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Y What do you consider the greater,
creation or the incarnation?
st. Thomas Aquinas tells us that
God could not perform greater work
than the Incarnation of the Word and
the maternity of the Blessed Virgin.
Mary is the very Mother of God-God
than whom nothing greater can be
Imagined. The Incarnation was a
greater and more stupendous work
than the creation of the world, be-
cause man is more distant from God
than he is from creation. Man is
finite, God is infinite, but by the In
carnation God is united to man; in
creation, man is united to, nothing
that is, to body created out of moth
ing.
is it better to have high Masses
than low Masses for the dead?
Follow your own inclination in the
matter. All Masses are intrinsically
the same and the merits of each Mass
are infinite. There is, however, a
secondary honor or glory given to
God which consists in the external
solemnity of the Mass. The solemnity
is increased by the ceremonies of a
high Mass.
Who was the apostle of the English
Church?
Gregory the Great, while still a
monk, passed through the Roman
forum one day and his attention was
arrested by the fair complexion and
the comedy appearances of some
Anglo-Saxon youths who were being
sold into slavery. The future Pope
made inquiries concerning their
nationality and their people and when
he learned that they were pagans he
grieved to know that people as in
telligent as this should be idolaters.
He Immediately conceived the idea of
going to this benighted nation to
spread the light of the gospel, but the
people and his superiors checked his
worthy ambition; but the desire to
help the Anglo-SaXon nation never
faded from his heart. Later on he
was elevated to the highest dignity of
his Church and he now resolved to
assist the people that had made
such lasting impression upon him
at first sight. In the year 595 he
determined to send some mission
aries to England, and he selected the
holy Augustine who was the Abbot
of the great Roman monastery of st.
Gregory. Augustine set out for his
destination with forty companions, but
they visited the island of Lerins on
the way and here they were. persu-
AIDED that their mission would be a
failure and so they returned to their
native city. Pope Gregory refused to
abandon the project and with renew
ed blessings Augustine again started
for England and resolved to perform
the difficult task assigned to him. He
and his companions landed in Eng.
land during the early days Of SGT.
If to enter heaven we must first be
baptised, how does God deal with the
unbaptised?
Christ placed baptism as one of the
conditions necessary for admission to
heaven. Theologians ordinarily recog
niZe three kinds, or phases, of this
sacrament: Baptism of water, which
is the ordinary kind; baptism OF
formally a member of the Church
sheds his blood for the faith; baptism
of desire, in virtue of which a person
not of the faith dies without baptism
of water or of blood, but with an
earnest desire for baptism AS regards
infants who die without the sacrament
of baptism, the Church teaches that
they will be in state of natural hap
piness, which usually is called Limbo
Where can person obtain prayer
book called, The Young Ladies Guide
Write The e. M. Lohmann Company
385 st. Peter street, st. Paul.
Is it sin to go to fortune-teIIers ii
one does not believe in them?
Fortune tellers ordinarily profess tc
have knowledge of an occult kind
1t is sin for Catholic to consult
such frauds if he believes in theil
powers. To consult them out of levity
may or may not be a sin, according tc
circumstances; it usually is exposing
oneself to the proximate occasion o.
sin.
Would one be saved If he died {
martyr in the state of mortal sin?
This is contradiction in terms
For if aiiperson in the state of morta
sin were to meet the sublime test by
the shedding of his blood as proc
of his belief, this act would indicate
state of perfect contrition.