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THE TABLET Weekly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS
Prom the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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R eg is t e r e d at th e General P ost Of f i c e as a New s pa per
New s and No t e s ...................333 The Gates of H e l l ................. 337 From The Tablet of Ninety Years A g o ............................ 338 Ch e s s ...........................................3 39 The Cloisters of Bavaria . . . 339 L e n t e n P astorals : Hexham and Newcastle . . . 342 Lancaster ............................ 342 Menevia* ............................ 344 Com in g E v e n t s ...................3 44 Cardinal Bourne in Ireland 345
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BB. John Fisher and Thomas More ................. 345 I he Free Church Council 345 BB. John Fisher and Thomas More ................. 346 “ The Bureau ” 346 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 349 Obituary ............................350
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W i l l s ........................................... 351 “ The Hill of Golgotha” . . . 351 Catholic Education Notes . . . 352 St. Barnabas’, Molesey: The New Church ................. 353 E t C e t e r a ...............................3 54 Or b i s Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 355 Ireland ............................ 356 Belgium ............................356
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Canada .............. China .............. France .............. Malta .............. Oceania .............. P e r u ......................... San Salvador Sicily .............. Turkey .............. Y ugo s la v ia ............ Soc ia l and P ersonal
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NOTANDA Two English Martyrs. A translation of the decree for the reopening of the Cause for the Canonization of BB. John Fisher and Thomas More (p. 346). A letter from the Vice-Postulator (p. 345).
Grave words about the Anti-God poison. How it is already working in the veins of British citizens (p. 337). Continuity in the Free Church Council. The new President’s fidelity to an old tradition of levity in re and rudeness in modo (p. 334).
Mr. Buffard’s calumnies. A letter from the Secretary of the National Bible Society of Scotland (p. 335). Religion in rural Italy. A Passionist sermon and its fine sequel (p. 336). “ Better L u ck ” for Easter. The Tablet’s liturgical Note-writer offers a suggestion (p. 333).
The Albert Hall demonstration against the timber-camp atrocities. Notes on the meeting (p. 351).
Some Bavarian monasteries described and illustrated (p. 339).
NEWS AND NOTES F ROM Christians’ as well as from worldlings’ lips, we have heard many times lately some such words as : “ No, I can’t get away this Easter, worse luck.”
Happily it will be easy for Catholics to turn the supposed worse luck into better luck than ever. Too poor to buy tickets for France or Spain or Italy, we are all of us rich enough to spend Passiontide in Palestine. The Introit of next Saturday’s Mass rings out the invitation : “ You th a t have no money, come and drink with joy.” No stormy
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Channel-crossing, no bone-racking, all-night trainjourney, no wrangles with inn-keepers and guides await those of us who resolve to spend Passion Week and Holy Week and Easter with the Church. Thousands of those who may read these Notes live in London, or some other great city where the ceremonies prescribed for this season are loyally carried out in many a big church. Let us spend as much time in buying a Holy Week Book as we have often spent in buying a Continental Bradshaw ; let us pore over the first as eagerly as we have pored over the second ; let us be as punctual a t the ceremonies as we have been a t dinners and operas ; and we shall no longer say th a t 19 3 1 has brought us " worse luck.”
Many persons, it is true, live far from great churches. Perhaps the tiny church of their village is served by an aged priest with no helpers accustomed to ceremonial. Others, through ill-health or other causes, cannot even hear one Mass. But all of us, by making the Holy Week Book a true “ manual ”—a book always in the hand—can go up with our Divine Redeemer to Jerusalem. Although we may have to follow the most humdrum occupations, under non-Catholic employers who would lift their eyebrows at us if we asked for leave of absence on Maundy Thursday morning, we can still have these spiritual joys. Super vias pascentur, et in omnibus planis pascua eorum, is the promise of next Saturday’s Lesson : “ Along the ways they shall feed and on every plain shall their pastures be.”
The King of Spain is on his way to England. Although the visit is private, we may properly offer to His Majesty the respectful welcome of English Catholics and of many other Englishmen as well. That the King, whose unfailing devotion to his onerous duties is known to everybody, should be able to leave Spain just now is a further proof th a t we gave our readers accurate guidance when we warned them against lending their ears to wild rumours of anti-Monarchist origin. Evidence
