The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-08

man than he giveth his life for his fellow man." But this love as the risen Christ is no less real, no less infinite, no less abiding than the life that died in love on the cross, and it is this abiding love circulated by him that he has left to his church as promised for her own endeavors on this great prin- ciple to lead man to love God and their neighbor as themselves, and it is herein that the church is pre-
 eminent because she is the living
 Christ in the world and her work
 is to carry out this method of Christ to bring man to love God and to love their fellow man as
 themselves. How is that? When Saul who was devastating the
 church of God was on the way to
 Damascus he was struck down and a voice came clearly to his
 ear. Saul, Saul, why persecutest
 thou Me who art thou Lord.
 am Jesus whom thou persecut-
 est.'' Saul persecuted the church and our Lord says Thou persecut> est me, Christ's church." And this great apostle brought this home to
 the people of his day and left it on the pages of his epistles to the
 world in the symbol of the nlysti-
 cal body. He wrote to the Corin-
 thians who are the body of Christ and who are the members. Christ
 is the head, we are the members.
 Could there be any more perfect
 explanation of the religion of
 Christ than that of Q real body?
 That is our relation to Christ and to one another. "If one member suffers all the members suffer. If one member glories all the members rejoice, in other words our sorrows and our joys are in common because we are members of a great body of which Christ is the head. This is | the reason for the church's activ- | ity in all forms of social reform and of child, family welfare and relief because we look upon the members of society as one with us in the great body of Christ. That
 is why we are interested in little children. They are the weak mem- bers, they are the beloved of Christ. Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not. He who receives a little child
 such as this rejoices me-" And then that great sentence that ought to ring in the ears of the modern world with it's pernicious
 decrees "He who scandalizes one
 of these little ones woe unto him, it would be better for him that a
 millstone be hung around his neck and drowned in the depths of the sea. This is why we are interest ed in children, the afflicted, the delinquents, the helpless. the or- phans. because they belong to Christ's body. He Is the head.
 'This is why we are interested in the family and if we look to-day for cause of much of the sorrow and suffering in the world it is not due to disintegration of the fam- ily What God hath joined to- gether let no man put asunder." That is the indisputable bond of marriage. the foundation of tho family and of her who goes out in relief to the poor because they are of Christ. She feeds the hungry, gives drink to the thirsty, clothes the naked. heals the wounded, visits the sick and comforts the prison- CT For was hungry and you gave me to eat, thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was naked and you clothed me, sick and you came to visit me. in prison and you came to me Amen, Amen, say to you as long as you do 1t to the least of my brethren you do 1t unto me-. Those are the principles of divine charity. It is this way the church in our diocese is working out through the Diocesan bureau, the great mandate of Christ. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind, and the second is like unto this Thou shalt love thy neighbor as myself"
 Members of the Waterbury Council of Catholic Women, of which Miss Kathryn Hayes is chairman, were hostesses yesterday afternoon at reception and tea fol-
 lowing the meeting. Students of
 the Catholic High school served.