The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-12

New York, which includes the house in which
! this article is forming out Of chaos; and can
read from the front vindows, stuck upon Lamp
post Tin violation of an Or1inance) handful
which explains how it Ia DONE.
| Here follows q notice for laying ont a new
Observe now the simplicity and efficiency of
| the system. st. Stephens parish, containing
twenty-five Thousand Catholic souls, had be-
come too lSopnlous to be adequately served by
one church; aud therefore this slice "a mile long
and quarter of q mile wide, containing, per-
haps, ten thousand Catholics) is cut off from it
to form new parish. The archbishop looks
about among his clergy for alriest fitted by ma
tnre and circumstances to organize a parish and
provide for it suitable buildings. The priest se-
lected feelshimself honored by the appointment
1T Is promotion to him it is reward and stimulus.
He comes to his new field unshnckled, except
by the general laws and usages of the Church.
The same Church which tries and tests with
the priesthood trusts her priests with great
while supplying tnsm With the 1 %sst powerful
OF motives, the noble and the commonplace.
This priest has Il church to build, schools to
FORM parish to create. He has no wife: he
Church is his HEIR! Professional pride, cspr,'
| d" corps, human ambition, and all the other
ordinary motives to exertioii, coilspirr i'll this
man with benevoience and religion sine. ne
firmly and entirely believes tdLit the Roman
Catholic Church is the sweetest, loliest sub
limest thing known to nan,-his best cons"ia-
ton here and his surest happiness yontler.
In union there is strength; and yet when IL
thing IL to be done, one man must do it. Our
Roman Catholic brethren cOntrive to work at
once, with the power of auni0n of two hundred
millions of members, and with the efficient
force which only All individual can WELD. This
priest of the Uniformed parish is as independent
Us the captain of ID frigate OH his own quarter
deck, who must ever Keep an eye Oh the signals
of the admirals ship. but who when the signal
| says Go IN, lays his ship onssile and carries
the action in his own way, subject only tn
the rules of the service. This priest too, is not
required to waste his force and the best of his
time in writing brilliant sermons for the enter
tainment of IL clOyed, fastidious congregation.
His is healthier, Mianlier work. He has to do at
times with contractors, misOns, carpenters,
architects. He is out OF doors Il COED deal,
watching the progress of buildings, upon the
| erection OF which his heart is set, and the
pletion of which will crafty his pride as well
| as his bencvolence besides emitting him to
si,ration elsewhere. Seeing what q healthy
and full life these Catholic priests lead ;lo
longer wonder to find them s." round, cnn;ent",!,
cheerful, and merry.
Our priest, us in the h:,.daili hire, Il
hall, and begins. The enterpr" is self-sustain-
ing from the first day. His three masses
Sunday, his daily mass, his vesper services,
his pew rents, his fees, bring in money enough
for all expenses, and q surplus for the church
which is to I've erected At every mass there is
collection. A building committee is formed
subscription books are opened fairs are held.
on seven years, come to this new parrish, and
you shall see: 1. q large and handsome church
q good parsonage, next door to it,; 3 A five
or six story building adjoining for n parOchiul
| school, with two thousand children III it under
the instruction of the Sisters Of Charity and the
Christian Brothers. This is no eXaggeration;
for am only stating here what has actually
occurred in the next parish,-that of the Imln;c-
ulate Conception, in East Fourteenth street.
Seven years ago, when Dr.. Morrogh was APP
church, parsonage, nor school. He now has an
excellent church, which he is about to enlarge,
u sufficient parsonage, and an exceedingly spa
cious and handsome school house, wherein, by
the time these lines are read, he will have
twenty five hundred children 1t is true that DR..
M"rrugh possesses unusual executive ability;
hut, the other hand, his church is in the
heart of the tenement-house regions, and he
pr,,';.hl!' has not a hundred men in his parish
VIII" ever have a hundred dollars all at once.
Probably he can boast-and proud boast it is
fora Christian minster-that nine-tenths of
his Hook are laboring men and domts tic SER
wants. And it is these poor people who have
ings, which cannot have cost less than two hun
bred thousand dollars. Nor has it been a heavy
burden to any one but the pastor Many
night have lain awake" said he, " wondering
where the money was to from to go on
with" But for the people of the parish it was
easy enough. Are there not fifteen Thousand
of them If each contributes ten cents n week,
does it not come to seventy-eight Thousand
dollars Il year
Thus, by the nnstimuiated, quiet operation of
the system, all cities will he covered with
costly Catholic structures, which will con-
stantly increase i'll splendor and number. In
some New England villages, and in several New
England towns, the Catholic Church is already
much the most solid, spacious, and ornate eccle-
siastical editice in the place. 1t must be so
for the poor besides being generous than
the rich are hundreds of times more numerous,
and their pennies flow in n continuous stream.
Nor do they contine their gifts. to copper coin.
=" An Irish housemaid," says Il paragraph just
afoat, " has given staincd-gla window to ]
the Catholic Church at Concord, New Hamp |
shire" Nothing more credible Two servant
girls, in this very house where am writ
ing, etucated their brother for the priesthood.-t
keeping OH, year after year, spending nothing
for their personal qualification literally nothing,
but sustaining him respectfully. until &C.
static day they went off in tilnir Sunday clothes
their fac rad ant with inX. linn nlalaiucl