People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Catholic Notes. [ARTICLE]

Catholic Notes.

Last Monday the Rt. Rev. Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati, was a welcome visitor at the College. The Archbishop ordained all of the priests of the College to the priesthood except the Rev Frederic Schalk. Hence, the presence of the Venerable prelate among his old friends was a cause of mutual joy and delight. From Collegeville his Grace went to South Bend to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Notre Dame. He was accompanied by the Very Rev. August Seifert, Rector of the college. Next Sunday the feast of Corpus Christi or the institution of the Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated at St. Augustin’s. In the early mass the members of St. Rose Society will approach the sacraments. At the late service there will be a procession with the Blessed Sacrament along the aisles of the church. Twenty little girls dressed in white wearing veils and wreaths will precede and strew flowers while the alter boys will swing the censers. Corpus Christi is a feast which was instituted in the thirteenth century by the church. On the day in which Christ instituted this sacrament the church is occupied with the reconciliation of sinners, the blessing of holy oils, the washing of feet, and cither mysteries. Wherefore sufficient time is not left to honor this most sublime sacrament. Therefore, in order, to strengthen and exalt the true faith, besides the commemoration which the church makes of tnis sacrament daily, a particular feast is celebrated immediately after Pentecost on which dav pious people will vie with one another in hastening in great crowds to our churches, where the clergy and the laity will chant hymns of praise and gladness. In cathclic countries every church from the cathedral of the royal city to the village chaple. keeps the festival. This feast is celebrated with all possible magnificence and pomp. All the splendor and magesty displayed in our worship, the. magnificence of our temples, the beauty and variety of our ceremonies, the choice works which our worship unceasingly demands from architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, eloquence, and all acts; those efforts so prodigious in the countries and ages of faith, efforts to raise up to the very clouds the dwelling of God on earih, to surround the Eachasistic victim with incense, hymns aud flowers, —all these monuments of faith and of love which never says, It is enough,’ all have their foundation in our belief in the real presence of Jesus Christ upon our alters. We pray, we kneel down, we adore, we sing hymns of gladness, because He is there! The presence of Jesus cannot tolerate in his temple anything profane; it calls for the pomp, majesty, the gravity of the most imposing ceremonies; for all outward marks of respect and reverence which circumstances permit.

Coin's Financial School (price 25c) is given free to every new trial subscriber of The People's Pilot. Twenty five cents for three months. The Iriquois Gun Club will hold a practice shoot in Rensselaer, on Sat, the 15, at which an excellent list of events will be contested. There will be four traps and blue rock targets. B. S. Fendig will be found at the same.place he has previously occpied next to Camby’s livery stable. Where he will buy hides, furs, tallow, wool, eggs, veal, game and all kinds of junk. The Hobart Gun Club will give a special tournament on their grounds, at Hobart, Ind., Friday, June 14th, including fifteen events using bluerock targets and five traps. J. W. King and James Collins will attend from Rensselaer. 1 Warner & Son have received another carload of wide tire wagons, Laßelle, well made in every respect.