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...trumpets, blew sweetly toward the dusky sky. From the Sacred Heart Church, 3,000 Roman Catholics-priests, nuns, altar-boys ringing bells, laity bearing bright banners and lighted candles -began moving in a long procession through the flower-decked streets. In the midst of the procession was the Blessed Sacrament (to Catholics, the real presence of God), borne in a monstrance under a silken canopy by vested priests. As darkness fell, the marchers reached the end of their two-mile route, the gardens of the old von Schrenk estate. There, before an altar, a priest raised his arms...
...uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained an orchestra (until 1938) for High Mass...
...illnesses in which the stomach rejects all food, Holy Communion may not be received, out of reverence for the Sacrament...
Like all good Catholics he received the sacrament of baptism in infancy, that of confirmation in youth, those of the Eucharist and penance frequently thereafter. Before serving in the World War Andre Durupt received the sacrament of matrimony. During the War he was so badly wounded that he was given extreme unction. After the War his wife died; he studied for the priesthood, took the sacrament of holy orders...
Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...