The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-10

Gospel, does he commit a mortal sin
What are the principal parts Of the
Mass?
No, he commits no mortal sin pro-
Vided he remains for the rest of the
Mass; he is guilty of a venial sin if
he was late through wilful neglect or
Slothfulness. We are obliged to hear
Mass-that is, the whole of the Mass :;
if we miss any of the principal parts
of the Mass we do not really hear
Mass, and if this happens through de-
liberate neglect we are guilty of NOR
tai sin: if we miss any of the Mass
through our own fault we are guilty
of disrespect to God and to the law
of Gods Church. The principal parts
of the Mass are: the Offertory, which
occurs after the Credo, when the priest
offers the bread and wine, the Conse-
Grafton, when the priest, by the words
of conservation, changes the bread and
wine into the Body and Blood of
Christ; and the Communion, when the
Celebrant partakes of the Body and
Blood Of Christ.
If man sets fire 10 his house to
get the insurance what must he do to
have the sin forgiven?
A man who burns down his house TO
get the insurance is a thief. If he
TepentS Of his sin he must make reSti-
tuition. The case would fall under the
rules governing any sin against the
Seventh Commandment.
When and how was the Hierarchy
established In the U. S. A.?
The Hierarchy was established in
the L. S. a. on June G, 1884. when Ri
Rev. John Carroll was appointed Pre-
feet Apostolic and was given juris-
dictiOn over the thirteen original
States. Previously to that time the
priests in the English colonies were
subject to the Bishop of London, and
as the rule of England was extended
through the French and Indian Wars,
his jurisdiction covered the whole of
the thirteen original colonies and Can
ada. When the COloniSts won their
independence he refused to exercise
spiritual jurisdiction in the United
States, and Father Carroll was ap-
pointed Project Apostolic in June,
1884. On November 6, 1889, he was
named Bishop and in August, 1890
he was consecrated Bishop. These
dates mark the beginning of the HER
archy in our country.
How has monasticism helped the
Church?
Volumes could be written and have
been written on the subject of the
Church and Monasticism. Monasti-
Cism means a mode of life proper to
persons who leave the world and de-
vote themselves to prayer and spir-
itual exercises and other good works
under some religious rule. The first
monks of the Christian religion were
the aSCetics who went forth into the
desert to live lives of evangelical per-
lection. The world was morally rot
ten at the dawn of Christianity and
these holy men were urged by a spirit
of God to work for their own saliva
ton and the salvation of the world by
leading lives of poverty and chastity
and obedience in the sOlitudes of the
deserts. Their prayers and penances
and holy lives aided the Church to
evangeliZe the world With the spread
of Christianity the monks were gener-
ally in the vanguard. They preached
the Gospel to pagan nations; they till
ed the fields and built cities; they
founded schools for the Christian edu-
cation of the youth; they copied manu-
scripts and preserved the writings of
the Fathers of the Church; they were
architects and painters and sculptOrs
and workers in metal The apostles
of almost all the countries of Europe
were monks; tho first priests to land
upon the shores of America were
monks. Monasticism is proof of
the organic life of the Church; all
the orders have the same fundamental
motive; the service of Christ and the
perfect love of God; but each exists
for some special task that arose as
the Church advanced among the chill
dren of God. Monasticism is not of
divine command, and the Church could
have done its work without the
monks; but as a matter of fact, the
spread of the faith was not accom-
plished without the activities of mon
asticism.
Of what nature were the changes
and corrections made in the Bible Of
the Church of England during the last
revision about the year 1900?
The changes were mostly verbal
ones. The Authorized" English Yer
sion of the Bible was published in the
year 1911. This was really a revision
of the Bishops Bible that appeared
in the year 1868. This version was
too literal translation to suit the
leading Anglican clergymen and the
Authorized Version undertook to cor
rect these defects. This latter YER
sion fell into the same error, and in
the year 1870 the Revised Version was
undertaken and was finally completed
in the year 1895 This is the version
to which, we believe, you refer. No
new version has been attempted since
then in England. The changes are
mainly concerned with corrections in
the reading of original texts that had
been disputed. 1t is noteworthy that
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