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Mass in the Penal Days

From Sermon of

His Grace, Archbishop Glennon

at Montreal. September lOih. 1910

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Mass in the Penal Days

Extract from Sermon delivered by His Grace, Archhiakop Glennon,

of St. Louia, in St. Patrick's Church, Montreal,

on September 10th, 1910, during the

Euchariatic Congreaa

"IT is not inopportune that in this Eucharistic
Congress, this htany of nations in the praise of
"their King, that I should speak a word, that I
"should strike a chord, though it be in a minor key,
"for the nation whose apostle is patron of this
"sacred edifice, and whose exiled sons have made
"possible its building. I would pass by the days of
"the schoolmen, and come to those latter days,
"namely the penal times in Ireland, the long weary
"years when the Catholic Church was persecuted,
"when a price was set on every 'Mass priest', when
"the churches were alienated, desecrated, burned; and
"the entire country pillaged and its people driven to
"the mountains or into the sea. And this dread
"visitation, unlike the storm that passes, unUke the
•'plague that eats its lethal way, not for a season,
"but for over three hundred years, brooded over the
"land, its darkness lighted only by the ascending

'•fires of burning homes, or the gleaming swords of
"the brutal soldiers. It h easy to serve in fa-r
"weather: the test o, devotion ccmsc when human
"life is the forfeit. The Irish people stood the test,
"their land to-day is hallowed by the ashes of a
"hundred thousand martyis of the Blessed Sacra-
"ment, while the survivors, praying their *De
"profundis' for the dead, cling still to the 'Mass
"priest', and their fealty tried by fire is all the truer
"to their King."

"It was during the burning days that the
"'Mass priest', ssa-visaged and hunted, gathered
"his flock out in the mountain fastness, or in the
"shaded valleys. Knowing that the enemy was
"near, outposts were set so as to guard the approach,
"and give the sie;nal of threatening danger. The
"candlec were lighted, the priest puts on the sacred
"vestments. It i- not a scene to attract the eye of
"the worldling; there are no marble columns, no
"tabernacle of gold, no fretted roof, no dim visted
"aisle, no organ pealing, no glorious chant, no cen •
"swinging. But for people such as these around,
"love crowns all, love transforms all. For them the
"censor swings, for, is there not the perfume of the
"wild flowers that bloom there, of purple heath ;, of
"fragment hawthorn; vistas, there are, too, just as
"nature made them in rich nature's temple, for down

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"the valley are the d.m aisles of the forest trees.
"An ^ for a sacrificial chant, they have the song of
"birds, and the murmur of their own heart's love,
"the love of Irish hearts for their faith and their
"Lord; of ell others on this earth that we know of,
"the tenderest, the truest, the best."

"Yet little time have they now to think nf
"those things. The Mass is commenced. The priest
"has invoked the mercy of God— 'Lord have mercy
"on us'; he prays for the living and the dead. He
"reaches the solemn act that brings the Saviour
"down to His poor people. With bowed heads and
"reverent, the people murmur words of welcome,
"satisfied that, though by all the world forgotten,
"yet will He not forget them."

"But why the alarm? Alas, these moments
"absorbed in worship are taken advantage of; the
"enemy, the soldiers of the King, n^*: aro= id them.
" ihe cry, repeated in the long ago, is h trd again,
"*We h>\ve no king but Caesar.' 'Down with the
"Mass'— 'Death to the Mass priest'— it h m t^^age Jy
"of Calvary again, only to the tragedy » *d th«;
"desecration. The blood of the Saviou. md his
"priest flow togethe", and the dying lips of ^ -e priest
"whisper their last words on earth, 'Go, the crifice
"is over.' Quite true it is that the penj;^ < i ia

"Ireland have ended long ago, and if the memory of
"them remain, it is not in bitterness nor revenge
"No, they are thinking now, not of their persecutors,
"but how best they may honor and serve in the days
"of their religious freedom the King they followed
"during the long night of their persecution. Now
"they will restore him to the churches they build,
"churches to take the place of their older temples,
"from which He has been driven, and they have
"been despoiled. They will cross the seas bearing
"the standard of their King."