The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"THE USE OF RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.37land not your garments,"1immediatelyaftei lieadds: "Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast,call a solemn assembly. Gather together the people,sanctify the Church Between the porch andthe altar, the priests, the Lord s ministers, shallweep, and shall say : Spare, O Lord, spare Thypeople."2When St. Paul says, that though he speak withthe tongues of angels and of men, and distributeall his goods to feed the poor, and deliver his bodyto be burned, and have not the love of God, itprofiteth him nothing, 3 he points out the necessityof interior worship. And when he says elsewherethat in the name of Jesus every knee should bendof those that are in heaven, on earth, and under theearth,"*monial worship.he shows us the duty of exterior or cereWhen political leaders desire to influence themasses in their favor, they are not content with addressing themselves to the intellect. They appealalso to the feelings and imagination. They havetorchlight processions, accompanied by soul-stirringmusic discoursing popular airs. They have flagsand banners floatingin the breeze. They havepublic meetings, at which they deliver patrioticspeeches to arouse the enthusiasm of the people.What these men do for political reasons, theChurch performs from the higher motives of religion.1Joel ii. 13. Ibid. ii. 15-17. I. Cor. xiii.* Phil. ii. 10.