The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-06-03
Thousands Preparing To
InDade Dublin For 31st
Eucharistic Congress
Plans of Two Years Practically Completed to Take
Care of Vast Army of Cardinals, sArchbishops
Bishops, Monsignori, Priests and Laymen Jour.
neying There This Month. q

~, 70 use pleuty OF soap ana wafer,
brushes and brooms. to look to the
and the carpentering; in
a word, to make a good showing
before the company. In the words
OF the Cork Examiner, '.In Dublin,
cleanup operations are unprece-
The towns and villages
in the provinces are also in pro-
cess of regeneration, under the
drive Of the local authorities.
Flower boxes and trim gardens
are strongly urged for Dublin, can
dies are asked to be lit in the win
dows, and doors and walls to be
All the public and COM
mercial buildings, and the streets
and thoroughfares, will be festive
Iy, decorated, and. through the
nights, will be fioodlighted. Dub
lin will be colorful from dawn to
dusk. and from dusk to dawn will
glow In a pale, white light.
While the Irish are showing
themselves eminently practical in
the preparations for the congress
OF men, they are losing not one
whit of their spiritual appreciation
OF their Eucharistic festival. A fer
vent crusade of prayer has been
gong on for more than two years
t.Ns Msy. Hundreds upon hun
drcds Of thousands of masses and
con: niunions have been counted up
in Heaven as part of the remote
preparation. The congY ess crest, a
beautifully Catholic-and- Irish de-
sagn based on the ancient cross OF
Cong, is being worn on every
breast. The more immediate prep
aration begins on June when
every church in the Dublin area
will conduct full weeks retreat
for women, followed by a general
communion throughout the length
and breadth of ireland on June IL.
Then the men will have their re-
treat, with the hoped-for climax of
every Catholic man in Ireland at
the rail on June 10. On that same
Sunday, every Dublin church will
begin solemn iridium, as the
final bit OF preparation. And on
June 81, the feast of st Augustus,
the patron of youth, all the Irish
will go to God.
"yVhat about the Pope ?" Is being
asked in Ireland and In Rome.
Will he open the congress with his
own voice over the radio? For the
first time in the history Of Euchar-
istic Congresses, will he address the
assembled adorers Of the Blessed
All are hopeful and
expectant. But ireland will ad-
dress the Holy Father and the
world. for the government wire
less station is being built up for
the occasion. so that 1t will be
more powerful than any station in
the British Isles. Thus, 1t Is being
planned to broadcast the congress
to all who can and care to listen in.
On Wednesday. June 20, the con-
gress formally opens with a special
service at the Pro-Cathedral. Ex-
position of the Blessed Sacrament
will be held throughout the day in
all the churches, and will be con-
tinued nocturnally in many of
them. Midnight mass in all the
will usher in Thursday,
and Pontifica1 high mass for men
will be celebrated in the Pro-
Cathedral and elsewhere. That
night, in Phoenix Park, the men
will assemble for a grand demon
stration before the high altar, will
listen to addresses, and bow low
before the Benediction, and, in pro-
cession, march past the Cardinal
Legate. On Friday, the women
will assist at the pontifical high
masses in the morning and gather
under the stars In Phoenix Park in
the evening for addresses and
Benediction. Saturday will be chill
dren'S day. At noon. they will have
been marshalled by districts and
schools in the fifteen acres in
Phoenix Pask for the celebration
OF Pontifical high mass. A special
choir Of 1000 trained voices of
children will join In the singing Of
the hymns which they have been
steadily since last sum-
mer.
Saturday night. in the official
program, has but one laconic word:
Confessions. Phoenix Park will be
deserted, and dark as the little
boxes in the churches. Special
are allocated for the con-
fessions of those not speaking Eng
lish: and faculties are granted to
all visiting priests who have the
power of the confessional in their
own dioceses. During the after
Moons Of the congress days, gen.
eral and sectional meetings will be
held in a babel of languages from
Gaelic to Glagolithic. So, too, in
the morning services, mass will be
said In accordance with the color
full and grandiose rites Of many an
ancient eastern Church.
More than q paragraph would be
the homage to Christ the King on
needed to tell Of the grandeur. of
June 20. A million people and
more will be on the green sod of
the fifteen acres on that morning.
The million faces will be turned
towards the high elevation of the
gigantic altar while the Papal
Legate celebrates mass. Five hun
dred male voices wilbl form the
choir. and lead the huge congrega-
ton in the singing. This mass will
be the grand ovation to the
Eucharistic King. BY half after
two. the huge throng will begin
to separate itself into four files Of
eight persons abreast. These files
will turn out of the park and wind
their way down the four routes to
the center of the city at O'Connell
bridge. All the streets will be lined
with loud speakers. which Will
broadcast the hymns being sung
ny tH6 CHOlT WHiCu TSHIdAH0 a. tho
park, All the millions will raise
their voices In the same hymns at
the same time. as they march
along. TN.
The Blessed Sacrament will be
carried solemnly through the
streets of Dublic by the Papal
Legate. The canopy will be born
by Ireland's sixteen best-known
sons, by the president and Vice.
president, Messrs De Valera and
O'Kelly, by former President Co.'S
grave. by the speaker of the dali
and the chairman Of the senate, by
the chief justice and the lord
mayor. by the mayors OF Cork and
Limerick, by Joseph Devlin and
Cahir Healy, the Catholic leaders
OF Ulster. A military guard will
be on each side OF the King OF All.
md prelates and priests, govern
ment and civil officials. foreign
diplomats and notable representa-
tiyes, will march nearby. Three
choirs or priests will alternate In
their chanting Of the Divine
praises, until the Blessed Sacra-