The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-04-11
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DIOCESE OF BALTJMoRE.-1-t Com ,laafion.
On the feast of ST. Joseph, Marsh 10. .ssY
Most Rev. Archbishop, after having. con-
firmed tive sconyeFts it 1sthsN cMetroSolisxf
Chnrch, after the q o'clock Mass, admin
lstered the Same sacrament at ST.. Joseph,s
Church, in the city, to one hundred aud
eighty-nine candidates, of whom seven
were converts. naF-
Ion PALM Sunday, in the afternoon, he
visited the spacious church of our good
Catholic colored people in Baltimore, ST.
Francis xavier's, where he confirmed one
hundred, of whom twenty-five were con
verts. osat the latter class many others are
under instruction for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mirror. .F. !.
DIOCESE OF PHILA Chestnut
HiH.--0n. the 29th uit. our Right Rev. lBish-
op visited Chestnut Hill, and confirmed
forty persons, besides receiving the vows
of seven young iadies.-- Catholic Standard.
DIOCESE OF WILMINGToN - Reiig;onsSfee-
cepti0n.-0n last Friday morning, 18th of
March, we had the pleasure of being press
ent at very interesting ceremony of the
reception, or taking the Veil, at St. Mary's
Convent of the Visitation formerly st.
Mary's College), On Delaware avenue On
entering the door, the first thing that att
tracted our eyes was the neatness- and
cleanliness everywhere displayed. The
whole interior of the building has been
changed and greatly improved. Good taste
and a love for the beautiful seem to have
presided over all the arrangements. Sister
Mary Baptista, novice, received the black
veil, constituting her a Choir Sister, whose
principal duty is to teach. Sister Mary
Stapislaus, novice, whose year of probation
had expired, received the white veil, be-
coming, q Lay Sister. AT the most solemn
and impressive part of the ceremony, when
the black pail with a large white cross
upon it was thrown over the PROSTATE
1r.ff
was chanted by all the nuns.-Delaware
Statesman. -.-. ..--.gt
| DIOCESE OF NEW YoRK.-Blessing Of
Bells. Monday witnessed one of
those grand demonstrations for which the
Church OF the Most Holy Redeemer, in
Third street, Is so famous. A grand SOL
emn Mass was celebrated in the church,
and Father Peter preached But the
marked event of the day was the blessing
of the bells, the Most Rev. Archbishop of
! ficiating. 1t is intended that these bells,
raised to their place in the steeple, shall
be fung for the first time on April 18th,
| thai being the jubilee scmicentennial of the
priesthood of our Holy Father Pope Plus
| IX.-F reemdn's Journal.
+ The Mctt's Mission" at ST. 4lphoHsuS.-
! The Mission, for men only, at st. Alphon-
sus Church, New York, opened on the 9Th
ult., was closed on the 21st. More than
three thousand men made their confessions
had never made an Easter communion, and
Others not for several years. But hardly
less signal was the good done for persons
Of the ether Th9afgh TIM sH1d
were moved by the new and good resolu-
tons of their husbands Two thousand
women, during the same week, made their
confessions at this church. ibid.
Diocese OF BuFFALo.-A correspondent
of the FfeenaaR's Journal, writing from
Lockport, N. W Marchs25th, says:
! The Rev. Robert E. ". Rice, G. NJ, Supe-
rior of the .t,College of our Lady of
! gels, lat Niagara Falls, with some other
\ priests, commenced a Mission here last
week-Lfroui balf-past 5 o'clock in the
morning until 10 or li'ociock as night. IL
was glorious sight to see the various eX-
ercises gone through. All felt deep emo
ftion in their souls, and have had the adj
fyantages of fulfilling their duties as Catho-
lies and Christians during the three days
the Mission lasted. 1t is a question If any
one in this Mission neglected to attend to
their confessions and communion.
I correspondent of the same paper, wri-
!, ting from Orange county, New York, says
In this county, ten ears ago, there sEai
! d church at Newburgh, q very small one a
Goshen, and one at Port Jervis. There ar'
now elcren. Goshen, since the advent o
|. Rev. father 9'fIaTe, has sprung forward II
Catholic matters most wonderfully. 1t Ii
= NOW INSTINCT with the ever-eHdafIBg HE o
the Church. He has, IN little more thai
year, doubled the size of the old Church
built and sustained a separate school, or
ganized fine choir, bought land for and
about to commence q fine new Church, IN
! tending, believe, the old one for schoo
! and Catholic hall has fine new Churcl
about to be opened in the village of Mont
/, gomery ; bought Methodist meeting hous
and made it Catholic Church, in War
, witch and has, as find, made himsel
popular with all classes of his fellow -citi
:, zeDs. .a A-S 'tla
! Some seven miles, 1 think, from. Goshe
is Middletown, very. enterPrising village
growing surprisingly in wealth, power an
Iopnlationa It, too, has live priest, Fla
Z. Their Andrew 0,Reilly. He has built
: handsome and commodious church; wher
a congregation attends Mass and the othe
!, services incident to the Church's practice
J that is really, for the place, tonish IN
! He has q cemetery, ample room for schools
7 and a beautiful grove in the rear of tn
! land westward, used for pic mics and othe