The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-30
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A new life begins for the bride.
To her are the words Of the Psalmfst
addressed: "Hearken, o daughter,
and incline thy ear, and forget thy
people and thy fathers house, Cps.
44-11.) The bride leaves father and
mother to become the queen of a new
home The change in her surname
gives token of break with the past
and of the irrevoeable. nature OF the
step that has been taken. A bond
has been forged that naught but
death can sever. Husband and wife
are most closely united, their fortunes
inseparably linked till death do them
part Through the sacrament which
has been received copious stream OF
grace descends upon them, enabling
them to avoid the reefs on which the
matrimonial bark of those who know
not God" is foundered, and to lead the
truly Christian life that is becoming
to ''the children of the saints. For
evermore two hearts shall beat as one
and this union of hearts will endure
even beyond the grave, as the wedding
ring, the symbol OF eternity, lndi-
Gates. The Christian wife pledges to
her husband in unwavering affection,
an inviolable, eternal fidelity like to
that which characteriZes the union OF
the Church with Christ her Spouse.
The Church wishes that as her union
with Christ is holy, so the union OF
man and wife should be holy. For
nineteen centuries she has waged an
unrelenting contest for the sanctity OF
marriage; she has ceaselessly COM
batted the efforts of those, who, in
making marriage a contract to be re-
voked at will, would degrade woman,
raised to the dignity of queen by our
a slave, creature of mana pretty
plaything to be used like a toy, and
in a moment of caprice or passion,
tossed aside to add to the pile of
wreckage strewn along the coast OF
life.
IT, as a modern writer has we'll
observed, 'the tide of barbarism that
rolled back before the march of Chris
tianity has not yet swept in again on
the rescued world; if civil and domes-
tic society is still more than a memo
ry and q name; if woman remains
enthroned as a queen in the realm OF
the home; these results are solely due
to the faithful determined stand the
Church has made" and we may add,
to her unrelenting efforts to check
mate the designs of royal libertines
and modern leaders of infidel thought
who would profane the sacred institu-
ton of marriage with their sacrileg-
ious hands, surrounding the barriers
that divine wisdom has placed and
overlapping the hedge of sanctity and
indissolubility with which God has
protected that union, on The inviola-
bility of which hinge the family dig
nifty and the States perpetuity.
The Mother.
The ideal mother, animated by the
spirit of unselfishness, will not find it
hard to observe that course of action
felicity, bear and forbear. Clouds will
from time to time, overcast the matri
monial horizon, but if the Christian
mother be true to her name-the an
gel of the home ands the light of the
household-the dark clouds will be
scattered. 1t was because st. Monica
was able to bear with her pagan hus.
band that she succeeded, in the end
in bringing him captive to the feet OF
Christ, obtaining for him the priceless
boon Of Baptism. The spirit of un
alterable patience and kindly forbear
ance supposes, however, a high de-
gree of self-control. 1t is impossible
for mother to exercise due authority
in the household unless she has learn
ed to keep her own passions in due
subsection. An ideal mother, for ex
ample, never corrects her children in
a fit of anger. She may at times have
just reason for Indignation and may
show it, too, but in such a way that
her children realize that she has her
self under perfect control. Self-mas
fruit is that outward serenity and
gentleness that make their possesso1
an object of delight to God and the
| court of heaven.
Such a mother will have no diff
Guilty in winning the love of her child
| for all that is grand and noble, in fill
| ing its soul with loathing for sin
and an efficacious desire to remain
pure and unsullied in the sight of the
| Creator. The self-control which the
true mother has learned will make hel
gentle and kind to her children, with
out depriving her of the firmness
which is essential to all good govern
ment. Sons and daughters cherish 6
tender recollection of kind and gen
tie mother which grows stronger with
the, lapse. Of years.