the servants, and often assisting them,
and frequently she entertained distin-
guished visitors, both European and
Japanese, for an afternoon call. The
rest of the time she passed in study
that she might the more perfectly cor
respond with the ideal that Wendes
entertained of her.
Among the other visitors was GER
tain lady, German by birth, and the
wife of one of the wealthiest mer-
chants in the city. o Fana availed
herself of this rare opportunity to
learn the German language we'll, by
frequenting the company of this wor-
thy person, as she was too timid to
hire a man tutor, and there were no
ladies there engaged in teaching Ger
man. This friend, Mrs. Holman, being
without children, and having much
leisure, willingly consented to take
upon herself the care of teaching her
native tongue to this girl, towards
whom she felt a maternal affection.
From that day on o Fana would spend
many hours in the study of her hus-
bands. language, and, committing to
memory the choicest phrases and most
endearing expressions, would thus
seek to please by addressing him in the
mother tongue he loved so we'll
Wendes at first enjoyed himself i'm
mensely at her expense, as he beheld
her trying to struggle with the ele-
lnents of a tongue which is considered
by a Japanese so extremely difficult.
He was, however, forced to admire the
talent that she displayed in acquiring
a practical knowledge of German, and
when he began to realize and under
stand that it was not mere childish
curiosity, but deep love for him that
prompted her to thus apply herself. he
felt a new thrill of affection course
through his whole being.
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POPULAR APoLoeETIcs.
adapted from the German of Rev.
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev. James
Walcher)
SECTION v.

n B. In this section we shall try to
answer objections against the immor-
tally, spirituality, freedom, etc, of the
soul. :
Immortality is a grand thought
and is worthy the sweat of the
noble. -,
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Different Kinds of Masses.

name catechumens was given in the
early Church to those who were be-
ins Instructed preparatory to- enter
/ ing the Church. They occupied a
Special place in the church, and. were
dismissed after the sermon of the
Mass. The part of the Mass at which
they were present was called the
Mass of the Cateehumens.
(2) Low Mass. Mass said without
music, deacon or subdeacon; the
celebrant saying the Mass through
out, the server or acolyte making the
responses on behalf OF the people,
and ministering to the priest.
(3) Dead Mass-(See Requiem
Mass.)
90 Mass of the Presanctified.-
Mass said with a consecrated Host
reserved from a former Mass. 1t is
not properly a Mass at all, but the
Communion of the priest with a Host
previously consecrated. Such is the
Mass of Good Friday.
60 Dry Mass - When neither
Conservation nor Communion takes
place, the Mass is called a Dry Mass;
though it is not, strictly speaking, a
Mass at ALL 1t was in ancient times
said at sea, on account of the difficulty
of offering the ordinary Mass; also
for the sick and prisoners who could
not attend services in church.
co Missa Cantata.-A Mass sung,
but without deacon and subdeacon, or
the ceremonies proper to High Mass.
In this country such a Mass is gen
orally. called a High Mass.
CD Nuptial Mass-A special votive
Mass for a bride and bridegroom,
containing special lessons and chants
suitable to the Sacrament of Matri-
mony. 1t may not be celebrated from
Advent Sunday till after the Octave
of the Epiphany, nor from Ash
Wednesday till after Low Sunday.
(S) Requiem Mass.-A Mass said
with appointed rite for the dead, and
SO called from the first word of the
Introit. 1t is said in black vestments.
Masses of this kind are prohibited on
some of the greater feasts, the
Church being unwilling that the
festivity of these days should be
diminished by the mourning inherent
in the Commemoration of the Dead.
If celebrated with deacon and sub
deacon it is called Solemn Requiem.
The psalm ,Judica, the Gloria and the
Credo are omitted, as also the bless
ing at the end of the Mass.
CO. Solemn High Mass-Mass sung,
with Incense, music, deacon and sub
deacon. If a bishop celebrates, this
is called Pontifical High. Mass.
(10) Votive Mass-One which does
not correspond with the Office of the
day, but is said according to the
choice (Latin, votum) of the priest
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A MARTYRS FAREWELL TO HIS
SISTER.

One of the many martyrs whose
blood nourished the soil of Tongking
in the last century was Blessed Theo-
plane Venard, He was "a missionary
from the Paris Foreign Mission Sem
mary and labored in the Annamite
country for seven years.
It's an interesting coincidence that
he was born on the Feast Of the Pres
eRtation of the Blessed Virgin, Noyem-
Der "a, 1923, and was beheaded on the
Feast Of her Publication, thirty-tWo
years later He was hers not only In
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LORE OF THE MASS.

Rev. T. J. Brennan, S. T. L., the
erudite pastor of MERGED, Cal, is pub
fishing a succinct Dictionary of the
Mass" which is appearing in serial
form in the Ave Maria magazine
every week under the title of Lore
of the Mass" In the last number Of
the Ave Maria" Father Brennan
gives the following interesting account
Of the Mass:
Mass.-The word Mass" comes
from the Latin missa, another form
of missio meaning dismissal In
early times, during the Holy Sacri-
fee, there were two solemn dismis-
SAILS one Of the catechumens after
the Gospel; next, of the faithful at
the end of the service. But in the
course of time the word for dismissal
came to signify the service itself.
Eve confess says the Catechism of
the Council of Trent, that the Sacri-
fee of the Mass is one and the same
sacrifice as that of the Cross; the
Victim is one and the same, Christ
Jesus, Who offered Himself, once
only, bloody sacrifice on the altar
OF the Cross" Nearly all theologians
are agreed that the essence of the
Mass consists in the conservation Of
the bread and wine at the Elevation.
Mass. is always essentially the same;
but, on account of accidental differ
ences, we speak of different kinds Of
Marcnc
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Three months had now passed since
the marriage Of these two ardent low
ers, when one day on looking over his
mail Henry discovered two letters in
familiar handwriting, and on opening
them he was surprised to find one full
of the bitterest inVective from his faith
er, and the other perfect jeremiad
of sadness from his mother The faith
er severely upbraided his son fer his
disgraceful and illegitimate marriage
to a pagan, and commanded him to at
once separate, and to dismiss his UNI
lawful spouse; the mother, with all the
arts known to her maternal heart, ex-
horted her son to Immediately break
the bond with which a cunning geisha
had SO shamefully enslaved him, and
with all the expressions OF the most
intense sorrow begged him to return
to the principles Of faith and religion
in which he had been nurtured. It
was obvious that neither the one nor
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-02
ALEMANIA NO QUIERE EXTEN.
STONES TERRITORIALES.

AMSTERDAM, Mayo 31.-El pc
ri6dico semi-oficial Nord Deutsche AL
lgemeine, de Berlin, hace la declara-
cion de que Alenrania no dcsea min
guna extension territorial con el pro-
p6sit0 de cngrandecimiento o para ell
acrecentamiento de su poder cconomi-
co o politico.
Alemania dcsea Gnicamcnte defen-
der su propio territorio contra los
proycctos de conquista de sus enemi-
Cos V ademas pide ciertas garantias
que lie permitiran asegurar su futura
defensa Y protection.
Las anteriores d]eclaraciones las ha-
ce ell p~eri6dico de re~ferencia, al CO.
mentar los discursos pronunciados re-
cientemente en- Londres por Lord Ro-
bert Cecil, Ministro del Bloqueo, Y
Herbert S. Asquith, ex-primer Minis
tro ingles.
Ell p~eriodico agrega que "fuera de
las im~putaciones que Sc gentlemen IN
Ell discurso de Mr.. Asquith, los prin-
cipios expuestos por dicho estadista,
coinciden con los que han expresado
los circulos responsables de Alemania,
antes de Y durante la presente que
IRA.
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- LA CLAYE DE SALUs

Mllla-eS de pSrSDnaS de aNboS SsSoa
deCiaran cue Ia els'. tTiCidad los Ia SaIvaGc
CCandO habian pe-tidO toGa eSpe-anZa- Gu
andO Sc paiCce de debiliCaG ncrTi0Sa. ago
~tarniento, CeurSSt!ni2. falta &c fuerZa, dc
Amino ' de vigO'. -reurnat:S;nO. lGmhaso.
insomnia. eHferu .eGaGeS de !cS -iIones,
del higado Y Ia veJigd. abuses SeNualeS
del hombre y de'sdrreglOs meuSudies dc p
muJer, n hay NADIA que sea tan etCaz
81 tempo Y dire-o tomando eSti:nulaates
que nupca CuTaa- La QUE So cCsrpC
neces!:2 eS nueVS fuerza y vIgor pe-s
que les nervioS y 6rganos whales vuej-
van q SI eStado normal. Use Ell Ci1tI-
con elsctrico mieHtras duerne- SD 7oGa
rosa Influenza curdtiTa hara deSaparcce!
S~apidarnente Su 6ecaiTaisntc = dolores
actiEara su circulation. vigoCiZara ei ST.
sienna : Il E-ae-A Uueva vida.
PIoa uN CENTURION OIREcTAmENTs
y no pasue a los institutes nediccs !os
precios tan altos cue exiceH po- sstos
vale $500 orc y ell No. > vale s4.00 orr
a que pagan mas9 -
Los MlNOAMoS \ p2UEsA
81 I'd. quiere qTiVne-o p-Uhar 81 eff.
cacIa. eScoja Fl Cintur6n que mas Il
agrads. Y remftanCs Giro Postal npy Il
r,ltad de su precIo como prue6a &C
busna fe. : 10 enriareuns - Ciufu-Hc
81 al cabJ de TN mes eSt& Sa.iStecfo
nos reuitira Il -eSto de 81 vaIry. Ests
ofsrta es Ia metor Saraut.a De S;IS inert.
tos y de nrest-a stnCsri&a6- A3T"vec-~
Ia opo.tunidad y escrfhauus en- >oxr;ra
como siEue:
-- A. y - -
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Nj los socialists
nj Ell gobierno
aIeman
0uieren ceder Ia kIsacia

C~OPENHAGUE, JUNO 1o.-El doc
tor Eduardo David, n de los mas
prominentes delegados de los socia-
listas alemanes a la conferencia de
Estocolmo, ha hecho al c~orresponsal
&c Ia Prensa Asociada en- esta capital,
una interesante declaration, sobre la
question de la Alsacia-Lorena. Ell CT
tadO socialista ha dicho que las pro-
digas promesas que algunos de los in
termediarios extranjeros han hecho
respecto al movimiento pacifista, a.
segurando que los socialistas alema-
mes Y ell gobierno imperial aleman,
est&a d~ispuestos a celebrar un ARE
glo sobre la question de la Alsacia-
Lorena, bajo Ell preteXto de sun ARE
Clio de la frontera," o tai de conse-
guir la paz, no tienen ningun funda.
mento. El doctor David. enfatica-
mente hizo la declaration de que el
gobierno aleman no podria nj consen-
tiria en- la enajenacion de territorio
que sea considerable como parte inte-
granite del Imperio Alemau. mo el
gobierno imperial, nj los socialistas a.
lemanes. estan dispuestos a ceder Ia
Alsacia-Lorena, como precio de Ia
paz," dijo el doctor.
EXplicando mas ampliamente el pro-
grama que los Delegates de Ia mayo,
ria socialista ~alemana, llevaran a la
conferencia &c Estocolmo, ell doctor
David dijo que en- e. Sc incluia ell res,
tablecimiento de Belgica; pero nc hi,
20 ninguna specification sobre este
punto, por 10 que queda la duda de 81
dicho restablecimiento comprende tam
bien Ia ayuda financiera para restau,
rar a csc pals a su estado que tenia
antes de Ia guerra.
Por 10 que a la Polonia rusa Sc re.
fiere, ell doctor David manifesto que
los socialistas alcmanes abogan Y ia.
vcrecen la idea de que los polacos de,
terminen por medic de un plebiscito,
81 desean establecer un RENO bajo la
protection de los Imperios C~entralcs,
o continuar al lado de Russia, bien CO.
mo parte de csc pals o como I'm es-
tado scbcrano undo por ligas de una
eStrccha amistad cen su vecino orien,
tai.
De las declaraciones. hechas por e.
citado leader SocialiSta acerca del pro.
grama que los Delegates alemanes lie,
van a la conferencia de Estocolmo, sc
desprende que tai programa no cuen-
ia con el apoyo del gobierno imperial
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NO USAN CUELLOS PLANCHA-
DOS EN- INGLATERRA.


S~erricio especial para IL PEENsA.
LONDRES, Mayo 3O.-En vista de
la prohibition que existe para eXtraer
almid0n de los cereales alimenticios,
dentro de muy pocos dias dejara de
usarse el cuello planchado en- toda la
Gran Bretana.
E. Captain Bathurst, ayudante del
Dictator de Alimentos, declare hoy
en- Ia Camara de los Comunes que ha-
bia sido decretada la prohibition pa
"a eXtraer almid0n de los ~cereaies, V
manifesto que el mismo Sc pondria
cuello blando en- suStitucion de los
planchados que habia venido usando,
para significar que esa modification
era indispensable.