South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-31


as to. the house of your father. TO
speak 10 your God in holy prayer.
TO taste and see how sweet is the
Lord" Here all are invited. but
especially those that are weary and
heavily byrdened Here Christians
VIII kneel in humility and prayer;
the weak 20 pray for strength tho
sinner 20 pray for pardon. the limo
cent 10 sing his prayer OF love. Here
wealth and poverty. youth and ago
VIII come 10 pray-to kueel at the
same altar 20 assist at the same sac
rifice. 20 adore the same God. Here
viii stand the regenerating font OF
baptism. Here husband and wife
viii be united in the bonds that will
cease only with death Here Will
you learn to know better and better
that wonderful religion that is with
YOU ard in you and around you all
the days of your life, TO the grave
and beyond the grave. And here
will stand the altar where long after
your memory viii have gone out
from among men religions prizes;
VIII sill murmer a Requiem for your
souls
Brethren, God is omnipresent His
immensely fills all space. The
heayen is my throne he says. and
j the ejath my foot-sto1" He may
therefore, be worshipped anywhere
on island. or ocean. or forset. or
prairie. Time was when this very
spot was alive with the red children
! OF primeval America. With no shel-
ter but the blue sky. no altar but
the barren rock. no sanctuary bu,
the shade g the mighty oak. they
yet prayed lare to the Great Spirit.
Truly o God thou are everywhere.
Nevertheless, fro mthe infancy Of
our race 10 this day. God has had
places dedicated especially TO His
worship Remember Of great temple
of Solomon. Its walls were OF
choicest cedar its oracle of purest
gold. It's floors were gilded and its
emblems and devices w-re exqles
itely worked. And it contained
what? Two tablets Of stone. a pot
of mama, a wooden rod. This was
Gods chiefest temple and its most
sacred contents TIN the light came
that enlightened every man that
comes into this world, Antil the
Word was made Flesh aSS dwelt
among us. II was an ominous day
for this gray world when Christ as
cended into heaven As the clouds
dispense before the monday glare
so the Apostles spread before the
Face of then ascending God Man.
They reached the ends Of the earth.
They taught His lessons. They Of
fered His sacrifice They renewed
the face OF the earth. Going out
froTr friends and kindred. called
! traitors to venerable faith. her
aids OF a doctrine whose founder
ha6 been crucified. they go to es-
| tabl.sh a new faith. TO erect a strange
altar. to build a nome for God made
/ Man. 10 overturn ge-cherished sys-
4 TENS. 10 hold up 10 a crOss-hating
world the ensign of a foreign disci-
pline. Was ever effrontery like un-
to this? But victory will be their
| for God is with them and their
faith is divine. Slowly, surely. it
moved onward with every human
enterprise. TO every new dominion on
the face OF the earth. 1t restrained
the extravaganza Of wealth and
cheered the loneliness Of poverty.
1t protected right against might.
Singled handed and alone, it pro-
tected the sacredness of the marri-
age tie and the dignity of woman.
1t exalted the nobility OF man and
I'm the hope Of future reward it In
spired his noblest deeds.
-,
at the Last Supper-the First Mass
Its Founder was Priest and victim
as He is today An upper room.
hired for the purpose. was the place
Of sacrifice May we not call it the
first Catholic church? And so for
centuries Holy Mass was offered
chiefly i'm private houses. How rude
were the affairs. the vestments, the
sacred vessels.
But with the conversion of Con-
stantine came a change. Worship
became public; churches were built;
science and art became the hand
maid Of religion The Mohamedans
were as powless 10 check the spread
of Christianity IN the East as were
| the Moors in the southwest North
]
the classic plains Of Italy threaten
/ ing Christian civilization and life.
went back softened by the Gospel
tenets and with them were Roman
priests. and the name Of Jesus and
Mary was heard FOR the first time
on the banks of the Rhine and Of the
Danube.
As time wore on. the church
evinced an evergrowing anxiety for
I the beauty and the gGace of the tenn
I pies Of God Witness the world s
worship in stone. Have not her
children loved the beauty OF Gods
house and the place where His glory
dwelIeth2 Let the marvels of the
old world answer Give answer too
/ the beautiful churches with which.
out OF their poverty and their faith.
our splendid people have dotted this
/ land Truly the church loves the
| glory OF the house Of God That IS
why she wants her temples 10 speak
J 10 her children she would make
the pictured walls speak the Ian
guage of the gospel. the inches hold
/ saints and angels 70 whisper lessons
/ OF purity and sanctity.
Ny brethren some often 10 this
! house of God. this house of your zeal
and your faith is mere erecting
} Come 70 pray. Come 10 unite with
/ your priest in the tremendous sacri-
\ fee OF Calvary Come 70 partake Of
/ the body and blood OF the soul and OF
J the divinity Of your God. Keep the
I Commandments that they may lead
/ YOU 20 Him who Is your Lamb and
! our Lamp. that when LIES brief day
( is done. through the interCession OF
/ Christ's own mother and His dis
I chile ST Matthew. YOU may be adj