The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-06

In his Pastoral Letter for Trinity Sunday
tho Archbishop of Westminster, Most Rev. DR.
Blaming, speaks follows of church building
lin his diocese: "That here in England there
remains Christian tradition of faith in God,
we know with Joy and consolation. The labor
and prayer of us all will ever be to strengthen
the things that remain, which are ready to de-
Z The speculative in6delity which has darkened
few minds, over-cultivated into barrenness,
has not yet touched the broad, simple intelli-
gsHce of the English race. The tradition of
Christian education and Christian worship,
mutilated as indeed it has been, yet alive, and
renews itself with every generation. The
multiplication of schools and churches, or
places of Christian worship, throughout Eng
land in the last thirty years, is without exam
pie in our later history and without paral-
lei in any nation at this time-except in Ire
land, which has out of its poverty covered its
whole surface, as with new creation, with
churches and schools. In this diocese alone,
during tho last twenty years, ffty-fv churches
have been either built or replaced by larger
and more fitting structures. In the last light
years twenty four churches, or new Missions,
have been added. At this time five
Churches are either begun or in preparation.
In the Mission of the English Martyrs, on
Tower-hill, the building of the church has
already begun. In Mapping sum of money
has been already collected for church. In
the Mission of Millwall the foundations of the
church are already complete. In Hackney
Wick the first stone of O school-church has
been laid. In Drury-lane, site is already
Secured, and large part of the cost of the
bhurch is already in hand. OF these five places,
Rour are new Missions, founded in the midst of
the densest and poorest party of our Catholic
Door. We could, if the time permitted, give
lou such details of the spiritual state of these
Dlaces as would effectually move you to deny
yourselves for the building of these churches.
The faith of our poor is even there, vivid and
trong. But scattered, and hid away in the
&reat multitude of q population which is with
Tut Catholic faith, and to a great extent al
most without christian knowledge, our people
Become entangled in endless dangers, and in
constant temptation to neglect the practice of
heir religion. The diligent search which We
lave made from street to street, house to house,
reonl to room, has shown how many have heard
20 Mass for years how many have never been
Cd confession or communion since the first
ljme ; how many now in middle life, and even
- old age, never at all how many, of all ages,
lave never been confirmed how many chill |
1ren sometimes whole families now grown up, |
ave never been baptized; and of all these
wills, above all of the last, which is the most |
'atal the chief cause is found to be mixed |
narriages.' To reclaim, and to restore such q
population to the practice of their religion, |
md to support their perseverance when they |
Are once restored, it is absolutely necessary |
hat an altar W here the Holy Mass may be daily |
bald, and Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament |
may be always present, should be set up in
Ehe midst of them. They will not go to a dis
lance. Strange to say, the very people who
n Ireland will walk ten miles rather than
ose the Holy Mass, will not persevere in walk
ng distance of ten minutes through the cold
md hostile atmosphere of London. Years
Ego VIC told you, dear children in Jesus Christ,
hat you could do no nobler work of Catholic
harity and piety than by helping to place
nall churches in the midst of our poor in
london. Those who have seen with their own
yes what has been already accomplished In
he five new Missions above named, where the
High Mass has been offered under every disad-
7antage in school rooms OF temporary build
ngs, know how many souls, both of adults
md of children, have already been brought
Jack to God"
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