Father Ralph (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Father RalphStephen's Green Park where he slept, or lay silently watching the ducks, while Ann Carty told her beads. When eleven o'clock mass was over at Clarendon Street, he was taken to the Carmelite church. Ann took him out of his pram, and bore him in her arms to the rails of the high altar, where she knelt and prayed. She entered whole-heartedly into his mother's schemes for his future, and always said a special round of the beads that he should be a good priest. Very soon he began to notice the dead Christ in its glass case under the table of the high altar. When his eyes caught it, he stretched out his arms and gurgled. The first day it happened Ann hurried home with the wonderful story to Mrs. O'brien, who came herself next day to see the miraculous happening.As he grew older, even before he was able to walk, Ann took him to eleven o'clock mass. The heavy incense-laden atmosphere kept Ralph quiet and sleepy. Ann told his mother, he had that reverence for the house of God that he never let a cry out of him. When awake his eyes were fixed on the high altar at which the priest was celebrating mass. An ordinary observer would perhaps attribute this to the attraction of the light, but to Ann he was taking it all in, and learning how to say the mass one day himself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.