The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-26
THE UNCEASlNG SACRIFICE.

Do Catholics ever think that the
| Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is being
| offered in some part of the world
every hour of their lives? When it
| is midnight in New York, Masses are
| being said in the churches of Italy
There ancient affairs, at which saints
| have llnelt, are lit up with tapers, and
| the Vicar of Christ and thousands of
priests are lifting holy hands up to
| heaven. A little later and the bells
of a thousand towers in France begin
| to sprinkle the air with holy sounds,
| and in every city, town and hamlet
kneeling crowds adore the Christening
hand of God and pray for sinners who
| despise His ordinances.
Chivalric and religious Spain catches
| the echoes, and when it is one o'clock
| in New York offers the great Sacrifice
in countless splendid churches. And
then Catholic Ireland, the Island of
| Saints which during many centuries
| suffered for the Faith, rallies anew
around the affairs it would never fof-
sake. At two o'clock and after the
! priests Of the islands of the Atlantic,
robed and stoled and wearing the
great cross on their shoulders, bend
before the tabernacle. An hour later
a courageous missionary lifts up the
chalice of salvation on the icebound
coast of Greenland
n oCt hn low
twinkle through the fogs of New
foundland, and at five Nova Scotia S
industrious population begins the day
| by attending Mass. And now all the
| Canadian churches and chapels grow
radiant as the faithful people, the
habitant of the country, the devout
citizens, the consecrated nun and the
innocent children hasten to unite their
prayers around the sanctuary where
| the priest-is awaiting them At six
O'Clock many souls are looking to the
churches of New York eager to begin
| the day of labor with the hottest act
of religion. Many young people, too,
gather around the altar at a later
| hour, as the fresh flowers open with
the morning and offer their deWy fra
GRANGE to heaven.
An hour later the bells of Missouri
and Louisiana are ringing, and at
| eight Mexico, true to her faith, bends
| before her glittering affairs At nine
O'Clock the deVout tribes of Oregon
follow their beloved black-gowns to
their gay chapels, and California
awhile loosens it grasp on it's gold
| to think of the treasure that rust doth
not corrupt.
And when the Angelus bell is ring
ing at noon in New York, the Unbloody
| Sacrifice is being offered up in the
| islands of the Pacific, where there are
generous souls laboring for our dear
| Lord. And SO the bells are ringing
on, on over the waters and one taper
after another catches the light of faith,
making glad all the isles of the sea.
At two o'clock the jealous mission
aries of. Australia are murmuring with
haste, eager for the coming of Our
! Lord, lntroiba ad altare Del. And all
| the spicy islands of the East catch
| the sweet sounds one after another.
| tillfat four in the afternoon China
proves there are many souls who are
worthy of the name celestial by
their rapt devotion at the early rite.
Then in Thibet there is many a mod
est chapel where the missionary dis
tributes the Bread of Life to crowd
of hungry souls.
At six the affairs of Hindustan,
where st. Francis ministered, are ar
/ fayed with their flowers and lamps
and the sacred vessels and unwearied
| priests are fastening to fortify their
souls before Him Who is their life and
their strength. At nine in Siberia
many a poor Catholic exile from Po-
land seeks a solace from his woes
at the foot of the altar and in the
Bread OF Heaven. During the hour
when New York is gay with parties
and balls and theatrical amusements
the hottest of rites is going on in the
Indian ocean and among the sable
tribes of Africa, whose souls are, so
dear to the Saviour Who once died
i for all. At eleven in Jerusalem, the
4 Holy City over which Jesus wept
where He wrought so many miracles
where He suffered and offered Him
| self asa sacrifice far the whole world
beholds the Unbloody Sacrifice Of the
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