Sermon Broadcasted from XMHA by the Rev. J. K. Lipman, S.J., on May 1
Trxr.—"Do Catholics Adore. the Mother of God?"
There is.no song in the English|every rational creature, and which language, perhaps, that strikes alls an immediate consequence of the more sympathetic chord in the|relation between creator and crea-human heart than that well known|ture, as we learned in a previous and much loved refrain, "Mother|broadcast.
The command God gave Machree".
For certainly, every man to Moses is as true today as it was and woman can tell his mother, or|than,—"I am the Lord, thy God; thou say of her in all sincerity. "There's a] shalt not have strange Gods before place in my memory, my life that|me; thou shalt not make for thyself you fill; no other can take it, no one graven images, nor adore them nor ever will.
I kiss the dear fingers so render them homage,"—and Catholics toil-worn for me; oh, God bless you still observe this commandment in its and keep you, Mother Machree." Our into all non-Catholic opinions mother! What a host of tender|to the contrary notwithstanding. memories the very name (brings We are immediately. confronted our mind!
The one being in th h the stock objection: What about world of whose intense love for us|the statues and pictures of the we have had so many and such|Virgin Mary and the saints that are cónvineing proofs.
She cheerfully to be found in every Catholic church, went through untold agonies to bring us into the world; when we were helpless infants she lovingly attended to our every need and want; during our childhood and youth she was the one to whom we could always turn for sympathy and help, and for whom no sacrifice was too great if it would large or small and which are such an apparent source of scandal to our non-Catholic brethren? To this, we might either answer—What about them! Or like an Irishman, we might answer by asking what about the pictures and busts of your relatives id ancestors that are found in your bring happiness to her child. Is it any wonder, then, that our mother does hold in our heart a place' that no other ever can or will occupy!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.