The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-11-01
Reception Of his Grace, the Most Rev. Archbishop
In Franklin.

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in Franklin.
PARISH OF 81. MARY, October 25, 1874.
Editor Aosning star.
Our venerable Archbishop arrived hero las
Thursdsy, Mt 9 r. n. Il being late in the oven
| ing, the formal reception Of His Grace was dc
ferred until O'Clock Friday morning.
At the appointed hoar the boys of st. An
| thongs Paroehial School met Mt tho school
house, to receive His Grace, Master Robert
Emmett O'Niell, pupil of the school and SON Of
our distinguished fellow-citizen, j. A. O'NielI
Esq, delivering the address Of welcome.
At 81 O'Clock, His Grace accompanied by the
clergy, repaired to St. John's Academy, o -four
ishing institution, under the direction of the
Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross. Miss Florence
O'Niell, the intelligent and bright young
daughter of John A. O'Niell, Esq, was chosen
the interpreter of the young ladies' sentiments
of veneration and love for His Grace. Miss
0'Nislps address speaks volumes Of praise for
itself, and we deeply regret our want of space
here to reproduce it; gem 80 full Of sympathy
and grace is indeed full proof of the Sisters
efficiency as teachers in the various branches
of instruction.
To-day Sunday St. Authony's Church was
clothed with all its Easter beauty and gran
deur. At ten o'clock. the loud pealings of the
bell brought together vast multitude of pso-
pie, large number of whom belong to yarions
Protestant denominations. High Mass was
celebrated by the Very Rev. Father Anstaett,
the Archbishop's secretary, assisted by several
priests attached to the churches of our sister
towns of Charenton and New Iberia. The
music, under the artistic direction of the organ
iat W ma nj nd
immediately after High Mass, His Grace was
solemnly escorted to the church by the pupils
of both schools and the Children of Mary
Taking seat on the main altar, he deli vered
q most beautiful sermon in his usual forcible
style. He fret dwels upon the three great
fundamental mysteries of the Holy Trinity;
the Incarnation and the Redemption. He then
showed; in the most logical and irrcfutable
manner, the existence of but one true Church,
the one established by our Divine Lord that
she alone was the depository of Gods truth;
that she alone could with certainty point out
to man the right way to Heaven. That if we
wanted to be saved, we had but one thing to
do, and that was borrowing the words of st.
Thomas Aquioas) to BE- srillins; to conform our
will to the will Of God to obey the lave and
of our Heavenly Father and those
of His representative on earth-the Holy Ca
tholic Church.
We stop, our pen is too weak to give even .
faint idea Of this truly grand sermon.
Tho Sacrament OF Confirmation was after
wards administered to those who were pre-
pared to receive it.
In the evening, ct, hall. past four, His Grace
delivered an address on /" Education.n He
developed the three branches Of
that most important subject: Education Of
the child at homo, at the schoolhouse and ut
church. Referring to mothers, he informed
them Of their duties towards their children
their responsibility to God for the manner in
which their children arc trained ut home
Grasping the mirror OF logic, he showed in
vivid colors, apparent and visible to all, that
education without God-without religion-was
the ruin and destruction of society and morals.
He informed mothers (not through Jfattery) that
the salvation of our country, of our dear Lon
isiana, was in their hands that their children,
if trained in the ways of religion and in the
paths Of virtue, would ever retain in manhood
and womanhood those frat lessons received at
the family hearth, would be honest and virtu-
Gus citizens, and would be an honor to their
families aud their country whilst the contrary
wonld take place II the little ones are lefs to
themselves without ever receiving from the
lips of their mothers those elementary lessons
which every Catholic mother is bound to give
to her children.
After the sermon, Bepediction of the Blessed
Sacrament was given, and the congregation
dispersed, ACATaoI1c.
T.nLs.U or TIE AMsRicAS piLGRisiiaE-
Mr. A. Bercegeay, a gentleman of this city,