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"""SORROWS OF THE HOLY FATHER. 283face of our Lord was exposed the other day. While theCardinals were kneeling before this sacred portrait, whichhad been nearly effaced by time, the sad and tearful countenance of our Divine Lord reappeared in perfect distinctness. Some, indeed, refuse to believe the miracle.>Youmay as well try to make a blind man distinguish colours.By this apparition and these tears our Lord seemed tosay to the Cardinals Where is your father and My:son? They have driven him away where ; is he ? justas Mary said to St. Peter, after the death of Jesus :Where isthy Father and my Son ? I see Him nolonger. Our Lord wept for His Vicar, as a father whohas lost his son, as a husband who has lost his wife. Hehas worked a miracle in behalf of the Pope. How holy,then, must he be ! What alms can be so acceptable toGod as to give to the Holy Father ? You will have ashare in his holy prayers. Our Lord has always showna deference towards His Vicar :he is the depositary of allHis treasures. We can do nothing, therefore, more acceptable to God than to pray for His Vicar until he isrestored to his dominions. Jesus Christ asks us to do sobyHis tears."In 1830, when crosses had been broken down in someparts of France,They may do what they will,"cried he, in the midstof his catechising, with an indignant energy which electrified his hearers ;they may do what they will The!Cross is stronger than they; they will not always overthrow it. When our Lord shall appear in the clouds ofHeaven, they will not be able to pluckit out of Hishands !M. Monnin gives the following fragments from somegf the holy cure sSunday homilies on the gospel for the