The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-19
1rTRA LETTER FROM OUR IRISH COR
: '-"'- RESPONDENT.


Messrs McGlashan s. Gill, Of this city, have
;.st brought ont, in pamphlet shape, the sermon
,reaohed by the Right Rev. DR.. Moriarty,
bishop of Kerry, on the 10th October, ON the
occasiop of the laying of the foundation -ssose
of the new church in ct. Patrick's College,
MAMMOTH. noted think, the chief points
of that discourse ct the time, but it may be
we'll now to give ver6atim q passage from it
vhicb 10 interesting per Sc and which will serve
as fair ilIustration of the polished yet chaste |
and simple eloquence of the Bishop of Kerry.
hone the following extract will not be
thought too long;
There are wonderful and mysterious harmo- |
nies in the history of Gods people. The pun-
ishments and the pardons the casting down ana
us on this day, when We hold high festival for
4 the Dedication of the Churches of Ireland. A
longer and drenrier night than that % wnion U Uas
fathers could not then. sing the songs OF Sion,
for they were driven from their consecrateo
4 sanetuaries. and the altars where they aaorsa ,
Worship Deeper still was their sorrow when
4 they saw those old churches, endeared to them
E by 90 mapy blessed memories, orumbiipg in
min: the roof. tree that sheltered them the
walls that spoke to them with the silent speech
Of holy image and pious legend, the traceried
7rindow the tesselated pavement, all moulder-
: ;ue- IN decay. The mutilated remnants sur
!. yfyed only TO tell that careless hearts forsook
them, or that impous hands destroyed them.
. but q brighter day came when our Church put
8 of the q garment of mourning and af1iction. The
81 Guardian angel eff our native land saw another
sight. With all the energy of recovered free
= dom the children of the peTeecnted and the en-
siaved set themselves to repair the ruins of
centuries. True, my lords, we were not always
permitted to enter on the precincts hallowed
of old by the shrines of our saints, and round
which our fathers graves clustered. We CHOSE
other sitee, and sprinkled them with blessed
water. We stretched wider the cords of our
- NIL loft n dor
Ia their proportions have risen up to attest the
abiding faith of our people, to be for genera
tions to come the memorials of q grateful and
GENEROUS piety, The pastors of this people are
fhe daily witnesses of their fervent worship !;
10 that Whether We contemplate the Church of
Ireland in her outward Developments or in her
inner life, We may say with him who described
he heavenly Jerusalem, that the former
bhings are passed away, and all things are
made new" "Prima abierunt. ct ecoe move
facio omnia.n In the holy rites just performed
We have asked Gods blessing and help for the
huildipg of Q chugch which, though not the
st or greatest, viii be, in one sense. crown
ne work of this glorious revival. We do not
st1ean to rival the primatial dignity OF the
nagniicent pile which covers the spot where
the feet Of Patrick once stood. Nor do We
mean that orr new church should rank with
Ehcse cathedrale which bear the titles of the
Tmmaculate Mother or Of the sainted
patrone of onr dieoesee. Bot T. say: my
! aoria that for o reasoa obvious 70 you ALL the
shurch Of st. Patrick, May nootb, will be en-
itled 70 be, and TO be called, mother and o
tSs es1F'RsS be- q tba asesDd sss + s
ears this College has been ss Q fall flowing
Duntain Of learning and holiness for our
Ieople. II was just the time whom revolution
iosed the halls of tho old Sorbonne. Its
penerable professors sought refuge amongst
s and brought with them the traditions of
he'd such q lustre on the Chu oh of France.
they found here men capable of taking in the
cience that they brought, end they set their
ootstepe on this ria s0cra. Since that time We
had a
seohers, who have formed and guided, and
om their own abundance have filled with
acred knowledge, the ecolesiastical youth of
Ireland, and who have been at the same time q
permanent consulting senate of the Irish
hnrch. We, who have known this College for
eachers of day are moro than worthy of its
past. They have spread wider their research,
md diyed deeper in all the departments of the
ivine science, in the Interpretation of the
sAcred volume, in the theologies that flow from
It, and defend or explain 1t, dogmatic. positive
pOlemic Patristc, moral and liturgical. Phil
k0sophy, the handmade of Theology, has been
Illustrated in its truth, and corrected in its
errorS. The sciences which are called profane
but which refine the mind and prepare it for
eeverer study, have been cultivated with ardor
put for the same great end, that the man OF
cd may be perfect, furnished for all good
ork," The soil We tread had hereditary
aim to this privilege. More than three hun.
red years ago there was founded here by the
ounty, and under tho strong guard. of the
eraldine--of him who was Htbernis ipsit
ibernior "a college to educate an Irist
eiesthood and to peTpetuate the daily services
the Church. Times changed. But time and
ange have not altogether severed the linl
at binds MSynooth to the bearer of Irelaudt
biest name. When the day of restoration
me, choice guided by the same Providence
IN some measure helped and directed BY
descendant of the ancient founder, selected
ain the place consecrsted of old to thiI
oliest pnrpose-the training and propagation
the Christian ministry. 1t is q pleasant
ing thus to link the present and the past
he second foundation Of Maynooth was
eRceful awakening from sleep of centuries
ne suppression of the College of st. Mary o.
ayno0th, in the year 1888, was succeeded BY
long night of darkness in the land but it Il
interesting, tholgh but little known fact il
e history of the modern College of st
Gtrick, that the act of the legislature which
thorized its sre-establishment, was the first tC
move the ban imposed by penal laws on the
ebration Of Mass, and to enable the priest tc
Se the consecrated Victim at the altar