The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1871-06-18

| in the hearts of their devoted parishion-
ers and whose sterling virtues have made
their names household words in every hamlet
| of Louisiana
But to return to the subject in hand-the
ordinations. On Wednesday were conferred
Tonsure, Minor Orders and Subdeaconship.
Tonsure, which consists in the cropping of the
hair, as indicative of worldly renunciation,
and in the receipt of the ecclesiastical habit,
! though not of itself an order, yet is not, as
many would have US suppose, mere "monkish
| invention" but of Apostolic institution, as is
patent from the fact of its numbering among
| the decretals of Anacletus, the third successor
| of st. Peter. Next followed the four Minor
Orders, the receipt of which entitled the re-
cipient to the exercise of the various offices of
Lector, Porter, Exorcist, Acolyte, and whose
| apostolic origin few would have the hardi-
| hood to gainsay. These being conferred, six
young men, vested in alb, cincture and amice,
| with daimatics, and manip1es on their left
arms, ranged themselves in front of the altar,
whore they listened with riveted attention to
the dread monition of the 'ordaining prelate,
the substance of which we translate from
a ceremonial, kindly furnished us on the
occasion: Dearly beloved children, who are
now about to be raised to the sacred order of
1
ponder over again and again, and weigh with
care the awful responsibility which to-day, of
your own free will and choice, you seek at my
hands, Thus far were you free, and was it
permitted you, according to your own iudg-
ment, to give yourself up to q secular avoca-
tion, but once that you shall have received
this order no longer will it be lawful for you to
retrace your steps, and divest yourselves of its
| onus, nay rather, 1T shall henceforth be yours
| to serve perpetually your God, to enter into q
sublime intercourse with Him, and, He aiding,
to lead life of angelic celibacy, and to be for
ever bondmen in the ministry of His Church.
Hence, while time remains, reflect, and il. after
serious consideration, you still persevere in
your holy resolve, advance hither in the name
of the Lord" At these words all, i'm
PEELED by the same quickening spirit, took the
irrevocable step, and cast themselves PROSTATE
before that tabernacle in which their God was
ensbrined, and there renounced forever that
world from which they had thus voluntarily
estranged themselves. When the Archbishop,
crozier in hand and with mitred brow, stood
above those prostrate young men, and with a
voice which age has but mellowed and har-
monized, thrice repeated these words I" Hos
electos benedcere sanctifcare ct consecrare
digneris," we could not help permitting our
selves to be borne by historic memory far up
the stream of ages, and exclaiming, "Oh, |
changeless Church! all is mutable here below
save thee! History. the gray-haired sentinel
of Time, tells that these are the same
ceremonies which he witnessed centuries long |
gone by in the cathedral churches of the Am |
broses, the Augustines and the Chrysostoms, and
that here, on this altar is their successor, like
to them in vesture and feature, and here also, a
prostration similar to that of Saul on the palm
and cedar-crowned road to Damascus. The
litany of the Saints have been recited, and their
intercession in behalf of the aspirants in
voked, all arose, advanced towards the Arch
bishop, and received at his hands the chalice, |
vestment, amice and maniple, the insignia of
the order to which they had been promoted. |
For the Deaconate and Priesthood we need add
little, though the ceremonies and the ordained
were less in number, yet the obligations in tho
reception of any of the Sacred Orders are of q
like binding nature. However, we must say to
the newly-ordained who on Saturday morning,
were commissioned to preach the Gospel to the
poor, to heal the contrite of heart" to bring
consolation to the miserable, to stand at the
bedside and cheer the heeting soul in her
struggles to burst her prison bonds, and smooth
with words of hope her passage to that region
separated from us by an impenetrable and
mysterious veil, go girt with the "armor of the
Lord" to battle against the hydra-headed
world which wages an eternal warfare against
Truth, and assails yeiigion with fury which
seems to grow with it's age and wax strong
with it's iniquity. The following are the names
| of the ordained:
Tomsure-Messrs. jeremiah Moynihan, Victor
Boudard, Blaise Branche, Adolph F. Chapuis,
Augustus Jobard, Prosper Laporte.
Minor Orders-Mr. jeremiah Moynihan.
Subdeacons-Rev Henry Ozanne, Rev. Michael
Bardy, Rev. William Heaphy, Rev. John Du-
mas, Rev. Jamas G. Footte, Rev. Jeremiah
Moynihan.
Beacons-Rev. Henry Ozanne, Rev. Michael
Bardy, Rev. William Heaphy
-Priesthood-Rev. Henry Ozanne, Rev. Michael
Bardy, Rev. William Heaphy.