Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)
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Father Buddy Seated fVith Book O Jen Dllring the Examination In Consecration Ceremony
\re hdiocc•se was traditionally .a pripcej I i,. otH-'-h~ heard th~ ,yard:::; ot St. au t' 1'i111oth,· that a D1shop should b, one ,,' H) ntl,,d· "·ell his own hous_e.. _(I, Tim. \ S·l) \nd he reduced ,ts uff1c1als a!1d r:·rn.i1H:r~ to ~vhat \Ya~ n~cessat~· foi· the Yari,·d duties of his high off1cde.. l Now the diocese had a Cathe 'a "mong the most resplendent '1:' . the c•,riRtian world. Although its trad1t1ons w,'n; equally glorious (as it was from the ('hair or 1filan that Ambrose ruled) v,·t just now there was in the diocese disorder confusion, neglect. Be ne<'ded p,:i!'sls_:good pri!'sls.. Yes, 1~1:v bret.\\i ren Milan needed pnests. The wo1 11 ,,r;ded them then-it needs th_em now. F,,r the pri sl is anomled oi God to save the woi·ld. He 111t)St lead :1-nd tc•ach He must warn against the h11 e- l ing. · J1 is jg the care for souls. Though diHeas<'s eome-infect1ous and deadly- vet he r<'111ains-unafra1d even though a .,th be all around h1111. He 1~1ust pr,,ach justice and mercy and t1 uth. P.. must d<'fend th rights o~ God _and thP rights 0f man. He 1s su1 e th!'leb_Y t,, arouse enmity, hatred and oppos,- 1 ;un. ~\nd, in s01ne lands, ~s 1n Russ.ta,. re, >ain and :\Texico, they thmk that fo1 I these p1·eachments he des<>rves, deat_h: Ile falls with his brothers befo1 e then bullets-but though he falls he does 1 , t f,;_11, for the b lood of the _martyr is the seed of the Church. ~eR, St. Charles needed priests. I Charl es Establishes Seminaries So he set to work to found the semi- nary. He equips it with_ learned .and devoted teachers and begms the _tram- ing of hundreds of young men. 111 the ~r-iencf' of the Saints; in learmng the truths of faith. He would have them he~ome priests "'horn he would _com- mission to g·o out to the scaLtered tlock, to the neglected churches, _to do ~he \\Tork of God. ~-\.s one sen11nary was not enough, he established seve(·al. . Next he calls together the pnests m ~,·nod. He lays before them ~he teach- iiigs of the great Council. These de- crees he helped to enact he would put inNtfvec~~e find him visiting parish aflPl' parish to see that the enactments of the Counci I were everywhere ob- sPrved. Tie was a leg·islator of s u ch 1·an' cotll'age and honesty as to believe Lhat juRt Jaws were made to be ca.r- ri~d out, and he saw that they _were. , HP doeR not asl~ of either _priests_ 01 11eople the performance of 11nposs1)lle tasks. He aids them in the known1.~ and s!'rving of God. He placed 111 Lhell hands the catechism of the _Council-a catech ism which still remams as the firRt ('atPrhism of the Chr1st1an world, and which was largely of his creation. He organized _then· work. by e_stab- lishing the C'onfl'atern1t~ ot Chi 1st1a_n 11nctrine and then, broken_ bi. lab01 RI u nrl pen a nc-es. he "'Pll t to jot n h 1s gr€'.at pi<·df•ct.•~~or, St. ~\1nbnHu•, at the ea1ly \ a.;<• of -11>. . J The1ugh d,-ad, still h~ ll\:es.. ln t '-~ p;n;ol C'it:v and_ Diocese. ol__ .\ldan ,his llH'llll)l'Y iR chen:-=-hed by a g1atc1n1 a.ndt d,•,·nt<-cl people. No need haR the grea I lthHllo of one 111ore sp1re_ to co111plete it;; form. Jt holds in its Cl')'pt the asht·R of it~ saintly and helOY"d Arch- bishop, while above_ it_ his sp~nt ho_v- ns. 1adiating bened1ct10n ove, the city c:lnd the plain.
S t . C har les Borromeo Noted for P ie ty \\ e eonH· now to the third gn .. at na1ne of the Hixt,•Pnth t'l't1tu1·y-thf: one. in- de~d. to ,, hil'h f p1·a~ your special at- tention. St. Chal'h•~ Borro1neo ,v·l:-t horn of" •)nlth,· and distingui:::.h d par- t nt . Prqn1 a· \Ynr1d_1). ::;~ntlpr...Ji1t fut111•· ho•ld lw a hr11l1aJ\t on.-, tor us ramill \\"as or tlw De '.\1edici, and his uncle· of Lhat fan1ous hou~e \Yas soon to hP prnt"lainwd Pope. He must have heen a ehild of divine predilection, be- c,rns,, evPn aR a l"hild he decided to give his hcritag,, to the poor, and his life learning and his cJ,,,,p piety-so much ~o that his uncl,', Pope Pius IV, called him at an ca1·l, age to Rome, to aid in bling t 11,, gr,'al C'nuncil of Tnmt. which had ht>Pll proroguc·d for Rev,-ral years 011 account of the dissensicns and riv- alJ'i,,s of the J,uropean Monarchs. "'hen r,'-<'Onn•nrd at his. which was the rnntiff's, call. he had its ses- ,ions lwld continuo11RIY and its varied clN'l"l'<'H nn faith and n~orals preRented the C'tJunc•ii' was ready to conclude it3 .'t. ('harks having submitted the Councils' findings to th Holy F'a- prnrnptlY set to work to promulgate the Cnun<"il to th,• Hoh F',ither. J n a few years work. obtained his approval, St. Charles Needed Priests .\ nd now, with the permission of the Ponlilt' (who had prenously appornted him Archbishop of the g1eat See of i\1ilan) ('harks asH1mes cha1 ge of that great diocese. >1nd enters on his life _i\"ole how he prepared for that work. li'orst regarding hm1self.. He had re- ceh·ed a wealth of benefices and en- dowments, and remembering the words go se ll what thou hast and give Lo th e poor, and thou shalt have treasure 111 19 :21), he divestf'd himself of them all, dividing them among the poor and t h e educational institutions. Again, as the household of the great (Matt. to God as a priPst. .\s a ~tud!'nt in the Jw bf'carne noted for his of the Universal in rf"a:-:.sen1- ('hurC"h. .\,; f;pcr0lan· or State t•l His ,\.~ork the Christian \\·orld thereby selling befon· a Church's teaching· nr, point of faitr and moralR. 'troubled people the ever,· disputed .
A rchbishop Glennon's Sermon Choosing the text. "Take heed flock, "·herein the Holy Ghost hath placed vou Bishops to rult> the Church or God, 11·hich HP hath purchased ,, ith His own Blood'' (Acts 20:28), His Ex- 1 cellency Ar ·hbishop Glennon of St. Louis said: to yourse!YPS, and to the whole
transJer!'t:d to their courti<'l'S and 1nin- ions \\·ho pn.1cl·eded 1 on stulL'n g·uods, to build up a new nobility. .\nd to com- pleLc lht> task thes<' rult·rs took to themseh·es the dut,' or ruling alii Cae~ars all that was l'.'t'l of the Kini.- dam of nod. New Learning Takes the Place of Anci ent Faith The southern countries, too, had their \\·ith the fall of Constanti- troubles.
fn sixteenth century nople the1·e came to the west, and par- thr< ,, nwn of mark hl'Y<>nrl all others ticularly to F'ranc:e and Italy, all that ('hurch-lgnatius of Ln~·ola, Philip Seri that was Greece, willl its rich tradi- Thal shLPenth <·enlury, mai·Jcmg· appeared to the scholars.of the west as 11..-011g·ht ,alianlly for nod and lloly was left of Oriental culture. :ind Cha ,1(,s 13ol'l'omeo. . lions of lang11age, laws and literature, the' tro11bll' 'l'he glory li;erninan· enthralled f the adniinislration revelation, wh1cll new a lh<' pnrl of the )fiddl<' .\g-Ps, 11act pa1·,•nt1,· grown tir,·d of, tlw ,spil'il~ial ftl)- them by its beauty. Soon nothing was in the universities and schools Hnllne~s he :--1..·t to ~o. abandoning heal'd thal ,vcre Ju,r,:.;. n-luri1 1 ,:.; ~hantn· and l'hanl,:, hr•1 psalt, l', faith and but what dated back to the pagan past northern n,1tions seek "' of Greece and Rome. Now theu· gods ne,v 1L•Jig1on, ,\·hilt~ the ~outh C'tl~tntricw caine to be reverently nan1ed. boast a new _lear111!1g-the rena,i;sance of the Ephesians grew great again, and Diana and t ! Bacchu~. Yenus and the rest had their if not. their religious, voto- Simple faith was r1d1culed, and ('hrislia,n morality fell before the as- sault of a sensual, pagan philosophy. that Christendom was the)_ "ei" distraught-no wonder that the rr.any Ji_tera1-y,_ , ,es. No wonder h, 1c-Lhc reiormat1on there. . N,,w these r,:£ornw.1s_ h~d ?- l'' they lose heart as faithful beg·an to ed to d!'nY :tnd deH~l'OY the unit~. and saw ln the north country the seamless the,·. and t_he d1Yrnel)' eslablishe~ robe of Christian faith torn asunder, Blessed Lord -!=;{imself de~la_r'.'d ,even/!he Je~rning take the pla e of the ancil'nt authority of Church. essaying lo do what ou, while elsewhere they saw the new th0rn tc> h~ d faith. 'l'l'u])· these were evil days for hurch of God. the C . M M . r ises eet en to In God Ra ises Great But in all great crises or humanity to -as Balmez says-the Almighty holds in reseiTe men great enough to meet thought the victory complete, and the Just as the reformers had ligion. lowers·: "You need neither pr1f'st nor them. Read that l'.oly prdate to guide ,·011. book." And the~· had no holy _book to unity (which the Papacy represented) work. giYe them,, because the newly 111vented was forever broken, came from ~Iont- art of pr1ntmg could not_ supply one~ martre, with the ])lessing of God and I people, while the othet the Holy Father Jgnalius and his n ine-tenths could not r,:,ad it, even if brethren· to fight the battles of the much, because it gave them a chance and south east and west, the spiritual to loot the churches and destroy the sons of St. monasteries (though these latter W('.r 8 fla.meR breathing out of the treasury o! Then what endowments in so well and to the exposition of which ,land or treasures were theirs the rulers -in school and roRtrum-they had ded- the patrimony of the poor and di!>- the ch'urch the truths they had learned tressed). tenth of the thPv had one. lt pleased their princes and n1lera l--lis Gospel and His Kingdom. North Lord to defend and sustain His name, 11 of th<' Master: "lf thou wilt be perfect, - Jg·natius radiated as living Heaven: and come fo llow e11e" ' --------------------- ic-ated their I iY~S. Down 111 the gouthe1·n countries, \,·hf're luxury (which orientalisn1 con- 1 notes), pride and the concf'its of the new learning h<>ld swa,·, there walked with con8ecration the ~aint of si1n- plicity and sanctity-Philip Neri-who laughed at their folly: "\\.hat does )"
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