Four Sermons Delivered at St. Patrick's Cathedral New York, on the Sundays of Advent, 1913 BY...

P. J. KENEDY & SONS PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE NEW YORK NIHIL OBSTAT REMIGIUS LAFORT Censor Deputatus IMPRIMATUR A cross JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY Archbishop of New York January 3, 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914 P. J. KENEDY & SONS TO HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL FARLEY ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK THESE SERMONS DELIVERED AT HIS REQUEST IN HIS CATHEDRAL CHURCH ARE DEDICATED AS A SMALL TOKEN OF SINCERE RESPECT AND AFFECTION...

T HE Rt. Rev. Francis Aidan Gasquet, Abbot-General of the English Benedictines and Chairman of the Commission appointed for the revision of the Vulgate or Latin Bible, gave a course of sermons at the High Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral on the Sundays of Advent, 1913, on "Catholic Principles abandoned at the Reformation." These sermons attracted very wide attention. The subject chosen, while seemingly a familiar one, proved most interesting to the vast congregations, drawn by the fame of the pre

T O-DAY we begin the work of Advent. During these weeks of preparation for the great feast of Christmas it is usual and useful to turn our thoughts to some of the great principles upon which our faith as Catholics is grounded, in order that we may realise more fully all that our Blessed Lord's coming into this world has done for mankind in general and for our individual souls in particular. It will not therefore be altogether foreign to this purpose if during these Sundays of Advent I ask your c

T O-DAY I propose to speak about the Most Holy Eucharist. The Sacrifice of the Mass is the central doctrine of our religion. In it, as we Catholics firmly believe, there is renewed on the Christian altar the sacrifice of Calvary, and by God's power, at the words spoken by the priest, the bread and wine is changed into the very Body and Blood of our Lord. The word used by the Church to express this change of substance is Transubstantiation; and in the mystery of our Faith we hold that we have, un

Sanctus Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts The Heavens and earth are full of Thy glory Hosanna in the highest Blessed is he that Cometh in the Name of the Lord. [1] Hosanna, etc.   [Our Lord] who made there [upon the Cross] by his one oblation once offered, a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction . . . and did institute and in his holy Gospel command us to celebrate a perpetual memory of that his precious death. [2] —to receive and to bless these gifts, these oblations

L AST Sunday I spoke of the Catholic doctrine of the Mass and the Holy Eucharist; I pointed out what our faith taught us about the Blessed Sacrament and how the Mass was to our Catholic forefathers and to us to-day, the central act of worship of God; and that the Holy Communion in a very true sense is the food of our spiritual life, as it binds us to God and brings Him into our lives in truth and in reality, which is the end and object of every act of religion. I pointed out to you that by the p

B EARING in mind what the Catholic teaching was and is in regard to the Supremacy of the Pope, the Holy Mass and the sacrificial character of the priesthood, we can understand how far away from these teachings the legislation of King Edward's reign had carried England. To our Catholic forefathers in the beginning of the 16th Century, as to us to-day, the Pope was the Supreme Head of the Christian Church and the foundation of Christian unity. The Mass was the great Christian Sacrifice in which th