The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"HowCATHOLICITY. 57equal assurance, that wherever the British drum-beatsounds, aye, and wherever the English language isspoken, there you will find the English-speaking Catholic Missionary planting the cross the symbol ofsalvationside by side with the banner of St. George.Quite recently, a number of European emigrantsarrived in Richmond. They were strangers to ourcountry, to our customs, and to our language.Every object that met their eye sadly remindedthem that they were far from their own sunnyItaly.But when they saw the cross surmountingour Cathedral, they hastened to it with a joyfulstep. I saw and heard a group of them givingearnest expression to their deep emotions. Entering this sacred temple, they felt that they hadfound an oasis in the desert. Once more theywere at home. They found one familiar spot ina strange land. They stood in the church of theirfathers, in the home of their childhood and; theyseemed to say in their hearts, as a tear trickleddown their sunburnt cheeks,lovely areThy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts !My soul longethand fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Myheart and my flesh have rejoiced in the livingGod." l They saw around them the paintings offamiliar saints whom they had been accustomedto reverence from their youth. They saw the baptismal font and the confessionals. They beheldthe altar and the altar-rails where they received1 Ps. Ixxxiii.