Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-19
PRELATE HONORED
BY HOLY NAME AS
ENVOY FROM POPE
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| on such solemn occasion the vicar
| of Jesus Christ should be with us in
| the most intimate manner possible
and should encourage us in the name
of our Master to preserve in the let
| ter and spirit His gospel.
You are welcome, therefore, in the
name of the immense membership of
our Holy Name Society, but also in
the name of all American Catholics
for whom the personal representa-
tive of the vicar of Christ is at all
times an object Of religious reverence
and esteem, deeply rooted in their
| ways seen in the vicar Of Christ the
office and the authority of the Divine
Savior himself.
Feels Need OF Union.
"Scvcn centuries ago this year the
Roman pontiff authorized and blessed
its holy devotion to the name Of
Jesus and commended its preaching
to the Dominican order in its infancy.
And today, seven centuries later. an
other Roman pontiff commits again
st. Dominic and assists directly at the
splendid ceremonies amid which this
great mandate is proclaimed.
The clergy and the people of the
Baltimore archdiocese are particular
ly honored by your presence among
them as the Immediate representative
of Plus NJ. They are most happy
to offer YOU in your official capacity
the expression of their filial devotion
to him and their readiness to follow
at all times his spiritual counsel and
to obey with alacrity his guidance in
the domain of Catholic faith and life.
Never did We feel more keenly the
necessity of the closest union with
the holy see than amid the eXtraor-
binary religious conditions of our day.
Never were we more greatful for that
unbroken loyalty to the successor OF
Peter which has been distinguished
and today distinguishes the hundred
and more dioceses which have sprung
from this venerable mother of Amer
ica'S CatholiSm.
The societies of the Holy Name.
representing in no small measure the
American Catholic heart and spirit,
offer YOU the expression of this 10y
atty to the Divinity of Jesus Christ
and to all the Christian truths which
are based upon it as upon an unshak-
able rock. They beg you in turn to
assure the vicar of Christ that in no
part of the world is there greater
reverence for his holy office or great
er readiness to comply with his au-
gust counSels.
First PnpaI Legnte.
Long experience has shown them
that he who does not scatter with
Peter scattereth; that outside of his
fold there is no vigor of Christian
faith and light. We ask you to as
sure our Holy Father, Plus NJ, that
we are deeply convinced that he is
our most powerful ally in the nation
wide conflict that We carry on against
perjury and blasphemy. against foul
speech and foul living, against loyal
ty to rightful authority and against
all effort to suppress that moral free
dom, common justice and personal
justice which every man has the right
to pursue and enjoy.
You are the first papal 1egate sent
to us, as it were, from the very pres
ence of the holy father, and, as such,
we assure you not alone of our most
cordial welcome, but also of our re-
spect and veneration and we trust
that when your exalted mission is
completed you will be able to assure
the humane and scholarly Plus NJ
that in the many thousands of Holy
Name societies which grace our Amer
lean Catholic life there is not one
whose teachings do not often pray that
God may have. him ever in His holy
keeping and may grant him long life
and vigor of health to pursue the great
work of his predecessor and to bring
to q happy end all his own beneficent
designs for the welfare of the Holy
Catholic Church.
Cardinal Replies.
Very Reverend M. X. Ripple, o. p.
p q in the name Of the Holy Name
Society, then expressed its welcome and
and loyalty.
Cardinal O'Connell, in an impromptu
reply to both. said he heard with pro-
forndest'' emotion the welcome, mot to
me in person, but to the humble repre-
sentative of the sovereign pontiff." He
said he thought it eminently fitting that
the welcome should come from the arch
diocese of Baltimore, as the Boston
archdiocese was one of the very first
daughters of Baltimore, and ties OF de-
yotion have always bound the two
sees together closely. The cardinal again
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