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PERTH, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1935.
SIXTY-FIRST YEAR.
A CATHOLIC WEEKLY
. PRICE THREEPENCE
" Queen of Peace Have Pity" THE HOLY FATHER SPEAKS TO LOURDES
Holy Year Ends Amidst Thrilling Scenes From my place by the river I dinals came to the Grotto and The voice of the j ioly Fathei and fruit to eat and some, wine valley see the crowd and see the the crowd clapped. to could drink. the through rung !ias just I could not identify the CarA t the gate to the field an ice- Grotto. A curious thing struck 1,101 the Gave and embraced the they were too far away. dinals, could I all -In crowd cream that me. barrow in cave took the up a position. statue of Our Lady in are four Cardinals there ke Ant But of wisp a tobacco see There no is in The end i.ot enterprise to Massabielle. of rock , the For although we here: Verdier, Van Roey, Binet anywhere. instant it ceased a great shout of Lourdes. It was a rloriously spiritual were waiting for Mass at 3 and Hlond. "Vive le Pape" came from among It did not push or o'clock in the afternoon there is a crowd of 250.000 people. Then crowd. Then a golden canopy moved The day is long and still a Mass going on in the with stately leisure through the handdapping. Thus the corres- hurry. pondent of the "Universe".in -his there is nothing to do but pray— ( "row) across the swift--; .inning crowds on the pavement in front dispatch from Lourdes, writing and try to catch a glimpse, even- river. of the piscines. Beneath it 'vas Most of the people, waiting in t he Legate. of the final scenes in connection tually, of the Legate. He was greeted I managed to get a soft spot !he sun for the Legate, were with even louder clapping. with the ceremonies of the closSome knelt. Man-y on the river bank. On the grass, praying. ing of the Holy Year. The Leo-ate began Mass. The the choir came to us This is the end of the great close by. was a little boy fast sat. Most had a missal or ros- music of '' Triduum of Masses. The Holy asleep. with a rosary in his hand zo y beads in their hands. hrough amplifiers. It was being t I did see, later, a man borrow Father's Legate, Cardinal Pacel- and a spiritual manual open by broadcast, we knew, by Radiohis wife's sunshade and make a his side. and Radio-Toulouse, so we Paris has said the final. Mass of a There were hundreds of sweet- sort of tent of it on the grass to felt that all the world was with A tinuous series lasting three steal a smoke. But taking it all heart couples (not that one en ,lays and three nights. us in prayer. quired) enjoying their day off by round, I don't think Our Lady We felt like the front-line Never once was the region of attending this unusual Mass. people these minded. Many of standing before the troopers the Grotto uncrowded. During And there were old men and did not go to bed last night. They gates of Heaven demanding of a the day from early morning till old women holdin,- hands, as ested just wherever they could. merciful God this gift of peace, :ate at night it. was difficult to though they tremble at the way I am told that some spent the with 300,000.000 Catholics (and get near the Grotto. In the the world is going, and seek pro- night in the Rosary Church. other men of goodwill) behind us •, early hours after midnight there People come in at both-. ends of tection in one another and in support our plea. were still large crowds. :he meadows : some fromm the to God. Mass I left this scene During 11 There have never been such glasses had been taken high road and some from the to see what was happening in the Opera scenes in Lourdes. been There may has Lourdes it- out of their cupboards and town. rest of Lourdes. self was staggered by the num. brought out for the day. One 40,000 people in the fields when I found the esplanade filled to + hers that have poured into the old man had a telescope trained Mass began. I know that some the statue of St. Michael. The 1,1 tittle town. It looked as will compute it higher, but I square was solidly filled, except on the Grotto. No one knows how many peohe had preserved it from checked it by several methods of for a patch left as a safety marple there are here on this Sunday though calculation, including the rate of boyhood. his The rampes were packed, gin. afternoon. Mv estimate of 250,There are little groups of flow at the entrances. looking over one people some It 000 is an individual and, I think, W e had a glorious view from women wearing the quaint white others, the other the and parapet a conservative one, after a surhats of their village custom, un- the meadow. The Rock of Mass- parapet. were glad to People 'eY of the abielle, decorated with flowers touched by Paris. satisfied to and anywhere, angles whilstcrowd from mans get it remained solid. thre.2 chil- and crowned with its spired see what they could see. and women Seven 1, There is no The unbroken stretch dren held hands desperately for church, stood before us. A t the Consecration I was near / in was church the of Lourdes that will hold the enstone white hey fear one might get astray. 7 square. One did not notice tire the the The sun was on crowd. seen such crows. and shadow. never had noise from the crowd. But any I had thought of the novel idea Lourdes to them, on such a day. hills. as the tinkle of the sacsoon as I watching the final Mass from is the big city. Just before 3 o'clock the CarI was broadcast throughbell ring the meadows across the Gave. silence was utfacing Domaine. out the the Grotto. ter. The crowd stood with unAs I passed the square. an covered heads, and the only note 11011r and a half before the Mass was due to was that of the birds in the trees beg-in, every foothold by the Via Dolorosa. ‘vas filled. The rampes were The Via Dolorosa commands a Packed tight and crowds were 4 streaiuing view of the square and the good into the esplanade through and T made for it. Thou, fields St. Michael's gate. sands of people were there. 7111en I got into' the town it It was standing there that I eeilled that everybody else 'n lance heard the voice of the Holy had conc ived the novel The valley was hushFather. ide-ar421 "111-kii) for the meadow,.:. the and voice from the Vatited ;rne river path begins nearly can rang through the hills. a mile from the Grotto and ,Le, Passed And at that moment I though it in a olid col, '111,1 about alongall that man has achieved to 'of six abreast. bring this marvel of radio into ItiltLen 10141 speakers through. -being: and wondered why the ue Domaine urtz-ed the peo always brain of man must b 1 1.ig'nare whofrom Were pressing upon the planning and building for war. the all quarters. to make when peace seems such a simple enede ( So the stream and a desirable thing. ; It was The Triduum is over. The an peo_ f'stlY French amazing crowd. We have Holy Year is ended. LOURDES. of DE course. NOTRE DAME i)1: ro t We peace. said for prayers our great the ight ca.mp accompanied and The centre of the wonderful incide nts which seats sptpers Year. Holy Lady. the of Our Closing to leave rest the the and Triduum to sit upon. bread Lourdes 460.-.0
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