The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-01-18
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sermon ON THE HOLY NAME


sions of Christianity have practically
set this teaching aside; that they have
adopted what they call freedom, y
freedom to accept Christ as God or as
a mere man. You acknowledge in
! your hearts and you give the consent
of your mind to this teaching of the
Catholic Church. And that teaching
makes you perform the great duty you
have in the Holy Name Society. The
duty above any other Of recognizing
His divinity, and recognizing that He
has come to us in His divinity, truly
and really and substantially, in the
Bread of Life here in the Tabernacle
of our altar.
t q FREQUENT the Saeranaents. -,
You make it the most important
rule of our society to come here to
Gods Table and to receive your Sacra-
mental God frequently My dear men,
| be faithful to that duty above every
thing. And if you are faithful to that,
it you are found here regularly at the
prescribed times of the society in this
diocese, am sure you will be faithful
to the other duties. Recognize that,
| however, as your chief obligation and
recognize it as test, as the test of
your belief and the profession of your
| belief in the divinity of Christ.
| / have said there are so many di-
! visions of the Christian family that
have set this doctrine aside with the
result of many difficulties, with the
result in many instances of empty
churches. Where would this temple
of God be if Christ of the tabernacle
were not here in His Sacramento
Presence! 1t would be cold and
empty. It's architecture, it's preachers,
might attract you for a time, but it
would not and it could not have the
influence it has on you if the Sacra-
mental God here Who dwells for you
and in the Divinity of Whom you pro-
| fess your belief if that Sacrament
were not the basic one of your religion
and if it were not the first and prin-
cipal one of your Holy Name Society.
! You further profess in a very clear
way respect for authority, for the au-
| thority of the home, for the authority
| of the state and for the authority of
the Church. The human family is
divided into these three groups of per.
| feet societies. Each is perfect in it's
own order. The state and the Church
| depend upon the family. But the fam
/ lily is a society in its own order, a
perfect society, and there is authority
in that society. The authority of that
society is the authority of God The
home is divine institution and that
Institution must be respected by u.s.
! II any voice in the whole world speaks
up for the defense of the home it is
/ the Catholic Church.
In this nation of ours that we love
so much, are we not confronted with a
great evil and, looking at the conse
quences and the future, are we not
| terrified at the attack upon the home
when one home in every ten is dis
rupted by our divorce courts? The
mandate of God is, What God hath
Joined together let no, man put asun
der The Catholic Church stands
unalterably for the sacred institution
of the home, stands for the. support
of the authority of the home. ,Yot
men of the Holy Name Society, yot
that are fathers of families, recognize
that you are an agent in Gods hands
in the divine institution and that yol
have a great responsibility. The au
thority that you exercise is through
God; you must not abuse that author
ity; you must exercise it in the inter
est of your children.
i In my work. of the Holy Name So
ciety, that has taken me from one ent
q of the country to the other, from tn,
( eaststo the west, from the north to .th'
south. how many hundreds, aye, thou
sands of Holy Name men have me
who have acknowledged in their oil
age the misuse of authority! The.
q did moi. make their children love them
They had : not hear1 bl,