People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — Catholic Notes. [ARTICLE]

Catholic Notes.

On tin 1 14th inst. the Church will celebrate the great feast of Easter, which is her perfection, her very life. For if Christ has not risen there is no Christian religion; God never came on earth; never revealed Himself to 'mao; never commissioned any cw to preach in his name, ami never constituted a church on earth. And so well was the importance of this fact—namely, the Resurrection, understood at ad times, that we find it cele- 1 brated '\ih the highest honors from the beginning. St. Leo calls it “the least of feasts, the I greatest of Christian solemn!- ' ties " And we know that down to the twelfth century,every day in Easter-week was a holy day of obligation. All movable feast s are calculated from Easter, and the character of the season is marked in all our liturgies by tbe constant repitition of the joyous “Alhfiuja ” These joy ful songs shall sound forth as never before in St. Augustine's church on Easter morn ing. Preparations are being male already. The College Band has been engaged to furnish music. The Students ciiuir v. .11 smg the ■•Offertory" during the ; i 1 ■ services. The St. Augustine s vboir is rehearsing ami will leave nothing undone-to secure excellent music for the occ!'sion At the early services. 8 A. 11..themem bers oftheAltar and ‘St. Aloysius societies will r- reive holy communion and at 10 A. M. the Catholic Foresters will receive. They will inarch in body from the Foresters hall, p eceded by the college band, to the church.’ . The sermon will be preached by Rev. J. A. Nag-, eimsen on the'■•Resurrection of our Lord.” Every Christian should bear in p d that this anniversary is a gs ami day. a day of rejoicing: Ti‘. day par excellence. Toward • tfok day the entire > ear tends? <• th s day it rests as a foundation B’ * as this day is holy above al otters, the church did not wish its glory to shine on us before we h; <! purified our bodies by fastin' and repaired our souls by c< portion: and for this reason st i istituted the fast of forty d s This time has now almost pa sed, and behold the sun of th* Resurrection will soon rise in all its brilliancy.

Th<‘ lively interest evinced by be n‘minors of the Stanislas Literary Society in the propara-! tion of the Drama ’‘The Y'ankeei i .cuco.iive" piuuLos lobe a grand i access. The time of playing is wo hours ami fifteen minutes, fid Tennessee. Sam is the most .musing feature in the play, lain endeavors to persuade Mr. filler that stealing a watch is onlv borrowing it of his Mass?: :nd where a lady entrusts fieri I asket io him, he showshow he 1 can resist the temptation of; healing watermelons ami fried | < hicken and that ••Old Sam ain’t no . fellah for to go snoopin’ roun' into oder folkses- bizness I ke de while trash.” Mr. Tuckris a character in the play which alone would amply repay ihe public to attend the Drama <>y learning through mimicry i lie work of ike saloon keeper and the class of people who nake the saloon their rendezvous. Our young people de--serve the encouragement of the labile in their noble undertaking >f preparing a drama of such a ligh standard and of such profiable instructions. The college >an<l will also attend in their new unifouns and give some of their choice mucic.