The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1951 Page: 6 of 12
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
MARCH. 1001
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Christ's Mother—
(Continued from page 4)
hi the history of the human
race only one Man has chosen
IJia own mother, and that was
the Incarnate Son of God. Jesus
■elected her from amongst all
women. I-lenco He honored her
morn than iiis Church ever
could. Unthinkable it is to be-
lieve that lio wants those who
love llim to £hov.r their love by
Ijuuhing His clear Mother out oi
the picture, l;y giving her .no
honor, by even attempting t-
etrflce her nmno out of the g'o-
ious pafee of Christianity.
The llistoiic Church called
Catholic for tlia past 1841 years
loves Mary, Her enemies me
ti/nes say she gives too much
attention to the Mother of the
Savior, but never does anyone
ttficuse her of dishonoring the
Mother of God.
In every Catholic Church the
highest place of honor is given
to Jesus Christ, the One Media
tor between God and man. The
altar is the hi me of Jesus in the
.Massed Sacrament. The Mass.
the principal Catholic devotion,
is centered about Jesus and a.li
its official prayers Invoke His
Name. But the second place of
honor is giwr.n to the MWther
whom Jesus loves. Since Jesus
thought enough of her to use
her in His plan for the Redemp-
tion 'of the world, the Catholic
Church knows that It pleases
the Son of God when It Rives a
place of honor in His Church to
His Mother.
/Vt Lourdes, France and Fatl
ma, Portugal in a special way
the Catholic Church shows its
love for the holy Mother of
Christ. At Lourdes through
miracles worked for the sick
(l.hey are attested to toy non-
Catholic doctors) and at Fatima
through the miracle of the sun
seen by 70,000 people on Oct.
IV. 1917 the Blessed Virgin has
•rota(vlnepd the Catholic Church
that, like an angel of old, she
h:w Ome with a message to our
times. Both shrines stand as
Hyinbols of the love of a half
billion Catholics for the Virgin
whom they call "Our Lady."
Pope Sent Patrick—
(Continued from page 3)
♦iuru 1* his soul. When ho re-
turned to France from England,
he had not long to wait to see
ha desire fulfilled. Palladius,
•delegate of the Holy See for the
musion to Ireland, had just
abandoned the project In face of
tlie fearful oppositfon he had
cni-ountered from a pagan
Wii-klow chieftain.
POPE SENT FOR PATRICK
The recommendation of St.
Patrick for the office was in due
lime sent to Rome by the In-
flueutlal and saintly Bishop
GvinalD. Also In due time Ce-
lontlne 1, 43rd Pope of tho Ro-
man Catholic Church, sent word
for Patrick to come to Rome. A1
the Papal request the youa#
Britain - born, French - educated
I* 'lost packed his bag* and toelr
ff for the City of the Popes.
PAT BELIEVED PRIMACY
• 'To Patrick, the grandson of a
Roman contemporary of thr
convert Rmperor who had Joined
the Church In 313, Rome was
Jim center of the government of
the Christian Church to which
K.ncyclopedin Britannica says the
/iime Catholic was "applied by
t;>ie early pari of the 2nd cen-
tury." To Patrick, descendant of
Kwnan martyrs who had died
believing the tradition of their
.fathers that St. Peter was their
Vri Bishop, to Ireland's future
A iwistle the Pope was the suc-
re.'isor of St. Peter and hence al-
so the possessor of the keys
which Our Lord Himself had
Patrick like Roman Chris-
Uaus for the first 3 cenUHw.
ov*r rioultteri tho primacy and
BLARNEY CASTLE, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND
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A mecca f'r tourists in Ireland, the famou>i Blarney Castle shown above contains the stone
which millions have kissed to get the "gift of blarney." To kiss the stone one musr. cliiub to
fhe top of the castle and then perform some gymnastics. For an account of how to kiss the famous
stone see the article in these pages on the Enter a'd Isle. JEFFERSONIAN staft photo.
iresence of St. Peter In Rome
Tor the thought never entered
their mind that the thousands of
nartyrs who allowed themselves
to be torn to bits by lions in
lome's Colliseum would lie in
he tradition they had passed
down.
MISSION PROM CELESTINE
To Rome the great saint
ourneyed, there to hear the
voids of Pope St. Celestine I en-
rusting him with the mission to
t-eland. The venerable Pope
vho died iater that same year
hus en roll ad his name forever
n the glories of the Historic
Jhurch because of the far reach-
ng consequences of his decision
o sent St. Patrick to Ireland.
3ope Celeatine's term of office
'n the chair of St. Peter had
indeed been a glorious period
or the Catholic Church. It was a
eriod which saw the overthrow
of the Pelagian and Nestorlan
heresies and the great vindica-
tion of the glory and position of
•lie Mother of Got! at the Coun-
il of Ephesus.
ORIGIN OF HIS NAME
From Celestine. supreme bis
'iov of the Church. Ireland's ai*-
•ointed Apostle received the
very name by which he would
later be known to the world.
The Pope called him "Pater-
:lu " or "Patritius", 1. e, "fath-
*r of the people." Not an empty
Title, this name was intended by
the Latin speaking 43rd visible
head of the Roman Catholic
"hurch to represent the spirt-
ual rriutfulness of the Priest
whom he was sending to Ire-
'•tml. The Lattin words "pater
"ivlttm" mean "father of the
leople."
BECAME R. C. BISHOP
Leaving Rome. Patrick Jour-
neyed to the city of Turin In
Northern Italy, where at the
hands of the great St. Maximus.
Bishop of Turin, he entered the
official ranks of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy. I. e. be-
came a Bishop of the Roman
Catholic Church.
En route to Ireland, the new
Bishop stopped off at Auxerre.
France for final conferences
with that other saintly bishop
who had ordained him to the
Priesthood and whose recom-
mendation to the Pope had
Drought about his promotion to
;he office of Bishop.
18 YEARS A DISCIPLE
Later in the 9th century Ger
main's biographer, Heric of Au-
xerre, described the historic
connection between these two
Sreat men of the Roman Catho-
ic Church as follows:
"Since the glory of the fathei
dhlnes in the training of the
children, of the many sons In
Christ whom St. Germain is be-
lieved to have had as disciples
in religion, let It suffice to make
mention here, very briefly, of
one of the most famous, Pat-
rick, the special Apostle to the
Irish nation.' as the record of
his work proves. Subject to that
■nost holy dtscipleship for 18
years, he drank in no little
knowledge of HOLY SCRIPTURE
from the stream of so great a
well-spring. Germaine sent him,
iccompanied by Segetius. his
oriest, to Celestine, Pope of
Rome, approved of by whose
Judgement, supported by whose
AUTHORITY. AND STRENGTH
ENED BY WHOSE BLESSING,
he went on bis wny to Ireland."
400 YEARS AFTER EA8TER
In the year 433, exactly 400
years after the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ and the foundation
of the Catholi<j Church. Patrick,
the visible leader of the Church
of Christ with a mission from Its
43rd Pope, landed In Ireland to
carry cut the mission of Christ:
"go and teach all nations." Pat-
rick proceeded to teach Ireland
SWORD DID NOT FALL
Ireland at first was not anxi
ous to receive his teaching. He
bad not to go far on Irish sol'
until a pagan chleftlan, Dichu
by name, blocked his path and
raised his sword to put an end
♦o the conversion of Ireland at
lis, beginning. Rut as happened
with the first AP"«tW, Patrick's
foes could not prevent the mis
slon of God. Dlchu's arm, raised
to strike the fatal blow, became
rigid as steel and Patrick had a
convert, a convert who gave the
saint a barn which at once was
dedicated as the first Catholic
Church an Irish soil and in
which the stint offered ths
i sublime renewal of Qnr Lord's
Last Supper, the Mass. Later a
monastery and a church were
built on the spot to this day
called Saul. Today only 2 mile.-
from this place the great St
Patrick lies buried.
EX-MASTER ENDED LIFE;
SON WAS LATER BISHOP
Proceeding further, the Apostle
Journeyed to the town of his
former master, there to pay his
ransom price and, in exchange
for servitude and cruelty to give
the blessings of the holy faith
But Mic.hu, proud pagan priest,
having heard the fame of Pat-
rick's miracles, had too mnch
pride, to be vanquished by hte
former slave. Gathering up all
his possessions, he set fire t >
his mansion, throwing himself
Into the flames.
Later Milchu's son, St. Gua
sach, was to become a Bishop of
the Catholic Church in Ireland
and the unfortunate man's tWo
daughters founded a convent of
holy women.
A DEATHBLOW AT TARA
Returning to Saul, Patrick
was Informed by convert Dichu
that all t Ireland's chiei'tians
would soon gather at Tara. Im-
mediately the saint decided to
seize the opportunity to deal a
deathblow to paganism In Ire
laud.
The date for the meeting was
March 26, 433 — a date which
lappened to be Easter Sunday and
l'Ut one day removed from the
feast of the Annunciation that
the Blessed Virgin had been se-
lected to be the Mother of God.
Patrick, a great friend of the
Immaculate Virgin and her Ris
en Son. could have had no more
secure freedom to announce the
auspicious occasion on which to
glad tidinas of the Redemption
of which he was the chosen her-
ald.
By order of Leoghalre. the
Ard Righ or supreme monarch of
Ireland, instructions had been
sent forth to the entire kingdom
that from the preceding day the
'Ires throughout the land should
be extinguished until the signal
Maze was kindled at the royal
mansion by the pagan priests.
PATRICK LIT THE FIBE
On Easter Vho St. Patrick ar-
rived at the bin of Slane. at the
opposite extremity of the valley
from Tara, and on the summit
of that hill proceeded to light
the Paschal or Easter fire, an
ancient custom in the Catholic
Church.
Seeing this, the drulds were
enraged. Said they to the king:
"O King, this fire, which has
been lighted in defiance of the
royal edict, will blaze forever in
I his land unless It he this very
night extinguished."
THE FIRE BLAZED ON
From their satanlc oracles the
drulds had known of the pres-
ence of the messenger of Christ
In the land and so they spoke
thus to the king. From Leoghaire
they received the order to put
out Patrick's fire and to punish
with death the one who lit it.
Repeated attempts to put out
the blessed fire failed, and Pat-
rick by Divine power wat shield-
ed from the assaults ana snares
of his enemies.
PATRICK WON THE DAY
The next day, Easter Sunday,
the missionary band headed by
a y^uth holding aloft a copy of
the Holy Bible and led by St-
Patrick, <*Jad In full episcopal
robes with mitre and crazier,
marched right into the enemy
stronghold. According to tradi-
tion the druidlcal priests and
magicians, representing a, false
and hence satanlc religion, used
all the power of the devil to
overcome Patrick's mission. By
their incarnations and dlabollcall
power they caused a cloud of
rounding plain. Patrick then de-
worse than Egyptian blackness
to spread over the hill and sur-
fled them to remove that cloud,
and when all their efforts were
in vain, at his prayer the sun
sent forth its rays and the
brightest sunshine lit up the
scene.
THE ARCH-DRUID FAILED
Also tradition states that the
Arch-druid Lochru by demoniac
power, like Simon Magus In the
time of St. Peter, was lifted up
high in the air, but when Pat-
rick knelt In prayer the druid
fell and was dashed to pieces
on the rocks.
The faith of Jesus thus trium-
phed and Its spokesman. Pat-
rick. obtained from Leoghalre
permission to preach the Faith
throughout the length & breadth
of Erin, and the druidlcal pro-
phecy, like the words of Balaam
of old, were destined to be ful-
filled : the sacred fire lit by the
Apostle would never he extin-
guished. .
SHAMROCK AND TRINITY _
It was on the above solemn
occasion that St. Patrick Is be-
lieved to have plucked a sham-
rock, to explain to the assembl-
ed chieftlans (by Its triple leaf
and single stem) the holy doc-
trine of the Blessed Trinity.
Just as there are 3 leaves to the
shamrock but only one plant, so
Patrick told the Irish pagans
that there could be three Per-
sons In God but only one God.
PATRICK'S PRXYER
About this time the Apostle
of Ireland composed a beautiful
prayer In preparation for his
conquests for Christ. So beauti-
ful is It t h o t we quote these
excerpts from the literal trans-
lation of the Irish text;
"I bind myself today
The virtue of the Incarnation of
Christ with bis Baptism,
The virtue of His Resurrection
with His Ascension,
The virtue of His coming on the
Judgement Day,
1 bind myself today
God's power to guide me,
God's Might to uphold me,
God's Wisdom to teach me.
God's Eye to watch over me,
God's Ear to hear me,
God's Word to Riv'e me speech.
God's Hand to guide me.
God's Way to lie before me,
God's Shield to shelter me,
God's Host to secure me.
Against the snares of demons,
AraJnst the seductions of vices,
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