Profound Silence

The little Shrine of St. Joseph's Church in Troy, New York was never so beautiful. It was laden with flowers brought by the sodalists, and where the statue of the Sorrowing Mother as she bends over the body of the dead Christ rests, the folds of her garment were hidden under masses of fragrant bloom.

There were 2,000 persons kneeling in the open air under the blue sky before this humble Shrine. There were 1,700 communicants. No cathedral ever held a silence more profound than was here.

The choirs, under the direction of Thomas F. Healey and Miss Mary Higgins, did most excellent service. At the conclusion of the Masses there was a brief intermission for lunch, and after it came the sermon of the day preached by Rev. Father Denis T. O'Sullivan, S.J., Professor of Natural Sciences, Woodstock College, Maryland: " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ f Shall tribulation, or famine, or distress, or nakedness, or danger, or persecution, or the sword.

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