AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CON

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PAUL BRUCHESI, ny

Y THE GRACE Op GOD, AND op

APOSTOLIC SEE, MONTREAL,

THE ARCHRISHOP OF

Ular and » gular clergy, to th religious Como T- . «nd lo all failhful of our Diocese, grectings, peace tu blessing in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jearlv Belox ed Brethren,

HaNY oCeupations cf our Pastoral charge hace prevent- “VINS expression. at an earlier date, to the after t that are inseparable from our Eucharistie Congress oncress, so long the object of our ar

lent desires and IS NOW à thing of the

past, —— Yet, as an inspiring Sin our thoughts

its Memory still “ith us, and consoline Souvenir, It and conversations : our people have red to the very depths of their inmost beino ts the same Words, ‘* We have ha

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paradise ?”. — The triumph, which we dreamed for Jesus

Christ has been realized in a manner surpassing all our hopes,

It has been said that no other country had given our Eucha ristie King à more magnificent ovation, and our soul lus re. Joiced exceedingly. The daily press and telegraph have already graphically reported the events, which made the first davs oi September, 1910, the most happy and blessed period of our history. They spoke of the imposing ceremonies witnessed in our Cathedral ; of the numerous meetings for Eucharistie Study, presided over by eminent Prelates, and diligentiy at. tended by priests, members of religious orders, and inen an women of the world ; they have deseribed the impressive seen when 30,000 parish-schoo! children, walked in procession, ar elaïming Jesus Christ, the Pope, his noble Representative among us ; they have vividly portrayed that incomparabl open-air Mass, when the mountain-side appeared another Thabor, where it was indeed good to spread one's tent <o mer to the Transfigured Christ ; they told, in wonderful detail, oi that Midnight Sacrifice in Notre-Dame ablaze with vrai lights, whereat, thousands of men reverently partoo! of th Divine Victim ; they have brought before the mind's eve tuos monster meetings neath the vault of the same temp, wherein brilliant orators, churchmen and laymen, v

ing two Hemispheres, captured, for several hours, the undivil ed attention of that vast audience. But the cuhminating point of their journalistie descriptions was, undoubtediv, the gl. rious procession Of the 11th, of September, when

ideal sky, prepared especially, it scemed to us, br G Angels, one hundred thousand men, of all eélasses

of the Church and of the State, umited in à common

faith and love, formed a magnificent escort to our Euh

God carried by the Papal Legate, through our strects as ina v L=] L o

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sanctuaty tragrant with flowers and incense, under triumphal arches embellished with sacred emblems — the streets ined with thousands of reverent Worshippers, who viewed an almost celestial vision passing before their dazzled eyes. They have attempted to Portray that most solemn moment, when the venerable Cardinal, raising the Sacred Host, blessed Montreal, our Canadian Land, the whole world. — The blessing deseertded mid the solemn hush of the gathering twilight, neath the heavens which seemed to Stoop towards our earth, un the fair light of the moon, whose gentle radiance lent a iSterious beauty to the altar of white and gold, while the sweet chimes and harmonious strains floated afar on the throbbing air, And in one Spontaneous outburst came the solemn and irrevocable consecration of a whole nation to sus Christ, our immortal King : ‘O0 Christ, to thee, re dedicate our families, to Thee, our dioceses, to Thee, or children, our siek, our cherished dead. Amen, amen, uen, 7 AI hearts were stirred — 3a]] eyes were ét With tears — How grand, how sublime the Catholie

"elgion appeared ! and how fully were the Master’s words PI à

en rerlized : € When 1 am litted up from the earth,

lwill draw all men unto me. ?’ Dearly Beloved Brethren, apart from these Scenes, Dow many edifying and consoling üarked our Eucharistie Congress. How maof generous love, of penitential fervor, of self- Hon Will never be recorded, but in God's unerring Who can measure the sincere piety and intensified our people ! Thousands of Masses were daily celeour churehes and eEapels were filled with pious foshippers, and during that Holy Weck, countless communi-

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