Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-14

rug translation of reply of Pope Plus IN.
to large delegation of Irish ecclesiastic>
and laymeu that presented him an address
ON the first Sunday after New Years Day
/ THE frLL rENT or THE HOLY FATHER S ADDRESS
ro THE IRISH.
We haye since received a copy of-the res
| ponse of the Holy Father to the address
1 presented o. him ON the 5th of January
/ The address, which Is said 10 have been very
| beautiful. was read bl the Hon. Mr. Ialor,
of Kerry The Holy Father replied a~ fol-
I lows
This adlre~-. IN which the heart surpas,e,
the work OF the pen, this address you have
| Just read, symboliles the faith of Ireland,
and the attachment and the tenderness Of
/ thi, noble people for the Vicar of Jesus
/ Christ for all it, expressions are stamped
with love and devotion, and have given
| great consolation 90 my paternal heart.
This living affection of Ireland. ! NAV well
say her hlml tenderness, and her burning
faith. have already had experience OF
many times and You continually furnish
me new proofs 10y your offerings. As the
holy kings presented their gifts to the infant
Jesus. - Ireland ceases not to present hers
to me. his unworthy Vicar
In Your address You have Justly appre-
ciated the present condition of society
You have spoken Of the ills that afiict:it
and of the good that God has youchsafed To
accomplish through the inStrumentality Of
the poor person Of His Vicar. You have
declared that the gratitude and the affection
of men who have received benefits of me
have not answered To the generosity of their
beneiactOr.
al =, IL.
part Of the ways of Providence Jesus
Christ Himself came and dwelt on earth
He poured out on it truth and the faith By
His passion and His death lie overcame
death itself. and opened to all men the gates
of paradise, hitherto closed. He came To
lift human nature out of the mre in which
it was sunk, and to endow it with spiritual
riches. Well, sce what gratitude mankind
at large has shown Him. Ingratitude Is the
portion of too great a portion of the human
race, even of those highest set in the social
hierarchy. Jesus Christ came to die on the
cross He chose t. undergo its cruel pun
Ishment because He loved US lie wiled to
accomplish His dreadful sacrifice. that lie
might wipe from our foreheads the brand of
the curse and bring Us back to n new life.
Now, If JeSas Christ, who came into the
world to bring it such good thingsa and such
advantages, is repaid by ingratitude, why
be surprised that His unworthy Vicar un-
dergoes the same lot, IN his lesser degree?
Jesus Christ came, non m ClIrTlblS. non IN
egliS, sed an NomiRe Domini mot with
chariots, not with horses. but in the name
of the Lord) and 50 He has willed that we
should put our trust, not in armies, but in
the truths of the faith, in the defence of the
right and in resistance to the unjust aims of
the wicked. This well settled, | will add
my children, that invoking ever the help of
God, will continue to defend His rights
and those of the Church, without ceasing to
praise His holy name. whatever NAV be the
trials that it may please Him to infict still
farther on society and without ceasing, in
| like manner, to adore the DEGREES and the
dispoSals of His uniathOmable providence.
This is the response have to make to your
beautiful address, the concluding portion of
which have developed in other terms.
After this conclusion you have asked of
OF me the benediction, and 50 finish my
discourse by lifting my hands towards Heav-
persons, in your families in the cities and
in the villages where you were born.
| bless faithful Ireland, and pray to God
that He will preserve to you, 50 long as you
live here below, the inestimably precious
treasure lie has given you-the treasure of
the Christian faith. bless You and yonr
children, and all that you do, and your in
terests, and all that is in you or of you may
bear hence the impress of the name of God.
May Jesus Christ make to glow in YOU all
the graces of the blessing that His Vicar. in
His name, now bestows on you. bless YOU
for all the years and months and days that
you have yet to live on this earth. bless
you for the moment of your deaths that
then you may receive the precious blessings
of our Sovereign, Jesus Christ Himself, and
be found worthy to go and praise and bless
Him in heaven, for eyerand ever.
Benedietio Dei OmmpOteniis, elc.