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SIXTIETH YEAR.
FEAST OF ST. ALPHONSUS HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP AT NORTH PERTH
Panegyric on the Founder Following is the full text ef panegyric :—
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The Panegyric. ' Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver . . . but with the Precious, Blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled."-1 Peter, I., 18 and 19.
ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI. • The Redemptorist Community at Monastery, North Perth, cele:7ated the, Feast of their Founder— Alphonsus de Ligouri—on Sunday, Pontifical High Mass, at which • Grace the Archbishop presided. celebrant of the Mass was His iirace the Coadjutor Archbishop, who • as assisted by Very Rev. Father Irogan, C.SS.R., and Father Winston, sub-deacon and deacon, respectiveit Rev. Father Hogan, C.SS.R., actas master of ceremonies. . .His Grace the Archbish. n ' 'copied throne in the Sanctuar--. :ind was tended by Right Rey :\ioesignor V.F. A crowde,! • ,.ng7ega •:•.a had already filled • • church :• len the procession of !';• Archbis. .1)s and clergy filed into the Sanctu-
There is a question in the Catecnism which asks: "Why did God the Son become man?" And the answer "God the Son became man to redeem and save us." To redeem, redemption, the Redeemer—what beautiful words! These words contain within themselves the Mystery of the Incarnation, whereby God the Son became man, tool: flesh and dwelt amongst us. For why the Incarnation? It has ro answer unless we speak of the Redeemer; He who came on earth to redeem us, to buy us back, to pay cur ransom, to sever the chains that held human nature captive, to free us from thc powers of evil, to restore. to US our lost birthright, that birthright which Adam and Eve forfeited. By the redemption we became "a chosen generations, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased peo pie." (I. Peter, II., 9.1 'The Re
deemer brought us back int, the kinship of God, making us So. s if God, and heirs to the Kingtom of Heaven. The Peak of History. The redemption remains the great fact, the peak point of history, the focal centre from which everything radiates. The story of mankind may b.: illustrated by a high mountain surniounted by a cross. Here is the ancient world, the ages before the Redeemer came and we see men and women toilin.,; painfully upwards towards the desired of nations. In the Old Law people believed in the hope of a Ree.eme.- to come, their eyes on the future, a religion oi promise in their hearts. And Jesus Come3. A t last the day dawns when He who was to come, came. "And the Word was made Resh and dwelt amongst us." 0 blessed night of Dethlehem, when Mary brought forth her first born child and laid Him in a manger! And we watch His pilgrimage from Bethlenem to Calvary. No wonder the Church sings on Easter Saturday morning, "0 Felix culpa .--0 happy fault. 0 fortunate lapse of human nature that brought the Incarnate Word of God to walk among the sons of men! And we know the place, the day,
The and the hour of His sacrifice. altar was on Calvary, but the whole world was bathed in the Victim's blood. He was nailed to the cross, in the shedding of His Blood He died. Thus was our ransom paid; by His Blood the debt was cancelled, the guilt was washed away, the curse of inheritance was banished—mercy, pardon, grace, heaven, were all purchased by this abundant price. How truly does St. Peter exclaim in the words of my text: "You were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver . . . but with the Precious Blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled." We may judge a thing by what it How priceless then in the costs. sight of God is the soul of sian, a soul that was redeemed not with gcld OT silver, but ransomed and bough* by the Precious Blood of the Son of man! On the summit of the mountain stands the cross, the new standard that Christ places before men, as He moves down to bring the fruits He who of the redemption to all. would take that standard from Him must first ascend the mountain, aryl there, at the foot of the cross, learn to appreciate the value in the sight of Haying grasped God of one soul. that truth, he may then take the standard in his hand, and go forth as an apostle and missionary, so that the shadow of the cross may fall 04 un fortunate sinners. ( Continued on Page 8.)
It was most appropriate that His 7ace the 'Archbishop shou;d attend yie celebrations in the ounder, in whose honour of Order Iris Grace :)o-ured as a missioner for many H•ors, and in whose Monastery at ')Igh Perth he was Superior at the 7ne of his elevation to the •Episco; te.
His Grace was welcomeri. on his ar'ical by the Father Re. tor and the 71.embers of the Community, and preat 10.30 the Pontifical High !ass commenced. The choir. under baton of ,raY, C.SS.R., Father Peter Paul Murrendered most artistical. ,:, and devotionally the sacred Inusic the Mass. and - added in no ttasure \ osion to the solemnity of Olesmall ecliAlter the Gospel Rey. Dr. 'Nfc a io preached the panegyric on the outlining the important part. St. .11phonsus and his spiritua, Played in the futthering of th trunc, of the OSe twoRedemption. It P preachoutstanding character 7 .of the holy Founder's life, and rn0,red the fi to the dr,,„ "arY spiritdelity of -his spin 4,'ll all over cal the world, and in par "cular The ,here in Western Australia have Was privileged in,-1,ecd to thern, toe ReclemPtorists amongst unsofiswilhere their devotion missionary zeal and to duty 1) (4n and deeply was well dee l appreciated. articul„ Morc arl • , 'Grace still was this true of His ! Red„. le Archbishop, who fts priest, airno7tPtorist and Bishop nad now five 50 "ears of an ac• tr a,. and their zealcuc•• m.e • ., ti 1ira, earnest i. stonar_ life. prayer that His l ' llgth of Aid Yet be granted long thro ,rays ' sAirittial 'IA the rule tlre Archdiointe'rees.sion of his O'er, St. Alphonsu9. •—••••—••--.••••—••—••—•••
1 His Grace the Archbishop, and His Cirace the Coadjutor Archbishop. in Sunday's Procession at the Monastery. 4ba- -••. ••••
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