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redemption was accomplished the tyranny of Satan was overthrown sin and its curse taken away and Heaven opened to the Saints In ancient times the fast exacted 7 during the last week of Lent was more I rigorous and austere than that required If during the rest of Lent A writer of the IV century St Epiphanius states that only bread and salt with nor other drink but water were allowed during Holy Week The Greeks who I do not fast on Saturdays of Lent observe a very rigorous fast on Holy Saturday In the early ages of the Church I Christian rulers during Holy Week exercised clemency towards prisoners by forgiving debts and releasing criminals certain grievous crimes excepted from prison In the Cod Theod 1 ix I are given many indulgent privileges which applied to the Great Week and that after Easter Sunday Referring to these laws having the Imperial sanction St Ambrose has written The holy days of the last week in Lent are the time when the bonds of debtors were to be loosed St Chrysastom also wrote That the Emperors set prisoners at liberty on the Paschal Solemnity that they might Imitate as far as in them lay the example of our Lord swho at this time delivered up from the I bonds of our sins and made us capable I of enjoying numberless blessings 7 For vvc ought as much as possible to imitate his kindness and mercy Again he wrote The imperial letters are sent forth commanding all prisoners to be loosed from their bonds etc I Slaves were set at liberty during the I Great Week and the octave of the Pasch The laws of Theodisius forbade all judicial acts and legal processes except that which had reference to the freedom of slaves In the Jus tinian Code LIII tit 12 de Feriis legS is to be found the following enactment Let all actions at law whether public or private cease in the fifteen Paschal days Yet all men have liberty at this time to grant freedom to their slaves and whatever acts are necessary to be done at law for this purpose are not prohibited Constantine the Great made a similar exception with respect to the Lords day on which all other legal proceedings were forbidden Those laws dating back to the commencement of the fourth century approved by the first Christian rulers show their profound respect for the Cross and the Resurrection which were honored during Holy Week and the week after the feast of Pasch PALM SUNDAY Holy Week is ushered in by the celebration of Christs triumphant entry into Jerusalem which occurred five days before His crucifixion It was meet that before his passion he would be received and honored as the Messiah His ministry being finished I having preached to all who lived in the cities and country of Palestine before offering himself as a real victim for the sins of the whole world he makes a public and triumphant entry into Jerusalem It was accordIng to prophecy Rejoice greatly 0 daughter of Zion Shout for joy 0 daughter of Jerusalem behold thy King will come to thee the Just One and the Savior He is poor and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass Zach ix9 Nearing Jerusalem He stayed two miles from the city in the village of Bethania with His friends Lazarus Mary and Martha Being the Sabbath day he remained with this devout family till the following morning Sunday when he proceeded to Jerusalem Nearing Bethpagl a suburb of Jerusalem he sent two of His disciples into that village for an ass to ride on In the Gospel of St Mark xi chapter will be found a history of this remarkable incident of the life of Christ The humility of the Savior of the world in selecting such mean equipage for His triumphant march into Jerusalem is plainly manifest Some of His disciples spread their own clothes on the ass which He rode others strewed the ground over which He passed with their garments and green boughs cut from the trees that shaded the wayside A large concourse of people chiefly the poor and innocent children walked before and behind Him They carried green boughs in their hands and all with joyful acclaimation united in a song of praise Hosanna to the Lord of David blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna to the Highest The royal prophet made special application to Christ of the Hebrew word Hosanna Ps cxviii and St Jerome explaining its import wrote that it means Lord Save The joyful song sounding the praises eft Jesus that rent the air so He entered the I city would mean Salvation anti a prosperous reign to the Messiah who I is by excellence the Son of David promised by the Prophets and who comes I in the name of the Lord The event was the fulfillment of ancient prophecies Say the daughter of Zion Behold thy Savior comes Isa lxii 11 also Zachary tells of it Tell ye the daughter of Zion Behold thy King cometh unto theweek and sitting upon an ass i and a soart the foal of her that is used ito the yoke Mat xxi 5 To commemorate this striking event I in the life of Christ and in imitation I of the devout Jews who spread green I olive and palmtree branches on the road over which the Savior passed the Catholic Church has annually for nineteen centuries on the Sunday preceding Holy Week blefted green boughs or sprigs such as she can obtain presents them to her children who hold theni in their hands during the reading I of the passover and last gospel The Sunday is designated in her liturgy as Palm Sunday ario will be observed tomorrow TENEBRAE The office of Tenebrae is said in the church on Wednesday Thursday and Friday of Holy Week The word Ten ebrae signifies darkness and is so called as at the conclusion of its recitation all the lights are extinguished as an expression of the deepest mourning and in memory of the great darkness which covered the whole earth when Jesus was crucified on Calvary On the epistle side of the altar rests a triangular candlestick with fifteen candles lighting At the conclusion of each psalm one candle is extinguished I When Lauds are finished only the white candle on top remains lighted During the chanting of the Benedictions the six candles on the high altar are extinguished At the commencement of the Psalm Misereie the lighted torch on the top of the triangular can dlestiqk is removed and hid behind the altar At the conclusion of the psalm I it also is extinguished and a noise made which represents the earthquake and splitting of rocks which occurred I as the Son of God expired on the cross The doleful chanting of the Lamentations and entire office of Tenebrae during these three days are commemorative of the funeral obsequies which the church wishes to pay to her I Spouse Redeemer and divine founder i Fourteen of the candles on the triangular I candlestick are yellow wax which indicate penance or mourning and which are always used when purple or black vestments are prescribed by the rubrics The candle on top representing Christ himself is white The number or candles and the rites observed during the recitation of the office of Tenebrae are very ancient The ery forms to be used during the coming week are to be found in an old manuscript copy of the Roman order of the divine office that dates back to the seventh century All the solemn I rites used by the Catholic church during Holy Week re of primitive antiquity and when carried out according to the mind of the church cannot fail to impress all with the solemnity and dignity of her ritual and the necessity of winding up the season of Lent in a devout and penitential manner HOLY THURSDAY On this day at the morning services changes her attitude of mourning into that of joy and gladness The altars are all decorated with flowers and her ministers robed in white vestments officiate The reason is because she commemorates the institution of the blessed Euchrist During the High Mass the bishop of the diocese consecrates the holy oils to be used during the entire year in the administration of the sacraments On Holy Thursday the Savior at his last supper instituted the holy sacrifice of his own adorable body and blood when he took bread blessed it and said This is my body commanding his apostles and their successors in the Christian priesthood at the same time to continue this profoundly mysterious and sublime work then and there ordaining them priests of the new dispensation After Mass the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the high altar to a repository place in a suitable place in the church At Mass the bells rung at the changing of the Gloria in Excelsis will not be heard until Holy Saturday The kiss of peace is not given because of the betrayal of Judas by a kiss The laity are exhorted to approach the altar and receive I holy communion on this day GOOD FRIDAY Following the celebration of the institution of the body and blood soul and divinity of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament comes the commemoration of Christs death on Good Friday In all her ceremonies the church expresses the deepest mourning and sorrow Her altars are bare the cross is covered with a black veil There is no consecration consequently no Mass The sacrament is taken from the altar of repose where it was placed the previous day and after the priest recites the Lords Prayer and other prayers said by him at Mass he consumes the consecrated particle In her prayers she includes all on this day because on Good Friday Christ died for all men She presents the cross for the veneration of the faithful who come to the altar ras and kiss the cross which he made the instrument of his triumph over sin and mans redemption Its glory is made manifest because on the wood of the white cross his divine victory and strongest demonstration of mercy and love were proclaimed The cross and Jesus are inseparable and they who fail to see an immediate and direct relationship between Christianity and the cross have not the spirit of Christ Hence after the resurrection his name is always associated with the cross You seek Jesus the crucified Mat xxvili 5 said an angel to the pious woman who went to the sepulcher St Paul declaring the object of his preaching said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor 123 and again the great apostle of the Gentiles said Jesus and him crucified 1 Cor 112 The crosses the memorial of the sufferings of our dearest Redeemer and the pledge of his infinite love At its foot in deep meditation all devout souls imbibe the spirit of him whose surname it might be termed HOLY SATURDAY The last day of Lent the eve of the resurrection is styled Holy Saturday The morning services which preach the Mass of the day are solemn and impressive His body in the sepulcher and his blessed soul descending to limbo are the mysteries which the church would recall At the entrance of the church the first part of her ceremonies begins by the blessings of fire The newly blessed fire typifies Christ rising from the dead to kindle in mans soul the spiritual fire of his love With a taper ignited by the blessed fire the triple candle signifying the trinity of persons in one God is lighted by the celebrant as he proceeds from the church door to the altar After reaching the altar the blessing of the Paschal candle by the deacon begins It is an emblem of Christ rising from the dead and shedding light throughout the world also announces the joy and glory of the resurrection The five grains of frankincense inserted in the candlo during the blessing symbolically represent the five wounds of the Savior and the embalming of his body In parish churches the baptismal font Is blessed immediately after the ceremony of blessing the Paschal candle and the sacrament of baptism solemnly administered the ceremonies are concluded by the singing of the Litany of the Saints when the ministers implore divine aid and mercy for sinful man through the sacred mysteries of Christs death and resurrection At the conclusion of the Litany Easter is announced by the solemn Mass of Christs resurrection and to all the faithful this announcement becomes known by the ringing of bells at the Gloria in Excelsis Dio i uen Uicforias Uisit tolreland rirst In ifty ears I QUEEN VICTORIAS VISIT TO I IRELAND I The Aged Sovereign Is Accorded a Cordial Welcome by a People Who Have Been Cruelly and Shockingly Persecuted by Her Government Written for The Intermountain Catholic Ireland is chivalrous She always re speoted womanhood Therefore it is not surprising that Victoria Queen of England should receive a cordial and respectful welcome on reaching the fclMwee of the Emerald iSle i I John Heswy Parnell brother I of the late Charles Stewart Pannell is the city manflral of Dublin In that 1 capacity iie has custody of the keys of the cIty which were formally presented to the Queen on the occasion of the presentation of the corporation address Properly it was Parnells duty to present the keys but he notified the lord mayor that he must provide a deputy The bearer of tSie civic sword of Dublin is James Egan who was released from prison four years ago to which he had been sentenced for life for al fied complicity in a dynamite plot but as he was really a victim of the agents of the British government he also demanded relief from duty at the royal ceremonial Mr Egan is a man of high personal character and spent several years in New York where he has many friends both among Irish Nationalists and others Egan refused to hand the sword to the Queon and in a letter to the public he explains his sitlon as follows I will yield nothing to any Irishman In respect for the individuality of the agei lady but I cannot join in any art of public courtesy toward the head of a state which has tried me upon fhargee that were false and sent me to snuffer for nine years in Engish dun peons the state that still marks wit1i the degradation of a ticketof Jcave man It is over fifty yrars just think of it a halt century since Her Gracious Majesty lest visited Ireland Yet ev ry few months phe found time to make htttle excursions into France and Italy to recreate herself on the Continent But poor old Ireland with her hills and her valleys so green of which the poet so sweetly sings had no charm for her Even the famished condition of the people their awful suffering shakled with penal laws aroused not her sym jwithy But when ngland needed soldiers she was glad to have the halfstarved despised youth of Ireland to join her ranks in an unholy war And in recognition of this service of Ireland to the Empire Her Majesty deigns to visit the little island and I throw a few flowers at the people Its all very funny I While this official art of Queen Vic I iia may be considered condescendinc by some yet the Irish people the WOrld I over will be all the more intensified to gain what belongs to the fatherland freedom The old fight is still on and the entrenchment I grove of liberty shall be the I INSULT THE SHAMROCK Queens Visit Regarded as an Insult to the Irish Race Editor of Dublin Freemans Journal SirThe daily paper of Match 1 00 informs me that the Queen intends to visit Ireland early next month I learn too from the paper that it was in 49 that she first visited Ireland and the paper says it is curious to recall that in those days as im these we had reason for trouble about matters of State I learn too from the paper that the shamrock the wearing of which has hitherto been a punishable offence in the army is now to be worn in the ranks on St Patricks Day in her Majestys Irish regiment I learn too from the paper that in order to place Ireland on a military equality with England and Scotland her majesty is pleased to consider the advisability of creating a new regiment to be called The Lrish Guard and another page of the same paper gives an an alyts of Bullers losses THE IRISH SOLDIERS IN THE FRONT THE ENGLISH IN THE REAR The following is a summary of the I above list of losses In Natal among General Sutlers forces between Feb 16 and 27 I The initial letters represent killed wounded and mising 1st Bn Irish Fusiliers 49 17G 22 1st Bn Connaught Rangers 10 105 8 2d Bn Royal Scots Fusilier 17 fi2 2d Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers 14 988 2d iBn Royal Irish Fusiliers 11 53 2 Rifle Brlcade 3 i2 3 Kings Royal Rifles 1 27 2d Middlesex 1 2d Somerset I 1 Cane Mounted Rifles 1 2d Bn Royal Fusiliers 9 1st Bn Welsh Fusiliers 181 1 1st Manchester Regiment 1 IT IS FROM IRELAND THAT ENGLAND HOPES TO GET SOLDIERS TO DEFEND AND EXTEND HER EMPIRE This list which is typical of all the lists of killed and wounded which have I been published since the beginning of the war seems to show that the English soldier is less prone to risk his life on the battlefield than the Irish and Scotch soldier and tales from the Indian border point even more directly to an inequality in the bravery of Saxon and Celtic troops But the Celtic troops have been decimated by Bqer bullets and the places of the dead men have been filled Englands present need is great never was Englands need so great as now and in her great need she turns to Ireland and it is from Ireland she hopes to get her soldiers to defend and extend her commercial empire ENGLANDS TRIUMPH MEANS THE USHERING IN OF A NEW VANDAL AGE But the Irish people are not in sympathy I with the materialistic idea which England is forcibly imposing upon Europe and with the rest of Europe Ireland views with terror the coming of the new Vandal age now to begin when the English Hag shall be the most valuable commercial asses in the world and all art and literature shall be blotted from the world for mans inveterate desire of beauty is rising up everywhere in Europe against England In Ireland the leaders of the extreme advised the have Teme Nationalists jeople against enlisting in so profane ft4 4 4 4 I i f1 I I I 1 ARCHBISHOP WALSII itrj 4 ARCHBISHOP WALSH AT PRESENT IN ROME FOUND THAT LORD MAYOR PILE HAD PUT HIS NAME ON THE COMMITTEE OF DECORATIONS FOR THE QUEENS VISIT WITHOUT HIS ASSENT THE fARCHBISHOP TELEGRAPHED HIM THAT THIS WAS AN IMPERTINENCE AND ORDERED ITS REMOVf 4AL OTHER PUBLIC MEN WHOSE ASSENT PILE HAD ALSO ASSUMED DID LIKEWISE Press Cablegrams jFrom Dublin 4 i 4 4 a cause and enlistment has greatly declined if it has not practically ceased in Ireland Yet we hear of the creation of a new regiment to be called the Irish Guards And we hear that an order has been issued commanding the shamrock hall be worn on St Patricks Day by all ranks in Her Ma jestys regiments And at the same moment we hear of Her Majestys intention to visit Ireland after an absence of fifty years REDMONDS CHIVALROUS HOSPITALITY In the fate of such circumstances as these it seems strange that Mr Red mond should have plighted the National Party to receive the Queen with chivalrous hospitality It seems tome that if we consider i the military circumstances of the moment that he speaks of the reception we should give the Queen in somewhat exaggerated terms That Englands aged and venerable Queen wall be received with po liteness even by the Fenian Party goes without saying Irishmen haye I been noted as much for their chivalry Ito women as for their bravery in battle but it seonis to me that A CHILL POLITENESS IS THE EXTENT OF OUR OBLIGATION TO I THE QUEEN UNLESS WE DECIDE TO FORGET THAT THE ENGLISH NATION STILL REFUSES US THE I RIGHT OF SELFGOVERNMENT AND IS STILL RESOLVED TO I MAINTAIN AFRAUDULENTTAX ATION AND MANY UNJUST LAWS At some other moment the chivalry i i of our race might enable us to remain I ber the admirable woman behind the Queen of an alien race which has oppressed and pillaged us and which still oppresses and pillages us and which still refuses us rights which it dare not refuse to any of its colonies But the reason of the Queens visit is manifest If it were slightly disguised we might I be tempted to forget many things things which it would bo treason to forget for more than a moment but the reason of the Queens visit is clear political I VICTORIA COMES AS A RECRUIT SERGEANT TO IRELAND She comes to do the business which her recruiting sergeants have failed to do she comes with the shilling between her forefinger and thumb and a bag of shillings at her girdle It will be contended that no such Intention inspired her visit maybe but that is not our affair Certain it is that if our leaders do not intervene the result will be disastrous to the national cause The wearing of the shamrock the creation of a regiment of Irish guards above all the presence of the queen in Ireland are undoubtedly bribes to Ireland to nhandon the national for the imperialistic idea Whenever Ireland is united behind any man or any idea England comes with her hands full of bribes THE COMMAND THAT THE IRISH I REGIMENTS SHAL LWEAR THE SHAMROCK ON ST PATRICKS DAY IS SO EXTRAORDINARY AN IMPERTINENCE i I THAT THOSE WHO i ADVISED THE QUEEN TO ISSUE I THE ORDER CANNOT KNOW THAT THE SHAMROCK IS AN EMBLEM I WHICH CAN ONLY BE WORN BY i IRISHMEN WHO BELIEVE THAT i I IRELAND IS A NATION WITH A I 1 SPLENDID DESTINY TO FULFILL We are proud that the Irish soldier faced death with less fear than did the English soldier but we have no voices to cheer our few countrymen who will return from fighting to bring into bondage I like ours a race so valiant as ours Not indeed that such extreme measures of bondage are thought necessary for the Boers My daily paper says It is not proposed to govern the Transvaal as we govern Ireland we shall grant them some such measure of self government as we grant to our colonies And this in the same number of the paper that announces the sovereigns visit to Ireland IRISH REGIMENTS MUST BE ORGANIZED TO SAVE ENGLANDS RIDICULOUS EMPIRE FROM DESTRUCTION But to come to the point England is i plighted to the imperial idea it has become her destiny as it became Napoleons after AUf terlitz There can be no turning back now Come what may has become Englands motto and to carry on this idea to the worlds end soldiers are Englands need as they were Napoleons She needs soldiers to fill up the gaps that Boer bullets have made in Irish regiments She is about to conquer the Transvaal and will need an army of at least 50000 men to hold it They cry is Soldiersmore soldiers But the English soldier is degenerate the lean hound hunts better than the fat and the man who runs Englands ridiculous Empire has sent the Queen to Ireland to recruit The recruiting sergeants mission is not in accordance with the Queens age nor her de ire but she is possessed of such I a high sense of sovereign duty that she bent herself to the states emergency IRELANDS OPPORTUNITY NOW We shall know In Ireland how to honor the fortitude of this woman without becoming the dupes of our admiration Tho Boer war and the need of Irish soldiers have given us an advantage in the game we are playing against England Shall we be quick to at Westminster has failed to obtain sdize it Parliamentary representation at Westminster has failed to obtain self overnrrent from England BUT IF EVERY IRISH LAD WILL FORSWEAR ENGLANDS HILLING AND IF EVERY IRISH LEADER AND EVERY IRISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WILL MAKE NON ENLISTMENT A UART OF THE IRISH PROPAGANDA WE SHALL BEGIN TO DIG IN THE CLAY OUT OF WHICH THE FEET OF THE COLOSSUS ARE MADE Our time is i surely now and no smiling should be found missing from a bag which hangs at the Queens girdle When England realizes that the price of Irish soldiers is National Government in College Green the price will be paid By chill politeness we shall make this Tlear to Her Majesty the time is one for chill politeness not for chivalrous hospitality There will be time enough for that when the purloined millions have been returned aud our parliament restored For the carrying out of this scheme of chill politeness others will be able to supply the details better than I IT SHOULD BE MADE PLAIN TO VICTORIA THAT OUR NATIONAL RESOLVE TO SEPARATE OURSELVES SELVES FRO MENGLANDS IN MISS STARR IS HONORED A MEDALLION FROM POPE LEO Eliza Allen Starr the noted Catholic poetess and authority on Christian art was signally honored last week by Pop Leo who sent to her with the apostolic blessing a beautiful medallion The gift is in recognition of her latest published work The Three Archangel antI Guardian Angels in Art The medallion Is in the form of a costly cameo on whose face Is a figure of tho Blessed Virgin a reproduction of the Immaculate Conception The transparent stone is set in gold and the medallion was enclosed In a handsome case It was transmitted by the Holy Father to Miss Starrs home St Josephs Cottage Huron street Chicago through Rev Mother Cabrini the founder of the order of Missionary Sisters who is now in Rome The honor Is especially great as women have rarely been the recipients of such valuable tokens of appreciation and it is devoutly prized by Miss Starr The friends and admirers of this distinguished writer must rejoice with her in the reception of this testimonial to her efforts in the uplifting of Catholic thought and her I disinterested work on behalf of Catholic art and literature I FLUENCE IS UNALTERABLE I have but one suggestion to offer I Turning again to my daily paper I learn that when the Queen landed at the Cove of Cork the inhabitants with one voice invited her to change its name to Queenstown It seems to me that it would be well if the inhabitants would now summon a meeting and decide with one voice to change the name of their harbor to whatever was its original Gaelic name And it would Mtill be more to the point if the Kingstown corporation would quickly decide to brig back the old name Dun Leary which commemorated the name of an Irish king and which was changed In 1813 to commemorate the name of an English king of whom every one is ashamed If this be done the first thing that will meet the Queens eye will be a significant sign of national resolve to separate ourselves from English influence I am dear sir yours faithfully GEORGE MOORE 92 Victoria street London GIYEN AN OVATION FROM ALL QUARTERS Not the Least Attempt Made at Disturbance Aged Sovereign Was Met at the Gates of the City and Tendered the Keys by the Lord Mayor Imposing Spectacle Whon the Royal Party EnteredDecorations Outrivaled Those of London During the Jubilee Dublin April 4Queen Victoria1 landed in Ireland this morning for the first time in thirtynine years The disembarkation from the royal yacht was accomplished at 1130 The commander of the forces in Ireland the Duke of Connaught the lord lieutenant Earl Cadogan and their staffs greeted her majesty and the ride from Kingston to Dublin commenced in splendid weather and before huge and good natured crowds At the entrance to the city the queen received an address of welcome and handed the lord mayor the following reply replr thank you heartily for the loyal welcome and good wishes which you have tendered me on behalf of yourself and your fellow citizens on my arrival in the ancient capital of my Irish dominion I came to this fair country to seek a change and rest and to revisit scenes which recall to my mind the warms welcome given to both myself and my beloved husband I am deeply ratified that I have been able at this time to see again the motherland of those brave sons who have rpcentlj distinguished themselves In the defense of cheerful my crown and empire with valor as conspicuous now as ever in their glorious past I pray that the Almighty God may ever guide and direct you in the high functions which you exercise for the benefit of your fellow citizens The queen appeared to be much affected by the warmth of her welcome Mr Burke a son of the former city Continued on Pace 6j A.