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             SERMON DELIVERED BY BISHOP CLEMENS             
          AUGUST COUNT OF GALEN ON JULY 13, 1941,           
        AT THE CHURCH OF ST. LAMBERT, MUENSTER i.W.         
 
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             My dear Catholics of St. Lambert:              
 
                                                            
 
 
Today I had intended to speak my personal episcopal message from the   
pulpit of the town and market church concerning the events of the past week,  
and especially to express my very deep sympathy to my former congregation.    
The devastation and losses have been particularly great in certain parts of  
the parish of St. Lambert's, though also in other parts of the town.  I hope  
that some of the istress will be alleviated by the efforts of the municipal  
and state authorities and also by your brotherly love and the results of   
ay's collections for the Charitable Fund and the Parish char
 
                                                            
 
 
I had made up my mind to speak a few words aout the purpose of these  
visitations, how God tries by this means to call us back to Himself.  God   
wants to call Munster to him.  How truly our forefathers were at home with   
God and in God's holy Church|  How entirely their lives were borne up by  
faith in God, led by the fear and the love of God, bublic life as well as  
family and society life|  Has it been thus in our own days?  God wants to  
               fetch Munster home to Himself|               
 
                                                            
 
 
I had menat to speak to you on these lines today but I must leave that  
aside now, for I find it necessary to speak here pblicly for another matter,  
a terrible occurrence which overtook us yesterday at the end of this week of  
                          horror.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
The whole of Munster is still beneath the shadow of the terrible devastation  
                which the outside enemy and