The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

372 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.Therefore she has her solemn processions. She ha*her heavenly music to soften the heart and raiseit to God. She consecrates her sacred banners,especially the cross, the banner of salvation. Shepreaches with a hundred tongues, speaking not onlyto our heads and hearts by the Word of God, batto our feelings and imagination by her grand andimposing ceremonial.CHAPTER XXV.CEREMONIES OF THE MASS THE MISSALLANGUAGE LIGHTS FLOWERS INCENSEVESTMENTS.LET us now, dear reader, walk together into aCatholic Church, in time to assist at the lateMass, which is the most solemn service of the Catholic Liturgy. Meantime,I shall endeavor to explain to you the principal objects which attractyour attention.As we enter, I dip my fingers in a vase placed atthe church door, and filled with holy water, and Imake the sign of the cr*)ss, praying at the sametime to be purified from all defilement, so that witha clean heart Imay worship in God s holy temple.The Church, through her ministers, blesses everything used in her service ; for, St. Paul says, that"eirery creature of God is good,. . . that is received