VAST ASSEMBLY

Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 5

VAST ASSEMBLY

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS THIRTY-EIGHTH OCCASION. PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE. c (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) BUENOS AIRES, October 10. > The 32nd International Eucharistic i i Congress was opened today by Car- . dinal Pacelli before the Continent’s i greatest assemblage. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from; all parts of the world gathered about a cross 100 feet high at Palermo Park. Four : other cardinals, and hundreds of , bishops, priests, diplomats and Cabinet; members, participated. A choir of 500 j sang as the Papal Legate arrived, j Before the huge white symbol of {Christianity gleaming in the bright spring sunshine, Cardinal Pacelli breathed a prayer for world peace. “White eucharistic forms of innumerable grains of wheat compenetrated in indissoluble union, are the symbol of what, according tp Jesus Christ, men should be,” said the Cardinal. “By this, on kneeling in these days before the Immaculate Host, from each heart should issue an ardent cry, a universal cry, which in the world's most diverse tongues will be joined in one voice to exclaim: ‘Jesus Christ, King of Peace, concede true peace to the world.’ ” CHILDREN AT COMMUNION. TOTAL 117,000. m (Received 11.30 a.m.) BUENOS October 11. Four Cardinals at the Eucharistic Congress today officiated as 117,000 white-robed children received the communion distributed by 250 priests from the altars of the four sides of ( a mammoth cross in Palermo Park.