The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-02-28

of heaven. Without adverting to the in
gratitude of such treatment on the part OF
England, which, as Camden, an honest
English historian, remarks, owed it's early
education to Irish missionaries. it is sur.
prising that such infatuated bigOtry should
still be persevered in, in despite OF the
flood of light which the recent census of
Galway and Mayo has cast on the relative
numbers of Catholics and PROTESTANT, a.
most ninety five to one in hundred. were
it ascertained as an iDcontestable truth, thass
Catholics in those countries were only as
eight or nine per cent, you would not hear
a word of Mixed Education but Protes-
tapt education would be enforced with
high hand. Now, however, when the CEN
sus has revealed such an overwhelming
number of Catholics, that they may be ap-
propriately termed the people, the few
Professionals scarcely discernible in the
lass, how a sy stem mixed in name can any
longer be insisted on, to the great injury
of Catholics, outrages every notion OF right
and justice.
You will, therefore, henceforward send
forth from every district of whatever name,
barony or parish, petitions in favor of the
Catholic Education, lest your silence should
expose you to the taunt of being indifferent,
nay, contented pnder the continued infiic-
tons of iDj justice 30 gross and intolerable
The effect of hearty, earnest, and out
spoken petitions on our representatives,
and through them on our responsible rul-
ers, has been within a recent period so as
founding as to dissolve like magic one of
the most compact and firm administrations
that ever swayed the destinies of the coun-
try. The result of ench ministerial changes
has been hitherto confined to the mere in
terests of party. Amidst those alterations
of party, the interests of the people were
generally neglected and UNDECIDED. Not
10 TO ma hnpa6 in fnfpre and the
cess that has so recently crowned their
efforts may be deemed cheering omen of
the more signal triumphs that still await
similar honest, united, aud unsefsh exer-
tiops.
The Lenten regulations of the present
will continue nearly the same as those of
the last three yeara. Flesh meat not &C
companied by fish and at one meal only,
will be allowed on all days from the first
Thursday to the last Tuesday in Lent in
elusive, except on Fridays, and generally
on Wednesdays, as also the first and last
Saturdays, the first, as an additional reason,
occurring in Ember week. Regarding
Wedne sdaya, we allow meat on Wednesday,
the 18th of March, on which the Feast OF
St. Patrick falls. Eggs will be allowed at
one meal only except ON Fridays, and even
then provided fish cannot be had. On Ash
Wednesday, Spy Wednesday and Good
Friday, all kinds of milk diet as well as
The Diocesan Collection, which for sew
erai years past takes place on the first
Sunday of Lent, and which has had so
beneficial a result in enlarging the num-
Der and securing the property and the free
dom of our Catholic Schoo houses, is we'll
deserving the continuance of the generous
support which has marked it hitherto
throughout the Diocese. All are already
sufficiently impressed with the strict obli-
! cation of this contribution being good
work substituted for the exemption from
the Lenten fast. or the application of it's
finds you receive an annual report, and
we confidently hope that they will contn ne
to improve. SO as to diminish the heavy
expenses borne by several of our students
| in the College of Maynooth, which has been
| stripped of much of the niggardly pittance
doled from the ample revenues. originally
| belonging to the Catholic Church. This
cruel spoiation of the miserable annuity OF
May nooth, whilst old Trinity is left in the
plethora enjoyment of its ninety thousand
rem nds one of the sort of justice conveyed
in the apologize of the Prophet Nathan to
David, regarding the plunderer who robbed
the poor widow of her one only eve lamb
| whilst the numerous docks of the lordy
grazier were left to roam undiminisheG
| through the ample pastures of Palestine.
Having in our ordinary instructions ex
horted the people not only against the de
grading vice of drunkenness, but likewise
recommended that during certain hours OIL
Sunday aud Holidays, ublic houses shoul'
be closed, SO that none should he ipterfere'
with from hearing Mass, and duly sanity
ing all festivals, We beg to refer to TIN
words of ST. Paul to Titus, instructing u
that denying ungOdliness aud worldly de
sires, we should live soberly and just
and piously in this world. Here we hav
the sum of our dnty to God, to our neigh
bors and to ourselves, soberly, in the avoid
dance OF intemperance, justly, in the avoid
piously, in the tuifiIlment of our duties t
Almighty God.
JOHN, Archbishop of Tuan.