THE COMING EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 876, 23 July 1910, Page 9

THE COMING EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

, GBEAT PREPARATIONS. The "Catholic ■Times"' states:—The Diitliolic papers', of Canada and. th< United States arc alreadygiving n con iklerable space to news of the prepara;ions for the- Eucliarisi'ic Congress ai Montreal. The celebration bids fair tc •ival in importance even the great gatherings in London and Cologne, and x> mark an epoch in Catholic progress n North America. The Finance Comliittoe, at tlte head of which is Si: Thomas. O'Siiauglmessy, the president if -tile great Canadian Pacific H-ailwaj Jompany, lias had ab'undant resources ilaeed at its disposal by the generous iontriliutioiis of all classes. But the >ssentiall,v devotional character of'the Congress'is kept in the first place, and ,\'C hear of Masses, public prayers, Ex>ositions of the Blessed Sacrament, jen'eral ■ Communions' all , over Canada, ifl'ered to secure the. success of tlie uidcrtaking and permanent results from ihe celeb ra-tion. Preparations . are in wogross for the decoration-of the city in a scale, never before attempted. Train loads of flowers will come from ill parts of Canada and the northern states of the American Union, and on :-ho day of the procession the streets if Montreal will bo carpeted with tons >f ilowers. Each province of Canada vill set up its own triumphal arch. For ;hiit of the great grain-procliicinn; pro'iiico of Alberta, the farmers will seect the best oars of wheat from their arms. These will bo bound into iheaves and built into the arch, and lunches of grapes will lie fixed on it t<l orni the inscription, "Homage from the ■'rovincp of Alberta." After the.pro•ession the wheal of the triumphal arch vill bo threshed and ground and the lour made into altar breads for the ihurches of Montreal.