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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-14

of the ancient Irish. The STORY runs
somewhat in this wise:
When the blood issued from Our
Lords side it ran down the shaft of
the spear and covered the hand of
Longinns, and from that day forth
that hand remained blood red Lon
ginus feared that was a token of
Gods wrath, for he had been con-
WINGED by what he saw on that awful
day that Christ, indeed, was God.
So the Roman soldier alternately
| marVeled at, and bewailed his fate.
He dare not return to kith and kin on
the banks Of the Tiber, and to leave
| the martial service of Imperial Rome
was a sore reflection. Yet it was the
only alternative of being a prodigy, q
| something set apart thing marked
| for curiosity and avoidance among his
people,, if he returned home. He chose
| the life OF a wanderer, and his long
pilgrimage in the wake of the setting
| sun began He won his way by yalor
and by suffering through the territory
| OF the Goth and Vandal, crossed be-
| meath the shadow of the Alps, won his
| way as a soldier of fortune through
30 warlike regions on both sides of
| the si-Very Rhine, on through the land
| Of the Angles (Britain), where he saw
/ all about him the signs of the con-
quering power of the legions of his
| own masterful nation.
1 At last he crossed the seas and
1 reached an island of Wondrous beauty
IAN emerald set on the brow of the
| sea-and here he saw no sign of the
| Roman conqueror, nothing to remind
him Of his native land. So here at
i last Longinus rested from the dreary
i journey, and here among the kindly
/ Gael he made his home and found
i happiness. Here, too, the story runs
i he became the founder of the royal
i house of HyNial, later O'Neil, OF
i which the kindly Neial of the Nine
/ Hostages, killed by lightning while
l leading his armies at the foot of the
1 Alps war scion, and whose crest
i emblaZoned the Red Hand of Ulster
/ Tradition also has it st. Longinus
4 preached the Gospel in several places
in Europe, thus disproving the Irish
legend
/ Another, though in detail widely
differing, touches on the same sub
i iect, and this is embalmed in A. M
/ Sullivan's story Of Ireland. 1t tells
of one of Ireland's ancient kings
! Cohnal Mac Nessa, who in battle had
been struck in the head by a missile
known as. "the death ball" 1t re
NAMED embedded in his head, but did
not produce death.
/ A Druid, however, told him that
wine or anger would cause instant
death. One day one of Patrick's mis-
sionaries told him the story of Christ
and the fine old pagan kings ire
broke forth like torrent. Springing
i to his feet, he drew his skien (short
sword) and waving it aloft, he cried
aloud, Had l been there | would
have struck thus for that kindly God
And with a blow he smote limb
from a tree close by. At the same
| moment the death ball sprang from
his forehead, and King Connal Mac
Nessa was dead.
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q STORY or LtoNelNUs.


Strange indeed marvellous, are
some of the stories. and legends told
by the .schennacies,' and bards OF
ancient Erin. concerning the Cruel
fixion. One Oft the most striking OF
these is told concerning a Roman sol
der who took part in the Cfucifixion,
and pierced the Saviour's side with a
spear.
This soldier, according to one OF
the legends which travelled westward
and found Judgment among the warm
hearted and poetic sons of Milesi.fs,
was that this same Longinus was
struck with pity at the, terrible, suf-
.ferings of the Gruciffed One, and that
it was through the same pity and
in order to end His sufferings that
the soldier plunged his spear into the
heart of Christ.
4. It is here that the strange story
links itself. With the .traditionary lore
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a MOTHERS CREED.

- : - .-- -. -1t
I believe in the Importance of the
home as the fundamental institution
of society.
| believe in the immeasurable pos
sibilities of every boy and girl
| believe in the imagination, the
trust, the hopes, and the ideals which
dwell in the hearts of children.
| believe in the satisfaction of duty
I believe in the little homely joys
of everyday life
| believe in the goodness of The
great design which lies behind oul
complex world.
/ believe in the safety and peace
which surrounds us all through the
oyer-brooding love Of God.
| believe in the will of God as thu
one and only law OF. human life il
all its relations. at~@
-FrpE0E0p d
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to do-~keep i9etts and pure. j III YOU.
are getting a small salary. try and
save a little Of it. If the girl is Will
ing to take chance with YOU, God.
will bless YOU. tits better TO he nure
and good than to have a big salary
and be wicked. Your old father when
he married didn't have much. Your
salary now, even though it is a poor
one, is about three times as much as
he had when he was married. He put
his trust in God.
Women don't abandon their hus.
bands on account of poverty. You
might occasionally find one, but she
is rare. A Catholic woman will stand
by man as long as he isn't selfish
or spending his money at bar or
running around with other women.
She, will stand up and go down with
him in battle. e
You shouldn't expect to get mil
lionaire's daughter. Pick out some
| girl Of your own kind Find a woman
of .piety and devotion; woman
who puts aher trust in Jesus Christ;
who, while you are working, is pray
ing. 1t isn't the energy. of man thai
makes the home successful, but the
man must use all Of his ability.
We have to use every natural tai
ent that God gave us, but at the
same time we. must put all our con
fdence in God. A man that under
! takes something for the love of God
ana the man that marries to lead {
good, pure, Virtuous life, God will
make his home a happy home.
You want to. marry a Catholic girl
| 7 am not prejudiced against non
| Catholics. have a great many non
| Catholic friends, but my first duty i!
by my own. 1t is the duty of Cath
Ole to stand by his own. 1t is thu
duty Of Catholics to look out fol
Catholic people first and tell the me1
to pick out some girl that they car
| entrust their salvation to. You know
a woman, can damn q man as well a!
a man can damn q woman. 1t is thu
biggest contract you make in life
There isn't anything thatHentaiis 81
much in this life and the next as TIT
choosing Of q partner for life.
means happiness, solace, comfor
| and salvation and heaven when vol
die, and it means the same for those
who may be born of your wedlock.
! Pick out a nice Catholic girl. I
will take you a couple of years t.
| get her. Give her good time. Don
be tightwad but spend a little
money on her.
| -Father q 'Jf0IReD, s j.
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conditions. Cardinal Newman realized
this fact in his youth, and advised a
younger sister to store her mind with
quotations from spiritual writer's.
He deplored the presence of the
secular paper in the home, and eX.
pressed regret that he himself had
wasted time in reading such publica-
tions in his early college days.
Approach your Redeemer with the
pious eagerness Of the Magi. Offer
Him spiritual gifts corresponding
with the gold, frankincense and
myrrh of the Magi. Present to Him
the gold Of loving heart, the myrrh of
an humble and contrite spirit and the
incense of fervent prayer.
1t is not the work we do or position
we hold, that makes us acceptable to
God, but the spirit Of fidelity we put
into it. Men label occupations great
or loWly, rating them by their scale
of dignity; God has no such standard
He passes by the exterior nature of
the work done, and views the interior
disposition with which it is performed.
One and all will be recompensed not
for what they did, so much as for the
spirit Of fidelity and zeal with which
they served.
The Rep. Francis C0sSMy s. j.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
ST. PETER GONZALEZ.

Peter was appointed at an early
age Dean of Astorga, his birthplace
He had brilliant talents, but had only
entered the Church to crafty his love
of display. AS he rose in great state
to take possession of his deanery, his
horse fell, covering him with mud
Mortified and humbled, Peter rose,
amidst the laughter of the mob, a
changed man. He entered the Order
of ST. Dominic, where a fervent novi-
tate prepared him for life of holy
zeal. He accompanied Ferdinand III.
as chaplain in his campaign against
the MOOrs, and by the strictness Of
his religious observance under the
| most trying circumstances and by the
power and JUNCTION of his preaching,
| reformed both the court and the camp.
| At the taking of Cordova, Peter alone
saved the lives of the prisoners and
| the honour of the women from the law
| less soldiers, and in the mosques,
| which he converted into churches,
called both captors and captives to
/ penance. At the first chance he left
| the court to preach to the poor in
the mountainous districts of Galicia
| and to the sailors of the sea-coast.
| He had a peculiar affection for the lat
ter class, seeing the fewness of their
| opportunities, and was enabled by a
/ special gift to reach the understanding
| of the most ignorant. The last years
of his life were spent in their behalf,
and under the title of st. Elmo he is
/ still invoked as the patron of Spanish
mariners. Peter died April 18th, 1916.
! Some courtiers, incensed at st.
| Peters unsparing denunciation of vice,
Suborned miserable woman to lead
him into sin. She obtained an inter-
view with him under the garb of a
penitent, and with many tears regret
ted her evil life. Suddenly throwing
off the mask, she revealed the object
of her visit. The Saint went into
an inner room, where there was a
fire, and laying himself on the burning
Goals, babe her enter. The sight of
the holy man uninjured in the midst
of the flames shook her soul to it's
depths. She fell on her knees, con-
fessed her sins, and with her accom-
plices in. the crime became sincerely
penitent.
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Here, again. we must thank our
writer for his frankness-for the clear
cut information he gives as to the
policy of the "Constitutionalist Party
in regard to religion.
But the bid of the Party" to Amer
lean Professionalism will not deceive the
American people, who will see in it a
mere hypocritical intent to win their
support to the horrors of the religious
prosecutions now waging in Mexico
prosecutions fed and fattened on I'M
bridled license and vilest passion. The
majority OF the Americans are not
Catholics; but neither are they dupes
of that blind bigotry, which the writer
fancies he discovers in them, in the
manner of which he would lead them
to build up their form of religion ON
rabid despotism and it's progeny Of
reckless assaults upon all the rights
and virtues of a Christian civilization.
The climax is reached by Rodolfo
Menendez Mena when he makes his
appeal to Catholics in the United
States, and dares, in speaking to them,
to institute a distinction between Cath
olicism in the United States and
Catholicism in Mexico. OF American
Catholics he writes: There is an
abyss of centuries and races between
their cultured, discreet, moderate
Catholicism, modified and moderniZed,
if we may call it so, and the Catholic
idolatry Of the Mexican masses, me-
dicval and savage, taught, prOpagated
and applied by Spanish priests, etc"
The Catholicism of American Cath.
Olics, a Catholicism modified and
modernized' so as TO be acceptable
to Rodolfo MenendeZ Mena. This the
Catholicism OF Catholics in the United
States, Well, let me say in prompt
reply, the Catholicism of Catholics in
the United States is the Catholicism
of the universal Church, which is ruled
and guided by the Bishop of Rome
the same Catholicism as that taught
propagated and applied by the Bishops
and priests Of Mexico. The Catholi
cism cultured, discreet and mOder
ate" of the Catholics of the United
States. Catholicism in the United
States is, indeed, cultured" as Cath.
olicism anywhere and everywhere nee
essarily is; but to say that it is dis
Greet, moderate is to belle it in its
belief and practice; as much as it We're
to belle the Catholicism of the Span,
ish Bishops or priests in Mexico to
intimate that there Catholicism is in
discreet and immOderate. Catholicism
in the United States, if illuminated
and blackened as is the Catholicism
of Mexico under the pen of Senior
Mena, would, indeed, stir to horror the
enlightened observer. But such is not
our Catholicism; and neither is it the
Catholicism of Mexico. To know the
Catholicism preached in the United
States is to know the Catholicism
preached in Mexico. In either coun-
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CONFESSION GEY PHoNE2

In the course of his very thorough
and readable treatise on the Sacra-
ment of Confession, of which the Eng
lish translation, by Dr.. Arthur Preuss,
has just appeared, Monsignor Pohle
briefly discusses the question, Can
sins be validity confessed and absolu-
ton given by telephone?" He an
sWers as follows: Two persons con
versing over the telephone cannot
strictly be said to be absent from
each other. As far as verbal inter
course goes, the telephone brings
them as closely together as if there
were no space between them. The
question as to the validity OF cOnfes-
sion by telephone has been submitted
to the Sacred Congregation CT the
Holy Office without, however, elicit
ing reply. If we consider that the
telephone does not convey the voice
by the natural medium Of air waves
but reproduces it artifcially, and that,
on the other hand, sacramental abso-
luton and the judicial character of
the confessor require a presence
which enables him to communicate
naturally with the penitent, we shall
hardly go wrong if we declare against
the validity Of confession and abso-
luton by telephone
But the writer need not have gone
into physics for his reasons against
confession by telephone. One, based
on human nature, is enough for the
average penitent; that one is sug-
gested in these three words: "How
about Central?"
w,
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TODAY.

o Father, guide these faltering steps
today,
Lest | should fall.
Tomorrow? All, tomorroW's far
Today is all.
If I but keep my feet till evening
time,
Night will bring rest;
Then, stronger grown, tomorrow
shall climb
With newer zest.
O may I stoop 10 no unWorthiness,
In pain or sorrow,
Nor bear from yesterday one bitter
ness
On TO tomorrow. 80.
Then, Father, help these searching
eyes today
The path to see;
Be. patient with my feebleness-the
way
Is steep to Thee.
From Songs of GreeiQbe0.
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TO THE MARRIED MAN.


The sweetest word in the language
is home | may be q little matched
cottage, with that old broken door
step, but it is The dearest spot God
ever created. II you and are good
men today, why? Because we had
good fathers. They had their defects,
shortcomings, failings, Weaknesses,
but whital they were sterling men.
They were men OF honor they were
men of high character, men of kind
ness and consideration, men of en-
dearing love You carry their menu
DRY wherever you go. Now, is your
home as it ought to be?
Some men seoM to think it is, suf-
ficient to have home and furniture,
enough food to make the thing kind
Of half way decent. That is not q
home. You might have that for an
animal Home means the union Of a
man and woman where the hottest OF
natural affections dwell. What the
priest is in the Church of God SO the
father is in the home. The home
is what? We all say home is mother.
| say the home IS as the father. He
is The head OF the home. He is the
authority within his home. Jesus
Christ will demand Of him that home.
:" & How about your home
[ know that men are battered about
and are sad and worn when coming
home from their work, but you want
to leave all that dust and CRIME and
harshness as soon as you come to
your doorstep.
If you have children, let your heart
expand. Give your wife all the signs
Of natural affection. Don't merely
come in and sit down and read a
PAPER or read book and then think
you are doing the nice thing. These
women have a right to- life. They
have a right to your cOmpanlonshlp.
They like to exchange ideas with you,
ana so on. A home can. be poor but
it can be strong home. Mary and
Joseph had the poorest. Of homes
poorer than any of your homes. They
hadn't any you might say Of the Re
quirements of life And yet the hap
piest home that. ever existed was that
home.
The strongest factor in the nation
today is the Catholic home. The unit
of the nation is the family and in pro-
portion to the strength and fidelity
and vigor of the family is the strength
and power and might Of the nation.
There is one thing: We are the only
power today that stands for the home,
God be praised The Catholic Church
stands at the door of the home. She
must stand She wouldn't be the
Church of Christ if she didn't stand.
She commands men and she conn
mands women to respect the law OF
God. Every woman by nature ought
to be a. Catholic, because the Catholic
Church has written her declaration
Of Independence She. is the one that
insists on it, s.E
---r~ Father o 'NalleD, S u
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SERVING GOD cHEERFULLY.

There are ten thousand reasons
lightful and satisfactory. AS a rule,
the man who is carrying on a profit
able and successful business is, so
long as everything goes well, toler-
ably happy. You don't see him going
about with a long face, and although
he may g,'umble a little, as most men
do, you can see that he does not mean
it. Now, If this is the case in the
midst of the uncertainties which are
inseparable from all human transac-
lions, what ought to be the satisfac-
ton and contentment of man who
has seriously taken in hand the one
necessary business? For how does
the case stand with such a man? The
man who has seriously taken in hand
the business, of saving his own soul
must 'succeed-for him there is no
such thing as failure.
So long as he is willing he must
be prosperous. =. And why? Because
he has Almighty God as partner.
And God is ready to give him what We
hope itfis,,not irreverent to call I'M
limited credit, In this life He pours
into. his soul His heavenly grace, and
this grace gives to all his actions a
value which gives him a right to an
eternal recompense. No action from
morning to night, from weeks end to
weeks end, but may be made profit
able and fruitful, if done with right
intention, and, Of course, if there IS
nothing sinful in it. This is the posi-
ton in which any and every man may
be placed and may remain if he SO
wills.
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BITS OF INFORMATION ABOUT
CHURCH LIFE.

An average Of little over seven
priests die every week in the United
States.
A fraction of over one priest is
added every day to the ranks of the
priesthood in the United States. In
1916, All priests were added.
In the United States last year the
Church added one new church daily
TO her churches.
Last year there was a decrease of
six in the number of boys colleges,
and an increase of nine in the num-
Der of academies.
~ Last year there was decrease of
ten in the number of Catholic orphan
ages in the United States, and an in
crease of 5000 in the number of
orphans.
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"HAlL, mARY!H


How pure, and frail, and white,
The snoW-drops shine,
Gather "a, garland bright
For Mary shrine.
For. on this blessed day,
She knelt at prayer,
When 10, before her shone
An angel fair.
"Hail Mary" thus he cried,
With reverent fear;
She, with sweet, wondering eyes,
Marveled to hear.
Hail Nary" 10, it rings
Through ages on;
Hail Mary" it shall sound
Till time is done.
Hail Mary Queen of Heaven!
Let us repeat,
And place our snow-drOp wreath
Here at her feet.
Adelaide Proctor
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WE MUST LOVE MARY.

For the sake of Jesus we must learn
to increase our love of Mary. 1t
must be devotion growing in us like
a grace, strengthening like a habit of
virtue, and waxing more and more
fervent and tender until the hour
when she shall come to help us to die
we'll, and to pass safely through the
risk of doom. | repeat, 1t
must grow like a virtue, and
strengthen like habit, or it is worth
nothing at all. Love of Mary is but
another form, and diyinely appoint
ed one, of love of Jesus; and there
fore if love of Him must grow, so also
must love Of her.
--FafheY FabeY.
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TO THE UNMARRIED MEN.

Of course I know with the high cost
of living it is kind Of rash for me
to- talk about matrimony for young
men, but the older | become, the more
convinced | am that there is only one
thing for young man to do and that
is to seek a life partner
i am speaking of a real, red-blooded
man, not someone who is more dead
than alive The plea that you do
not make enough to support a wife
is all rot. If you wait until you do
make enough, you will never marry
and you will go to- hell perhaps in
the meantime. st. Paul had very
happy. expression. He said, 1T is bet
ter to marry than to burn Ito burn
for sin that marriage. would prevent.
By marriage men could keep their
souls undefiled ...a Il.
When you get to manhoods estate,
go pick out some nice girl-one of our
Catholic girls We have a fine lot of
Catholic girls here, and they are not
all going to the convent, either. A
great many of them want to marry,
but you can't expect them to marry
man unless he is a real man. You
don't suppose that a girls father is
going to let her marry man unless
he has got some of the characteris-
tics OF real man. A man loves his
wife, but he dotes on his little daugh-
ter. She is the one object of his af-
lection, and when man comes to
take that little darling, you may be
sure. that father is going to thorough
" examine him and be convinced that
his little girl is going to have at. least
a good husband. .,,i ...s 4
There is only one thing fora. man