The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-14
Religious reception and profea.ion.

In the Chapel of the Convent of Mercy, St.
| Andrew street, near Magazine, last Wednesday
| morning, 10th inst, little after O'Clock
Right Rev. Ignatio Monies de Oca, Bishop OF
| Tamaulipas, Mexico, gave the white veil &c
| Mile. Marie Benedie, Sister NJ. Stanislas ; Miss
| Sarah Kommel, Sister M. Dominica; Miss Ellen
Vaughan, Sister n. Catherine; Miss Sarah
LAWN, Sister NJ Gabriel; Mise Maggie Nelli
gan, Sister III. Veronica; and Miss Sarah Plum.
ket, Sister M Lucia.
His Lordship, on the part of MonseigneuI
| Percbe, admitted to profession Sister Mary
| Benedicta Maurier and Sister Mary Rose Lee
who made vows for life of poverty, chastity
| and obedience, aud of the service of the poor
sick and Ignorant according to the approved
rules and constitutions of the Order of Mercy
| confirmed by His Holiness, Pope Gregory XVI,
1s41.
The young ladies being all natives of this
city, several of their relatives and friends as
John G. Ryan, ESQ, Hon. P. L. Theard, Senator
W. j. Kelly, Messrs. Lee, Kummel. Montegut,
kohn, Benedic, Wilt, Desforges, McCioskey,
Hogan, Martinez, J. and C. Sporl, ETC., and
many ladies were present on the solemn occa-
sion.
In the sanctuary were Very Rev. N. Jaeckel,
Leimgruber, rector; Rev. M. Merely, o. p, of
Louisville, only son of Mr.. Jas McFeely, of St.
Andrew street Rev. F. Meerschaert, of Ocean
Springs; Rev. Manuel Gonzales, of Cuidad
Victoria, Mexico Rev. Fathers Hubert, S. j.,
Beecher, C. M, ONeil, c. NJ, Faivre, c. IS. R.,
Gleason, C. S. R, Chase and Chapuis.
The Bishop of Tamaulipas has, in his recent
sufferings for the Faith, high title to our
generation. English and French he speaks
with great luency, but is most elc quent in his
mother-tongne, the sonorous Spanish. One
instantly recognizes, in this exiled PGelate,
that unpretending simplicity which, let ms
frankly own, almost invariably distip cuisines
the higher dignataries of the Catholic Church,
and indeed is often found in Catholic ecclesias-
tics of all grades. Like Disraelrs typical
Cardinal Grandson, bis Lordship knows how
to say the right thing to every one with per-
feet tact and exquisite courtesy-the more to
be appreciated as the gracious manners and
digni6ed presence once considered essential to
q position of emiuence are, unfortunately, fast
becoming q mere tradition.
He preached q very effective sermon in Eng
lish. Taking for his text: "If any man will
come after Me. let him deny himself, take up
his CROSS, and follow me-" he gave lucid ex-
PLANTATION of the essential principles Of con-
ventual life, making several touching illusions
to the sad state of religion in his native Mexico,
once a beautiful garden of the Church, now |
desert. The Religious have been expelled by |
thousands from their convent homes, and are |
obliged to hide, like criminals, from the mis- |
,reants who have ruined that fair land. He |
the young Sisters for whom he |
dictated upon their happy seclusion from |
world of misery and sin. able to serve and |
,ven reform the world without being contami- |
mated by it; unlike Bishops and priests who, |
rs st. Paul warns the m, are in continual dan
ger of losing their own souls while pointing |
,ut to others the way to Heaven. In conclu-
ion he begged prayers for the universal |
Church, for his orphaned diocese, aud for his |
own spiritual necessities; and the audience |
melt to receive the episcopal benediotion Of |
lis Lordship.