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PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY,
.FE
BRUARY 14, 1920
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FED OF MORTIFICATION POINTED OUT
- IN LENTEN PASTORAL OF HIS GRACE
early Beloved Brethren:
From the earliest days of the Church, the fast of Lent has Pen
ion for East ter, and as a special season ofr
tance
ears. of
ept as a Preparat
sin,
Juctantly granted
as NO Oo:
cient Lent
'
Yet ther
ind its nortan as
we find
In the | beginning, when faith was strong, all Christians over ten
of age observed this fast, and di i
erbs, vegetables, bread and fruit. ‘Many of them ate their
joked, There was but one meal a day, which was partaken of after
he sun had set and the stars had appeared i in the sky.
luring it ate nothin; except
du
In the writ-
reproaches -cast upon lukewarm
days too long and sunset too late.in Lent.
of centuries, fervor having cooled and faith hav-
ne weakened, relaxation § in the
I by the Holy
fast set in, and dispensations were
‘See, until a shadow only of the
"Tent i is an Acceptable Time.
is as much reason now for hs holy season of Lent
there was nineteen hundred years ago, “Un-
ance, you shall all likewise peri ho i
co-oper
Fasting
God gave us all w
he beatific vii
Immo clerate indulgence i in food and drink clogs the soul, fetters
+ heh
ur
feared tn falling
er affections, makes hi
ncapacitate her for spiritual t
Fasting disentangles her affections; gaps her with wings with
h to soar into the blue of heave sf
* injurious we Hi
let
es that over-eating not under‘eat-
is the b:
et of death. This 's
eof
shows
hat,
health and shortening “ie,
s @ guardian and restorer of
health
e
oom shall be taken
then fn
ind, or hardened, as to pretend that he i hi
offense to cancel? Out
5 of countless sins at every
rece ause ti isa
ife by
as not sinned, o1
ai
fearful we to fall into the hands
Chure ch emtinds us that the cgson of Lent
an acceptable Se e make at
2
plding his body in chjetion, he preserved his innocence, strength.
ned his-soul, and y
hed
d,
in and subdue the body, the greatest Saints practiced
ch mortification, what shall we say of ourst ‘selves
Dedicates Souls to God,
t only our souls, at al:
eceiv from Him, and holding
larity. ii in all that
fim it in
‘have: not
€ are.
prayer; our Bodies we should offer to Tlim a
more po
se Teresa informs us that St.
ent for our mis
Fasting is one of the chief means by which the Sais overcame
he flesh, Though sanctified in his mother’s womb, St. the =
raptist, the Apostle of penance, led a life of continuous fast. It
ibsisted on dried locusts, wild honey and water tain
rrent. When, clad ina camel : skin and girt with a $ leathern girdle,
je left the wilderness to prea h sepentance to a inful general a ion,
ur Lord said of him that the « came neither eating, ‘hor a
By
ay:
5%
werfully by example than by
‘eter of Alcantara,
ler
our bodies.
SO.
all from Him, we should
ir souls we Shout consecrate to
of
leanse them, s; sanctify
Pom, ieicte shen em to God, and fit them for the glorified state of
er earthly and carnal, and so dulls her as to
thin;
er for meditation, and
grain must be buried
the body 1 nae be mortified before
€ can w, Broduce the fruits of virtue.
|SUBILARIANS OF BROOKLYN
DIOCESE ENDOW BURSES
Three perpetual scholarship burses
have, been Tounded ai Caibedral Col
n nced,
three “subliarians who
anniversary
‘Neill,
Catherine of, “Alexandria Eal En
is worth $2.500 and will enable the
college to educate a young man’ fo!
the priesthood In perpetulty.
++
REV. JOHN A. M'CRICKARD
CALLED TO HIS REWARD:
St. Peter’s Parish, Reading, Mourns
Young Priest, Only Eight
Months Ordained.
————
‘ight months of service as one of
was the short span’ al,
ev, John A. McCrick-
Jos
Reading, following a week's illness due
fo double. pneumonia.
McCrickard celebrated un
to his death, in the chapel of Bt, Cai nie
arine’s Orphan: on
had complained of a slat itiness, but
refused to and assist.
the “ceremony. of the blessing of the
throats, both in. the afternoon and in
the evening. Following the evening
devotions ni condition became s0 bad
0 hts
spond to ‘Geatment oa inking spelt fol
lowed and he ved he
hospital. .
His parents and sisters, one of
ig Bistor Mary Adele, of the Sisters,
Servants of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. were at his b
eni
ordination: ithe Rev: Charl
f St, Joseph's Church, a
aplain ‘of the Nowpitet,
dying were recited by
Dinan,
cal
Prayers for the
Father
dined Last June.
Father McCrickard was born on June
10,.1893, in the Annunciation B. Vi. 31
parish, this city): and -w: ex'son“ of
James and Martha (ateCartan). Mer
jekard. who at present reside st 3151
arth Teer “fou
tended t rish school and-the- “Pe vst
Catnote: Fue School, and upon Tad
he laiter, entered St
nary, <Overbrook, where
3, just two days
prior to his twenty” ah birthday, by
His Grace the Most Reve:
je was “resigned,
rend Arch-
the same
URSULINE nm CELEBRATES":
RELIGIOUS GOLDEN JUBILEE
of
cara as
they shail fast
all shouta tre.
recelve
id
collation also or partial
This should not ‘
ngerous th
Foretathere
into din-
use. May each on
God
soul
1e of us obtain from
His choicest gifts of body and
duritig the holy season of Lent!
Reverend and Dear Fathers of the
rey and Dear Children of the
ai:
w nnouncé to you the fol-
lowing 8 the regulations ‘of Lent for
the present
m the Sundays of Lent, there is
neither fast nor abstinence, Meat. fish
and other food may, therefore, be us
at
2
From Ash Wednesday until noon
jaturday, all the Soe dave of
ion.
partake of a small portion of bread.
meal is
the principal meal cannot
be conveniently taken vat midday, It Is
permitted to change the order, taking
the collation then and the dinner in the Ea
the collation and at the prin-
cipal meal. the dripping of lard and
y be used as a
@ substitute
for butter In preparing fab, vegetables,
‘B. Meat may be eaten oy all the prin-
cipal_meal ‘Mon Tuesdays.
hursday ‘and by dpectet vind as will
elow, also on Saturdays, with
the exception ‘of the Saturday of Em
er week and the forenoon of Holy
Saturday.
7. On all days when the use of meat
Is permitted, fish may aio be eaten at
the “care ‘me
‘The
nten fast and abstinence
8.
; | cease at 12 o'clock noon on Holy Satur-
a:
ay.
those dispen:
tins
sons, all the fait Bird
0 have completed ti venth, but
have not yet begun thelr tent second
ear, ‘are held only to abstin
teal, The following persons
im fasting and therefore need ne dis
Penation infirm, those under
Peuntcone or over Attyonine years of
(Continued en Second Page
| of Christian ebarity, and gives him a
Jace
Hi
rnest and hearty con-
egyric on the life
of Mather Uraula., delivered
Rew wa
2,
tefaced reading of ther Papal
Beaainie manted by His Holiness Pope
nedict XV.
“HOOVER MERITS PLACE ~
“IN HISTORY OF CHARITY”
Herbert Hoover's work in aiding chil-
aren of victims of the war entitles him
“to a very high rank. in the history
in the gratitude of peo
fran of the Inter-Ailied Food ‘Organts
zation through Cardinal Gibbons.
After recalling that more than 3.000,-
in
await relie
cle
pre:
ican citeens
without
faith o1 ”
Prominent Califor
Convent.
3 Frances McKinstry wh:
ner sole profession
monastery at Santa Clara, Cal, re:
Tently is, the davgnter of the’ late
SERN WW! Newineery, associate 3
he MeKinatry family are converts
the Church.» On one side of the
house they come of Mayflower tock
and on the other from ol
families.
t
a Chilian: Deputy: Francesco
Pescora de Quiroa, Secretary of the
te 6, February §—Th
tollene Sedis” carries an importan
| cree ot the
on
“where B
had. been stttioned ‘since his
: m0 PRIESTS. ORDAINED
“FOR. FOREIGN MISSIONS
father | New
m tothe Benerosity Of ail Amer
distinction “of |,
Woman Enters
of
ral” Charice Hedres McKiniatry symbolized bya mauve boutonnien ‘Mr.
Ena Staten Engineers, formerly of Larkin, who had charge of the home
she ‘Os and Inter of the| Management of K. of C. foreign wor
during the war, and Messrs, Mulligan
+
tadolia,
Holy Father Honors South Am: j afiadelia,- 3a
‘A recent cable despatch. to th minence -
ated Press announced that the. Sov-| Cos y Macho, Archbishop of Vailadalid.
Sign Pontitl had conferred the Knight|The Jate Cardinal in
Commandershin of the Order of Saint | and in’ 1902 was “anpointed tot
Grenory m Romualda Silva archbishopric on, Vinagottd. In 391 he
CZECHO-SLAV “REFORMISTS”
INCUR EXCOMMUNICATION
1 Come that
s|Holy Office Formally. Condemns ©
So-called Church, ‘Attempt at
Schismatic Movement.
By C. P. A. Cablegram it
jong some, Cx
Holy ‘Ottce’ says ‘hat. in
those priests unlawfully a
formed themselves Intel @ 30:
fonal church, je
they” have ‘incurred
reserved
from
kcommunteation
the
faithtul to ‘prevent thes from | being tea.
wpe far as numbera ae concerned, the
movement. is quite small, since all the
Bishops. and an immense
the clergy are: loyal to the Holy See.
The Serres, however, [shows that the
movement is, a-much. more sertoui
thing than Just an. Infraction of ae.
cipline: It 1s. rea attempt at a
schismatic movementgwhich the Holy
See sees must be cru
DATES FOR BEATIFICATION
AND CANONIZATION NAMED
‘By CP. A. Cablegrart to
~ The Cathorte ‘Standard and Times.
Rom “S—It is belleved
that te towing dates are: likely’ to
@ecided upon for the coming cere~
males: on Bt. Pett
Beatitenign=April 1,
May 3 ‘Among these the beath:
feation ‘of Oliver Plunket ts suggested
‘ApI
for
‘Canoniza Mone The
Mar
‘eanontzation of
and
cost, May 23; but thats official has
been, determined as fet.
View of the aim
travelling, the scarey of lodgings, ‘and
numerous pilgrims, there Is con+
Slderable feeling. Im faver of postpone-|
very ‘much to car
ton and canonizationtacring
=| foulowanéscbaster: amd it to- Donaible
that the consistory’ will be held during
the same period. ?In point of fact, even
if there be @ postponement, there is
no certainty that conditions ‘will tra
prove during-the next year sumiciently
to accommodate all desiring to come.
lh Gibbons Officiates: at Sol-
_~emn Ceremony in Maryknoll.
Society Growing Rapidly.
The midwinter ordinations for the
Catholic Forel o'
A
>
Ossining, N.Y. The
place in. Brookivn on Tsebruary. eas
celebrated 4 er’s Church, Fifth
Street and. Gitard avenue, last Bature
day by the pastor, the Rev. Francis X.
Bader, C, 88. Ru The Rev. Charles
Bruger. C. SS. RL, was deacon and the
Rev. Adam Wolf, C. SS. R,, was sub-
deacon. The Rev. Francis Bitterer, C,
Ss: was master of ceremonies.
“Many ialting priests were Present in
A number of Christian
Notre
Order were, ‘present in the church
together with all the school -ehildren
md many parishioners.
POPE BENEDICT BESTOWS
HONOR ON ADMIRAL BENSON
ording
“nee to- an
despatch the Ord
Associated Pi
f St. Gregory, one,
2. tlle
sees by the Cardinal last “sunday alo
hands of a special messenger from
FaaNce BESTOWS MEDALS ©
_ON THREE K. OF C. LEADERS
“7Word was recetved last’ week at the
Cardinal Cosy
fan Republic, and Gloacchino
Br beeen ws Aranjo of Manaes, Brazil
prot
hent and enthusiastic Promoter of he
°
vate Catholie anders and Times e
“Acta A
Sr sees irs DRIVE
demn-
His Grace Congratulates Union on
ed immediately. | 1,
e period | DE VALERA. TO ESTABLISH .
fe higheat-distinctions which may | George
ist minister,
FRANCE TO PERMIT REM
- OF AMERICAN SOLDIE!
It has just been announced tn te Paris
hi
it. the ch Govern as
granted permission for the remo oval to
© United States of the bodies of
20,000 Ameri buried in
France in the the battle
lines, “These 80 net, inca the bodies
athe!
‘work of eshumas
on ia begun i
FOR NEW 6. Y, M. A. CLUB
Approaching Realization of
: - Long-Cherished Wishes.
Interest continues bnabated in
campaign of the Young
a
Winhen In a fetter to Michael J. Slate
tery, director of Union activities, His
Grace sald:
come news to hear that
this central houye is not only to be a
Place for the general meetings of the
Arendtocesan Valen, but shut fia ace
Uivitier [are to extend much farther.
Ie te, Tam informed, to provide a
porary lodging for Catholic young, “wen
a
le Boy 8
othe
ious ‘cathoue activities,
r me to commend
ent to
ter on, the hot
be wholly “self-supporting, and
(within a comparatively short
that
time.
> OFFICE IN WASHINGTON
“President De Valera and his head~
quarters staff of Irish republican emis-
varies te ine United State: wal move
ton,” was announ
Santer O'Connell, of Boston, head ot
the Irish National Bureaw in Wash-
ing’
‘Presiaent “De. Valera ‘and his staff
vu
The
Will cecupy the extensive offices now
used by the bore: His assistants
ee ave Quarters convenient to the
MANY "NOTABLES IN 1919
_ HOME-COMING TO ROME
A partial list of the more prominent
e
Delaware; John L, Stoddard, the em-
Inent lecturer and craveler and his
wife; Dr. John a dis-
tinguished St. Lui Vbhiysiclans Eliz-
abeth Thurman, MeCormick, daughter
of the Inte Alien Go Thurman, known
as “Old Roman", ‘nigger ‘General
De ‘Rosey C. Cabell. A. com-
Imandane at San Antonio aod” of ail
the forces. slong the Mexican border:
the Re ert E. Wood, who spent
twenty years aa an Episcopalian mis-
in. the Chines
nver;
sociologist
ola. Fres
and
daughter of the late and’ n
and now head of the Catholic
Woman's Missionary League; Rev.
orl
‘therland,
Anaiican ‘shoreh im Bristol,
nt, formerly an Angiican
Coo}
ninioters ‘the Rev. Herbert M.
formerly vicar of Berry Pomeroy,
ev. R. T. Richardson,
Englang the Rev.
of
: Frederic
rominent in Anglican circles
for thirty-two years: the Rev. 7
dred. Robinson; thi
worthy Brown, of ‘Oetord, Englands the
Rev. Charles an Bngtisn
el rtres, Frai
r. Jolly, @ Nonconform:
-|FORMATION OF GIRL SCOUT
ORGANIZATIONS APPROVED
he formation of Girl Scout organ-
ination throughout the Blocene es s been
approved by the Most Reve reh-
bishop In a letter to Mrs, ‘ohn Sergen|}
Newbold.
‘The plan as outlined by His Grace
is to
jocal council of
the Girl
of intents.
ultogetier, ay
Pere of converts to the Catholle Ghareh
SPIRITISTIC EVIDENC
UNDER CATHO
Auspices of Catholic’
© course of
t of
will digcug the timely. an
subject of “Sp!
member of the board
the : om
rice Maeteriinck, have had
to say ese occu
from the apirit world, and
of the dally newanapers ha
Ing wide publicity te
We are
frenay of spiritc consultatios
dear
ms
with enviable dogmat
challenging, in the name
the dark superstition of
t
Ular religion of the future,
all about? What is
formances and message
the Church thought well
er Inventigation of new
Kinga Sher in alow elther
or to censure anyho
either the one or thi
ng and expel
trained and
nd judges,
theme which the
the course will take up,
your readers» know | tha’
Charles A.
subject’ will be handled
Knowledge, scientific acct
clear, and” entertaining
ruehi’s special study of
fauie manifestations.
are read
time.
secoi
Next in
foregoing out
year's course it will
in interest and timeliness
in these pages. as
the moment.
Catholic
has recently inaugurated
for larger membership wit!
street, that city.
entering
an
munity House, f formerly
of the Leauitn Nuns, was
by the
ical welfare of person:
its induence.
vides a meeting place f
nd girls’ organizations.
fused daily makes it neces:
three
omen.
sed to furnish fifty
rooms in the house.
thou:
‘addi
0 Be
Catechism movement,
from other denominations. of no,
‘nominat
icipal councill
lect
relat
an
members to have anything te
nd j these mediumistic seances? The Cath-
otis ‘Church in proverbielly patient tn
ruchl, Ph.
Tock Seminacy. le'the lecturer of thal
evening, they will be certain that the
cl D.
Bryn Mawr College. on “International
seen how
taken
cape = ts'a centre for actlvides
Benet to ‘the elvle, moral and phy
8
‘The house is non-sectarian,
isan Usain
‘the additional fonds. will be
tonal bed~ | a An |
t
Under date of January 29,
been received from Paris to the effect
that in the Department of the Meuse
nine priests have been noi
mauni
£5
LIC LIGHT
Subject of Opening Lecture Under
Summer
School Extension.
ures, given
fre‘
year under the direction of thi
Philadelphia. Board Catholic
Summer School, will open on Mondi
evening, February 23, ill con-
nue for ten successive Monday even:
(Holy Week ana Easter Moncay
excepted) —Fobruary Mai . .
15, 22; April 12, 19, fra and , 10.
As in previous years, the jectuven wil
be e auditorium of tl
these Monday lectures
1 important
Lodge. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mau-
& good deal
It menauges
the columns
we been giv
mn has seized
a and
d the
vehat is it
eney be~
hing these mysterious ‘Sharate ner
Why
‘isma of all
to xanction
dy or anything. | 8
But she is mighty aure when she does} co
e other,
Tandings reraraing Spiritiem after
What are
her
Monsclenious mp avocaten
U parts of the world?
Thais ne Interecings and opportune
opening lecture of
nd when
the" Rev.
ver-
t
with sound
ina
fash
‘hin mobsect
tnabien him to speak with high author-
of the Catholic estimate of | the
@ peculiar medley of Spirit-
Other Lectures.
“Of the other nine lectures only four
for
order,
pitichael 3
hor of “The
a
Tine of this
rich
is this pro-
amme in point of lecturern and sub-
Other announcements will ap-
the cours
Seantime it remains only
that are engaging the public mind at
CATHOLIC. WOMAN’S LEAGUE
OF OHIO TO EXTEND WORK
of
Right Rev. narrenset x Gallagher, DD,
a campaign
ha gather-|¢
ing at the Community House on Cherry
r
its second
nd pro-
(or, ‘romten'a
It has
tare auaitorium, a gymnasium and
sary for the
Yengue to incrense ftw membership from
nd
Councillors,
word has
minated as
WILL READ PASTORAL
LETTER FEBRUARY
22
U. S. Bishops’ Pronouncement First
Issued Since Third Plenary
Council.
‘ay URGE GENERAL COMMUNION
y |All the Faithful Are Exhorted to
Receive Holy Eucharist on the
Day Appointed.
Special to
‘The Catholle Standard and Times,
Washington, February
in
a pai sora! 1
to their clergy and the laity.
mittee which has
he letter fn {ts
supplied to all the pastors of the c
try, and in most cases will be rei
place of the lengthier document.
ressed to
of the w
The letter fe the prodact
an
etter
6 had the preparation
bi
ad in,
Twenty Millions.
ited
toral Tetter. more than twenty mithons
oft the last
‘nuggetion.. of - Archbishop
Hanna,
and for
‘country.
¢ pastoral letter was written atone
lines laid down by the Bishops ie
general ting last September. It
solution of the pressing problems
confront all civtlized nations, In
of justice and charity the
ter Will discuss the problems of mar-
riage and divorce, indust
national conditions.
airs. It lays stress
@ means of reconstruction and
forth the principles on
be conduct It exhibits the power
of Christianity as
sity for human welfare.
The active co-opera Amer
rican
ration of
Catholics with the country during the
related,
zation
be
the ne National Easton Weifare Council.
The let
tisting that each
is or her duty
citizen in order to secure permi
peace,
Ins
MAN OF 85 BECOMES CHILD
AGAIN FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
Near the Pacific coas'
. but far froin
Me
edge
P
et ‘Faith of
Fat ind when he visited statber
Orkarrelt, the priest disco hat
Knew tho book aimost by heart
also showed a remarkable knowh
of the Bib
bie.
‘The old-young convert declared
that
he find
11835 in
service under
Stare and Stripes, now being
sioner,
ts 40,000 Children.
he sovlety founded by ¢
Diohop of Paria for the raining
fund to care for the war orohana
rovides for ‘8,009 childre:
that
Eat-
the
pen-
ot ey
now!