The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-24


confessed all his sins properly, will
his stay in purgatory be shortened if
he has Masses said whilst living?
First of all, you may not have any
purgatory. Why not try to live SO
perfect a life that with Gods grace,
there may be no delay between death
and the vision of God in heaven?
The way to settle doubts concerning
confession is by means Of the confess
siOnal, and not by having Masses Of
fered. If you are troubled with doubts
whether certain sins were properly
confessed, etc, speak to your father
cOnfesSor and your doubts will vanish.
have a friend who goes to no
church; he is very honorable and
good; he associates almost exclusively
with Catholic boys and girls. How
can | gain him to the Church?
Faith is a gift of God, and most OF
Gods gifts are gained by prayer;
pray for your friend. Catholics arc
accustomed to storm heaven by pray
ers for many faVOrs, spiritual and tenn
poral; mother prays for the return
of hayward boy, a wife prays for
the conversion of drunken husband.
a girl prays for a good position. SO
you should pray for this man, that
God may grant him the gift Of faith
Invite him to church, especially to
services of greater sOlemnity, such as
a mission, first communion Of chill
dren, meeting of the Holy Name So
CiCty. Talk to him about the Church:
there are thousands Of people outside
our Church who are waiting for an
invitation to enter; give him to I'M
derstand that it will be a matter Of
no great difficulty for him to become
CathOliC-his good natural qualities
are proof of that. Finally, arrange
that this estimable young man be-
comes acquainted with the priest.
What must a non-Catho!c premise
if he wishes to marry a Catholic?
He must promise i'll the presence
of witnesses and the priest that he
will consider the marriage bond as in
dissoluble except by death: that he
will not interfere with the Catholic
party in the free exercise of religion;
that all the children who may be
born of the union will be raised in the
Catholic faith; and that there will be
no other ceremony than that before
the priest.
What is the meaning of heresy and
heretics?
The word heresy really means
choosing, a taking for ones self,
choice; but applied to religion it
signifies the maintaining of an Opin-
ion opposed to revealed truth; an IN
baptized person, Or one who never
had any belief in Christ, is an infidcl;
but one who processes belief in Christ,
yet rejects truths that Christ taught,
or admits opinions that Christ never
sanctioned, is a hereto Thus, Christ
instituted the sacrament of pCnance
and taught the Real Presence; to
deny these is to be guilty of hereSy,
to be a hereto. It is evident that
may not understand that what he re
]ects is part of Christ's teaching;
such a person is only d material here
tic. Those who close their eyes to
the truth and wilfUlly reject a re-
vealed truth are formal hereticS and
are guilty of a grave sin. And a man
that is a hereto. after the first and
second admonition avoid; knowing
that he, that is such a one, is sub
verted and sinneth. being condemned
by his own Judgment" Titus H. 100
ID.
The Lord said: "six days shalt thou
labor, and on the seventh day, the
Lords day, thou shalt rest In my
estimation the seventh day is Satur-
day.
Your estimation is correct: The
seventh day was Saturday. On that
day, the seventh, the last day nj the
week, the Lord rested, and in the Old
Testament that day was kept holy
and the Jews observed it as their
Sabbath. But the Old Testament
came to an end, and Hebrew religion
was replaced by the religion of Christ
and the observance of Sabbath-the
seventh day-was abolished and the
observance of Sunday-the first day
of the week-substituted The rca-
sons for this change have been OK
planned hundreds of times and there
is no necessity for repetition. The
same authority that organized the re-
ligion of the Old Law formulated the
religion of the New Law. The great
miracles of Christ were performed
on Sunday; He rose from the grave
on Sunday; the Holy Ghost came
upon the Apostles on Sunday. Sun
day is the great day in the religion
of Christ just as Saturday was the
great day in the religion of Moses.
There is nothing in the Bible that
commands the change; it comes from
the teaching and commandment Of
the Church. Those who rely on the
Bible alone without the teaching au-
thority of the Church are really
bound to continue the observance Of
Saturday-the real Sabbath.