THE NAME OF JESUS HONORED IN THE ROSARY.

January, the month of the Holy Infancy, is also the month of the Holy Name. Rosarians practice an excellent devotion to the adorable name of Jesus by reverently pronouncing it in the Hail Mary. Pius IX granted an indulgence of five years and 200 days to members of the Confraternity for each time they thus devoutly utter the name of Jesus whilst reciting the Rosary.

THE FINDING OF THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE.

This feast will fall on January 8th. Although the Church has not numbered. it among the Mystery Feasts, still it should be to Rosarians a day of special devotion and special meditation on the Fifth Joyful Mystery. The following The following homily of the Seraphic Doctor, St. Bonaventure, constitutes the second lessons of this feast in the Dominican Breviary.

"Since what is loved much is not lost without great sorrow, painful beyond measure must have been the dolor that afflicted Mary's heart when she was deprived for three days of the sweet presence of her Jesus. When overcome with the fatigue of the day's search, the afflicted mother had no-rest, but through the long night wept and prayed that she might find again her missing Son. When the third day put an end to that bitter martyrdom and Mary beheld again the gracious face of Jesus, how her maternal. heart bounded with joy. But let us listen to her words. They disclose to us her very soul, and teach us how the Christian should speak, think, and act when Jesus seems to have abandoned him and left him a prey to sorrow.

"In words of loving expostulation she addressed Him: 'My Son, why hast Thou done so to us?' Notice the sweetness of that salutation, 'My Son.' Jesus was indeed a good Son, the joy and gladness of His Mother's life, and Mary knew

how well He deserved her gracious address. By her interrogation she did not wish to reprove Jesus, but only to make known to Him the grief she had experienced during His absence from her, on account of the love she bore Him, as her next words testify: 'Behold I and Thy father have sought Thee sorrowing.'

"Ah, glorious Virgin, can we wonder that thy soul was plunged in an abyss of sorrow and desolation, thou who hadst lost thy Beloved? For, though thou didst experience many dolors, none was to thee more painful than this one. The three days' loss pierced thy soul with a triple sword: it snatched from thee the presence of thy Child, making thee suffer alone, at a distance from Jesus, thy Comforter, and without knowing where He was; it racked thy afflicted spirit with forebodings of the terrible Passion; it renewed with special vividness in thy mind the sad prophecy of Simeon, that and be rejected. thy nation should contradict thy Son

"But the sorrow of Mary was not morbid or hysterical. It did not deter her from duty. 'We sought Thee.' Jesus had not been lost through negligence, but he was found by diligence. Carefully the silent, sorrowful mother sought her Son, blaming only herself as unworthy of so great a treasure. Not for an instant during these three long days did Mary's belief in Jesus waver, her love for Him diminish, or her hope of finding Him become less confident.”

HOLY ROSARIANS.

January 7.-V. Paula of St. Teresa, O. S. D., a member of the Convent of St. Catherine of Siena, in Naples, a woman illustrious for sanctity and miracles, was one of the most zealous clients of the Rosary of her age. She had a particular devotion to St. John the Evangelist, and it was her lifelong prayer to him that the devotion of the Rosary might be rescued from the neglect into which it

had then fallen. On the night of the Nativity, in the year 1617, the holy apostle appeared to her in a vision, assured her that her prayers had been heard, and that Father Timothy Ricci, a holy Dominican then preaching with great success in Naples, would become the apostle and restorer of the Rosary. The prediction was fulfilled. Father Ricci became the founder of the Perpetual Rosary, and propagated the devotion of Our Lady's beads with such wonderful success that Fr. Nicholas Ridolfi, then Master-General of the Dominicans, spoke of him in an encyclical letter as "a second blessed Alanus." All of his contemporaries affirm that his vocation to preach the Rosary seemed certainly

divine. Sister Paula died in the odor of sanctity in the year 1657.

January 9.-V. Mary of the Blessed Trinity, of the Third Order of St. Dominic, while kneeling before the Rosary altar in the town of Arcena, near Seville, was commissioned by our Blessed Lady to found a monastery in honor of the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. The community was to consist of fifteen nuns, living under the rule of St. Dominic. All were to be called Mary, with a surname added from one of the fifteen mysteries. Each day the Rosary was to be recited in two choirs, just as monastic communities chant the Divine Office. This foundation was approved by the Superiors of the Order, but the monastery was not built till after the death of the holy foundress. Through the Rosary, V. Mary liberated many souls from purgatory, among them her father, who appeared to her on the Saturday before the first Sunday of the month, three weeks after his death, and asked her to recite for him with her mother and sister the entire Rosary after the Rosary Procession of the following day, on which he would be admitted to eternal joy. After having drawn up wise rules for her community, V. Mary de

parted this life in 1660 and was buried in her convent cloister.

January 10.-V. John Lopez, O. P., Bishop of Monopoli, in Italy (1524-1632), illustrious for his profound piety and vast erudition, is no less famous for his devotion to the Rosary. Among his numerous ascetical works, he has left several excellent treatises on the Rosary that are much prized to this day.

January 23. Authors commonly agree that it was St. Raymond of Pennafort, O. P., (1175-1275) who induced Pope Gregory IX to extend the celebra

tion of the Feast of the Annunciation to the whole Church. Until the reign of Pope St. Pius V, this feast was also the feast day of the Rosary Confraternity.

January 29.-When St. Francis de Sales was a youth of seventeen years, at the University of Paris, one of the most remarkable and critical events of his life took place. A terrible temptation to despair suddenly assaulted him, and lasted not less than six weeks. The idea took possession of his mind that he was not in a state of grace, and that, consequently, there was a frightful probability of his being eternally lost. The gulf of hell seemed to open before him at the very time when scarcely a deliberate venial sin had stained his soul. His health began to fail. He became wasted to a skeleton, and went about haggard and trembling, like one whose energies were breaking up. At length this great cross disappeared as suddenly as it came. Francis had entered his name in the Confraternity of the Rosary, and, going one day to the Church of St. Etiennedes-Grés, he vowed before the altar of Our Lady to recite every day of his life her Rosary, if through her intercession it might please God to restore peace to his mind. All at once he experienced tranquillity of soul. The dark thoughts that had hung over him for so many weeks seemed to depart from his mind, even as the scales fell from the eyes of St.

Paul when his sight was miraculously restored. He came out from the church in sweet and profound calmness of mind which he ever afterwards preserved. His vow of reciting the chaplet was faithfully fulfilled. Every day he devoted a whole hour to the recitation of the Rosary, a practice which even the manifold cares of the episcopal office never interrupted. As Bishop of Geneva, he greatly edified his flock by always wearing his beads suspended from his girdle and by devoutly joining in the Rosary procession on the first Sunday of each month. In his dying moments, when his power of speech was leaving him, the saint requested the Rosary to be recited in a loud voice, he himself meanwhile holding his beads and meditating on the loved mysteries. During life he had imitated what those mysteries contain, and shortly he was to obtain what they promise. Thus died a saint of the Rosary. Francis de Sales is ranked among the Doctors of the Church, and yet the Rosary, that simple prayer-which scoffers sometimes call "the prayer of the illiterate" was his favorite devotion.

CALENDAR OF CONFRATERNITY INDUL

GENCES FOR JANUARY.

January 1-First Sunday: (1) C. C., prayer for Pope during attendance at Rosary Processions, visit to Rosary Chapel (plenary). (2) C. C., prayer for Pope during visit to Confraternity Church or Chapel (plenary). (3) C. C., attendance at Exposition of Blessed Sacrament in Confraternity Church, prayer for Pope in Confraternity Church (plenary). (4) Presence at Rosary Procession (7 years and 280 days). (5) Additional, for taking part in Rosary Procession. (160 days).

Feast of Circumcision: (6) Visit five altars of any church or public oratory (or, if it has not five altars, make five visits to one or more altars), and say at each visit five Our Fathers and five Hail

Marys for the intention of the Holy Father (station indulgence of 30 years and 1200 days).

January 6 Feast of the Epiphany: (1) C. C., prayer for Pope during visit to Confraternity Church or Chapel (plenary). N. B.-The time for this visit extends from noon of January 5 till sunset of January 6. (2) Station indulgence of 30 years and 1200 days on same conditions as for January 1st.

January 23-Feast of St. Raymond of Pennafort, O. P.: Attendance at the singing of the Salve Regina in Confraternity Church. If it is the custom, a lighted candle should be held in the hand. Otherwise one Hail Mary should be substituted (3 years and 1200 days). N. B.Those who are legitimately impeded from being present at this devotion may nevertheless gain the indulgences by reciting the "Hail, holy Queen, etc.," on bended knees before an altar or image of the Blessed Virgin.

January 29-Last Sunday of the month: Recitation with others at least three times within the week, of five mysteries of the Rosary, either at home or in church, C. C., prayer for Pope in any church or public oratory (plenary).

January 1-31-Rosarians who meditate for at least fifteen minutes every day during the entire month, may gain a plenary indulgence once, the day to be chosen by themselves. Conditions, C. C.

January 1-31-Rosarians who regularly celebrate or hear the votive Mass of the Most Holy Rosary (it may be said. twice in the week) may gain a plenary indulgence once a month, the day to be chosen by themselves. Conditions, C. C.

January 1-31-If the feast of the titular saint of a Confraternity Church (the saint whose name the church bears) should occur, Rosarians may gain a plenary indulgence on that day. Conditions, C. C., prayers for the Pope during visit to Rosary Chapel or image of the Blessed Virgin in the church.

To our friends and readers all, a Happy New Year!

Among their new year's resolutions. we ask our friends and readers to include this: "For God's honor and glory, and love of our Lady of the Rosary, I shall say five decades of the Beads daily." Such a resolution can easily be kept, even by those most occupied with worldly cares; its fulfillment shall certainly be rewarded by blessings abundant, spiritual and temporal.

We ask each of our readers to endeavor to extend the influence of THE ROSARY MAGAZINE during the coming year. You know the purpose of the magazine; you realize, dear reader, the pleasure it has afforded and the service it has rendered you. Will you not, then, kindly speak of it to a friend and ask him to subscribe? Doubtless, many of your friends are not familiar with the ROSARY and its merits-some, even, may not know of its existence. You can call their attention to it, and impress upon them the importance and the necessity of their cooperation in the work that we are doing for the cause of Catholic literature. Our labors during the past year have been singularly blessed and largely rewarded. Thousands of letters from grateful subscribers have come to us, commending and praising our aims.

and achievements and wishing us Godspeed.

Our plans for the coming year contemplate improvements along every line -and the future progress of the magazine shall be commensurate with its substantial approval and support. The more subscribers we have, the better able we shall be to produce a periodical in every way worthy of the Catholic name, a periodical which shall reflect and measurably embody the highest Catholic ideals.

It is not surprising to those who are accustomed to look beneath the surface of things to learn that crime is rapidly increasing in America. Nor does it require deep philosophic insight nor extraordinary penetration to perceive the reasons for this lamentable state of

affairs. It is, indeed, a sad commentary on our social system, and a rude shock, withal, to our complacent notions of national superiority, to be assured by statisticians that America enjoys the unenviable distinction of being first among the nations of the earth in the perpetration of high crimes, and is outranked in criminality only by a small section of Italy. But history repeats itself. And these terrible conditions were inevitable. No nation can long endure which is not builded on the strong and sure foundations of morality, and

morality is impossible without religion. When shall the eyes of our statesmen and true lovers of their country and their kind be opened to the light of reason, and when shall the state grant substantial recognition to the sound and logical Catholic contention regarding religious instruction in the schools?

Strange and inexplicable is the attitude of some Catholics in regard to the Catholic press. They subscribe for neither Catholic magazine nor paper, on the plea that either they have no time. to read them or can not afford to pay for them. They find means, however, to procure, and have abundant leisure to devour, the sensational daily paper with its record of crimes and scandals-they have hours to waste over the ponderous Sunday journals with their colored supplements of pictorial nonsense and low and indecent and degrading caricatures; they have time and money to squander on the theatre-and the cheap and vulgar and demoralizing vaudeville, perhaps; money they have to gratify their dainty or perverted appetites, and indulge their extravagant tastes; they have money for the latest and silliest novel, and time to ponder it. But for Catholic literature they have neither time, money -nor inclination. Fortunately, how

ever, and to the honor of Catholics be it

said, this class is constantly growing smaller; and intelligent Catholics everywhere are manifesting a keener appreciation of Catholic literary effort, and are making greater sacrifices to encourage and support it.

Much has been said and written of late on the so-called "yellow peril." This "round, unvarnished tale" from the

Reverend Thomas J. Campbell, S. J., is simple truth, and indicates the real peril that confronts the American people to-day:

"Speculations are rife as to the probable outcome of the struggle at Port Arthur. If the Japanese are successful in the war now being waged in the East, will there be a 'yellow peril?' Will there be a tidal wave of pagan invasion that will shake the foundations of civilization? Probably not. But if the people of America keep on in the way they have been moving for past years, so far as marriage and divorce are concerned, there will be no civilization to destroy. Where there are no Christian families there is no Christian civilization. France is now engaged in a relentless war against Christianity, but America is doing more in the matter of divorce to destroy Christian civilization than all Europe."

If our separated brethren would abandon their impossible and altogther untenable position on the question of marriage and divorce, and cease to temporize with God's eternal and inexorable laws, the vexed and serious problem would promptly solve itself. "What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." Modern religionists and American Solons can not improve on this Divine decree.