A Perpetual Mass

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 52, 26 December 1907, Page 17

A Perpetual Mass

~ Mass is always being celebrated somewhere. Car- ~ dinal Vaujghaoi, in his little work; ' The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, 1 states that "from early morning until midday (speaking for Europe and" Western Africa) the Holy Sacrifice is offered upon a hundred thousand altars. From.. B or 9 a 1 clock (in England) -till evening it is offered .throuiglbout the States and countries of Nor'thi and ' South America. From 4 o'clock until midnight in Europe Mass is celebrated throughout the lands of Australia, New Zealand, /the Philippines^ Japan, Corca, China, 'TonquH and Biirmah. . From 10 p.m. (English time) until morning, Mass is said in British India, Palestine, Abyssinia, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Levant. " .. In addition, Mass is said on some ships in passenger - service, and in some men-of-war vessels on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Hence, it is true that the rising sun (always rising somewhere) beams- down upon some altar with Jesus^ upon it. Thus is- verified the prophecy of Malachy (I.'ii) : 1 From the rising of the sun even to th? .going down thereof, My name is great among the geniiles, and in every place there is- sacrifice, and there is offered to" My name a clean oblation. -