St Anthony of Padua High School - Paduan Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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IEII IEII IEII IBI IEI IEI IEII IBI IEII IEII IEI ditions, once a month on any day they may choose, on the day of the monthly meetings, besides about one hundred and twenty-five other days during the year, and at the awful hour of death. Thirty-two times a year general absolution is given to the members. By reciting six Paters, Aves and Glorias, they may obtain the in- dulgences of the holy places in Rome, Jeru- salem, Compostella, and the Portiuncula. Every Mass said for a deceased member has the in- dulgence of a privileged altar. These, and many other indulgences, are attached to their prayers and good Works, and are all applicable to the souls in purgatory. Besides, members of the Third Order enjoy the benefit of the powerful intercession, before the throne of God, of the many great saints who belonged to the Third Order, and especially that of St. Francis himself, its Seraphic Founder. They will enjoy this powerful intercession not only dur- -A I ing their lifetime, but also after their death-and that as long as they need it- I should they be detained in purgatory. It would be impossible to enumerate here the long list of glorious saints and servants of God who have been enrolled in the Third Order of St. Francis. Popes, bishops, priests, emperors, kings, princes, men famous in art and literature and science, il- lustrious men and women from all walks -of life. have one and all deemed it a rare privilege and a great honor to belong to the Third Order. On this long and glori- ous list we dnd St. Eliza- beth of Hungary, Patron- ess of the Third Order Cd. 12313: St. Ferdinand Ill. King of Castile fd. 12521: St. Blanche Cd. 12547, mother of St. Louis IX, lKing of France: St. Louis IX fd. 12705, King of France and Patron of the Third Order: St. Elizabeth of Portugal Cd. 13367: St. Charles Borromeo, Cardi- nal Archbishop of Milan Cd. 15841: St. Francis Xavier Cd, 15521 of the So- ciety of Jesus: St. Francis Borgia fd. 15727 of the Society of Jesus: St. Aloy- sius Gonzaga td. 1591? of the Society of Jesus: St- FFS-flCi5 de S3185 fd. 162213 Bl. Luchesius of Poggibonsi, first Tertiary: St, Rose of Viterbo: Bl. Peter of Siena: St. Margaret of Cortona: St. Ives of Kermartin, priest and lawyer: Bl. Angela of Foligno: St. Roch of Montpellier, patron of the plague-stricken: St. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans: Bl, Thomas More, chan- cellor under Henry VIII of England and staunch defender of Papal Supremacy, martyred for the faith: Bl. John Baptist Vianney, Cure of Ars: St. Bridget of Sweden: Bd. Jane of Valois: St. Ignatius Loyola: St. Philip Neri: St, Camil- lus of Lellis: St. Jane Frances de Chantal: St. Vincent de Paul: St. Paul of the Cross: Christopher Columbus: Garcia Moreno: Fred- erick Ozanam: Frederick Faber: Cardinal New- man: Cardinal Manning: Raphael, the peerless painter: Dante, the greatest of mediaeval poets: Michael Angelo, the price of sculptors: Palestrina, the glory of musicians: and a host of others When St. Francis founded the Third Order, sensuality and avarice were rampant, and as in our day men and women shamelessly in love with the perishable things of this life. He found the mountain-like bulwarks of feudal- ism uncomprisingly inhuman: but he destroyed these impregnable bulwarks by spreading the beautiful doctrine of the fraternal charity of Christ, and by withdrawing men from unneces- sary warfare by imposing upon them the obli- gation of never taking an oath unless it were absolutely necessary. In his encyclical Sacra Propediem, issued January 6, 1921, on the happy occasion of the world-wide celebration of the seventh centenary of the institution of the Third Order, Pope Bene- dict XV said: The great and imper- ishable merits of St. Francis towards Christian- ity-for which he was justly called a support given by God to the Church in one of the most troubled periods - found their crowning in the Third Order, which, better than any other of his en- terprises, brings to light the magnitude of his ardor in propagating everywhere the glory of Jesus Christ. If this Order were once more to tiourish among us as it did in days of yore, declared Pope Leo XIII, the lawless greed for temporal things would be weakened, men would obey their lawful rulers, they would learn to con- quer their natural propen- sities to evil, they would outrage no one's rights, and the relations between rich and poor would be satisfactorily arranged. A world-wide spread of the Third Order would mean a nearer approach to a realization of that lofty dream of universal peace in a World without strife in which man's word would be worth a hundred oaths -in a World where justice and friendship and truth should prevail forever. It is no wonder, then, that the Third Order has been so earnestly recommended to all good Catholics by the Supreme Pontiffs of the Church. No less than one hundred and ten Papal documents recommend it to the faithful. Let us lay up to ourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor the moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Let us make ourselves rich, beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, for all eternity, by gathering in the inexhaustible treasures of grace which are within such easy reach of those who worthily wear the brown scapular of penance and the white cord of purity in the glorious Third Order of St. Francis. 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