ore the Father in
spirit commands also that public praise be given to Him in His holy
temple: "Praise ye the Lord," He says, "in His holy places.... Praise Him
with sound of trumpet. Praise Him with psaltery and harp. Praise Him with
timbrel and choir. Praise Him with strings and organs."(422)

If He says in one place: "Rend your hearts and not your garments,"(423)
immediately after He adds: "Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly. Gather together the people, sanctify the
Church.... Between the porch and the altar the Priests, the Lord's
ministers, shall weep and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare Thy
people!"(424) The Prophet first points out the absolute necessity of
interior sorrow and contrition of heart, and then he insists on the duty
of performing some acts of expiation, penance and humiliation, as you do
when you have your forehead marked with ashes on Ash Wednesday, and when
you observe the fast and abstinence of Lent.

When St. Paul says that though he speak with the tongues of angels and of
men, and distribute all his goods to feed the poor, and deliver his body
to be burned, and have not the love of God, it profiteth him nothing,(425)
he points out the necessity of interior worship. And when he says
elsewhere that "in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those that
are in heaven, on earth and under the earth,"(426) he shows us the duty of
exterior or ceremonial worship.

When political leaders desire to influence the masses in their favor they
are not content with addressing themselves to the intellect. They appeal
also to the feelings and imagination. They have torchlight processions,
accompanied by soul-stirring music discoursing popular airs. They have
flags and banners floating in the breeze. They have public meetings, at
which they deliver patriotic speeches to arouse the enthusiasm of the
people.

What these men do for political reasons the Church performs from the
higher motives of religion. Therefore, she has her solemn processions. She
has her heavenly music to soften the heart and raise it to God. She
consecrates her sacred banners, especially the cross, the banner of
salvation. She preaches with a hundred tongues, speaking not only to our
head and heart by the Word of God, but to our feelings and imagination by
her grand and imposing ceremonial.

Chapter XXV.

CEREMONIALS OF THE MASS.

Let us now, dear reader, walk t