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The West AUSTRALIAN
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1913
Pilgrimage ?
"THE ROMAN ROAD" -- Why Not an Australian
through' live lips fevers and sicknesses, ing voice speaking But still the English pilgrims went our quotidian into a life-long per- that human ears can hear. brought are we Tomb of the Apostles, and to TI4AT VOICE IS MORE THAN AN the "Maloja" is churning its way to thefeet of St. Peter's Vicar. Long sonal relation with him. the ECHO AMONG THE SEVEN it, of enough through the Indian Ocean, and our mindful we half Are the danger of Saracens had HILLS Christ the to thoughts and prayers go after it and after half grateful enough ceased, there were difficulties; and utterance never stilled, nevan is it with it, for it bears our Bishop nearthe journey even down to our own appointed er silent. And so it has no staleer and nearer to the glorious way PATRON SAINT OF THE CONNow if is was very, costly. times Rome. to ness and no novelty, but sounds in road tLe is that FESSIONAL ? and quick, and grown cheap. easy, LordHis of limina ad many tones a steadfast, divine univisit every The given cheapness is comparative. To him the keys were by son. The world itself knows it, and it does ship concerns all the Catholics of But such us absolves that priest long would who Westralia, and means more than Scores of thousands Pilgrimage Lave his authority, and by delegation ever turns, half astonished, pricking Roman of itself, to hear the personal journey of the Bishop to make the from him. The Fisherman himself averse ears in spite the means. changeless N`oice shall that what the and his priest companions, for he not of Confessional every. in sits Perhaps some of them might be goes to express for us all the fealty eager eyes say often it hears with bitter prowould make it a slow, world, with keen and and faith of the whole Catholic peo- able if they turbid test, for the light, sweet burden is waters, of waste the and save a little scanning ple of the Diocese of Perth. Perhaps deliberate purpose, intolerable to many, who want no croubland dark muddy, to year that they might waters, and Is burden at all but such as they pile the time is in sight, when the first from year Christ. for to u:ake the ed, to catch our souls Australian Pilgrimage to Rome will put together enoughat least once in this duly remembered ? Each may for themselves ; and, that Christ nor wear will not change Himself, move forward to gladden the heart Roman Pilgrimage save as choose his patron saint for Liinself et the Vicar of Christ, by the sight their lives. PoorisL' peoplethings. And there are of every sort, so that every new suits, and babble new promises, much for less important of a demonstration of love and loyis a hard hearing for them. Though see in Roman Pilgrimage sort of man and woman may alty such as Rome never saw before, to have made the would perfect- He sent them Moses from the dead, Christ's of mirrors be these all to find once in life they for Rome does not see the traditioand the prophets,. they would not lie it would be v. ness that which may most surely ten; for they want a Moses with no nal love of the Irish for all that more than a memory; of love the to her or him draw are far holidays law in his hands, and prophets with concerns the See of Peter heated to possession. Many Adam man, a of cords Christ-hy rebe could lips. white heat and welded on the more more costly, and none do not wish strings of the manhood that is no God -Man upon their this we for us we, lift our eyes to the than enthusiastic veneration and re- membered as But too. the Saints' was Christ's and to journey help came hither when verence for Pope and Priesthood that to speak of the devout But as we are all sinners, and all bills, whence and Throne as a and whence it came Britain, was is a product of our southern, sunny St. Peter's Tomb this Christ forgiveness, and penance is true that the need Britain had beChristian clime, and making that grand com- mere holiday, but it when again patron be to Peter St. meant to be a do- Himself cL'ose Rome brought our Saxonland pound that we term Irish -Australian pilgrimage is not come gold his of shadow the of old saint of all: enthusiasm. How often in the past lorous penance. 'The pilgrims While this paper is being
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Panoramic View of Rome city, of the soul The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Oh Rome ! my country ! !
those "successors of the other Apostles"-the great prelates of the Australian Hierarchy, have on their re with
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days had as much faith and piety as any, but they were a jocund folk, or Chaucer described out of his own Lead.
Lone mother of dead empires !
control In their shut breasts misery.
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and silver keys lies over all our lives, for without the golden love and silver sorrow of his sacrament of healSo that ing we are all dead men. thousands of times in our lives St. l'eter and we meet in a matter of
This idea of representation on the delirious joy, that made men wonthem- Roman Pilgrimage, simple as it is, der, and which the Bishops hardly seems to be poignant interest, ineffable conseselves admitted, could not be sur- and obvious, and acted upon. quence to forget it is to forget half remembered enough in passed in any country, if equalled go themselves of St. Peter's perennial office in the cannot who those Of Ireland. lack of mo- Church. The other half is his office by hindered are all While our hearts are in the Ro- not and some of perpetual and indefectible teachold, too are man way with the BisLiop, it will ney some of these many are er. That we are Catholics at all imhelp us to become anxious to bring too delicate and to send others plies devotion to him : shall we be about the first Australian Pilgrim- rich enough to go-or often done ? content if our gratitude is implicit age to Rome, if we see what other in their stead. Is that might well car- only ? The best thing about the best countries (nearer to Rome geogra- Many a poor relation kinsman's of us is that we are Catholics ; Papwealthier a ry to Rome cerfor matter, this in phically) do ists, as those outside, with a just vote ; and such vote would be doublto nearer country, no tainly there is his instinct, call us for nick -name. in would be they as ed, offered than loyalty Rome in quick Catholic POPE FOLK ARE PETER FOLK, who went, and in our own country, which has not even person, or hers, the Catholics are Peter's folk, holdgave and who hers, name, or his Moof been suspected of the shadow and unsullied the Peter unspilt ing means. the t') dernism-a real menace he join faith which Christ promised might family whole Again, a Church in most countries. -vexed ship storm his in carry would should this and member, one to send The following stirring words n the of time involve no great cost for any one unwrecked, till this bitter sea "English National Roman T pasPeter's and last, at rich crossed are is Thousands it. of member age" are from the pen of the Right by landed been have shall sengers slight thank some hir Rev. Monsignor Bickerstaffe-Drew in enough to put sea, other the of shores the they on him time every Peter St. the "Universe," London, and will offering to and such alms, unvexed by cloud or storm that help Westralian Catholics to a better go to Confession smiles beneath the great White realisation of all that the Bishop's clubbed together by a family, would carry to St. Throne of God. And those Who take Roman Pilgrimage means, and all easily equip a pilgrim to Seat, the Roman Road travel not only to that could he expressed by an Aus- Peter's Tomb, and St. Peter's family for l'eter's Tomb ; they go, not only to the of whole gratitude the Pilgrimage Roman tralian them, year venerate his relics unviolated throTime was when the Roman Road what St. Peter does for ugh nineteen centuries, hut to offer sacrament gracious the in year, by and very arduous; was very long, I homage at his unshaken Throne. Peremember, Do we reconciliation. of great while, a took when the journey lives, not in heaven alone, but and was not always free from hard- wonder, when we receive absolution, ter for he is perpetual Viceearth on sacrasnecial Peter's St. it is that at were ship and danger. Saracens King comes again. His of tLe till arch -custodian roy is the He ment? to .*, o' Italy re idy the a sacrament word is not a written memory, swoop down upon the pilgrim from them all, hut in this the a livbut of monument, a medicine manuscript, the need, our daily of their moentain-eyrie by Fraxineto.
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fathers to Christ, and Rome keeps us His. The least we can render back is our legal homage and gratefulness. If we he too poor, or too old, or too weak to carry our bodies, down that glorious road, we can send our hearts in their hands who go; and bid them, who go for, us, with their lips pray for us beside the Apostle's Tomb, and with their lips kiss for us the tired feet of him who holds the keys that Lave so often opened again for us the gates our sins had shut against ourselves. -C. BREEZE.
Barnett
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