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LIGHT ON OUR DARKNESS

SAINT ANTHONY'S GUILD

PATERSON, N.J.



GUILD PAMPHLETS

By Method ' C. Billy, O. F. M. Conv.

Life in the Service

By Most Rev. R. J. Cushing

The Third Order in Our Day

By William J. Doheny, C. S. C.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

By Felician A. Foy, O. F. M.

Christ and You — Redeemers
By Rev. Richard Ginder

Life Begins at Baptism The Christian Nobility
Peace of Mind and Heart

By Francis J. Greiner, S. M.

Mary’s Work in the World

By Most Rev. William A. Griffin

Peopling Heaven: A Thought on Vocations

By Marion A. Habig, O. F. M.

Man of Peace St. Francis Solano Vico Necchi
Our Lady of the Highway

By Rudolf Harvey, O. F. M.

A New Birth of Freedom The Pursuit of Happiness
This Nation under God What Is Man?

By Augustine F. Hennessy, C. F.

God’s Troubadour and His Lady

By Jeffrey Keefe, O. F. M. Conv.

The Gospel Truth

By Gordon Krahe, O. F. M.

What the Mass Is for You

By Giles Lawlor, O. F. M.

Don’t Be Afraid To Go to Confession

By James M. Linehan, O. F. M.
A Living Crucifix

By Valentine Long, O. F. M.

The Last Supper Every Day
Mothers

On Using the Brain
The Way Home

Who Believes in Sin Any More?
Why Not Take God’s Word for it?

Youth— Springtime of Love
By Cuthbert Malone, O. F. M.

St. Paschal Baylon



HAPPINESS!

BUT WHERE?

LIGHT ON OUR DARKNESS

By

Rev. John A. O’Brien, ph. d., ll. d.

of the

University of Notre Dame

SAINT ANTHONY’S GUILD

PATERSON, NEW JERSEY



Copyright, 1941, by

John A. O’Brien

Nihil obstat.

Henry J. Zolzer

Censor Librorum.

Imprimatur .

Hh Thomas H. McLaughlin,

Bishop of Paterson.

Feast of the Epiphany, 1941.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



HAPPINESS!

BUT WHERE?
The Universal Desire

2jJlfrHERE can I find happiness? Such

-W® is the cry of every mortal born into

this world. The hunger for happiness is

universal. It is independent of age and race.

It gnaws alike in the hearts of the rich and

of the poor. From the time when man first

lifted his face to the skies he has felt an

inner compulsion driving him to seek un-

wearingly the things which would bring

him happiness.

The literature of all the races, from the

Psalms of the ancient Hebrews and the

Upanishads of the East, through the dramas

of Aeschylus and the odes of Horace, down

to the last sophisticated novel of our day,

reveals this dominant hunger of the human

heart. As the whole life of the animal world

is reflected in the conjugation of the verb,

to eat

,

in the active and in the passive voice,

so the whole of human life is mirrored in

the conjugation of the verb, to rejoice
,

in

the past, present and future tenses. Young

and old, rich and poor, philosopher and

peasant, saint and sinner, have this one trait

in common— a desire for happiness.

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Indeed it is the one conscious activity in

the life of man wherein, all philosophers

admit, the will is not free. It is coerced by

an inner necessity, by the very nature of the

human heart and soul, to reach out for the

waters which will slake even temporarily the

perennial thirst for happiness.

If we look into our own hearts, most

of us will find that our deepest and most

insistent yearning as we journey from the

cradle to the grave is for just a bit of pre-

cious happiness. Can we find it? Or will

the darkness envelop us before we reach it,

leaving the stone marking our grave as the

symbol of the hand still stretched out in un-

availing search for the elusive Blue Bird?

If we look into the faces that hurry by

us on the crowded streets of our large cities,

we cannot fail to observe a worried restless-

ness, a fretful uneasiness, which tell us that

in spite of all their frenzied haste men have

not as yet caught up with the object of their

quest. Fear and worry are written in the

lines of their countenances and reflected in

their quick, furtive glances. Insecurity hangs

like the sword of Damocles over the heads

of most, ready to fall upon them at any

moment. Even the few who have resources

which would seem adequate are tortured by

the fear that reverses may number them

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with the insecure. The feverish tempo of

modern life reveals alike its frenzied eager-

ness for happiness and its tragic failure to

find it.

Much of modern literature is but the

modern voicing of the age-old cry of Solo-

mon: "Vanity of vanities and all is van-

ity!” For man is still driven by an inner

necessity to search for happiness. To-

day on every side he hears the cry of his

contemporaries in the self-same pursuit, a

cry for the most part of frustration, dis-

appointment and disillusionment. Must it

echo forever in a bleak emptiness? Or is

there somewhere in the universe the reality

which answers this universal cry and satisfies

this universal hunger?

God— the Answer

God is that reality. God is the only answer

to our desire for happiness. For man is more

than a physiological carrot, more than a

mere animal. He is an amphibian— an in-
habitant of two worlds. One is the material,

the other the spiritual. While man must

eat bread to live, he does not live by bread

alone. He has a spiritual nature which must

be nourished and exercised not less than his

body. It is in this spiritual element of his

nature that man’s true dignity lies. It is

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this which makes him the crowning glory

of God’s creation, a child of God, and an

heir of heaven.

The food of man’s spiritual nature is

worship, prayer, communion with God. If

these sources of invigoration are neglected,

his spiritual nature becomes anaemic and

paralyzed. The world of spiritual qualities

grows increasingly wraithlike and unreal.

Finally he degenerates into a mere worldling

to whom the only realities are the things he

perceives with his senses. Enthralled in the

prison cell of the material, he falls under

the tyranny of the visible and loses his habi-

tation in the spiritual world. In short, he

has become for all practical purposes an

animal whose face is no longer turned to-

ward the stars— an animal rooted in the
earth.

Such a creature can still glut himself

with the pleasures of the earth, but that

deeper happiness which comes from the in-

creasing achievement of spiritual values is

denied him. He has lost the distinguishing

characteristic of man— the upturned face,
the outward symbol of the upward thrust

within the human soul. Casanova with his

face buried deep in the swine trough, wal-

lowing luxuriously in the pigsty, deaf, dumb

and blind to all the filth around him, is the

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symbol of the animal which was once a

man— before it lost its soul. True, pleas-
ures of the pigsty still remain, but the joys

which emerge from the distinctive part of

man’s nature, his spiritual faculty, are gone

forever. With them goes man’s chance for

happiness. "All things betray thee who be-

trayest Me.”

In worship one finds the challenge to con-

secrate oneself to the attainment of the high-

est spiritual values. "He that shall lose his

life for My sake,” said Christ, "shall find

it.” Religion prompts one to lose oneself in

the conscious striving for the achievement

of noble ideals—helping the underprivileged,
sharing our means with those in need, shov-

ing back the boundaries of our darkness,

struggling for peace and fighting all the

forces which undermine the physical, intel-

lectual and moral life of a community.

"Therefore all that you wish men to do to

you, even so do you also to them,” is the

basic rule of the spiritual life and the noblest

principle of ethics.

"As long as you did it for one of these,

the least of My brethren, you did it for Me,”

is the principle which has inspired many a

follower of the Master to rise above senti-

ment and prejudice, to see in the counte-

nance of the leper, the ragged poor and

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the lowly, the lineaments of the face of

Christ, and to act accordingly. In that com-

plete forgetfulness of self which comes from

ministering to the needs of others, man finds

his deepest happiness. The following of

Christ’s way of life thus leads to the attain-

ment not only of the noblest spiritual values

but of the highest joy as well.

Hunger for God

The hunger of the heart for love has its

counterpart in the hunger of the soul for

God. If a man is honest with himself, he

will find that one of the deepest cravings

of his soul is for the friendship and the

love of God. Everyone desires approval for

his actions, but most of all the approval

of God. If this be lacking the applause of

the world falls upon deaf ears. The con-

sciousness of the contrast between the world’s

applause and God’s disapproval only deepens

the gnawings of conscience. All humanity

bears witness to the sickening unhappiness

engendered in the soul of man by a dis-

approving conscience. What would men not

have given if they could but have bribed

that internal voice to have altered its ver-

dict of "guilty” to one of "innocent,” or

at least to have withheld the thunder of its

condemnation?

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The literature of the race is full of man’s

varied attempts to cheat the moral law and

to anesthetize the internal monitor with all

the cunning, craftiness and specious rational-

izations which the human mind could devise.

But they have all failed and will always fail.

Why? Because they are seeking to do vio-

lence to the very structure, pattern and na-

ture of the human mind and soul. God’s

architecture still remains intact after man’s

bombardment of it through all the centuries.

The crystallization of the race’s experience

with virtue and vice is found in these con-

clusions, simple yet of universal validity:

There is no way of bribing conscience, no

escape from it. There is no pain worse than

the gnawing remorse of a disapproving con-

science. There is no joy greater than that of

a good conscience. The pillars of the earth

may collapse and the heavens may fall, but

the man with a good conscience remains un-

shaken. "Who is there,” said Christ, "to harm

you, if you are zealous for what is good?”

There is no crisis in life, not even the grim

crisis of death, which need banish the smile

from the face of the man who carries within

him the joy of a good conscience. Verily, a

good conscience is a wall of brass which no

enemy can pierce. Thus does Alexander Pope

describe the armament of the virtuous:

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"True conscious Honor is to feel no sin,

He’s armed without that’s innocent

within;

Be this thy screen, and this thy wall

of brass.”

The Power of Conscience

In his various plays Shakespeare sounds

all the notes of the diapason of conscience,

showing its power to reward and the cease-

less gnawing of its torture. After Cardinal

Wolsey has fallen from the king’s grace and

has been stripped of all his honors, he bids

"Farewell! a long farewell to all my great-

ness,” and turns to the God he had neglected

for the favor of his sovereign. In the sorrow

for his misplaced loyalty and in the rededi-

cation of his services to the God Who will

not leave him naked to his enemies, Wolsey

finds the whisperings of an approving con-

science which brings him a quiet joy never

felt when his security hinged upon the ap-

proval of his whimsical king. To Crom-

well’s question, "How does your Grace?”

Wolsey replies in words vibrant with the

experience of all humanity:

"Why, well;

Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.

I know myself now; and I feel within me

A peace above all earthly dignities,

A still and quiet conscience.”

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Contrast this quiet joy with the thousand

tongues which plague King Richard III for

his butcheries, and sear his restless mind

with the ceaseless cry of guilt:

"My conscience hath a thousand several

tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain.

Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree:

Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree;

All several sins, all used in each degree,

Throng to the bar, crying all: 'Guilty!

guilty!’
”

The Bible abounds with passages descrip-

tive of the power of conscience to reward

and to punish, to mete out happiness or

misery. Thus vividly does the author of the

Book of Proverbs enumerate the blessings

which flow upon him who keeps the law

and the counsel:

"Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy

way, and thy foot shall not stumble: If

thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt

rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Be not

afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power

of the wicked falling upon thee. For the

Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy

foot that thou be not taken.”

The evils which overwhelm the man who

sins against the light of his own conscience

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are thus depicted with a great power of

imagery in the mighty drama of Job:

"The wicked man is proud all his days,

and the number of the years of his tyranny

is uncertain. The sound of dread is always

in his ears: and when there is peace, he

always suspecteth treason. He believeth not

that he may return from darkness to light,

looking round about for the sword on every

side. When he moveth himself to seek bread,

he knoweth that the day of darkness is

ready at his hand. Tribulation shall terrify

him, and distress shall surround him, as a

king that is prepared for the battle. For

he hath stretched out his hand against God,

and hath strengthened himself against the

Almighty.”

Joy of a Good Conscience

Fidelity to conscience is one of the fa-

vorite themes of the New Testament. Its

approval is to be sought at the cost of every

pain and hardship. Its reprimand un-

leashes upon man a train of miseries far

worse than the fury of the elements— the
pensive music of a world out of tune. St.

Paul traces his joy to the approving voice of

conscience, a voice which echoes its refrain

through all the books of the New Testa-

ment: "For our boast is this, the testimony

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of our conscience, that in simplicity and

godly sincerity— not in carnal wisdom, but
in the grace of God, we have conducted our-

selves in this world.”

Second only to the Bible in its insight

into the mystery of the human personality,

into the ways of the human heart, into the

marvelous capacity of the human conscience

to forge the thunderbolts of hell in the soul

of the sinner and to fill the soul of the just

with the calm radiance of heaven, is The

Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis.

In any list of the ten outstanding classics

of the world’s literature this little book must

find a place. While each chapter is a mine

of solid gold, the one on the joy of a good

conscience shines with particular brilliance.

Though written in his monastic cell at

Zwolle, Holland, in the early fifteenth cen-

tury, it is as modern as tomorrow’s news-

paper. Every sincere searcher for happiness

will do well to reflect upon these words

of a Kempis:

"The glory of a good man is the witness

of a good conscience. Keep a good con-

science, and thou shalt always have gladness.

A good conscience can bear very much, and

is exceeding joyful in the midst of adversity.

"A bad conscience is always timid and

uneasy. Sweetly wilt thou rest if thy heart

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blame thee not. Never be glad but when

thou hast done well.

"The wicked have never true gladness,

nor feel peace within; because there is no

peace for the wicked, saith the Lord.

"And if they shall say: We are in peace,

evils will not come upon us, and who shall

dare to hurt us? believe them not; for the

wrath of God will arise on a sudden, and

their deeds shall be brought to nought, and

their thoughts shall perish.

"To glory in tribulation is not hard to

him who loves; for so to glory is to glory

in the cross of the Lord.

"The glory is short-lived which is given

and taken by men. That glory of the world

is always accompanied by sorrow.

"The glory of the good is in their con-

sciences, and not in the mouths of men.

"The gladness of the just is from God

and in God, and their joy is in the truth

"That man has great tranquillity of heart

who cares neither for praise nor dispraise.

He will easily be content and in peace whose

conscience is clean.

"Thou art not more holy if thou art

praised, nor worse if thou art dispraised.

"What thou art, that thou art; nor canst

thou be said to be greater than God sees

thee to be.

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"If thou considerest well what thou art

within thyself, thou wilt not care what men

may say of thee.

"Man looketh on the outward appearance,

but God looketh on the heart. Man con-

siders the actions, but God weighs the in-

tentions.”

The Cosmic Underwriter of Values

The tragedy of the international scene

today is that nations are seeking protection

primarily behind a wall of bristling arma-

ment and only secondarily, if at all, behind

the brass wall of a good conscience. A

nation should be more concerned in seeing

that its cause is just than in seeing that its

powder is dry and its aircraft is filling the

sky. Thrice armed is he whose cause is just.

Ordered peace, durable and lasting, can be

established only when the emphasis is shifted

from might to right, only when it is realized

that right alone constitutes a valid title to

power. Only when loyalty to God and to

the ideals of justice and truth comes in to

tip the scales of selfishness and greed will

nations find the path that leads to peace.

God is the Guarantor of the validity of

the moral law, the cosmic Underwriter of

the spiritual values of the universe. He is

both the center and the circumference of

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the universe, the Alpha and the Omega,

the beginning and the end of all things.

From His creative womb man has issued

and to His all-embracing arms he is destined

ultimately to return.

To worship God, to serve Him and to

love Him is not only man’s deepest duty

but his highest privilege. But we cannot do

any of these intelligently, unless we first

know Him. The most important knowledge

in the world, therefore, is the knowledge

of God. It is doubtful, however, if there

was ever a period within the Christian era

when there was more ignorance of God and

more confusion about Him than at the pres-

ent time. "Today,” observes Professor

Whitehead of Harvard, "there is but one re-

ligious dogma in debate: What do you mean

by God? And in this respect today is like

all our yesterdays.”

Many contemporary writers follow the

vogue set by Dewey, Whitehead, and Wie-

man of burying God under an avalanche

of words. Heralds of the Gospel speak of

Him with vagueness and in accents of evi-

dent uncertainty. People in the pews detect

these overtones of doubt, and in consequence

faith has become for many of them "a re-

fined doubt sublimated into a hesitant as-

sumption.” Under the welter of this con-

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fusion, God has faded for many into an

oblong blur almost lost in the all-encompass-

ing fog. Their uncertainty about God is

making them miserably unhappy. For it

renders them less sure of themselves, of the

purpose of life and of human destiny. With

wistful eyes and groping hands they are

searching for something to steady them, for

a firm hold on God.

God— the Meaning of the Universe

God is not a mere dream, not a hypothesis,

not the projection of our hopes and aspira-

tions upon the frail canvas of illusion. He

is the meaning of the universe and the hope

of humanity. He gives a cosmic value to

the ideals of truth, justice and righteousness

which point like converging arrows of light

to the Source from which they emanate. To

know God, said Dante, is to learn how to

make our lives eternal. Long before Dante,

St. John proclaimed the important truth al-

most lost in the contemporary fog: "This

is eternal life: that they may know Thee,

the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom

Thou hast sent.” Back before the dawn of

the Christian era the Psalmist cried: "To

know Thee, O God, is perfect righteousness;

yea, to know Thy dominion is the root of

righteousness.” Like a cloud by day and a

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pillar of fire by night runs this mighty truth

through the pages of the Old and the New

Testament.

It is our birthright, our priceless heritage.

If the birthright be sold for a mess of

pottage, and. the heritage be lost in the con-

temporary . fog, there is no power on earth

that can rescue man from his Babylonian

captivity or relieve the nostalgia and lone-

liness of his exile.

God is the answer to the cry of every

noble soul seeking to find coherence and

meaning in life. He alone gives a cosmic

undergirding to our gropings for justice,

righteousness and love. "What doth the Lord

thy God require of thee,” asked the prophet

Micheas, "but to do justly, to love mercy and

to walk humbly with thy God?” God shines

forth most luminously in the person of Jesus

Christ, the untarnished Mirror of the Most

High. God stands revealed to us in the

character of Him Who cleanses the lepers,

heals the sick, restores sight to the blind,

forgives the woman taken in adultery, washes

the feet of His disciples, and sheds His

blood for the redemption of mankind.

A Ministry of Love

See Him as He walks over the dusty road-

sides of Judea and Galilee and says to His

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disciples: "Learn from Me, for I am meek

and humble of heart.” It was His ministry

of mercy and love that inspired His disciple

St. John to give the noblest definition of

God ever uttered, when he said simply:

"God is love.” "If anyone love Me,” said

Christ, "he will keep My word, and My

Father will love him, and We will come to

him and make Our abode with him.”

Jesus, then, has given us a better and

truer picture of God than can be found

in the writings of all the philosophers, the-

ologians, prophets and mystics since time

began. How radiantly beautiful, how win-

some and appealing to the hungry hearts

of men! God is infinite Beauty, Truth,

Goodness, Mercy, Love. It is this vision

of God which has inspired the noblest enter-

prises of Christianity, built hospitals, or-

phanages, homes for the friendless, and has

prompted man to find in the service of the

poor and the lowly his title to nobility. When

Christians have allowed this vision of a God

of love to fade and to be replaced by a

God of vengeance, cruelty and wrath, they

have stained the pages of history with some

of the worst crimes in its long annals. It

was this false picture which prompted John

Calvin to burn his theological opponent,

Michael Servetus, which caused the fanatics

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to kindle the fagots under Joan of Arc at

Rouen.

Some time ago I stood on the summit of

the great Pyramid at San Juan Teoteehue-

can in Mexico. There before me was the

stone altar on which the Aztec priests placed

the quivering hearts of thousands of human

victims to placate their pagan god. With a

jagged stone they pierced the body of the

victim and reached in with their hands to

pull out the heart, still throbbing, and place

it on the altar as the most delectable morsel

to appease their bloody Moloch. At the foot

of the Pyramids stretches a road, called La

Via de los Muertos

,

along which the doomed

victims walked at times by the thousands to

their place of slaughter. This in the name

of religion. This in the name of God! The

fact that these atrocities have been exorcised

from the face of the earth, is traceable pri-

marily to the purification of man’s vision of

God, to the replacement of the old concept

of a God of vengeance and cruelty with one

of mercy, justice, compassion, tenderness and

love— the vision inspired by Christ.

A Religion of Joy and Love

The religion of Christ is not one of gloom

and sadness, but of joy and peace and love.

This was the note sounded by the learned

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Franciscan, Father Nicholas Higgins, in the

course of one of his arresting sermons.

Asserting that those people who iden-

tify religion with a funeral procession com-

pletely misinterpret the mind of Almighty

God, Father Fliggins defined religion as "the

achievement of joy and peace through con-

stant attempts at union of the soul with

God, the keeping of a good conscience, and

the surrender of the will to God.”

"Our blessed Lord,” Father Higgins con-

tinued, "came to make peace in the world.

He never wanted gloom or depression, al-

though He found plenty of time for sorrow.

His coming was hailed with the words,

'Peace on earth to men of good will/ and

He said to His disciples at the close of

His earthly life: 'My peace I leave you;

My peace I give unto you.’ Holy Mother

Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, prays

every day that you will be blessed with

peace of mind and body.

"The unfortunate thing is that so many

misunderstand religion and look upon it as

the very antithesis of joy and peace. In so

many countries religion is being libeled to-

day— it is libeled in the words carved over
the Kremlin: 'Religion is the opiate of the

people/ In such countries I would not be

allowed to preach a sermon like this. Com-

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ing nearer home, we find so many with a

false idea of religion

"Our great St. Teresa wrote that she

dreamed she saw souls going to hell like

autumn leaves. This is constantly being mis-

understood. She never said she saw souls

going to hell; she said she saw them in a

dream. I’m quite convinced that St. Teresa,

with her great sense of humor, would not

mind my suggesting here today that she

must have had a very bad nightmare.

"I remember seeing a man going through

a slum district with a placard on his back

announcing: 'The sinner shall go down into

hell/ Fancy any man in the name of religion

going among the poor, struggling for an

existence and saying: 'If you are not careful,

God will send you to hell/ Such a thing

is an absolutely false interpretation of the

mind of Almighty God.”

When the vision of God as a Father of

mercy, tenderness and love, as revealed to

us in the character of Christ, finds lodgment

in the mind of a person, it grips him, moves

him and transforms him. Forever afterward

he is a different human being. It was this

vision of God which sent Father Damien

from his native Belgium to the neglected

lepers in the island of Molokai in the far

Pacific. The words of Christ, "As long as

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you did it for one of these, the least of My

brethren, you did it for Me,” became the

guiding principle of his daily life. For

twenty years he ministered to them, with his

own hands building houses for them, pour-

ing oil into their wounds, bandaging their

ulcerous sores, cheering them, breaking for

them the Bread of Life, until he fell a vic-

tim of the dread disease. Father Damien,

scholar of Louvain, had become for Christ’s

sake the Martyr of Molokai.

More helpful than intellectual subtlety in

seeing God are a pure heart and a clean

conscience. When Ignatius, Bishop of An-

tioch, was being led to martyrdom, a Roman

soldier asked him leeringly: "Who is this

Christian God of yours?” Gazing into the

sensual, brutal face, Ignatius replied: "You

shall know Him when you are worthy of

Him.” He learns about God who suffers

persecution for justice’ sake, who sacrifices

for truth, who hungers for righteousness,

who lives a godly life. Virtue is more im-

portant than knowledge in enriching one’s

vision of God. Live a holy life and God

will dwell in you and make Himself known

to you.

When God dwells in the soul of a person,

a radiance shines in his face, a spiritual

resonance sounds in his voice, and peace fills

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his heart. Nothing in the universe can supply

the radiance lost when God is banished from

a human life. The experience of humanity

the world over verifies the finding of St.

Teresa: "Where God is, there is heaven.

Where God is not, there is hell.”

God then is the answer to the cry of the

human soul for happiness. In the partial

possession of God in this life, we catch glim-

merings of that supreme ecstasy which the

soul will experience when it will be in inti-

mate union with Infinite Beauty, Truth,

and Love, when the unveiled majesty of

the Eternal King will ravish the soul with

beauty and still its restless yearning with a

love that knows no ending. "Eye has not

seen,” says the great Apostle of the Gentiles,

"nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the

heart of man, what things God has prepared

for those who love Him.” A foretaste of

that ineffable bliss is experienced by all who

walk in the paths of peace and righteous-

ness, who keep always the joy of a good

conscience, and who feel the immanence of

God in their hearts by the radiance of a

love that embraces enemies. God is the apex

of the pyramid of elements which constitute

the enduring answer to man’s age-old cry

for happiness.

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Baptism Boy Wanted

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Peace for Troubled Souls A Picture of the Man

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The Catholic Family

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The Bread of Life The Church Matrimony
When You Go to Confession

Who Are Catholics?

By Rev. John I>. Murphy

Life Values of the Mass

By Eric O’Brien, O. F. M.

Apostle of California

By Isidore O’Brien, O. F. M.

Blessed Are the Clean of
Heart

Brides of Christ
Christ the Physician
The Church Our Mother
Compensation
Consolation

The Father’s Shadow
The Gospel Parables —
God and Justice
Man’s True Friend
Our Moral Life
Understanding the
Message of Christ

Half the Young Men
Hands
Let Us Look at Life
Light of the Cross
“Lord, Teach Us To Pray’’

The Meaning of Christmas
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Our Dead
Our Father Who Art in
Heaven

The Plain Truth
Resignation

The Sacraments —
Parts I and II

St. Anthony of Padua
Sculpturing Truth
Shadow of the Cross
Soldiers of Christ

The Ten Commandments
of Reason

The Third Order of St
Francis : Instrument of
Peace

By Rev. John A. O’Brien

The Christian Home Until Death Do Us Part
Falling in Love Why Be Profane?
Happiness! But Where? Why Not Receive Daily?

By Conall O’li'eary, O. F. M.

What It Means To Be a Tertiary
Why the Third Order of St. Francis?

By Thomas Flassmann, O. F. M.

The Seven Words of Mary Upon This Rock



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By Francis J. Bernier, C. M.

A Bank Account in Heaven Catholics and Sin
Can the Bible Be the Only Rule of Faith?

Is Life Worth Living?
What Is a Good Catholic?

By Doctor A. F. Sava

A Doctor’s View of Birth Control

By Edgar Schmiedeler, O. S. B.

Concerning Parents Concerning the Family
Concerning Your Children

By Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen

Communism, Opium of the People
The Lord’s Prayer on the Cross

By R. Southard, S. J.

Reporter in Heaven

By Rev. Joseph Stang

Margaret Sinclair

By Sebastian Weber, O. F. M. Conv.

Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker— and Christ
Complete Religion Divine Art of Living

The Inside Story of God
The Mystery Inside Catholic Churches

Superman and the Sacrament of Confirmation

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The Negro Saint
No Small Matter

St. Francis, Lover of the Christ-Child
Shall Heaven Be Filled? Why Penance?

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Holy Hour; Indulgence of the Portiuncula
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A Way of the Cross for Seminarians

Little Treasury of St. Jude; of St. Philomena;
of the Sacred Heart

Novena to St. Benedict the Moor; to Our Sorrowful
Mother; to St. Joseph; to St. Francis

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