The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-07-27

Holy Saturday till noon of the eve of
Trinity Sunday-in honor of the in
carnation of our Lord. 1t is to be
said kneeling, except from Saturday
noon to Sunday evening inclusive,
when it is said standing.
l. The angel of the Lord declared
to Mary (Angelus Domini nuntiavit
Mariael; and she conceived of the
Holy Ghost.
Hail Mary, full of Grace, our Lord
Is with thee; blessed art thou among
women, and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother Of
God, pray for US poor sinners, now,
and at the hour of our death. Amen.
2. Behold the handmade of the
Lord; be it done unto me according
to thy word.
Hail Mary, etc.
3. And the Word was made Flesh:
and dwelt among us.
Hail, Mary, etc. Pray for us Holy
Mother Of God. That we may be
made worthy of the promises of
Christ.
Let us Pray.
Pour forth, we beseech Thee, o
Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that
we, to whom the incarnation of
Christ Thy son was made known by
the message of an angel, may, by His
passion and cross, be brought to the
glory Of the resurrection; through
the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
1t will be noticed that in es-
sence and phraseology the An
gelus is purely a sectarian cere-
mony used solely by Catholics,
and meaningless or abhorrent
to other people.
A leading Catholic paper de-
clared soon after this war. be-
gan, that, "This is our oppor-
tunity," and they have acted on
that theory in every way pos
sible to familiarize the people
with the processes necessary to
make America a Catholic nation.
One of the things needful to
that result so ardently desired
by every jealous papist, is to
get the people accustomed to
Catholic expressions and cere-.
monies, and if possible get them
to using them, and in that way
gradually draw them into the
Catholic church.
The same method is being fol-
lowed in Remaining our public
schools by the employment of
Catholics as. teachers and the
induction Of stories of saints.
priests and nuns into the school
books.
That the nation is now at war
brings soberness as we'll as sad
ness to the hearts of many peo.
pie. The vast majority of the
American people are believers in
Christianity and we in general
pride ourselves on being a Chris
tian nation.
A very commendable mode Of
expression, common to all Chris
tian sects, is that of a petition
of prayer to the Deity. These
forms vary according to the
sect using them. 1t follows,
then, that if any sect could get
the government to endorse or
call on the people to use its cere-
monies or even it's names,
it gets a RECOGNITION of the
government for those names and
ceremonies and has grounds
for claiming them as ordered by
the government, and the refusal
to use them as disloyalty.
So. taking advantage of the
fervid loyalty and Nreverent
mood of the people, Rome delib-
erately planned to secure, by
congressional action and execu-
tive proclamation, the union Of
the people with their own in the
Roman Catholic ceremony of
the Angelus.
Rome is wise in it's day and
generation. One step at a time
is sufficient, but when taken it|
always has another move ready.
They went at this move
shrewdly enough. The praises
of the Angelus began to appear
in the papers. Then the Cath
olics called for the observance
Of the Angelus, or at least al
modification Of it to the extent
Of at least a "one-minute" pray
er by everybody in Washington,
D. c., and other places at exact
ly twelve o'clock.
The proposition looked inno-
cent on its face, and commend
able to some and became, toI
some extent, a fad with the.|
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