HOSPITAL SUNDAY

Evening Star, Issue 22033, 20 May 1935, Page 12

HOSPITAL SUNDAY

SERMOH AT ST, JOSEPH'S

Hospital Sunday was marked, -by Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph s Cathedral yesterday morning, when His Lordship Bishop Whyte presided. Father Hally, hospital chaplain, was the celebrant, and Right Rev. Monsignor Mofkaine assistant priest. Revs. G. Hussey and D. Burke, deacon and sub-deacon respectively, Fathers Hanrahan and M'Mahon deacons at the throne, and Rev. Dr M. J. Klimeck, M.C.

The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr Klimeck, who first of all thanked the representatives of the medical and nursing profession for their attendance at the Cathedral and on behalf of the Bishop, expressed appreciation of their interest in the Catholic celebration of Hospital Sunday. In - his sermon Dr Klimeck dealt with the 'healing of the sick and afflicted ana the ' curing of the diseased, as practised by , Christ during His public ufe on earth; Reference to sacred Scripture, he said, revealed' that the care of the sick bad been a very large part of the work of our Lord. Applying Christ’s example to present day conditions, Dr Klimeck said there were two classes of people for whom the example set in the Gospel story would provide a model—on , the one, hand priests and religious, who carried fourth the word of God, and ■on the other hand doctors and nurses. All of these carried out works of mercy --either spiritual or corporal-r-based upon the teaching and ideals set by Christ Himself. People did not expect to see frequent manifestation of God’s power through miracles-at the present day, for. the miracles revealed in the. Gospels were exceptional and performed for a specific purpose; and although there remained ample evidence of that power in the occasional miraculous happenings at Lourdes, God had also left in the hands of medical men the natural means whereby His work could be carried on.

Dr klimeck stressed the necessity for the Christian spirit to prevail in all the efforts of the medical and nursing professions. “It would be a sad day for the sick and suffering,” he,said, “when the spirit of Christ—the spirit of pity, coinpassion, mercy, and charity-—to-wards the sick and suffering should wholly depart from those who, by their calling, are charged to care for them.”